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Alan van Beek
@thiliel.bsky.social
Medieval Literature, Games, Data. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Mental Health Challenge Sunday, let's goo
February 8, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Ehemalige Kollegin von der Uni Hamburg unerwartet auf dem Congress wieder getroffen, macht coolen Scheiß!
February 7, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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📢 #CfP für das 22. #Tolkien Seminar der @germantolksoc.bsky.social in Kooperation mit dem Umweltbildungszentrum Augsburg und WTP
📜Umwelt, Um-Welt und Mit-Welt in Tolkiens Werk
🗓️ 16.-18.10.2026
📍vor Ort in Augsburg oder online
💙📚 #fantasy #envhum #envhist

www.tolkiengesellschaft.de/55220/tolkie...
Tolkien Seminar 2026 – Call for Papers [DE] & Stipendium
Das 22. Seminar der Deutschen Tolkien Gesellschaft wird von Walking Tree Publishers unterstützt und findet in einem hybriden Format (schwergewichtig in Präsenz, aber mit Online-Optionen) am Umweltbild...
www.tolkiengesellschaft.de
February 4, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Heroes all, lovingly admired. Now we need only the strength to finish the cursed game.
February 7, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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How it started / How it's going
February 6, 2026 at 1:38 AM
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Gewalt und virtuelle Räume in Mittelhochdeutscher Heldenepik: Rezeptionsästhetische Untersuchungen url: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jegp/art...
Gewalt und virtuelle Räume in Mittelhochdeutscher Heldenepik: Rezeptionsästhetische Untersuchungen
Medieval German heroic poetry is a narrative genre represented by some twenty texts, some of them preserved only as fragments, the others mostly known in several different versions. The corpus develop...
scholarlypublishingcollective.org
February 4, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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University is not a business, students are not customers, education is not a product, researchers are not salespeople.
February 4, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Seit wann ist Stowasser so hässlich?
February 4, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Aber Obama hat mal an nem Joint gezogen im College 🤷‍♂️
February 4, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Next year, I want to teach a cunt seminar for medieval literature. I remember listening to a great podcast on the history of cunt, but I can't remember which one it was. Do you have modern literature / linguistic recommendation to enrich my reading list? #cuntology #Fotzenseminar
February 3, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Call for Papers, please circulate!

Ethics of queer in/visibility
Heidelberg, September 30 - October 2, 2026
queer-in-visibility.de

Keynote speakers:
J Calder
(Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder)
Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social
(History, University of Warwick)
February 3, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Corinna Sauter spricht heute abend for free über Georg Trakl :) www.kulturvereinigung.com/de/Trakl/Mus...
Trakl-Forum 2026 | Salzburger Kulturvereinigung
Vortrag „Inskription und Tilgung des Autornamens. Zu Georg Trakls poetischer Anagrammatik" Eintritt frei
www.kulturvereinigung.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Wort des Tages: Petrosomatoglyph.
February 3, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Sprechstunde bei mir
February 2, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org
February 1, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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Medievalist friends! Applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands).

Please share widely!

tinyurl.com/f7su6urv
Global PhD on Middle English Arthurian romance
The University of Groningen and Macquarie are offering a co-funded scholarship to support a student undertaking doctoral research in medieval literature.
tinyurl.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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@floriankluge.bsky.social und ich durften eine @paidia.bsky.social-Ausgabe zu Final Fantasy herausgeben, die nun online ist.

Darin sind 9 Beiträge versammelt, die sich vornehmlich Spielen der Hauptreihe aus ganz unterschiedlichen Forschungsinteressen heraus nähern.

🧵👇
January 30, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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I need you to know that you can buy individual crabs from LEGO and they are 21¢ each

www.lego.com/en-us/pick-a...
January 30, 2026 at 8:33 PM
It's everywhere!
January 30, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Ich bin gerade viel in der Kunstgeschichte unterwegs und es macht so Bock, diese Riesenbildbände in die Hand zu nehmen...
January 29, 2026 at 9:37 AM
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Maacht dir de Geck?!

This needs to stop. 🤖
September 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Es geht wieder aufs Semesterende zu, daher: 7 Dinge, die man in einer mediävistisch-germanistischen Hausarbeit nicht tun sollte. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW4U... #Hausarbeit #Studium
Top Things Not To Do in a Term Paper: Sieben Dinge, die man in einer Hausarbeit nicht tun sollte
YouTube video by Alan Lena van Beek
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January 27, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Euro don't
January 27, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Euro don't
January 27, 2026 at 12:10 AM