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Felicity Callard
@felicitycallard.bsky.social
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Researching daydreams and fantasies. I am employed as a human geographer and also work in the medical humanities

Editor, History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 22h
Yes my guess is also 90s and in geography in Britain. I feel sure Clive Barnett wrote about this somewhere

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 22h
Orwellian levels of political interference in academic affairs: Under pressure from right-wing press and the Minister of Education the prestigious Collège de France cancels the conference ‘Palestine and Europe’ - in the name of academic freedom and neutrality … read this statement by the organizers:
nicolashenin.net Nicolas Henin 🇪🇺💙💛 @nicolashenin.net · 23h
"En cédant à la pression du ministre, Philippe Baptiste, l’administrateur du Collège de France compromet l’indépendance d’une institution fondée il y a plus de quatre siècles, qui a accueilli les plus grands noms de la pensée française, de Foucault à Bourdieu.
Communiqué de presse : le Collège de France cède aux pressions et annule le colloque « La Palestine et l’Europe »
Le Collège de France annule le colloque « La Palestine et l’Europe » sous pression politique. Des universitaires dénoncent l’ingérence ministérielle et un article diffamatoire de Le Point, alertant su...
carep-paris.org

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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 1d
Even more petitions popping up. Doesn't make for a great endorsement, does it?

Please sign, spread the word, and help us push back against the constant undermining of our university:
c.org/MwqdpHLCnZ
c.org/Q6pTJXz87F
c.org/sGNYk5yGpM
A screen shot for the change.org petition with the title "Stop the suspension of Uni of Nottingham Mental Health & Child Nursing + Health Promotion" A screen shot for the change.org petition with the title "Save Agriculture at the University of Nottingham" A screen shot for the change.org petition with the title "Stop the removal of Modern Language courses at the University of Nottingham!"

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2d
Boycott the New York Times
literaryhub.bsky.social Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 3d
“A writer at the Times contacted me to talk. He said he was less interested in Mamdani himself than he was in the Africana Studies part…” On why maybe you shouldn’t talk to the New York Times about Zohran Mamdani.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
buff.ly

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 2d
If you liked that @lithub.com.web.brid.gy essay on not talking to the NYT about Mamdani, read this @nplusonemag.com piece by the same author on working class higher ed and its enemies.

www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
www.nplusonemag.com

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3d
Ok I’ll stop but the light here is extraordinary and beautiful (3.24pm yesterday afternoon)
Photo of sunset over lake in city of Karlstad—puffy and stretched out clouds reflected in the water, blue sky and the sun about to set behind a line of conifers in the background

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 3d
“A writer at the Times contacted me to talk. He said he was less interested in Mamdani himself than he was in the Africana Studies part…” On why maybe you shouldn’t talk to the New York Times about Zohran Mamdani.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
buff.ly

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3d
Unexpected artwork as you enter the university
Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing Art work, 'Nobody puts Baby in a corner' mounted at the entrance to the university (Karlstad University, Sweden)

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3d
Sign the petition to save Geography at the University of Leicester!
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
Sign the Petition
Save Geography at the University of Leicester
www.change.org

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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 3d
After the genocide / the genocide.

Three by Fady Joudah: arablit.org/2025/11/05/t...
A violence exiting is still a violence. After the genocide, the genocide. The river that would have carved a different earth, the river a carved earth summoned. But since the flood, the magnificent flood, your eyes on the fire, your indifference exiting. Is this love? But since the last dropped bomb your indifference entering. After the genocide, the genocide.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3d
The pales winter light outside our workshop window is beautiful
Weak low sun above conifers and university buildings — taken at Karlstad University in Sweden

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3d
closure of *Human* geography

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 4d
Gaza sits inside Ryan Ruby’s essay on Guyotat
thebaffler.com The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 4d
Our debates around symbolic violence unfold against a backdrop of terrifying and grisly real violence. Pierre Guyotat’s final book draws a line between the two, parsing the realities of war with the only civilized response: extremity.
Violence and the Sacred | Ryan Ruby
Violence may not be the totality of life, but it is closer to the core than humanists would have us believe.
thebaffler.com

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 4d
Help fight the closure of geography at Leicester. Solidarity with all combatting this
mutablematter.bsky.social Angela Last @mutablematter.bsky.social · 4d
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 4d
Our debates around symbolic violence unfold against a backdrop of terrifying and grisly real violence. Pierre Guyotat’s final book draws a line between the two, parsing the realities of war with the only civilized response: extremity.
Violence and the Sacred | Ryan Ruby
Violence may not be the totality of life, but it is closer to the core than humanists would have us believe.
thebaffler.com

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Angela Last @mutablematter.bsky.social · 4d
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 5d
Seems like a good day for big ideas.
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production
Let CUNY socialize EdTech for all of us.
theamericanvandal.substack.com

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 5d
The sky is darker than dark outside this replacement bus
Map of Värmland in Sweden. Location of phone at point of the screenshot is incredibly rural

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 5d
What an article. Thank you for writing this and taking on such important and difficult lines of thought

felicitycallard.bsky.social
Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 5d
but the thing is their AI submits to our AI

overheard conversation between white collar workers on their commute this morning

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 6d
This is a beautiful essay
mid-theory.bsky.social Mid Theory Collective @mid-theory.bsky.social · 6d
On the day of the NYC mayoral election, Ali Raz pens a gorgeous essay reflecting on how Mamdani's rhetoric evinces a poetics of the Universal and convokes a shared commons united by labor and by the rhythms of life spent working in cities most of us cannot afford.
mid-theory.com/2025/11/04/m...
Mamdani Feelings
Starting from a place of extreme negativity, political speech can brush the bright membrane that forms literature’s impossible horizon. The rent is too high in Los Angeles. Consider a number: “One …
mid-theory.com

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Mid Theory Collective @mid-theory.bsky.social · 6d
On the day of the NYC mayoral election, Ali Raz pens a gorgeous essay reflecting on how Mamdani's rhetoric evinces a poetics of the Universal and convokes a shared commons united by labor and by the rhythms of life spent working in cities most of us cannot afford.
mid-theory.com/2025/11/04/m...
Mamdani Feelings
Starting from a place of extreme negativity, political speech can brush the bright membrane that forms literature’s impossible horizon. The rent is too high in Los Angeles. Consider a number: “One …
mid-theory.com

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 7d
Please read and consider signing the letter in solidarity with Dr Farhana Sultana who has been placed on leave for extramural speech in the context of intensifying repression docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 8d
‘The university told her that a combination of administrative issues meant they could no longer support her work. But further inquiries suggested the university was “explicitly trading my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market,” Murphy said’
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities A British university complied with a demand from Beijing to halt research about human rights abuses in China, leading to a major project being dropped, the Guardian can reveal. In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 8d
Pretty extraordinary story here
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show - BBC News
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities A British university complied with a demand from Beijing to halt research about human rights abuses in China, leading to a major project being dropped, the Guardian can reveal. In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 9d
Loved the Wayne Thiebaud at the Courtauld. Can’t get my head around the fact that is the very first museum show of his work in the UK
A Wayne Thiebaud of a delicatessen counter: sausages hanging on the left and cheeses and meats in the front with Thiebaud obsessed with their form (eg the blockiness of stacked cheeses). There are strips of paint across the middle of the painting signalling the structure of the counter.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 10d
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 10d
Our submissions at @histhum.bsky.social have increased massively in last 2-3 years. Huge amount of time now spent desk rejecting — many submissions wholly out of scope and many appear to be AI generated

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 10d
When and where does the imperial core’s genocidal violence disrupt academic scholarship in the Anglo-American academy? Where and how does Gaza appear (and, equally, where does it not)?

This comes from the start of an essay on Theweleit’s Male Fantasies read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
But often I find the consulting room curiously evacuated of the libido, even or especially with male patients. With notable exceptions, many of my patients do not talk about sex, real or imagined. We know that people are having less sex (Herbenick et al. 1419).' But they are not making love discursively either. Sometimes, listening to my patients' anhedonic language, a strange and mortal sleepiness begins to fall over me. This stupor began to trouble me in a new way after Israel's genocidal invasion of Gaza last year. About this campaign of terror my white, male patients were markedly silent. How could I blame them? I found myself tongue-tied on the subject in my own analysis, in which I imagined, however unfairly and transferentially, that my convictions would be unwelcome. I began to wonder if these two silences-around individual desire on the one hand and mass violence on the other-were in some way twinned. Had our loss of a language for sex made room for violence, and vice versa? In the clinic or in the world, what would it take to speak into these silences and bridge them?