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A drawing of a baby and mum sleeping with the caption sleep when the baby sleeps

A comic of a mum breastfeeding while drinking water with the caption drink when the baby drinks

A comic of the mum and baby with white eyes and scary grins with the caption bond ancient deadly gods when the baby bonds ancient deadly gods

A comic of the mum and baby knowing down buildings with the caption become a plague of description upon your enemies when the baby becomes a plague of destruction upon their enemies

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VCÖ-Fachpersonenbefragung: Fast die Hälfte bewertet das regionale und lokale Busangebot in Österreich Regionen als schlecht - Mobilität mit Zukunft VCÖ (Wien, 27. November 2024) – Wie kann die Qualität des Öffentlichen Verkehrs in den Regionen verbessert werden? Dazu hat die Mobilitätsorganisation VCÖ 245 Expertinnen und Experten aus 195 Organisa...

"Dass in den Regionen die Abhängigkeit vom Auto oft groß ist, ist kein Naturgesetz, sondern die Folge von politischen Maßnahmen, nicht nur im Verkehrsbereich, sondern auch im #Wohnbau und der gewerblichen Siedlungsentwicklung" vcoe.at/presse/press...

Australia Bans Social Media for Everyone Under 16 The law sets a minimum age for users of platforms like TikTok, Instagram and X. How the restriction will be enforced online remains an open question.

Breaking News: Australia has passed a sweeping ban on social media for children under 16, one of the world’s most comprehensive measures aimed at safeguarding young people from potential hazards online. nyti.ms/3VbiGzc

Issue 46.23 is now online, featuring:

Christopher Clark on Perry Anderson
@tricialockwood.bsky.social on The X-Files
Kasia Boddy on Lore Segal
Ferdinand Mount on the Royal Navy
@tomstevenson.bsky.social on Trump and US power
and a cover by Jon McNaught.

Read online at www.lrb.co.uk

The Aesthetics of Belonging | Claudia Gastrow | University of North Carolina Press After centuries of colonial rule, the end of Angola's three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible opportunity for the government to reimagine the...

My book is out! The Aesthetics of Belonging explores how urban aesthetics shape experiences and practices of political belonging:

uncpress.org/book/9781469...

Walker‘s The Country in the City?

zasb.unibas.ch/de/news/deta...

For those interested in the BD: www.actes-sud.fr/demain-demai...

Architecture students at Coimbra sitting around a table and listening to a presentation via Zoom by French author Laurent Maffre.

Very glad after a conversation between my Architecture and Urban Culture students at Coimbra and the brilliant Laurent Maffre, author of Demain Demain, a BD about a squatter settlement in 1960s Paris.

Cover of Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those without It by Lennard J. Davis. Cover features a halftone illustration of an adult hand dropping a coin into the outstretched palm of a child. A color filter overlays the image; most of the image is blue-tone, but the hands are encircled in bright red. The text “Poor Things” is in white chunky lettering.

Today on the blog, read a Q&A with @lendavis.bsky.social about his new book "Poor Things," which considers the literature of poverty.
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From Dissertation to Book: Navigating the Publication Process (2024) YouTube video by UCB Scholarly Communication & Information Policy

Last week we heard from a UC Berkeley faculty author, an acquisitions editor at UC Press, and a (c) expert. The panel shared advice to grad students about how to take a dissertation into a scholarly book. Video up now: youtu.be/TFokfBmU088 @ucpress.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

Thanks to Izzy Fox for the idea!

Banner image: archival documents on counterinsurgency in late colonial Angola, at Lisbon‘s Diplomatic Historical Archive.

Profile picture: resting in the middle of a bicycle ride in the Tagus valley in Portugal, in front of a rural bus stop where an artist painted the word „WAIT“ in Portuguese.

The next biennial European Architectural History Network conference will be held in Denmark in June 2026!
Propose a session or roundtable by 17 January 2025. #CFP #architecture #history

arthist.net/archive/42972

XXII(2) | 2023 L’Angola au XXIe siècle. Imagination collective et ... Revue comparatiste consacrée aux espaces issus de l’histoire portugaise / Comparative review devoted to areas from Portuguese history

Le dernier dossier de Lusotopie est consacré à l’Angola: « L’Angola au XXIe siècle. Imagination collective et production des savoirs ».
Il a été dirigé par Dorothée Boulanger et António Tómas et est en open-access
journals.openedition.org/lusotopie/7312

A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT Site web d’Arthur Perret, enseignant-chercheur en SIC.

In response to OpenAI’s recent ‘A Student’s Guide to Writing with ChatGPT’, Arthur Perret (maître de conferénces, Jean Moulin Lyon 3) writes a line-by-line rebuttal — A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11...

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The Built Ocean | EAHN Architects require solid ground on which to base their practice, yet oceans have always been a key element shaping the history of architecture and the built environment. This thematic conference aims ...

“The Built Ocean”, a EAHN thematic conference will be held at Porto’s Faculty of Architecture in September 2025 (10-13). The deadline for paper proposals is January 18: www.thebuiltocean.com