#BritCult2024 ended on a high note with @Trillianapher's talk on See Red Women's Workshop with great political poster art & Dilâra Yilmaz's talk on #sadgirl books as a social media phenomenon on the #bookmarket (#booktok), especially by #IrishWriters #IrishLiterature #BritCult

Get your abstracts in for "An Fód Dúchais: Home, Heritage and Origins”, The 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference. This year we’re returning to Flann’s birthplace in Strabane 24-27th June 2025. parishreview.openlibhums.org/news/759/

#IrishStudies

#JobOpportunity: Die FAU Erlangen-Nbg sucht im Bereich der #AmericanStudies (Lehrstuhl @Prof_Heike_Paul) eine Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben 📆 Deadline: 20.12.24 💡 Schwerpunkte: Cultural Studies, Kulturtheorie, Populärkulturforschung, Affect Studies 🔎 Details: jobs.fau.de/jobs/lehrkraft…

"Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?" ✒ #LucyMaudMontgomery, Canadian author ("Anne of Green Gables") was #BOTD 30 November 1874. #Literature

Today is Lucy Maud Montgomery's 150th #birthday - a great occasion to repost this thread from April with some gems of our collection related to Montgomery's children's classic, #AnneOfGreenGables #LucyMaudMontgomery #BOTD #AnneWithAnE

"Writing during the Disasters" is a new book by Marius Henderson on suffering in contemporary #AmericanPoetry applying #AffectTheory, #QueerTheory, Black Feminism & more to the works of 7 poets and 1 artist collective #Poetry #LiteraryStudies #AmericanLiterature #AmericanStudies

Wir verlassen X. In Hamburg sagt man Tschüss (zu Fake News, Hetze, Diskriminierung, Hatespeech & Verherrlichung von Gewalt). Der mit Musks Übernahme von Twitter eingeleitete Niedergang hat zuletzt einen nicht mehr zu tolerierenden Tiefpunkt erreicht: blog.sub.uni-hamburg.de/?p=39327 #eXit

Today is the birthday of #ChristinaRossetti, #JoanDidion & #HanifKureishi! Isn't it striking that both Didion & Kureishi have a book called the black / white album, respectively? If you prefer more colourful reads, here are our illustrated editions of Rossetti‘s "Goblin Market"

The #BavarianAmericanAcademy looks forward to welcoming Kimberly J. Brown (Dartmouth 🌲) to amerikahaus on Thursday! Kimberly J. Brown will speak about "Antiblackness and the Politics of the Visual." 👉Further information & registration (free): amerikahaus.de/ausstellungen-…

Die Zeitschrift „kommunikation@gesellschaft“ plant in Zusammenarbeit mit dem #FID Media (FID Media) eine Sonderausgabe zum Thema „#OpenAccess – kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlich gelesen“. Der #CfP ist noch bis zum 31.12.2024 geöffnet: journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup2/kommges/a…