London friends and colleagues, register for this free RWS event 🙏🏻

Interested in guest editing a special issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism? We've made it easier than ever to pitch us. Download our special issue proposal form here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/submission-g...

LITAID: Decolonization, Appropriation and the Materials of Literature in Africa and its Diaspora | King's College London Addressing fundamental questions about literary materials and their appropriation, with a focus on arts education and cultural production in Ghana.

With thanks to the LITAID team for offering the training, and @leverhulme.ac.uk for supporting me to make the trip down. You can read more about the UKRI-funded LITAID project here: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/lit...

Next week, I'm in LDN for a couple of days for a workshop on NOADGOAT, a digital research environment with data management and visualisation tools. Organised by the LITAID team, the workshop is free and it's not too late to grab a free ticket if you can make it: www.tickettailor.com/events/globa...

Enjoyed this! One for anyone interested in video games, online forums, audience studies, and/or space and (re-)mapping.

Call for Contributors: Foreclosure, a Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism British cultural production has a long history of foreclosure. Understood as a premature abandonment, or an abortive failure, of radical political projects, foreclosure has an imaginative and mater…

🚨🚨Call for contributors to next year's issue of Key Words, a special issue on 'Foreclosure,' guest edited by Chloe Ashbridge and Owain Burrell🚨🚨 Deadline for abstracts is July 18th, 2025. Read more here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/06/09/c... Please share widely.

Distinguished author Hayley G. Toth reading from her book.

I had the best evening celebrating my brilliant pal @tothhayley.bsky.social at the launch of her book, Reading Postcolonial Literature. In it, she explores reading contemporary reading communities, critically engaging with both 'professional' and 'amateur' readers. And it's open access!

Promotional banner graphic. On the left of the image, the book cover for Reading Postcolonial Literature. To the right of this, yellow text reads 'Reading Postcolonial Literature: Launch. School of English Foyer, University of Leeds / Online. 4th June. 5pm. Join author Hayley G. Toth to celebrate the publication of her book Reading Postcolonial Literature: From Professional to Non-Professional Practices. In the bottom right corner, the LUP logo. The back ground is taken from the cover and is a blurred photograph of a dark train station where someone is seen reading a book.

Event | Join @tothhayley.bsky.social on Wednesday, 4th June, to celebrate the publication of her book Reading Postcolonial Literature!

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The Raymond Williams Society

We are delighted to announce two winners of the 2025 Simon Dentith Memorial Prize, the Society’s postgraduate essay competition. First prize goes to Friederike Sachs. Second prize goes to Alexander Curtis. Read more about the winners here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/05/01/e...

My book Reading Postcolonial Literature: From Professional to Non-Professional Practices is out now, and available to read for free at www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.....

(we caught the stray typo on the back cover, if you were worried!)

or the house? But yes, 100%

Thanks to my publisher LUP (what a rockstar team - can highly recommend to ECRs), to colleagues at Leeds, Oxford, Newcastle who instrumentally shaped the development of this book, and to friends for helping me forget about it at various stages of writing.

My first book is going to print! All being well, it should be out in paperback and OA on March 28. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
If you read it and enjoy it (or hate it!), let me know.

Just a few weeks left to submit your essay for our PG essay prize! Please share widely.

Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says

Cardiff University confirms plans to cut 400 full-time jobs

That's over 1,000 job cuts planned between Cardiff, Durham, and Newcastle in the space of a week.

#UKHE #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EduSky

Hi Thando! Thanks so much! Looking forward to following your work on here 😀

Raymond Williams Society Postgrad Essay Prize 2025 We are delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay competition for its 11th year. The deadline for entries is Friday 28th February 2025. The prize for the wi…

We're delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay prize. The prize for the winning entry is £250 and a year's subscription to the Society. See full T&Cs and details of how to enter on our website: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/01/14/r....