Erika L. Briesacher

@elbriesacher
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Assoc. Prof of History (Germany, Europe, material culture, nationalism, economics, museum studies, intellectual history). Chapter president, MSCA. Learning something new everyday. Festival, Culture, and Identity in Lübeck: Nordic Days, 1920-1960 (Lexington, Dec 2022) & Make Me a Mask: Material/Culture of a Pandemic (Kent State Uni Press, under contract). #histodons

Banner image: Lübeck Holstentor

Erika L. BriesacherOct 14, 2023
It has been so long since I've been here. But I'm looking forward to reintegrating into the platform and finding my/new people. Are we still saying #histodons ?
Erika L. BriesacherDec 4, 2022
DrLisaKDec 3, 2022

For any of you interested in #writing, #creativity or simply finding a community to help you discover new things, please join me at my #free Gateless #writing event. Learn more below.

https://www.lisaakramer.com/2022/12/the-gift-of-time-to-create/

The Gift of Time to Create | Lisa A. Kramer, Author | Speaker | Creativity Facilitator

One of my creative passions is light. Yes, light. Many moons ago, I thought I might become a lighting designer for the theatre. While I ultimately focused on directing, my favorite time in the creation of a show is setting light levels during tech. Light, for me, is an important character in any play. It

Lisa A. Kramer: Woman Wielding Words
Erika L. BriesacherNov 30, 2022
It's coming! Two weeks, and a preview! https://www.google.com/books/edition/Festival_Culture_and_Identity_in_L%C3%BCbeck/jmmdEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1
Festival, Culture, and Identity in Lübeck

In this study Erika L. Briesacher argues that festivals in Lübeck, Germany spanning 1920 to 1960 demonstrate interlocking economic, social, and cultural factors that contribute to local, national, and international identity formation. Focusing on institutional records as well as public discourse and material artifacts, the author traces the mobilization of “Nordic” as a distinctly German in-group during the Weimar, Nazi, and early Cold War eras, highlighting particular ways participants included and excluded racial, religious, and other cultural identities in their own “imagined community.” Focusing on the festival as both a site of participation and consumption, the author assesses two postwar periods as well as the legacy of the Holocaust in a northwest German town.

Google Books
Erika L. BriesacherNov 28, 2022
Jacob RemesNov 21, 2022
Now that we’re both on here, I want to spread the word about @seeshespeak’s and my #cfp. We’re editing an interdisciplinary book exploring what happens if we study #watersheds as social and cultural units. We take my home #river, the #Housatonic, as our case. How might we study #envhist, literary history, labor history, and other topics together? We’d love it if you’d helps spread the word and help us “think with a river.” https://wp.nyu.edu/remes/2022/08/29/cfp-thinking-with-a-river/
CFP: Thinking with a River: Housatonic Valley History and Culture – Jacob A. C. Remes

Erika L. BriesacherNov 27, 2022
K. TaylorNov 27, 2022
Folks, especially the academics, if you can do things virtually this week, do it. It might help reduce the number of infections that are gonna happen when ppl who were traveling or gathering with no precautions reconvene at work/ school this week.
Erika L. BriesacherNov 27, 2022
Caroline Orr BuenoNov 27, 2022
As right-wing extremists are re-platformed everywhere from Twitter to Mar-a-Lago, it’s more important than ever that we hold our journalists, researchers, & others to high standards of accountability when it comes to reporting on extremism and extremists. We need journalists who will tell us the truth, not stake out a position in the middle of two unequal sides. I keep coming back to this quote about reporting on the weather, but it was missing something — so I modified it to make it complete.
Erika L. BriesacherNov 27, 2022

Tree is up, our yearly stockings are made (puffy paint for the win), the animated Grinch is on. I'm watching my oldest pack up to head back to school, and the rest of us are in various stages of exhaustion.

The long weekend was lovely, with a carefully curated group of family/friends. And in all of it, I'm confronted by how TIRED I am. How TIRED my students are. How TIRED my colleagues are. Here's to us all. Here's to doing what we can for the rest of this year to find a footing and rest.

Erika L. BriesacherNov 23, 2022
Jennie BatchelorNov 23, 2022
Sorry, I promise not to keep throwing questions out into the Fediverse, but I wonder if any #bookhistory #bookstodon #histodon folks here know anything about the quality or making of crown paper in the eighteenth century. I have found a reference to something being printed on this and I am curious as to the weight and quality of the paper as well as what it was typically used for. Thank you.
Erika L. BriesacherNov 23, 2022
Ken 🌎​ 🇺🇦​  ​Nov 17, 2022

Slavery is theft. But it is a special case because it is the theft of a person's entire potential while enslaved.

If the slavery is lifelong, as it almost universally was--and, in many ways, continues to be--in the United States, then it is the theft of the potential of a person's entire life.

When continued for generations as it was in the USA, slavery includes the theft of that person's inheritance and legacy.

IOWs, it steals *everything*.

Slavery is to theft what genocide is to murder.

Erika L. BriesacherNov 23, 2022
Aoife O'DonoghueNov 22, 2022

The UKHE system is broken

70,000 of us are going on strike as our terms & conditions, wages & pension rights are all under attack

The UK higher education sector has £40bn in reserves - it can afford to pay staff decent wages and give them proper contracts

Pay is down by 25%.

Nov 20th every year - Women effectively work the rest of the year for free - earning £4k less than men

Also engaged in Action Short of Strike - show solidarity please!

#UCU #UCURising