Alex Marshall

Tonight, for LGBT history month!
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Monday 23rd February 7:30pm The Museum Queerness in European Cinema with Mars Nicoli Europe in the Pub LGBT History Month Special Forthcoming talks 30th March: The National Folklore Survey for England 27th April: Panos Theodoropoulos on The Precarious Migrant Worker 22nd June: Diane Rogers on Megaliths (tbc) Last Monday of the month, 7:30pm The Museum, Orchard Square, Sheffield Monthly public Humanities talks related to Europe, transnationalism and interculturality. All welcome. Organised by Languages & Cultures at Sheffield Hallam Twitter, Bluesky, Facebook & Instagram: @europeinthepub Questions & proposals alex.marshall@shu.ac.uk and a.louis@shu.ac.uk

This month we have @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social's own @marsnicoli.bsky.social talking about Queerness in European Cinema. Also coming up this year The National Folklore Survey for England, The Precarious Migrant Worker and Megaliths (tbc).

Monday 23rd February, 7:30pm, The Museum, all welcome!

I think a reasonably frequent experience for junior academics is a life wherein they were the smartest person in the room in most rooms they were in (even some pretty fancy rooms) up until The Great Filtration suddenly puts them among a bunch of other people with the same life experience.

My main takeaway from this "automation bias", the assumption that if the AI says it it must be true. Basically "computer says no", market fetishism or (as my partner immediately clocked) the plot of Brazil.

A man standing in front of a projection screen and audience, holding a microphone. Behind him is a slide showing a word cloud, entitled "How Do We Think About AI?" and containing words like 'Threat', 'Opportunity', 'Disruptive', 'Creepy' and 'Creenpy'.

A man standing in front of a projection screen and audience, holding a microphone. Behind him is a slide showing four AI Mindsets: "Doomers", "Gloomers", "Zoomers" and "Bloomers"

A man standing in front of an audience, holding a microphone.

Some photos from @davidraho.bsky.social 's talk on AI to Europe in the Pub on Monday (and to @skepticsinthepub.bsky.social) #creenpy

Definitive ranking:
1) Days
2) Years
3) Bones
4) Weeks

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Should we be Resisting or Embracing AI? with David Raho Europe in the Pub Monday 19th January 7:30pm Farm Road Sports & Social Club S2 2TP Organised by Languages & Cultures at Sheffield Hallam and the Association for Skeptical Enquiry From the glowing red eye of HAL 9000 to the chatbot currently sitting in your pocket, Artificial Intelligence has shifted from a sci-fi nightmare to a daily reality. But as the technology accelerates, so does the anxiety. In this talk, David cuts through the noise to ask the ultimate question: Should We Be Resisting or Embracing AI? Join us as we explore whether we should be barricading the doors against AI or inviting it in. David is a PhD researcher in Law and Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University, investigating the comparative adoption of AI in Probation and Rehabilitation across England and Wales, Brazil, and Japan. He combines this academic work with broad practical experience, working within Probation and more recently with the AI team at His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. He is both a Trustee and Fellow of the Probation Institute. Forthcoming topics 23rd February 2026: Mars Nicoli on Trans Horror in European Film 30th March 2026: The National Folklore Survey for England launch 27th April 2026: Panos Theodoropoulos on The Precarious Migrant Worker Public talks on Europe, transnationalism and interculturality through Sheffield Hallam Languages & Cultures. Usually last Monday of the month. All welcome. Twitter, Bluesky, Facebook & Instagram: @europeinthepub DM with questions & proposals

This month (different venue and earlier than usual) Europe in the Pub has another joint session with Sheffield @skepticsinthepub.bsky.social, and have @davidraho.bsky.social asking Should we be Resisting or Embracing AI?.

Monday 19th January, 7:30pm, Farm Road Sports & Social Club, all welcome!

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Article out!

Someone just addressed me as "Europe in the Pub guy", we're slowly building a profile @europeinthepub.bsky.social

Also coming up: megaliths in folk horror, migrant exploitation in the care industry, and AI.

Europe in the Pub Monday 29th September 2025 7:30pm The Museum Joel Mayfield on The Sheffield Bin Strikes Forthcoming talks 27th October: Diane Rodgers on Megaliths Onscreen in Folk Horror 24th November: Edanur Yazıcı on Migrant Exploitation in the Care Industry *19th January: David Raho on Should we be Resisting or Embracing AI? (joint with Skeptics in the Pub) Last Monday of the month, 7:30pm The Museum, Orchard Square, Sheffield Monthly public talks on Europe, transnationalism and interculturality Organised through Languages & Cultures at Sheffield Hallam Twitter, Bluesky, Facebook & Instagram: @europeinthepub DM with questions & proposals

This month we have Joel Mayfield from @unitetheunion.bsky.social talking about the ongoing strike at the Sheffield Veolia plant, which has now outlasted the Miners' Strike of 1984-85.

Monday 29th September, 7:30pm, The Museum, all welcome!

Throwback to the time we saw a heron.

Went to see more great crested grebes and their weird stripy chicks.

Slight change to booking: we're downstairs this evening

ATG Highlights 2025:
- We Lost The Sea doing Departure Songs
- Envy
- Sugar Horse
- Godspeed
- Melvins
- Walpurgis (all Sabbath covers)
- Mars Volta channel

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Europe in the Pub Monday 18th August 2025 Whose war is it anyway? Vietnam, the US and France in conflict... and comics! with Harriet Earle We all know the image of the American soldier, fresh from jungle combat with a wild stare. He's the staple of Vietnam War pop culture created by the war's losers - the USA. In film and comics, the yank is a mainstay. Sometimes, we also see the French - not often, and not always favourably portrayed. But the war in Vietnam did not belong to either countries; it belongs to Vietnam. After all, in Vietnam, the war is known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ ('Resistance War against America'). Okay, enough word play. Where are the Vietnamese in American comics of the war? Are they capable warriors or childlike naifs? Are they monstrous or are they simply missing?  Forthcoming talks 29th September: Joel Mayfield on The Sheffield Bin Strikes 27th October: Diane Rodgers on Folk Horror 24th November: Edanur Yazıcı on Migrant Exploitation in the Care Industry Last Monday of the month, 7:30pm, upstairs in The Museum, Orchard Square Public talks on Europe, transnationalism and interculturality through Sheffield Hallam Languages & Cultures Twitter, Bluesky, Facebook & Instagram: @europeinthepub Questions & proposals: alex.marshall@shu.ac.uk and a.louis@shu.ac.uk Background image: a comic book drawing of a man in green combat fatigues and a helmet, his shirt open to show his ample chest, standing in front of an American flag shooting a machine gun.

This month, a week earlier than normal, Europe in the Pub has Harriet Earle on Whose war is it anyway? Vietnam, the US and France in conflict... and comics!

Monday 18th August, 7:30pm, The Museum. Come along, and bring friends.

It was sweet of you to blame an oaf.

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Monday 28th July 2025 Europe in the Pub Guy Cowman-Sharpe Cowman- on US Tariffs & Trade Update Forthcoming talks 25th August: Harriet Earle on The Vietnam War in Comics 29th September: Alex Marshall on Early Zionism (tbc) 27th October: Diane Rodgers on Folk Horror Last Monday of the month, 7:30pm Upstairs in The Museum, Orchard Square Monthly public talks on Europe, transnationalism and interculturality Organised through Languages & Cultures at Sheffield Hallam Twitter, Bluesky, Facebook & Instagram: @europeinthepub DM with questions or proposals

This month the University of Sheffield's Guy Cowman-Sharpe will give us the latest on the US tariff situation. Also coming up this year: Vietnam war comics, early Zionism and folk horror.

Monday 28th July, 7:30pm, The Museum, all welcome!

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Anya says: "CQ, measures capability to work effectively in diverse situations. CQ predicts readiness for relating effectively with people from different backgrounds. In this interactive session we investigate how you acquire CQ and what happens if you don’t bother!"

Europe in the Pub Monday 23rd June 2025 Prof. Anya Louis on Global Citizenship: Cultural Intelligence in a Globalised World Cultural Intelligence, or CQ, measures your capability to relate and work effectively in culturally diverse situations. Your CQ predicts your readiness for working and relating effectively with people from different cultural backgrounds. In this interactive session we will investigate how you acquire cultural intelligence and what happens if you don’t bother! Forthcoming talks 28th July: Guy Cowman-Sharpe on US Tariffs & Trade Update 25th August: Alex Marshall on Early Zionism (tbc) 29th September: tbc Last Monday of the month, 7:30pm upstairs in The Museum, Orchard Square Monthly public talks on Europe, transnationalism and interculturality Organised through Languages & Cultures at Sheffield Hallam Twitter, Bluesky, Facebook & Instagram: @europeinthepub DM with questions & proposals

This month (a week early) we have Anya Louis, Professor of Transnational Popular Culture from Sheffield Hallam talking about Cultural Intelligence in a Globalised World.

Monday 23rd June, usual time and place of 7:30pm at The Museum on Orchard Square. All welcome!

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GEORGES PEREC'S UN HOMME QUI DORT An Adventure in Translation, Adaptation. Filmmaking & 12th Century Troubadour. Or An Attempt at Exhausting a Film about Paris. Fully Qualified Perecquian, Mr Christopher Hall, will be guiding us through M. Perecs winning melancholic movie, Un Homme Qui Dort. Uncovering long forgotten hidden structures, puzzles, colours, linguistics and subjective pronouns. with any adventure worth name will have maps, diagrams, rams, will probably get lost and trouble but will definitely back in time tea. Europe in the Pub 7.30, Monday 28th April Upstairs, The Museum, Orchard Square

This month: Chris Hall on the translation and adaptation of Georges Perec's Un Homme qui dort.

28th April, 7:30pm, The Museum, Orchard Square

Call for Contributions: special edition of the journal Nationalism & Ethnic Politics on Nationalism & Irony

Deadline for articles, drafts and proposals: Friday 20th June

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