Read this interview on 'Making Fields: #Women in #Publishing ' featuring the editors of the Edinburgh University Press Companion to Women in Publishing euppublishingblog.com/2024/04/12/mak…

Lost in translation: the geopolitical risks of declining foreign language learning in Australia and NZ theconversation.com/lost-in-transl… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Spent the whole day to book travel via university and yet to have a resolution or a booking. Needless to say I could have resolved this in 10 minutes at a cheaper rate, if I were trusted to handle my own funds. I value my time, especially the one I wasted with no result.

Italian Minister of Culture, in Parliament today, commemorating 80th anniversary of the death of philosopher Giovanni Gentile, a key supporter of Mussolini's fascist régime.
They celebrate those around Mussolini because they haven't got the courage to celebrate the Duce himself.

At Uni of Reading, we're trialling a new way of working with our non-academic partners and fostering research relationships.

Through this trial, we've been working with Christian Aid to respond to real-world problems 👇

research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/…

And it's finally here!! A whopper at 710 pages (letterbox enlarged accordingly!). Congratulations to my co-editor Muireann (we did it!), all our contributors, and Open Book Publishers! And remember, this beauty is free for you all to download here: openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647… Enjoy!

The programme for the SIS Biennial Conference 2024, 19-21 June, Royal Holloway, is now available - The Society of Italian Studies. Registration closes on 19th April 2024 italianstudies.org.uk/2024/03/27/reg…

OTD Cancer activist Jeannie Marshall died 4/8/95 of chordoma (cancer of the spine) in my arms in Mass General Hospital. The silence she wanted to break: the environmental causes of cancer. The silence she needed to keep: that we were lovers. So I left before her parents arrived.

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Unfortunately, the last 14 years have taught us that economic self-harm is what the UK does best.

22nd century was here & gone youtu.be/PYcgCiWAv8c?si…

We’re deeply saddened to hear that Maryse Conde has died. The Grande Dame of Caribbean literature, she was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize twice, in 2015 and 2023, and leaves behind an extraordinary body of work. We send our heartfelt condolences to her family.

Easter and women's credibility gap.

Later on, it was a man who explained to everyone what had happened.

WOKE, SNOWFLAKE, UNIVERSITY LECTURER SLAMS “RACIST” BOARD GAME! 🧵

What a loss! His *Thinking fast and slow* is a great book, ironically its lessons & take-away points most ignored by Universities, where Kahneman’s research was initially thought through.

Extremely pleased to announce publication of my most recent co-edited volume set on 'The British Publishing Industry in the Nineteenth Century'. 1760+ pages in total, been some time in the making! Full volume details here:

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Fantastic end to a very stimulating conference! Thank you SpaTrEM #TRANSLATION #periodicals #postwar

Treasures of my city