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If you are around tomorrow ⁦Univ. of Delaware⁩ come to see me speak on Queer and Beautiful Books with the marvellous Mark Samuels Lasner #MichaelField ⁦School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication⁩ ⁦Birkbeck C19 Studies⁩ ⁦Birkbeck: English⁩

All set for ‘Queer and Beautiful Books’ with me and Mark Samuels Lasner! Come if you are in the Delaware area. #MichaelField Univ. of Delaware

In Delaware today #USAElection2024

Stay with us in Lviv for a month to work on your documentation project. You’ll take part in our programme of institutional visits, internal seminars, public-facing events, and meetings with cultural workers and academics who are chronicling the ru war and Ukrainian resistance.

Este sábado 16 tenemos cita con Margaret Harkness y el patrimonio literario europeo inédito, en Libros Traperos (Murcia) a las 12h, y en librería La Montaña Mágica (Cartagena) a las 19h. Me acompañarán la editora de Chamán Ediciones Anaís Toboso y el escritor Alberto Lucas 👇

El próximo sábado 16 de noviembre hacemos doblete en la Región de Murcia hablando de "La camisera de Manchester" de Margaret Harkness y las New Women. Mañana: en Libros Traperos con la editora Anaís Toboso y el traductor Gonzalo Gómez; MU Tarde: en La Montaña Mágica, CTGN

In case @telegraph readers are interested, this is a response to the story re @CanterbruyCCUni's decision to close its excellent English dept.

The data relating to careers for English graduates tell a very different story to the comments generated by the story. Rates of graduate employment for Arts, Humanities, and Social sciences students are within 1% of Science grads,

and salaries for English grads are some of the fastest-rising in the country, 4th to be precise. English grads are CEOs, work in finance, the civil service, business, as well as in the creative, cultural, education, and heritage sectors.

Check the stats before you dismiss this vital subject that trains its students in the essentials: communication skills, critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration. Its great strength is that it doesn't lead straight to one career - it leads to many.

English researchers also contribute significantly to the economy. CCCU's English dept is the victim of the deeply skewed HE 'market' : young people flock to other depts which are bulging at the seams with English students, while this excellent dept is allowed to sink

This is what smallpox looks like. RFK Jr. wants to eliminate the smallpox vaccine. Good luck everyone. This is what you voted for.

As I told Lex Fridman, we are rapidly moving towards oligarchy. Our economy has a greater concentration of ownership that at any time in history. A few large corporations control what is produced and the prices we pay. The same thing is happening with our political system.

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I’m giving a talk about Victorian depictions of orchid collecting including imperial adventure fiction and satires of Joseph Chamberlain. This Wednesday 27th November at Birmingham uni. Details here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/orchid-jo-em…