SUCCESSION: QUEERING THE ENVIRONMENT IV "QUEER JOY" CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS A NICHE SERIES PROPOSAL DEADLINE: MARCH 28TH SERIES EDITORS: JESSICA DEWITT, TINA ADCOCK & SARAH YORK-BERTRAM

SUCCESSION: QUEERING THE ENVIRONMENT IV "QUEER JOY" QUEER JOY SERVES AS A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING WAYS THAT QUEER PEOPLE RESIST HEGEMONIC SOCIAL AND CULTURAL SYSTEMS.

SUCCESSION: QUEERING THE ENVIRONMENT IV "QUEER JOY" WE WISH TO BUILD OFF OF SCHOLARSHIP AND LIVED KNOWLEDGE THAT ENVISIONS QUEER JOY AS AN AFFECTIVE OR EMOTIONAL WAY OF KNOWING, SPECIFICALLY A WAY OF KNOWING AND BEING IN RELATION WITH THE ENVIRONMENT AND MORE-THAN-HUMAN BEINGS.

WE SEEK PROPOSALS FOR SUCCESSION IV THAT: "QUEER JOY" • RESPOND TO THE CONCEPT OF JOY • FEATURE LGBTQIA2S+ FOLKS INTERACTING WITH AND THINKING ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT AND MORE-THAN-HUMAN ANIMALS IN THE PAST AND PRESENT • EXPLORE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN EMOTIONAL AND QUEER ECOLOGIES • REIMAGINE ENVIRONMENTAL TOPICS USING QUEER THEORY OR A RELATED QUEER LENS.

Friends! The deadline for Succession IV: Queering the Environment – “Queer Joy” is tomorrow.

This is a biennial series that I edit for @nichecanada.bsky.social. The number of submissions is low right now, would love to see a few more roll in.

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#queer #envhum

I feel that there's a Wuthering Heights joke to be made in resharing this, but I'm failing to conjure it.

Lead Curator: Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601 – 1800) at British Library Explore an exciting academic career as a Lead Curator: Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601 – 1800). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

JOB ALERT: Lead Curator, Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601-1800) at The British Library - closing date: 18th Feb

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Great to hear that "early medieval" now goes to 1150: an expanding field ;)

Still time to sign up for our first seminar of the year tomorrow!

PhD scholarship in History or Geography at Dublin City University - applicants with an interest in medieval Ireland are particularly encouraged to apply.

#MedievalSky

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Nothing like responding to copy edits to make me loose all confidence in my mother-tongue

This is going to be a really interesting talk next Tuesday afternoon!

This on Tuesday afternoon is one not to miss!

Next Tuesday the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar is online. Kate Gerry will be sharing her work on the Guthlac Roll. Book 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

professional secret: vikings didn't exist. medievalists invented them in 1968 in the wake of the first wave of Tolkienmania to trick people into spending their careers reading saints' lives and homily books

The autumn term 2025 card for the NEHN Seminar 1: 28th October 2025, 1500 GMT ; Thomas Banbury (University of Cambridge): 'Against Miasma: New Models of Historical Environmental Medicine' Seminar 2: 18th November 2025. 1500 GMT ; Islay Shelbourne (University of St Andrews) : "'In California the Prognosis is Good': Californian Health Myths and Understanding of Contagion 1850-1920" Seminar 3: 2nd of December 2025, 1500 GMT; Richard Warren (University of Bern, Switzerland): 'Volcanoes and Climatic Instability in Early Ninteenth-Century India' Note: to sign up to the mailing list, please email Alex Hibberts on alexander.hibberts@durham.ac.uk

The nights are drawing in, and the rain is tapping on the windows, which means that we probably ought to be getting our term-card out. Three really exciting papers to look forward to!

The #Anthropocene is a street in the Netherlands. Clearly a multi-generational philosophical corner with Rene Descartes and Hippias

The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'?

Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
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I'm teaching on this (but don't let that put you off, etc)

Book cover with title “Rights of Trains”

Text “transport and the environment.” Illustration of rainbow colored road.

I'm pining for chocolate hob-nobs.

I, personally, in presuming higher degrees have obviously never been 'driven' or imbued with 'vigour', the pursuit of knowledge obviously is just something that just *happens* if you ask nicely (sarcastic tone to whole thing)

PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University Explore a PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities. Apply today and discover more PhD opportunities at jobs.ac.uk.

New PhD app with Ghent University.
PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities.
co-supervised by Professors Marco Caracciolo, Stef Craps, and Elly McCausland - combining theoretical exploration with textual analysis.
#AcademicSky

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Schedule for the Early Irish & Celtic Studies Research Seminars at Maynooth University. 23 October, Dr Nia Wyn Jones, "The Welsh Legendary Triads: Trioedd Ynys Prydein"; 27 November, Dr Riona Doolan, "Three Women, Three Pregnancies, Three Punishments"; 4 December, Dr Sparky Booker, "Law and Narrative in Fifteenth-century Petitions to the Irish Parliament". All seminars at 5pm in Room 2.31, Iontas Building, North Campus, Maynooth University.

Early Irish & Celtic Studies Research Seminars this semester at Maynooth. In person only, but everyone is welcome.

@ceilteachomn.bsky.social

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

A final reminder that the deadline for abstract submissions is the end of next week #medievalsky

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A detail from the 25" Ordnance Survey Map of Cerne Abbas, published in 1888.

Is it just me or have they missed out an important detail...?

Poster showing a wind turbine from frog perspective. The picture is in light pink and blue nuances and announces a PhD course in energy humanities. More information can be found in this website. https://www.uis.no/en/research/collaboration/the-greenhouse-centre-for-environmental-humanities/humanities/apply-for-phd

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!

Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.

Applications are welcome until 24 October.

#envhum #envhist #energyhistory

On Sydney's Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. An institution when I was young.

nobody wants video essays anymore. all the money’s in illuminated manuscripts these days. you can write any manuscript at all – a terrible one! it doesn’t matter! some startup will still jump in your emails begging to partner with you and get it illuminated

Call for Papers @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Following my recent fieldwork sailing down the Seine in a reconstructed tenth-century ship, @stevedehailes.bsky.social and I are organising a panel on practice-based/experiential research in medieval studies. We welcome abstracts from any field. #Medievalsky

Publication – « Medieval Bestiaries. New Approaches », éd. Debra Higgs Strickland What could the phoenix, elephant, and spider teach medieval people, and what can they teach us now about human – animal relationships? Medieval Bestiaries: New Approaches offers innovative insights…

Publication – « Medieval Bestiaries. New Approaches », éd. Debra Higgs Strickland

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