Colby Gordon in front of his presentation, title Nonsecular

Colby Gordon in front of his presentation showing 2 Bible illustrations with Eve emerging from Adam's body's side

Yesterday's keynote at #BritCult2025 #conference was really impactful, with @badinfinity2.bsky.social highlighting the queer & trans elements in #Medieval & #EarlyModern Christian iconography & texts, from Genesis to Jesus Christ & the Last Judgment

#TransStudies #QueerStudies #Theology #ArtHistory

Ahh! It will be my first one, too. Glad there will be other 'new' people!

Likewise!

Agree. I just finished my PhD on the eighteenth-century version of this trope in poetry, specifically, and at this point I am just done with reading affirmative and nostalgic takes on it. Sounds like maybe we would have things to talk about though?

The idea he references is much older than Romanticism, too.

CFP: Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People CALL FOR PAPERS: Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People An online conference hosted by the University of Münster11-12 February 2026 In January 2025, just fo...

Submit your abstract here: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3505/

And here's a Google doc for easier CFP reading: bit.ly/CFPThinkingOfTheChildren

Any questions, drop me a line.

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Our conference " #NeoHistorical #Fiction @ 2025. #PrizedTemporalities & Contested Progress"
is happening /2-4 June @temporal-communities.de
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@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #AcademicConference
#EnglishStudies #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies #FUBerlin

📢 JOB KLAXON 📢 Come work with me: I am advertising a PhD position in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (50%, for 3 years initially, starting date: September 2025) - please share widely! www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/or...

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Am editing. Darlings are dropping like flies. #killyourdarlings Send tea, fortitude and patient vibes, please.

“Then you tell me you’ve fallen in love with a tree”: Queer ecologies in Ali Smith’s short stories The present article takes the recurrent motif of trees in Ali Smith’s oeuvre as a point of departure to analyze how Smith forges an alliance between environmental concerns and queerness. It argues ...

Proud to have this published in the Journal of Lesbian Studies:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

PhD Scholarships - Funding for up to four years - Start date: 1 Oct. 2025 - Deadline: 30 Nov. 2024

Our Graduate School Practices of Literature is offering DAAD #scholarships for international candidates! 🌍✨ Join a 3-year PhD program (with possible 4th year funding) in an inspiring academic environment! Details: uni.ms/gssp #litwiss #phd

„Ohne euren Männerhass wäre die Welt noch schöner“-Titel

Die 70er haben angerufen und wollen ihre platte antifeministische Diffamierungsrhetorik - Kritik patriarchaler Gewalt = „Männerhass“ - zurück.

If your business model isn't viable without a lot of theft, it's not a good business model, whether it be AI or a fast food joint.

I recommend the free tours they offer.

Screenshot von Kathleen Stock vom 02.07. über Nina Power

Also now public after having been adduced as evidence at trial are WhatsApp messages between Ms Power—who is currently a Telegraph writer and editor of Compact magazine—and Mr Miller. These reveal that Ms Power and Mr Miller both kept copies of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’, with Mr Miller suggesting they might “find [themselves] agreeing with it”. This leads Ms Power to “Wonder what the real deal is with the Protocols [of the Elders of Zion]”, the notorious antisemitic text that inspired Hitler. The logs also show Ms Power claiming that “the social disapproval for ‘racism’ is a psyop to stop people realising that there *are* alien and fairy races”, and that “black and white were alien races and very different”.

Meisterdenkerin der UK „Gender Criticals“ Kathleen Stock wie sie ihre Schwester im Geiste Nina Power supported, direkt nachdem diese per Gericht als Fascho-Freundin und Rassistin mit Interesse an Mein Kampf und den Protokollen der Weisen von Zion enttarnt wurde
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Rez: M. Foik: Menschen in weißen Kitteln

http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-139066

M. Foik: Menschen in weißen Kitteln

CfP! gender forum (online, OA, peer reviewed) is looking for abstracts (due July 21) for a special issue on Flora - Fauna - Gender, guest edited by Burak Sezer and Johanna Pelikan. Details below - spread the word, reposts welcome! #ecocriticism #genderstudies

Alles klar. Stark-Watzinger hatte üüü-ber-haupt keine Ahnung von den Umtrieben ihrer Staatssekretärin und hat eine Woche gebraucht, um rauszufinden, was los ist.

Nach dem Totalversagen in Sachen #WissZeitVG versucht das BMBF jetzt auch noch die Wissenschaftsfreiheit abzuräumen. Wie viel Schaden wollt Ihr dem Wissenschaftsstandort D eigentlich noch zufügen? 🤯 Und all das in Zeiten, in denen wissenschaftsfeindliche Kräfte weiter an Boden gewinnen. Unglaublich.

Fellowship Programme “Migration, Diaspora, Citizenship”

University of Münster, Germany

Postdoctoral fellowship (24 months) OR Senior fellowship (6 months)
start date: 01 May 2025
application deadline: 19 Jul 2024

@susannegruss.bsky.social This seems like it would interest you!

Poster of the event with the title of the play, a black and white picture of Heuman and a QR Code for more info.

Posters are up for our screening of the play "The Amazing Life of Margot Heuman" next Monday 6pm @UniCologne‘s diversity week, featuring snacks, drinks, and Zoom Q&A with @ankahajkova.bsky.social !
vielfalt.uni-koeln.de/aktuelles/di...

One of the more toxic traits of the modern neoliberal university is the tendency for disciplines to dunk on other disciplines.

In other words, the anti-intellectualism is coming from inside the house.

So proud of our brilliant contributors! Go read @juliaditter.bsky.social on extraction ecologies,
@espinoza.bsky.social on Marryat's tropics, Katharina Kalthoff on Wells's sea lady, and @marlenatronicke.bsky.social on neo-victorian environments. A big thank you to all of you. 💚🌿

Black-and-white photo of Gay's the Word shopfront by Robert Workman, courtesy of the Robert Workman Archive, Bishopsgate Institute. Overlaid with pink and black circle reading SEIZED BOOKS! LGBTQ+ books and censorship in 1980s Britain.

Forty years ago, Gay's the Word was reeling from raids by HM Customs & Excise. You might've heard of 'Operation Tiger', but probably know less about the books accused of being 'indecent or obscene'. Our new online exhibition reveals more – london.ac.uk/seized-books

Pandemic Preparedness in the Live Performing Arts: Lessons to Learn from COVID-19

How did the pandemic play out in the live performing arts sector? We've published a report on @britishacademy.bsky.social supported research looking at lessons from across the G7. Germany comes out well in its response in various ways worth learning from www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

Bayern: Gender-Verbot an Hochschulen noch dieses Jahr Obwohl gar keine Fälle bekannt sind, will Bayerns Wissenschaftsminister Markus Blume Studierende vor einem angeblichen "Genderzwang" schützen. Die Studierendenvertretungen kritisieren die "populistisc...

Kulturkampf wie aus dem rechtsradikalen us-amerikanischen Lehrbuch! Scheindebatten und Sündenbockpolitik! Die Gefahr für die FDGO geht nicht nur von Rechtsextremen aus!
Gender-Verbot an Hochschulen noch dieses Jahr - queer.de
www.queer.de/detail.php?a...

Unterstützung für Johannes Ungelenk, organized by Charlotte Stern Unterstützung für Johannes Ungelenk! Gegen Willkür in der Wissenschaft! 2018 … Charlotte Stern needs your support for Unterstützung für Johannes Ungelenk

Jetzt geht's drum. Johannes Ungelenk will sich gerichtlich wehren und braucht dafür Geld! Unser Fachverband ist nicht groß genug, um das zu stemmen und da das ein Präzedenzfall ist, macht es Sinn, wenn wir uns jetzt über Fachgrenzen hinaus hinter Johannes stellen: gofund.me/7db3d579

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