Sarah Colvin
sarahcolvin.bsky.social
Sarah Colvin
@sarahcolvin.bsky.social
Professor / literature / social justice / prisons / Germany / and things. Representing myself not my institution. Mostly reading & reposting here.
Reposted by Sarah Colvin
Demokratie ohne Moral - können wir uns das leisten? Diese Frage stellt Bestsellerautorin Anne Rabe in der diesjährigen Theodor-Heuss-Gedächtnis-Vorlesung, gemeinschaftlich organisiert von der #UniStuttgart & der @heusshaus.bsky.social. Jetzt bis zum 07.12. anmelden & mitdiskutieren sohub.io/chum
December 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Reposted by Sarah Colvin
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Reposted by Sarah Colvin
"A @nytimes.com investigation has finally decided to admit that prisoners who have reported routine, ongoing abuse by state prison guards for decades were maybe not lying all that time."

FIFY
A @nytimes.com investigation has found that state prison guards have been credibly accused of engaging in such behavior — putting inmates in restraints and then assaulting them — far more often than was previously known.
Restrained, Beaten, Asphyxiated: New York Prison Guards’ Brutality Grows
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Reposted by Sarah Colvin
"Meta soll Studie zu psychischen Schäden vertuscht haben: Weniger Depression, Angst, Einsamkeit, schon nach einer Woche Social-Media-Abstinenz. [...] Anstatt die Ergebnisse zu veröffentlichen, habe Meta das Projekt jedoch beendet."

www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/fac...
Meta soll Studie zu psychischen Schäden vertuscht haben
Weniger Depression, Angst, Einsamkeit, schon nach einer Woche Social-Media-Abstinenz: Das geht laut Gerichtsakten aus einer Studie hervor, die Meta abgebrochen hat. Der Konzern weist die Vorwürfe zurü...
www.spiegel.de
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Reposted by Sarah Colvin
From French and Spanish to Albanian and Farsi, languages have opened doors for me, grown understanding and taught me to see the world in full colour. Cutting them from schools and universities doesn’t just shrink the curriculum, it shrinks the life choices that all students should enjoy.
Languages: The Educational Superpower We Can’t Afford to Lose
Across schools and universities, language departments are under threat. Courses are being cut, departments downsized, and opportunities to learn languages are diminishing. The justification? Langua…
albarolanguages.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Next one soon!
#Zürich

Heute Abend geht es weiter.
Und wie letztes Mal - auch online ⬇️

#ImVertrauern
November 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Reposted by Sarah Colvin
#Zürich

Heute Abend geht es weiter.
Und wie letztes Mal - auch online ⬇️

#ImVertrauern
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Reposted by Sarah Colvin
This was 🔥🔥🔥 What an honour to be there in person 🙏🏽💜
#Zürich

Heute Abend geht es weiter.
Und wie letztes Mal - auch online ⬇️

#ImVertrauern
November 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"Given that the UK needs more graduates with languages qualifications, the task of universities is not to accelerate the decline of language learning but to find ways to bolster their student intakes"

New piece in THE on #Nottingham and #Leicester proposals to close MLs.

@ucflangs.bsky.social
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Reposted by Sarah Colvin
Podiumsdiskussion: Rechte Hochburgen in West- und Ostdeutschland — Geschichte und Gegenwart

Mit
Julia Reuschenbach (FU Berlin)
Sabine Volk (Universität Tübingen)
Gideon Botsch (Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum Potsdam)

Moderation: Frank Bösch (ZZF Potsdam)

11. Dezember 2025

#il_liberal
November 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Reposted by Sarah Colvin
Sehen wir uns morgen Abend in Soltau? Ich hoffe schon.
Am Mittwochabend bin ich in Soltau. Es wird schon dafür geworben. Schauen Sie doch vorbei. Ich würde mich freuen.
Details: heide-kurier.de/soltau-erinn...
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Reposted by Sarah Colvin
We are delighted to welcome @sarahcolvin.bsky.social (Cambridge) to the HI for a talk, ‘Haunting Times: Ghosted Memory & Epistemic Revenants in Zhadan’s Ukraine (Voroshilovgrad, 2010) & Bulawayo’s Zimbabwe (Glory, 2022)’ | Fri 21 Nov 2025 @ 11am | Free event; register on Eventbrite: bit.ly/4nOqwul
November 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
🚨The BBC is under attack 🚨 Sign the open letter now to demand the new BBC boss is someone that will protect the BBC, not let its enemies tear it down: 38d.gs/2sa8
Sign the petition: save our BBC: don't let the likes of Trump and his UK cronies meddle with our public broadcaster
🚨Our BBC is under attack 🚨 We can't let those that want to see it torn up & replaced by the likes of GBNews or Fox win. Sign the open letter now to demand the new BBC boss is someone that will protect...
38d.gs
November 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Reposted by Sarah Colvin
˙
„Mopsas unbedingte Schwere“

19 Jahre lang hat Dorothea Sternheim an ihrem Roman über die NS-Zeit gearbeitet. 70 Jahre nach Vollendung ist „Im Zeichen der Spinne“ nun im @wallsteinverlag.bsky.social erschienen.

Von Frank Keil für die @taz.de.
.
taz.de/Wiedergefund...
Wiedergefundener Roman über die NS-Zeit: Mopsas unbedingte Schwere
19 Jahre lang hat Dorothea Sternheim an ihrem Roman über die NS-Zeit gearbeitet. 70 Jahre nach Vollendung ist „Im Zeichen der Spinne“ nun erschienen.
taz.de
November 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Reposted by Sarah Colvin
"Given that the UK needs more graduates with languages qualifications, the task of universities is not to accelerate the decline of language learning but to find ways to bolster their student intakes"

New piece in THE on #Nottingham and #Leicester proposals to close MLs.

@ucflangs.bsky.social
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Reposted by Sarah Colvin
Huge congratulations and happy publication day! 💜🙌🏽💜
November 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Reposted by Sarah Colvin
A terrible idea @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is proposing to cut languages degrees www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
Sign the Petition
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
www.change.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Reposted by Sarah Colvin
Wie toll, dass es gestreamt wurde und wie gut, dir beim ersten Brief zuzuhören, wie sich so viele verschiedene Ereignisse, Debatten und persönliche Geschichten (❤️‍🩹) miteinander verbinden zu neuen Worten und zur Hoffnung! Ich bin sehr gespannt auf nächste Woche!
November 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Reposted by Sarah Colvin
Daaaaaanke lieber Michael Krämer!! 🎉
#HappyBirthdayISD
October 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Reposted by Sarah Colvin
Ich empfehle all denen in der Union, die gerade hoffen, die AfD würde bisschen mehr Kreide fressen, damit sie endlich mit ihnen zusammenarbeiten können, mal ein paar Tage in Höckes Telegram-Kanal mitzulesen.
Aktuell werden dort Journalist*innen mit Nazisprache beleidigt und namentlich markiert.
October 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Reposted by Sarah Colvin
So lovely to finally be joining Bluesky with the happy news that my debut poetry collection Nettles is out now! 🌿

To celebrate its launch, signed copies are available here nazaretranea.com/item/nettles/
July 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM