TWO full time researcher positions in Oxford and Sheffield now open for applications, as part of our Leverhulme project “The 101st Kilometre: Soviet marginalization, migration, memory and mapping”. Please spread the word!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRE941/p...
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...
I am organising a workshop at Manchester on 11-12 June entitled 'HIV/AIDS and the Boundaries of Europeanness'. Abstracts are due 29 April and you can find the full call for papers here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Please share with interested colleagues!
New article out 🎉 Drawing on my PhD research, I explore the construction of the 'prostitute' and the 'client' within England's AIDS Policy in the late 1980s.
Published with the @sshmedicine.bsky.social and now available to read here (though sadly not open access!):
#histmed #histsex #AIDShistory
Not included because they're not polling high enough. In the last Ipsos poll, 1% would vote for 'other' so YP is polling below 1%
23% is not a majority?
Excerpt from David Macey's biography of Foucault. The passage talks about Foucault's friendship with two French physicists. "The three quickly became a closely knit group, taking it in turns to cook for one another (with Foucault specialising in pasta dishes, about which he elaborated an entire culinary theory) and spending most of their free time together."
Absolutely must know more about Foucault's theory of pasta
The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the two most distant points are closer together than they are on a flat earth. But Friedman is going to spend the next 470 pages turning the "flat world" into a metaphor for global interconnectedness. Furthermore, he is specifically going to use the word round to describe the old, geographically isolated, unconnected world.
From Matt Taibbi's 2005 evisceration of the book
They've been in trouble for a while and a lot of acts were complaining that they were owed money. Seemed like only a matter of time
Would love to be added to the list. I'm a historian of global communications and international organisations after WWII
Sergei Zhuk's Rock and Roll in the Rocket City also covers this briefly
Stealing the State by Steven Solnick is good on this
A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as "Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator. "The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."
Simon is a better name than Matt
I miss Rotogravure!
You're right - it's more like 6 months. And the modules are so diverse - both early modern and modern/contemporary, plus crime and sexuality. Shameful!
In a world of academic enshittification this is one of the worst jobs I've seen. *Four* specialist modules for *immediate* delivery and we'll only pay you for eight months. Way to go Bishop Grosseteste University!
Headline from UK gov't: "UK's nuclear expertise is showcased on BBC Countryfile"
Tweet from Simon Grundy showing a screenshot from Countryfile: a computer at Sellafield with the password taped to the monitor
Guardian headline: "Sellafield nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China"
"UK's nuclear expertise ..."
Watching the far-Right rise across the world, it is very easy to sink into self-pity, and I don’t always escape that temptation. The trick is to treat the pain as terrible but not total: to go for a short walk or a quick drink, preferably a hot tea, then to get back to the desk to write, to help.
Subversion and sexuality, feminism and women’s liberation, race, class, Punk: the Radical 1970s
Join us on 9 December. More information here culturepowerpolitics.org/the-radical-1970s/
Thank you to Françoise Daucé for a thoughtful and perceptive review of News from Moscow in the latest Cahiers du Monde russe
journals.openedition.org/monderusse/1...
The High Court of Australia has ruled that indefinite immigration detention is unlawful, overturning a 20-year-old precedent allowing detention even where there is no prospect of deportation. Let’s hope it influences UK, which also has no time limit on detention www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
UKRI have responded to Michelle Donelan's disgraceful attack on academic independence.
They have caved completely and are organising a witch-hunt.
www.ukri.org/news/respons...
I encourage those who are concerned with academic freedom in the UK to sign.
Serendipity indeed! Interested to hear more when our paths next cross...
I thought of you while I was enjoying the architecture!
There are worse places to do research than the UNESCO archives...