CFP: Rethinking Empires, Colonialism, and Great Power Politics: Eighteenth-Century Perspectives. Second Conference of the Ukrainian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Korolenko Poltava National Pedagogical University, 19-21 April 2023. More info here: oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/pls/public/gsc…

Our Sylvia Plath celebration yesterday was fascinating, thrilling, and fun! Thanks so much to our wonderful workshop leaders (Sarah Corbett & Dr Gail Crowther - who allowed us to touch Sylvia Plath's watch!!?), the participants, & our fabulous readers, especially MichaelaCoplen.

Who Owns Football. As the World Cup looms. At Oxford Brookes from 3.00 pm this Friday (18th) we will be having events that push questions of who benefits from and controls football and ask about human rights and Qatar World Cup. Sign up at Event Brite

This is why we need to pull together as a profession, across our institutions, and overturn the model of marketised higher education. It is choking RG institutions, starving non-RG institutions and destroying student experience. We HAVE to do this for ourselves & our students.

Excited to read some poems, old and new, at 'A Tapestry of Home' next week at the Holywell Music Room. Put on by TORCH Oxford and Jennifer Wong (she/her) and featuring some ace writers and musicians, not least my OxfordBrookesEnglish chum Wendy Allen. Info + reg.: torch.ox.ac.uk/event/a-tapest…

If you you've been finding life difficult lately and you don't feel like you can talk with your friends or family, call Samaritans at any time on 116 123. No names. No pressure. No judgement. #TalkToUs #WeListen

Right now, I should be teaching Dangerous Liaisons. I love teaching Dangerous Liaisons. Instead, I am sending solidarity to my Southampton UCU colleagues, and preparing to distribute some solidarity quince jelly. #ucuRISING

Aus Anlass des 250. Geburtstags und der Tagung "Emil /Emilie: Herzog August von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg ..." hat die FB den literarischen Nachlass digitalisiert. Dr. Kathrin Paasch stellt heute die private Büchersammlung dieser reich facettierten Persönlichkeit vor Universität Erfurt

The Pasold Research Fund is seeking to appoint a new Director from Spring 2023, when Professor Stana Nenadic will step down. For more about this amazing opportunity to help shape the future of #textiles and #fashionhistory research, click: pasold.co.uk/News

Is there something you’ve particularly liked this semester? Is there something you’d like to see in the next? Let us know & get a free mini Christmas drink 🎄 ☕️. Complete the survey online: forms.gle/ABcGj15UXMPmZA… or in person at our pop-up stall in Union Square (this week)!

A range of emotional landscapes in the home-worlds of Wendy Allen Ed Roffe Claire Collison Marta Arnaldi …

What a privilege to read at the historic Holywell Music Room on a bill with so many fantastic poets, writers and musicians. Thanks to Jennifer Wong (she/her) and TORCH Oxford for putting on a brilliant event 🏡

THINK HUMAN at Oxford Brookes I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing its understanding of being human” ― John Trudell December 14th Oxford Brookes 5.00-7.00 SU Bar- Dylan, Popular Song and More eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-philosop…

Next Thursday UBO - Univ. Brest will open our H2020 DIGIT.EN.S closing conference « Sociabilities on the Move in the Long Eighteenth Century (1650-1850) » with wonderful keynotes and speakers and the official launch of our DIGIT.EN.S online encyclopedia! digitens.org/en/digitens-ne…

Today we have launched the 1st edition of our public searchable database of c18th letters. It contains 832 original letters. We are delighted to widen access to these letters! #letters #digitalhumanities #twitterstorians socialbodies.bham.ac.uk/database/lette…

Join us tomorrow in Brest for the DIGITENS conference 'Sociabilities on the Move in the Long 18th c.' After 4 eventful years of scientific cooperation and sociability, this will be the closing event of the H2020 DIGITENS project! GIS Sociabilités UBO - Univ. Brest La Bibliothèque nationale de France The National Archives Research

This LA Japanese Bakery's $18 Loaves Of Milk Bread Sell Out In Minutes tastingtable.com/1067135/this-l…

It's fabulous to see that our colleague Mary Jean Chan has been selected as a The Booker Prizes judge! We wish them lots of luck getting through those thousands of pages next year!! x.com/maryjean_chan/…

The message: don't mess with archivists!> The National Archives fires back at Matt Hancock spectator.co.uk/article/the-na… via The Spectator