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Jennifer Ashby
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Modernist & avant-garde visionary aesthetics | Writing PhD on Mina Loy & spirituality @eui-history.bsky.social Florence, Italy | Organiser Mapping Mina Loy Studies I Prev PG Rep @modernistudies.bsky.social
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Jennifer Ashby @jenniferashby.bsky.social · Oct 21
Absolute joy to be in conversation w/ Karla Kelsey on her edited edition Lost Writings: Two Novels by Mina Loy (Yale Uni Press, 2024) as well as her forthcoming poetic work Transcendental Factory: For Mina Loy! Covered a whole array of topics from feminist archives & life-writing to editing!
Jennifer Ashby, In Conversation with Karla Kelsey, editor of Lost Writings: Two Novels by Mina Loy (Yale University Press, 2024).
21st October 2024 Jennifer Ashby, European University Institute Mina Loy (1882–1966) was a writer and artist that experimented across literary and artistic forms, intervening in a range of movement…
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Last full moon of 2025 (and a supermoon, no less...)
The moon zoomed in.
December 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Found a little wild foal in the Grey Wethers stone circles on Dartmoor
Bronze Age stone circle with a Dartmoor foal (Dartmoor pony). Grey Wethers granite stone circles. Devon, moors.
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Just found out that Amy Levy's personal papers have been opened up!

www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/Amy-...
Sequel to a Reminiscence
The archive of enigmatic 19th-century writer Amy Levy has a new home at Cambridge University Library
www.lib.cam.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Heavy rains followed by dramatic skies. I wrote for 10 hours today.
Sunset in the hills of Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Dramatic clouds.
November 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Interested in pursuing a #PhD in #History in a uniquely multicultural environment?

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⏰ Apply by 15 January 2026

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Doctoral Programme in History and Civilisation
strongImportant note: The deadline to apply for the 202627 academic year is 15 January 2026 at 14:00 CET Time in Italy Later applications will not be accepted
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November 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Beautiful sunset tonight @eui-eu.bsky.social @eui-history.bsky.social
Autumnal sunset looking down on to the panorama of Florence, Italy. Trees, hills, and the Duomo.
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Mina Loy understood how it felt to write a thesis:
I am climbing a distorted mountain of agony Incidentally with the exhaustion of control I reach the summit And gradually subside into anticipation of Repose Which never comes. For another mountain is growing up Which goaded by the unavoidable I must traverse Traversing myself
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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This #ModWrite I am finishing a section on Mina Loy's 'Parturition' (1914) and early twentieth century mysticism
Manuscript of Mina Loy's 'Parturition' held in Yale University's Beinecke Library. The first few stanzas are visible.
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Autumn sunset in Florence
Duomo di Santa Maria del Fiore, Firenze, Italia (Cathedral of Florence, Italy) at sunset. Renaissance architecture.
November 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live!

1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social

More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
Image of 'The Empress' tarot card by Pamela Coleman Smith, depicting a figure with long hair, crown, and sceptre. Text: Weird Modernisms, BAMS/MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026, Loughborough University, UK.
August 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Domenica.
City centre of Florence, Italy. Blue skies over the Arno River. The Ponte Vecchio is visible.
October 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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"From the Eternal
Out of the past
In the present
For the future"
- Roberto Assagioli
Roberto Assagioli, founder of psychosynthesis and pioneer of transpersonal psychology, scan in black and white. Image of a cosmos with writing on top of it which reads: 'From the Eternal / Out of the past / In the present / For the future'. The original is a predominantly a golden colour.
October 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Weekend walk
Sunset over Florence, Italy. Blue skies over a panorama of the city. The cupola if the Duomo is noticeable but many other buildings of the Renaissance centre are visible.
October 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Last week I attended the 11th International Psychosynthesis Meeting at the final home of Roberto Assagioli. Met some fascinating people & spent a lot of time in the archives! His office remains as it was when he died. The house is not a museum tho - it's an active centre for practitioners still.
Office of Roberto Assagioli in the Institute of Psychosynthesis, Florence, Italy. There are a range of catalogued books as well as archival boxes and a desk in the centre of the room. Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn artwork gifted to roberto Assagioli. On the top of a chest of draws is an amethyst crystal as well as two of Assagioli's handprinted evocative words. Archival boxes, a lucky horse shoe, and a series of spheres.
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Last week I attended the 11th International Psychosynthesis Meeting at the final home of Roberto Assagioli. Met some fascinating people & spent a lot of time in the archives! His office remains as it was when he died. The house is not a museum tho - it's an active centre for practitioners still.
Office of Roberto Assagioli in the Institute of Psychosynthesis, Florence, Italy. There are a range of catalogued books as well as archival boxes and a desk in the centre of the room. Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn artwork gifted to roberto Assagioli. On the top of a chest of draws is an amethyst crystal as well as two of Assagioli's handprinted evocative words. Archival boxes, a lucky horse shoe, and a series of spheres.
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Villa Braggiotti, prev. home to American musicians (& enthusiasts of vegetarianism & the Bhagavadgītā) Lily & Isadore Braggiotti in the early 20th C, is for sale for €12,000,000.

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Elegante villa del XIV° secolo con parco di un ettaro
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September 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Forthcoming this Autumn with the
CSMBR ONLINE LECTURE SERIES

#CSMBR #Lecture #astromedicine
September 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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The bees of @eui-eu.bsky.social in Villa Salviati, Florence (@eui-history.bsky.social)
Beekeeper inspecting a hive in Tuscany, Italy. Beekeeper with a bee hive on a tuscan hilltop. Honeycomb is visible as well as larvae and lots of bees. European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
September 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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This #ModWrite I am writing about the founder of Psychosynthesis, Roberto Assagioli (1888-1974), in his personal library in Florence
A small red rose bush on a table in front of a book case. Institute of Psychosynthesis, Florence, Italy.
September 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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We’re excited to share #TheModernistReview57, our first autumn issue! It includes seven reviews on diverse topics in modernist studies. Go check it out! we hope you enjoy reading:
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The Modernist Review Issue #57
8th September 2025 All the months are crude experiments out of which the perfect September is made. (Virginia Woolf, ‘The Lands End’, 1905) September arrives again, and with the beginning of autumn…
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September 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Pilgrimage to Tomaso Buzzi's fantastical "ideal city" of theatres, La Scarzuola - hidden in the hills of Umbria down an unpaved road
A twentieth century architectural work by T. BUZZI. An alchemical sun, the partner of a moon, stands in an amphitheatre with a tilted stage and a complex of architectural references to major works such as the Colosseum and the Pyramids. The Umbrian countryside is visible behind, with high rolling hills and woods.
September 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Pilgrimage to Tomaso Buzzi's fantastical "ideal city" of theatres, La Scarzuola - hidden in the hills of Umbria down an unpaved road
A twentieth century architectural work by T. BUZZI. An alchemical sun, the partner of a moon, stands in an amphitheatre with a tilted stage and a complex of architectural references to major works such as the Colosseum and the Pyramids. The Umbrian countryside is visible behind, with high rolling hills and woods.
September 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Umbrian road trip begins in Perugia
Sunset over Perugia, Umbria in Italy. The clouds are red and purple and a moon rises above the borgo in blue skies.
September 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Some solid advice on how to appreciate modern art from the Chicago Record Herald of 1913: "HOW TO APPRECIATE IT - Eat three welsh rarebits, smoke two pipefuls of "hop" and sniff cocaine until every street car looks like a goldfish and the Masonic Temple resembles a tiny white mouse."
Quotation from the Chicago Record Herald from March 1913 in which they advise people on how to appreciate modern (Cubist, Futurist, Post-Impressionist) art in response to the Armory Show. They mockingly suggest: 'HOW TO APPRECIATE IT - Eat three welsh rarebits, smoke two pipefuls of "hop" and sniff cocaine until every street car looks like a goldfish and the Masonic Temple resembles a tiny white mouse.'
August 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Some solid advice on how to appreciate modern art from the Chicago Record Herald of 1913: "HOW TO APPRECIATE IT - Eat three welsh rarebits, smoke two pipefuls of "hop" and sniff cocaine until every street car looks like a goldfish and the Masonic Temple resembles a tiny white mouse."
Quotation from the Chicago Record Herald from March 1913 in which they advise people on how to appreciate modern (Cubist, Futurist, Post-Impressionist) art in response to the Armory Show. They mockingly suggest: 'HOW TO APPRECIATE IT - Eat three welsh rarebits, smoke two pipefuls of "hop" and sniff cocaine until every street car looks like a goldfish and the Masonic Temple resembles a tiny white mouse.'
August 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM