Lieven Ameel

@lievenameel.bsky.social

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Senior lecturer in comparative literature at Tampere University, Finland.
City in literature, civic community, narrative futures, energy, utopia, literary form and rising waters.
blog: https://lievenameel.hypotheses.org/ .. more

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Elisabeth Piller @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social · 11d

I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...

Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · 12d

Congratulations! Narrative's prize is a huge honor, well deserved!

Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · 19d

Seen in the wild in Finland: @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social &
@johannawinant.bsky.social Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. Got my copy this morning, used it in teaching a seminar in the afternoon!

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 20d

Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read

Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · 27d

Looks like a great PhD course in the energy humanities! Applications welcome until 24 October.

Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · Oct 10

Great mini-thread on Krasznahorkai! (and about what literature can be all about)

Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · Oct 7

Many thanks, this looks wonderful! I've found the work of Elleke Boehmer and Dominic Davies on literary infrastructure really useful - & noted that A. Tickel has a new book on infrastructure and citizenship in Indian literature. I've mostly worked on the interaction between urban and literary form.

Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · Oct 7

A grad seminar on infrastructure and literature sounds great! Any chance of having a peek at the syllabus?

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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · Oct 6

How can art and storytelling help us to make sense of infrastructures? Join us online at lunchtime on Wed 29 Oct for our first session of the new academic year with visual artist, urban walker, and comics creator Giada Peterle. Sign up below! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Reposted by Lieven Ameel, Frans Mäyrä

Game Research Lab @gameresearchlab.bsky.social · Sep 30

Come work with us! We are hiring 3 postdoctoral researchers working in cultural game studies from the beginning of 2026 until the end of 2027. Read more and apply by 31.10.2025 (at 23.59.00 EET / UTC+2):

3 Postdoctoral Researchers (cultural game studies) / 3 tutkijatohtoria (kulttuurinen pelitutkimus)

tuni.rekrytointi.com

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Hanna Nikkanen @hannanik.bsky.social · Sep 26

The world’s largest carbon registry, Verra, has pulled millions of carbon credits from the market after they were scrutinized in my and Jonas Gerding’s @longplay.fi investigation (so far only available in Finnish, but more stories are coming up!)

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Verran linja muuttui Long Playn paljastusten jälkeen

www.longplay.fi

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Sep 25

A major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and rule.

Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger is now available in #paperback: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

#History #Habsburg

Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger. A major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and rule.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · Sep 19

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation

Playmobil figure kitted out as prehistoric iceman Ötzi.

Reposted by Dolly Jørgensen, Lieven Ameel

Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · Sep 16

🌱 Fully funded PhD scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University!

A unique opportunity to collaborate with Marco Caracciolo, Elly McCausland, and me on innovative research connecting literature, culture, and ecology.

PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University

Discover a PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · Sep 16

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

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

Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · Sep 14

Thanks, JD and everyone at #railwayaesthetics for great company on an unforgettable journey!

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · Sep 14

I spent the last 4 days with a band of mad academics and artists rolling from Vienna to Istanbul for a conference on #railwayaesthetics held on the train. The work was great and I can’t thank them enough. Some images

Vienna Hauptbahnhof at. Out. Wet and modern and shiny

Hungarian monument to the Malenkij Robot. Spooky as hell and politically welllll

The conference car where the presentations were held

Open gravel mine. Romania. An enormous project of replacing the rail ties with concrete underway

Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · Sep 12

Crossing into Bulgaria, #RailwayAsthetics

Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · Sep 12

Looking for a telephone operator

Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · Sep 11

panel "Disconnected Branches" starting at the Royal Salon, Bucharest North station), at the Railway Aesthetics conference lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2605

Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · Sep 10

Tot ziens in Wenen!

Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · Sep 10

I'll present a paper on “Literary Flickers of Fossil-fueled Modernity”, with the focus on the sudden appearances of lights, fumes and glares as seen from a train window. Looking forward to reconnect with old acquaintances and to get to know new people in infrastructure & mobilities humanities.

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Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · Sep 10

In Vienna for the Railway Aesthetics conference, which takes place in and around trains, including several night-trains on the trajectory Vienna – Bucharest – Istanbul. Program includes a panel at the Royal Salon in Bucharest & visit to the Energy Museum in Istanbul lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2605

Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · Sep 4

In Tartu for the one-week Nordplus course "Eco-Critical Approaches to Narratives across Media: A Nordic Perspective". I presented on bird poetry and allegorical approaches to flooded cities, drawing a.o. on the work of Karoliina Lummaa and my earlier work on allegory lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2580

Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · Aug 31

This looks timely!

Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our book series in Literary Urban Studies is accepting proposals, do get in touch with me or one of my co-editors if you want to discuss a book idea!

Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · Aug 27

The book ontinues what has become a tradition of publishing high-quality edited volumes on the basis of ALUS conferences, previous volumes including Literature and the Peripheral City (2015), Literary Second Cities (2017), Literatures of Urban Possibility (2021), Fair and Unfair Cities (2023).

Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · Aug 27

Great to welcome the latest addition to our Palgrave Literary Urban Studies series: "Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, and Resistance", edited by Eric Prieto, Liam Lanigan and Anni Lappela, based on a 2022 conference at UC Santa Barbara. lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2560

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Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social · Aug 22

New from @edinburghup.bsky.social The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel, edited by Loïc Bourdeau and @cilloyd.bsky.social, “provides a compassionate, capacious and complex analysis of the over-discussed but under-analysed concept of the millennial and its relationship to long-form fiction”

Reposted by Lieven Ameel, Maria Mäkelä

AUTOSTORY Project @autostory.bsky.social · Aug 19

The first collaborative outcome of the project AUTOSTORY is out!

"Social media and the value of literature" in TfL's latest issue written by @mariamakela.bsky.social, K. Malmio, @laurapiippo.bsky.social, M. Kangaskoski, and M. Lehtimäki is now available at publicera.kb.se/tfl/article/...

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