Gemma Tidman
@gemmatidman.bsky.social
BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | Leverhulme ECF | QMUL CompLit | Early modern 🇫🇷 cultural historian: ideas of literature, quarrels, literary play, word games https://gemmatidman.com/
"male historians also enjoy explaining what excellent allies they are to female historians. [...] This explanation is, often, the limit to their solidarity." 💯
...academic service, organisation, administration, do distract, after all, from all that time-consuming work of mansserting oneself...
...academic service, organisation, administration, do distract, after all, from all that time-consuming work of mansserting oneself...
I wrote something: “Male Historians Explain Things To Me: masculinity, expertise and the academy”. With a huge debt to Rebecca Solnit, Sara Ahmed, Siri Hustvedt, Professor Lucy Robinson and many other feminists before me.
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January 24, 2024 at 12:22 PM
"male historians also enjoy explaining what excellent allies they are to female historians. [...] This explanation is, often, the limit to their solidarity." 💯
...academic service, organisation, administration, do distract, after all, from all that time-consuming work of mansserting oneself...
...academic service, organisation, administration, do distract, after all, from all that time-consuming work of mansserting oneself...
Ready Listener One! At a loose end at 10pm? Need a podcast while you're making dinner tomorrow? I'm on BBC Free Thinking w/ the most excellent Shahidha Bari, Marcus du Sautoy, Corey Brotherson & Tim Peacock, talking serious play, videogames, gamification & more www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Free Thinking, Game playing
Shahidha Bari finds out how to win at rock, paper, scissors and to make a Windrush game.
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January 9, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Ready Listener One! At a loose end at 10pm? Need a podcast while you're making dinner tomorrow? I'm on BBC Free Thinking w/ the most excellent Shahidha Bari, Marcus du Sautoy, Corey Brotherson & Tim Peacock, talking serious play, videogames, gamification & more www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Un chouette projet qui prend forme (avec @goodmanjess.bsky.social et @gemmatidman.bsky.social).
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www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
Séminaire Alain Viala / Doing things with literature : a toolkit (en ligne)
Ce séminaire, entièrement en ligne, est lié au projet de traduction en anglais d’une série d’articles de l'historien et sociologue de la littérature Alain Viala. Le séminaire permettra aux t...
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December 13, 2023 at 7:36 PM
Un chouette projet qui prend forme (avec @goodmanjess.bsky.social et @gemmatidman.bsky.social).
www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
I listened to this on my morning walk, and besides being a fantastic poet, political activist, and humane thinker, it made me think Benjamin Zephaniah seemed like an absolute diamond bloke. What grace, despite it all (and despite some pretty silly questions here) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
December 8, 2023 at 5:09 PM
I listened to this on my morning walk, and besides being a fantastic poet, political activist, and humane thinker, it made me think Benjamin Zephaniah seemed like an absolute diamond bloke. What grace, despite it all (and despite some pretty silly questions here) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
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Disgusted by the Home Office's treatment of my brilliant colleague @DoselineKiguru, whose six-year old daughter has been denied a UK visa. This decision needs to be reversed immediately. Please repost and share. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...
‘Unthinkable cruelty’: Kenyan expert working at Bristol University denied visa for six-year-old ...
Furious colleagues denounce decision that there are ‘no compassionate grounds’ to allow the child to join her mother
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November 11, 2023 at 6:13 PM
Disgusted by the Home Office's treatment of my brilliant colleague @DoselineKiguru, whose six-year old daughter has been denied a UK visa. This decision needs to be reversed immediately. Please repost and share. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...
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This is such important and exciting work from Renaud Morieux - and I'm so delighted to see the Guardian, Le Monde, and Radio 4 cover our field like this. Plus the magic of the @prizepapers.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...
Unopened 18th-century love letters to French sailors read for first time
Letters from loved ones of captured ship’s crew during seven years’ war lay forgotten for centuries
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November 7, 2023 at 7:28 AM
This is such important and exciting work from Renaud Morieux - and I'm so delighted to see the Guardian, Le Monde, and Radio 4 cover our field like this. Plus the magic of the @prizepapers.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...
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Oyez oyez ! Ce n'est pas tous les jours que j'organise des colloques...
Imaginer la Révolution française (1830-2024) : faire de l’histoire sans être historien ?
21-22 novembre 2024 à Paris
(Université Paris Cité)
Propositions à envoyer avant le 1er mars
www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
Imaginer la Révolution française (1830-2024) : faire de l’histoire sans être historien ?
21-22 novembre 2024 à Paris
(Université Paris Cité)
Propositions à envoyer avant le 1er mars
www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
Imaginer la Révolution française (1830-2024) : faire de l’histoire sans être historien ?
Imaginer la Révolution française (1830-2024) : faire de l’histoire sans être historien ? Paris, 21-22 novembre 2024 « Je ne suis pas historien : je suis arrivé au 4 août en ne connaissant rien...
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November 7, 2023 at 11:43 AM
Oyez oyez ! Ce n'est pas tous les jours que j'organise des colloques...
Imaginer la Révolution française (1830-2024) : faire de l’histoire sans être historien ?
21-22 novembre 2024 à Paris
(Université Paris Cité)
Propositions à envoyer avant le 1er mars
www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
Imaginer la Révolution française (1830-2024) : faire de l’histoire sans être historien ?
21-22 novembre 2024 à Paris
(Université Paris Cité)
Propositions à envoyer avant le 1er mars
www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
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JOB at KCL — Early Modern / Modern Philosophy. Permanent position, Lecturer or Senior Lecturer. Closes 8th Jan. Please help spread the word!
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/078085-...
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/078085-...
November 3, 2023 at 4:51 PM
JOB at KCL — Early Modern / Modern Philosophy. Permanent position, Lecturer or Senior Lecturer. Closes 8th Jan. Please help spread the word!
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/078085-...
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/078085-...
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De retour d’un séjour de recherche express à Waddesdon Manor, au cœur de la campagne anglaise, dans les collections de livres de fêtes de Ferdinand de Rotschild.
Un fil, avec des photos de vieux livres.
Un fil, avec des photos de vieux livres.
October 25, 2023 at 12:18 PM
De retour d’un séjour de recherche express à Waddesdon Manor, au cœur de la campagne anglaise, dans les collections de livres de fêtes de Ferdinand de Rotschild.
Un fil, avec des photos de vieux livres.
Un fil, avec des photos de vieux livres.
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Rebecca Walkowitz making the big case not only for learning and teaching languages but also, crucially, for research. It’s a long game, she argues, and we cannot know what will prove valuable until it does. Don’t abandon language departments. Don’t abandon basic research.
Opinion | Gutting Language Departments Would Be a Disaster
Once a program is gone, it is very difficult and expensive to bring it back.
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September 20, 2023 at 3:16 PM
Rebecca Walkowitz making the big case not only for learning and teaching languages but also, crucially, for research. It’s a long game, she argues, and we cannot know what will prove valuable until it does. Don’t abandon language departments. Don’t abandon basic research.
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The Dan David Prize offers up to 9 annual prizes of $300K each to outstanding early/midcareer scholars working in any of the fields listed below.
There are just over two weeks left to nominate your amazing colleagues.
Find the simple and concise nomination form at www.dandavidprize.org/nominate
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There are just over two weeks left to nominate your amazing colleagues.
Find the simple and concise nomination form at www.dandavidprize.org/nominate
🗃️
September 26, 2023 at 9:49 AM
The Dan David Prize offers up to 9 annual prizes of $300K each to outstanding early/midcareer scholars working in any of the fields listed below.
There are just over two weeks left to nominate your amazing colleagues.
Find the simple and concise nomination form at www.dandavidprize.org/nominate
🗃️
There are just over two weeks left to nominate your amazing colleagues.
Find the simple and concise nomination form at www.dandavidprize.org/nominate
🗃️