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manuen.bsky.social
@manuen.bsky.social
Postdoc in American Studies at Europa Universität Flensburg, Associate Editor for the Journal Amerikastudien/American Studies
Saint Louis University ASTD alumn
Research focus: Transnational & Modern European History, Civil Rights and Black Power
An amazing piece by the fabulous Jeanne Theoharis!
While her scholarship uncovers the untold histories, she also shows us why these stories matter today
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#protest #activism #therebelliousrosaparks #untoldhistory
What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis
The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Another "excellent" train experience.
Emergency services on the track, my stop is cancelled and it suggests I take the Sbahn to Heidelberg that left two minutes ago to catch it...
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
My time at the University of Mannheim is already slowly coming to an end. It was a pleasure to be part of the American Studies team for the semester! Now looking for #newopportunities #jobs #work

#acacademia #museumjobs #phd
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Antonio C. Westphalen is a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. During a trip to Berlin in April, he visited the Topography of Terror Documentation Centre with his family.

In this essay, he reflects on his impressions and thoughts during their visit to our permanent exhibition:
Five Rooms of Memory – When Silence Shook Humankind
By Antonio C. Westphalen Berlin, April 15, 2025.  Since 2018, four young au pairs from Germany have lived with our family. They shared not just their time and care, but their culture, their language...
www.readtangle.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30

uncpress.org/978146969484...
White Power
Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...
uncpress.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Things I didn't think I'd ever do: download 4 ebooks while on ICE wifi for a course I'm thinking about teaching 🤷

#germantrain #academia #whynot
November 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
@rrohled.bsky.social falls du wissen willst weshalb ingen 🤣
Aber das beste Beispiel von Bietigheim-Bissingen haben die noch nicht mal drin.

Warum enden schwäbische Ortsnamen oft auf "-ingen"? - SWR Kultur share.google/Fd3dzHzNJw6l...
Warum enden schwäbische Ortsnamen oft auf "-ingen"?
Das -ingen ist eine Wortendung, die eine Zugehörigkeit ausdrückt – fast immer zu einer bestimmten Person, einem Anführer. So lebten in Sigmaringen die Angehörigen eines Sigmars. Von Gábor Paál | Text ...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I'm currently working on developing a research project that is interested in how communities reintegrate objects that are repatriated. This is excellent news and I look forward to hearing more about the work that is being done here!

#research #repatriation #culturalartifacts #restitution
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 22d
The Vatican returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada, a historic restitution that is part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture. n.pr/43T2xmD
Pope Leo returns 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada
The Vatican returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada, a historic restitution that is part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture.
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November 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Can this be brought before the ICC? This is nuts
October 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Berkeley history graduate students reimagine their campus as a public history site. Topics include CA Indigenous history, relationship between CA and Asia/Pacific, campus policing, & campus protest. This is such an amazing project! @historians.org #AHAPerspectives
www.historians.org/perspectives...
New Campus Cartographies – AHA
Infusing historical research into walking tours has helped Andrew Hardy and his fellow graduate students remake their campus into a public history site.
www.historians.org
October 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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AfD here, but presumably would be same in other countries too:

"mainstream parties had increasingly reshaped their communications to respond, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Marching
October 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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“Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda, researchers in Germany have found, describing it as a shortcoming that had unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas and disseminating them more widely.”
October 18, 2025 at 5:56 AM
My post is a little late but: our new issue is out!
A very exciting special issue about cookbooks!
If you have an article, forum, or interview you would like to publish get in touch with amst@dgfa.de
#cookbooks #americanstudies #publishing
amst.winter-verlag.de/issue/AMST/2...
Amerikastudien: Volume 70 (2025), Issue 3
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October 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Also wenn die Abkehr heißt ein Verbotsverfahren können wir das natürlich in Betracht ziehen, anderfalls sollten sich die Unionspolitiker fragen, ob sie nicht gleich zu dieser Partei wechseln wollen...
October 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Portland-based streamer Brooks Brown and a few of his friends created Operation Inflation, an organization providing puff-up costumes to those protesting the crackdown by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
How inflatable frog suits became the protest fashion statement of the year
Costumes have been worn as political symbols for decades, but animal outfits have become especially popular at anti-ICE demonstrations in Portland, Oregon.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Ausstellungen kuratieren bedeutet immer, mit Spannungen & Widersprüchen umgehen zu müssen. Die Beiträger*innen befassen sich mit d. Friktionen & nehmen dabei in d. Blick, wie Wissen in Ausst. ausgehandelt wird & welche Kräfte an d. Entstehung v. Wissen in & durch Ausstellungen mitwirken. #OpenAccess
Die Vermittlung von Wissen in und durch Ausstellungen – Spannungen, Widersprüche und frische Ideen für das Kuratieren in Museen.

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6883-4/

#Ausstellung #Museum #Kuratieren #Wissensvermittlung #Kulturgeschichte #Museumswissenschaft
October 8, 2025 at 7:38 AM
The Supreme Court is supposed to protect the constitution and therefore American democracy, yet they've handed it to fascism on a platter.
www.npr.org/2025/09/22/n...
Supreme Court allows Trump to fire -- for now -- remaining Democrat on FTC
At issue is whether the president has the authority to dismiss the heads of those agencies that are protected by Congress.
www.npr.org
September 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
You know things are bleak if comedy turns into a serious discussion
youtu.be/Tsb1I7hqaJ4?...
#poststhatgetmebanned #neveragainisnow
Maria Ressa - Fighting Back Against Trump’s Authoritarian Algorithm With Truth | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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September 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Impressions from Mannheim, the sprinklers, Ferris wheel and square layout remind me of #STL
September 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Day 1 commuting to #unimannheim, left myself a buffer of 30min to switch trains from regional to long-distance. Regional train I originally wanted to take delayed by 21min...good thing there was a slightly earlier one. #germantrain #goodtimes
September 2, 2025 at 5:18 AM
As previously mentioned new things are happening. Starting next week I will be teaching at #unimannheim for a semester. So if anyone has leads for the spring semester send them my way! #jobhunting #academia #phdlife
August 28, 2025 at 7:49 AM
In July I left Flensburg not knowing if I'll be returning. Now it is evident that new things are on the horizon. I had the best colleagues right after having had the best department during my PhD #EUF #sluamericanstudies #newadventures
July 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Scotland’s signs are delivering. Y’all understood the assignment. 😂
July 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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My fav photo of me
October 7, 2023 at 8:10 PM