Image of book cover: The Politics of Purim: Law, Sovereignty and Hospitality in the Aesthetic Afterlives of Esther
It seems appropriate to celebrate Purim by giving away a few copies of my book The Politics of Purim - for info see www.bloomsbury.com/uk/politics-... To have a chance of being sent a copy please like this post and comment or dm me. UK post only. Please share with anyone you think might want a copy!
Such an honour to become co-Editor of Literature & Theology alongside @jocarruthers.bsky.social. My first published article as a PhD student was in this journal! We’re thrilled to be able to play a role in its future - please think about submitting any relevant articles @oxfordunipress.bsky.social
Would be sooo lovely to meet up x
Def have to read it again but I’m all up for all the lists!
But really, I’m now waiting for the Ika take whole of Austen… lists of characters in order of awesomeness a necessity…
Hello!!!! Loving your posts. If only you were in the same country! Let me know when you visit ❤️
Love this thread! Makes me want to read Persuasion again. Read the others and write more threads!
I’d love to be added please.
We’re live everybody— join us in DC in November 2025??
#ESRC Funded Studentships in #Politics at University of #Liverpool via the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership - (How To Apply: nwssdtp.ac.uk/how-to-apply/) Ad www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKU079/e...
Here's a list of journals, scholarly societies, and book series devoted to 19th-c. Britain. If you're aware of others that should be added, please let me know.
www.victorianresearch.org/journals.htm...
Thank you
Yes please!
Sense and Sensiblity illustration captioned 'Amiably bashful.' Elinor Dashwood and Lucy Steele having a conversation.
screenshot of front page of Greaney's essay in SEL 62.4
In "'So Many Friends!': Gregariousness and Its Discontents in Jane Austen," Michael Greaney provides a new reading of friendship across Austen's fiction. Out now in SEL 62.4, read on ProjectMUSE https://bit.ly/3YORRlx (Sense and Sensibility illustration c/o British Library 012624.g.5)
I’m pleased to say that English Literature at the University of Glasgow are advertising two new permanent posts. Applications for the James Murray Beattie Lectureships in Victorian Literature, and in Fantasy Literature, close on 6th May 24. More info here: gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/
A text graphic reading: “Poetry: Closely, Together. Thursday, February 29. 4pm EST, 9pm GMT, 7am AEDT (3/1). Material Cultures: Hands-on Learning in Victorian Studies Classrooms and Research. Friday, March 1. 1:30pm EST, 6:30pm GMT, 5:30am AEDT (3/2).”
Join us next week for a pair of virtual events. Register for EVENT 2024 to gain access to the Zoom sessions as well as COVE Conferences, where social annotation is now live for both panels. www.event2024.org/registration
Social annotation is now live on COVE Conferences for next week’s EVENT 2024 virtual panels.
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For all your #18thC, #19thC, #Romantic, and #Victorian needs:
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The deadline for proposal submissions is quickly approaching! Submit a proposal for the September face-to-face hub events by February 1, 2024 at EVENT2024.org/call-for-papers.
10 days until the deadline for submitting an abstract for Event2024. At the Lancaster hub we welcome papers or panels on any ‘Event’ theme and especially: the working classes, religion, the environment, and adaptation. The theme can be interpreted broadly: catastrophe; …
"It turns out the most effective way to improve employee mental health is by reducing stress, rather than adding new ways to cope with it." Quelle surprise.
#19thc to #20th English lit job alert for those doing environmental and medical humanities at Université Paris Cité, MCF level post
Live annotation for the Vcologies panel has begun in COVE Conferences! If you’ve registered, check your email for login info and instructions. For help using COVE, go to EVENT2024.org/frequently-asked-questions.
VCOLOGIES online event, January 26, 2024
Panelists:
Sukanya Banerjee (UC Berkeley), Nathan Hensley (Georgetown U), John Macneill Miller (Allegheney College), Liz Miller (UC Davis), Philip Steer (Massey U), Jesse Oak Taylor (U of Washington), Paul Young (U of Exeter)
See www.event2024.org/digital
1st Feb is the deadline for Event2024 abstracts. Proposals can be for individual 20-min papers or for a panel (3 x 20-min or 5 x 10-min papers). Any ‘Event’-related topics welcome but especially on the working classes, religion, the environment or adaptation.
At the Lancaster hub we want to make the most of the face-to-face - so alongside the programme of talks there will be spaces and events to enable connection and collaboration among attendees. Visit www.event.org/call-for-pap... to submit a proposal.
Graphic showing main political concerns in each age group. Immigration only lands with 65+
Only one group in the UK sees immigration as a big issue. From Financial Times research.
As our series on labour history and song nears an end, @vjctorianist.bsky.social invites us to take inspiration from Wham! in challenging peoples, work and belonging
sslh.org.uk/2023/12/22/i...