Friends, send us your proposals, abstracts, thoughts, in English or French - and please help us spread the word about this journal issue on distraction we're putting together. The CFP is attached: intermedialites.com/en/call-for-...

CALL FOR PAPERS – NO. 51 “DISTRACTING / DISTRAIRE” – intermédialités

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Jasbir Puar and I are very excited to invite you to the launch of the UBC Queer Trans Centre for Radical Praxis. The event will feature our distinguished comrades Billy-Ray Belcourt, Xaytun Ennasr, Likes Hettinga, and Jules Gill-Peterson. Please help us spread the word.

Jasbir Puar and I are very excited to invite you to the launch of the UBC Queer Trans Centre for Radical Praxis. The event will feature our distinguished comrades Billy-Ray Belcourt, Xaytun Ennasr, Likes Hettinga, and Jules Gill-Peterson. Please help us spread the word.

Friendlies, if you are in Vancouver Sept 24/27, check out the two public events associated with our Queer Play Workshop: a teach-in for educators and a pop-up museum planned. A bunch of fab people are coming together to theorize queer play in anti-queer times. More info: queerplayworkshop.org

Friendlies, help us spread the word about the THIRD annual Tobin Lecture in Queer and Trans German Studies, to be held by Rafi Balling Oct 22, in person and online. You can find out more about Rafi's exciting talk on German trans literatures of the self + RSVP info here: ces.ubc.ca/events/event...

Friendlies, help us spread the word about the THIRD annual Tobin Lecture in Queer and Trans German Studies, to be held by Rafi Balling Oct 22, in person and online. You can find out more about Rafi's exciting talk on German trans literatures of the self + RSVP info here: ces.ubc.ca/events/event...

Heute ist May Ayims 30. Todestag. Ich habe eine Laudatio für die bedeutende Autorin, Aktivistin und Forscherin geschrieben, die demnächst im neuen Rundbrief von Edition Zweifel erscheinen wird. Schaut unbedingt mal bei Edition Zweifel vorbei und bestellt den Rundbrief: zweifel.jetzt/rundbrief

Coming up in the next two days at the @zfl-berlin.bsky.social: workshop titled “Transatlantic Print Entrepreneurs: Mobility, Publishing Cultures, and Partial Archives in the Mid- and Late-Nineteenth Century” organized by Sean Franzel and @spoerhase.bsky.social. 🌈🌈🌈 www.zfl-berlin.org/event/transa...

Super happy and excited to be hosting @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social tomorrow morning @kwi-essen.bsky.social for a talk on "Lubitsch's Aesthetics of Suspicion"! If you would like to join, our colloquium begins at 10:30 AM (CET). Details about Ervin's talk and for remote access (Zoom) can be found here:

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Das Kulturwissenschaftliche Institut Essen (KWI) ist ein interdisziplinäres Forschungskolleg für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften in der Tradition internationaler Institutes for Advanced Study. Als i...

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🎭 For this week’s #Colloquium we are welcoming @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social. He will draw on queer feminist discourse on affect to foreground the endings of Lubitsch comedies not as stabilizing but as strategically misplaced features. #ComicLiteracies 💡 shorturl.at/60Xpg

I’m very proud to have contributed a chapter on coded references to queerness in Pandora’s Box to this wonderful volume! Equally proud to have worked with & feature alongside such wonderful people, including Jonah, @katielmsutton.bsky.social, @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social, Ina Linge & more!

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‪ It's publication day! The volume Weimar's Queer Visual Cultures edited by the most wonderful editors @katielmsutton.bsky.social, Ina Linge, and Birgit Lang is hot off the press! Proud to be among such stellar authors! Get your library copy here: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Registration for the "Queer Lives and Trans* Formations: Reimagining Weimar Germany's LGBTQ+ Histories and Cultures" online conference is now live! Sign up to join us 30 - 31 March (Australia: 31 March - 1 April). With speakers from 6 (!) time zones & keynotes from Jonah Garde & Camilla Smith!

Queer Lives and Trans* Formations Conference Registration

We are looking forward to welcoming you to the Queer Lives and Trans* Formations Conference on 30-31 March, 2026! As the conference will be taking place online, we ask that you register to attend by c...

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Do you teach/research gender/sexuality w/ German sources? Have you had access issues or needed to translate sources yourself bc English versions don’t exist? Fill in this survey (by 2/15) to identify core texts for an anthology of translations in scientific & literary sexology between 1890 & 1930.

Nothing will come in the way of tetka theory. After all, tenacity is part of tetka style. The book is now drafted. It contains lots of tetka wisdoms others want to suppress. It endured much and so it will also endure the long way to publication. Biće, biće!

Nothing will come in the way of tetka theory. After all, tenacity is part of tetka style. The book is now drafted. It contains lots of tetka wisdoms others want to suppress. It endured much and so it will also endure the long way to publication. Biće, biće!

This program recruiting scholars from outside Canada comes with *incredible* funding. If you're looking to move, check it out! research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...

"The Government of Canada announced the launch of the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program on December 9, 2026. This new $1 billion investment will provide Canadian institutions the opportunity to recruit top-tier international researchers." research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...

@linguacene.bsky.social and I are hosting a reading group in Feb and March 2026 to examine the keywords for our new multi-year research project titled "Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University." If you are up for it, join us. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University – A Reading Group

Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University – A Reading Group Hosts: David Gramling & Ervin Malakaj The “Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual Universi...

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Fantastic comrades are organizing this important workshop at UBC on Trans German Studies with keynotes by Emma Heaney & Kadji Amin. The submission deadline is coming up. Consider submitting a proposal. Would be great to welcome some of you to our campus. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Fantastic comrades are organizing this important workshop at UBC on Trans German Studies with keynotes by Emma Heaney & Kadji Amin. The submission deadline is coming up. Consider submitting a proposal. Would be great to welcome some of you to our campus. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

@linguacene.bsky.social and I are hosting a reading group in Feb and March 2026 to examine the keywords for our new multi-year research project titled "Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University." If you are up for it, join us. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University – A Reading Group

Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University – A Reading Group Hosts: David Gramling & Ervin Malakaj The “Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual Universi...

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Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

A lovely tribute to Alice Wong by @thrasherxy.bsky.social. "She did not gatekeep knowledge; she shared it with the generosity and glee of a neighbor passing out full-sized candy bars on Halloween." I laughed at the part where she told him to “EAT THE FUCKING COOKIES!!!!” So very Alice.

Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend

Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I  was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…

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UBC CENES, FHIS, and Asian Studies are excited to collaborate on a careers workshop for our students! Check out our event "From Classroom to Career: Speaking Success with Language Learning". More details in the link below. fhis.ubc.ca/events/event... @arts.ubc.ca @ubc-fhis.bsky.social @asia.ubc.ca

📢📢📢 Upcoming Conference: 'Rethinking Weimar Cinema' (University of Oxford, 17 - 19 June 2026) Full Call for Papers: drive.google.com/file/d/1pxBI... Deadline: 31 October 2025 Please share widely with anyone who may be interested in joining us in Oxford next year!

We have a job going in my department! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

CENES invites you to celebrate the launch of Literature in Late Monolingualism (Bloomsbury), the latest book by Dr. David Gramling (UBC CENES). This is a hybrid event, to attend online, please visit the link below. @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social @linguacene.bsky.social cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...

UBC peoples: if anyone is interested in free books, DM me and we can arrange a time for you to browse. Because of space issues I have to downsize my office library. Primarily 18th-21st century literature, philosophy, literary history/theory. Much of it in German but also in English and French.