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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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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...)
December 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Found a little wild foal in the Grey Wethers stone circles on Dartmoor
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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
Heavy rains followed by dramatic skies. I wrote for 10 hours today.
November 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Interested in pursuing a #PhD in #History in a uniquely multicultural environment?

📣 Applications for our fully-funded PhD programme are now open 👉 loom.ly/pvk17dc

⏰ Apply by 15 January 2026

Want to know more? Meet us on our:
🌐Virtual Open Day - 2 December 2025 👉 loom.ly/sp5lOKM

🎓 #academicsky
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
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Mina Loy understood how it felt to write a thesis:
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This #ModWrite I am finishing a section on Mina Loy's 'Parturition' (1914) and early twentieth century mysticism
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Autumn sunset in Florence
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/
August 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Domenica.
October 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"From the Eternal
Out of the past
In the present
For the future"
- Roberto Assagioli
October 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Weekend walk
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.
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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.
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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.

www.italy-sothebysrealty.com/it/vendita/i...
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
The bees of @eui-eu.bsky.social in Villa Salviati, Florence (@eui-history.bsky.social)
September 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
This #ModWrite I am writing about the founder of Psychosynthesis, Roberto Assagioli (1888-1974), in his personal library in Florence
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
September 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Pilgrimage to Tomaso Buzzi's fantastical "ideal city" of theatres, La Scarzuola - hidden in the hills of Umbria down an unpaved road
September 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Umbrian road trip begins in Perugia
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."
August 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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."
August 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM