educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au/teaching@syd... I wrote about the futures of student writing

Poem of the week: Solitude by Peter McDonald A wounded bird becomes an image for much wider damage to our world

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I haven’t taught an undergraduate tutorial for 6 years (I’ve been quite busy). Not convinced that 2 x 2 hour tutorials between 9am and 1pm today is the ideal re-entry. Wish me luck.

Tense.

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Image of four early career scholars seated at a table with microphones in front of them. End ID.

The #Shax2025 #NextGenPlen was brilliant! Thank you to our early career scholars for sharing their exciting research.

Conference made. Somebody has reserved my little book. #shax2025

I don’t know how to choose between these two things this morning! #shax2025

No idea! I don’t fully understand the UK context and I should have reposted with a caveat, but, yes, it seems … erm … unhelpful?

Stimulate debate on contentious topics, expert urges English universities Government’s lead on academic freedom cautions of significant danger to integrity if expression is restricted

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JK Kazzi reflects on his studies at the University of Sydney and how they paved the way to acting. This weekend JK will make his mainstage theatre debut in
Bell Shakespeare's 'Henry 5'. 🎭 👑
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It’s such a shame. The peer review system isn’t without its flaws but it can still be a way that we choose to prioritise long term care for our colleagues and discipline above the short term demands of our institution. Good luck with it all.

thanks Paul. I hadn’t thought of JEMS but yes, worth thinking about.

thanks. definitely worth thinking about.

If so, then continuing to do this work seems like an act of suitable and productive resistance to the corporate University. Anyway: anybody any advice on a journal that might be interested in a piece on the influence of early modern literature on Geoffrey Hill?

Never happened to me before and it’s a bit disheartening (I’ll survive!) But I’m seeing evidence of less and less willingness for people to spend time on peer review. Why? Is it because our institutions don’t value this work and, so, we think we can’t afford to spend time on it?

A journal: kept my article submission for 3 months and then asked for an extension because their reader was sick. Fine. It happens. Now advising me to withdraw because their reader is not contacting them and they don’t know how long it might take them to find a new reader. Less fine, to be honest.

So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

V-C continued to work for KordaMentha despite UOW saying he was on leave Professor John Dewar kept one day a fortnight for consultants.

University of Wollongong vice-chancellor John Dewar has been moonlighting for consultants Korda Mentha — despite claiming he was on unpaid leave. Apparently he’s working a 9-day fortnight in his day job! www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/888402...

Is Pericles having a moment? People writing about it keep popping up in front of me.

Illustration of a seance in progress, the ghost of Shakespeare being summoned

CFP is live! Submit a proposal for ‘Shakespeare in spirit’ (whether adaptive, religious, or ghostly, to name just a few possibilities), the 2025 ANZSA conference in Brisbane, 2-4 July.

Featuring keynotes from Dennis Austin Britton (British Columbia) & Brandon Chua (Hong Kong)

conference.anzsa.org

Attending your session a definite highlight.

MLA not as terrible as I was warned; in fact, I quite liked it? Learned a lot; spoke to good people; my session was lively. Pleased, though, not to have been staying in the conference hotel (way too hectic for me!) All together it felt galvanising. Probably won’t do it again! #MLA25

Doing this for a few days. Never been to MLA before. Here goes. #MLA25

“I do not think that skies and meadows are / Moral”

Poem of the week: Reciprocity by John Drinkwater Formally adventurous for its time, this poem arrives at its Romantic epiphany by a down to earth route

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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