Sébastien Tremblay
@sebboo
Historian (Berlin/Flensburg) 🏳️🌈 he/him 1st book: global / German / queer history, memory studies. Present project: mobility / Europeanization / landscapes 🦇 Grufti 🦦 Nerd & 🩰. Born in Montréal / Tiohtià:ke I'm lost between three languages. Bear with me.
Wer kennt sie nicht, die berühmte islamistische Partei, die in den Bundesprognosen mit 28 % führt und kurz davor steht, die erste faschistische Landesregierung in der Berliner Republik zu bilden. 1/3
Gonna post this under every cis-het suddenly discovering the rainbow flag emoji for likes after years of silence on queer issues instead of caring but not making this about themselves
Public love for my friend Dani who managed (somehow) to get us tickets for the intimate Arch Enemy concert at Bi Nuu (400 people!). The band is testing things and introducing Lauren Hart to fans. Fazit: the new era is going to be wonderful!
First time in Europe since 1998, first time in Berlin! The band that got me through highschool 🤗 And what a line-up! The T-Shirt is obviously for research 🩷
“Please review your friend’s book,” they said. “Share your thoughts and insights,” they said. “I’ll write a great essay,” I said. And then things got out of hand....😅
Je viens de recevoir mon exemplaire et j'ai bien hâte de lire! J'ai la recherche de @regschlag.bsky.social en très haute estime 😊
Sometimes I'm a metalhead, sometimes I'm grufti, sometimes I'm punk.. ...And sometimes I'm SCREAMING "Dancing on my own" in the Uber Arena like an elder queer millennial
I am sorry to tell you... that the anti-Ds are at it again. Now they have a beef with Queer Holocaust History...
Once again: Expert*innenmeinungen ignorieren, den Menschen noch mehr Bürokratie auferlegen und so tun, als läge es daran, dass die Bevölkerung nicht genug arbeitet. Klassenkampf von oben Eine typisch schwarz-rote Geschichte.
Spent the week here with students passing their end-of-semester oral exams. I'm so proud of how much they learned and how good they were at expressing difficult and nuanced thoughts on queer history, theory, and European colonial legacies. It's always sad to say goodbye at the end of a semester 😊
The last week of semester in Flensburg means it was our last pub quiz of the academic year. Thank you to the @irishstudieseuf.bsky.social for allowing us to be nerdy and boozy quiz masters at our local pub. 💚🧡
As every year, I've asked my students in European Studies to summarize one aspect of our discussions, readings, and topics with a meme. We use these memes for the final discussion in my seminar on European integration & historicizing Europe as a concept, idea, and space in the 20th century:
Neue Idee für die Bahn: ab jetzt kommt jede Sitzplatzreservierung mit einem ADOOOORABLE Hund, der dir tief in die Seele blickt.
🤓 On était à Bruxelles pour le travail. 🇧🇪 On était aussi à Bruxelles pour:
We had great constructive and honest conversations with bureaucrats, journalists, lobbyists, and politicians in Brussels. Students asked hard questions. We also had somewhat *cough cough* difficult moments. @feministconlaw.bsky.social was ready with merch during our debriefings.🏅
Next meeting is going to be terrific because @feministconlaw.bsky.social coached us all on the neoliberal attack on sustainability and our students are ready and empowered to go against main narratives
Einstürzende Neubauten und Xmal Deutschland back to back was a legendary kick-off and it made teenage seb very happy. 🦇
Das Motto der Hochschule Flensburg, mit der wir uns den Campus teilen, lautet: „Studieren, wo andere Urlaub machen“ and sometimes… jaa
I am so pleased to be part of the INES project with @feministconlaw.bsky.social, and even happier to team up with @uwepuetter.bsky.social and the M.A. European Studies team for our EUF Midsummer Conference, featuring very special guest @goldmatt.bsky.social
Some of the Flensburger students attending my queer History seminar this semester are spending the long weekend in Berlin and asked me if I could suggest an exhibition at the SMU. We ended up having a private tour of the archives with @benwritesthings.bsky.social instead. Thank you Ben.
Yesterday I had the joy to virtually host @jonahgarde.bsky.social in Flensburg. Jonah presented their research to my BA students. This semester we are discussing queer modern history and epistemic violence and Jonah's contribution was a great add-on to what we read for class.
I'm going to leave this article here. Very actual. Open access 🤓 @zoecharlottejay.bsky.social 'If it makes you happy, it can’t be that bad’: Liberal enjoyment and complicity in popular culture. Review of International Studies. Published online 2026:1-19. doi:10.1017/S0260210526101788
So I'm having a session of our reading circle on historical landscape research in 10 minutes and I have spent the last 3 hours with my notes trying to bring these two books together and I am....going.....mad.... It's fun (and not fun)