Today marks 80 years since the first #Kindertransport. Bob and Ann Kirk both fled to the UK on the Kindertransport, leaving their families behind. They met in the UK and married in 1950. Read Bob's story: hmd.org.uk/resource/bob-k… Read Ann's story: hmd.org.uk/resource/ann-k…

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Everyday hate-speech tragic effects: Poland today

Alan Partridge’s Hands-Free Train Toilet Drill will revolutionise your life. #AlanPartridge #ThisTime

This isn't about left, right, centre, leave or remain... This is about ensuring that democracy can never be put on pause when an unelected politician finds it inconvenient. #StopTheCoup

Wow!!! Agreed!

Fascinating paper by ⁦Natalia Krzyzanowska⁩ ⁦Örebro universitet⁩ at PL Sociology Congress on motherhood across generations of PL critical art - key inspirations from sociology of art & feminist critique #17zjazdpts

V important statement by ASEEES & its president @KubikJan condemning systemic racism & police brutality in US - vital words on why our knowledge of atrocities of past authoritarian regimes is crucial in supporting combat against contemporary racism & authoritarianism

Tomorrow, I will be debating (in Polish) on ‘Media - COVID - The Future’ with Jan Zielonka (Oxford/Venice), Marta Figlerowicz (Yale) and Jacek Zakowski (Tygodnik POLITYKA Uniwersytet Civitas) in a Debate organised by Concillium Civitas. More info & how to join at wyborcza.pl/7,162657,26101…

So this Is finally out as Social Semiotics 30:4, Special Issue “Strategies of Normalization in Public Discourse: Paradoxes of Populism, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Exclusion” guest-esited by yrs truly! Intro & papers at tandfonline.com/toc/csos20/30/…

Info about our Intl. Symposium co-organised 4-5 Feb 2021 by UU Media & Comms & @JMGoteborg “Journalism, Media & Normalization of (Right-Wing) Populism & Nativist Authoritarianism: Analysis of Practices & Counteracting Strategies before and during COVID-19” bit.ly/3i89FSM

So Orbán's Hungary kicked out the best Western university in central Europe & now welcomes the Chinese one… bit.ly/39vK4z8

So this is the cold & snowy but lovely Uppsala & UU Media & Comms this am - with greetings especially to colleagues & friends in Oz & other warm places Benjamin Moffitt | benmoffitt.bsky.social Scott Wright Kurt Sengul Tamir Bar-On Benjamin Isakhan @Deakin_ADI Prof. Dr. Fethi Mansouri

This is the new dimension of Pl antiabortion law: a women hunting begins (again!)

As someone who cares deeply about Poland, I am alarmed at this latest effort by the Polish government to stifle free media. We must call this out for what it is — an attack on democracy and the rule of law.

Grateful & v inspired having spent two days @UU_University UU Media & Comms discussing future research on politics & normalization of exclusion with long-term intellectual comrades & friends Ruth Wodak, Mattias Gardell, @jens_rydgren @AristotleKallis & Natalia Krzyzanowska Thank you!

Great new analytical piece by Natalia Krzyzanowska in CDS looking at strategies of counter-commemorating the Holocaust under conditions of (ongoing) far-right hegemonic memory politics in contemporary Hungary tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

1/2 New in JLANPOL “Discourses & practices of‘New Normal’: Towards interdisciplinary agenda on crisis & normalization of anti-/post‑democratic action” by Michał Krzyżanowski @[email protected] R.Wodak, H.Bradby, M.Gardell, @AristotleKallis Natalia Krzyzanowska @CasMudde @rydgrenjens jbe-platform.com/content/journa…

Hopefully of interest Patrícia Rossini is inactive here. @CarstenQSchneid @queertwit Anna Triandafyllidou Lilie Chouliaraki Myria Georgiou Rafal Zaborowski // zaborowski.bsky.social @TanjaThomas9 @KubikJan Scott Wright Tim Bale Aurelien Mondon Aaron Winter Finchelstein George Newth Katy Brown Gavan Titley Sam Bennett 🟣 Dimitris Serafis | @dimitrisrf.bsky.social