Dr Mara Oliva
@maraoliva.bsky.social
Historian, Digital Humanist, Associate Prof of 20th century US History @ Uni of Reading, Visiting Fellow @ British Library Eccles Centre, Editor @ DHQuarterly, US-UK Fulbright alumni
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Dr Mara Oliva
@maraoliva.bsky.social
· Dec 10
Psyched that @willdigravio.bsky.social, John Gibbs, Kevin B. Lee, @maraoliva.bsky.social and I get to showcase the video essay at MoMI New York soon. Spread the word!
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movingimage.org/series/expan...
Expanded Screens: The Video Essay – Museum of the Moving Image
This screening series presents a selection of video essays from across the 21st century that offer a spectrum of the medium’s possibilities, featuring authors who work in a self-defined space somewher...
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Don’t want to wake up from this beautiful dream! Still can’t believe I am working with these legends!
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We’ve just launched a free online course on ‘Born-digital research in the humanities’ reshaped.sas.ac.uk. It covers key concepts, ethics, copyright & accessing, collecting and analysing born-digital data. You can browse the course with guest access or create an account. All CC-BY-NC licensed!
May 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
We’ve just launched a free online course on ‘Born-digital research in the humanities’ reshaped.sas.ac.uk. It covers key concepts, ethics, copyright & accessing, collecting and analysing born-digital data. You can browse the course with guest access or create an account. All CC-BY-NC licensed!
It’s GIS day @uniofreading.bsky.social 🙌 we welcome prof @stuartdunn.bsky.social to kick off a day of training and interdisciplinary research! #digitalhumanities
May 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
It’s GIS day @uniofreading.bsky.social 🙌 we welcome prof @stuartdunn.bsky.social to kick off a day of training and interdisciplinary research! #digitalhumanities
Testing day for new holographic projector in preparation for Unlocking History Day @uniofreading.bsky.social #sustainability #bluemarble #digitalenvironmentalsustainability
May 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Testing day for new holographic projector in preparation for Unlocking History Day @uniofreading.bsky.social #sustainability #bluemarble #digitalenvironmentalsustainability
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📚New book series from University of Exeter Press: Environment, Senses and Emotions, edited by Tatiana Konrad (University of Vienna).
The series will provide a comprehensive exploration of how the #EnvironmentalCrisis is represented, perceived and understood through the senses and #emotions
#envhum
The series will provide a comprehensive exploration of how the #EnvironmentalCrisis is represented, perceived and understood through the senses and #emotions
#envhum
April 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
📚New book series from University of Exeter Press: Environment, Senses and Emotions, edited by Tatiana Konrad (University of Vienna).
The series will provide a comprehensive exploration of how the #EnvironmentalCrisis is represented, perceived and understood through the senses and #emotions
#envhum
The series will provide a comprehensive exploration of how the #EnvironmentalCrisis is represented, perceived and understood through the senses and #emotions
#envhum
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Professors @maraoliva.bsky.social and @johngibbsscreened their video essays at the @movingimagenyc.bsky.social, showing how digital media can be used in innovative scholarly ways in history, film studies and beyond!
🔗 rdg.ac/4ieB2sh
🔗 rdg.ac/4ieB2sh
Beyond the written word: how the video essay transformed my engagement with history - Connecting Research
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March 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Professors @maraoliva.bsky.social and @johngibbsscreened their video essays at the @movingimagenyc.bsky.social, showing how digital media can be used in innovative scholarly ways in history, film studies and beyond!
🔗 rdg.ac/4ieB2sh
🔗 rdg.ac/4ieB2sh
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Don't miss this opportunity! Previous participants, including myself, found it a game-changer!
Deadline for the 2nd book workshop extended to April 1!! Get your applications in.
tinyurl.com/duxn3rtv
tinyurl.com/duxn3rtv
CFA- SHAFR Second Book Workshop
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March 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Don't miss this opportunity! Previous participants, including myself, found it a game-changer!
#lovemyjob has gone to a whole new level! Wonderful evening at my happy place @themerl.bsky.social for Teresa Murjas’ new installation NISSEN and with my brilliant brilliant friend and amazing soul Dr Jessica Lutkin 💖 #grateful @uor-research.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
#lovemyjob has gone to a whole new level! Wonderful evening at my happy place @themerl.bsky.social for Teresa Murjas’ new installation NISSEN and with my brilliant brilliant friend and amazing soul Dr Jessica Lutkin 💖 #grateful @uor-research.bsky.social
Well my week has already peaked! Had the most wonderful morning with the most wonderful team at #themillsarchive working some spectacular collections on #renewableenergy #lovemyjob 💚 @uor-research.bsky.social @fidgitpig.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Well my week has already peaked! Had the most wonderful morning with the most wonderful team at #themillsarchive working some spectacular collections on #renewableenergy #lovemyjob 💚 @uor-research.bsky.social @fidgitpig.bsky.social
Happy Morning working with my wonderful colleagues from FTT and Linguistics at an interdisciplinary research workshop! #lovemyjob @uor-research.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Happy Morning working with my wonderful colleagues from FTT and Linguistics at an interdisciplinary research workshop! #lovemyjob @uor-research.bsky.social
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The Times has published my letter, co-authored with Dr Mathilde Pavis, on UK government policy on Copyright and AI Training Data. Ministers should listen to ethical AI developers who license data from creative artists, not Big Tech that insists on 'scraping' the internet to seize data illegally.
March 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The Times has published my letter, co-authored with Dr Mathilde Pavis, on UK government policy on Copyright and AI Training Data. Ministers should listen to ethical AI developers who license data from creative artists, not Big Tech that insists on 'scraping' the internet to seize data illegally.
Thank you for posting this! And thank you to my wonderful video essay peeps! 💖
🎥Bringing old New York to life on the big screen!
@maraoliva.bsky.social recounts her experience screening her #videoessay at @movingimagenyc.bsky.social and discusses the merits of this burgeoning methodology
🔗 rdg.ac/3DaPxOW
@maraoliva.bsky.social recounts her experience screening her #videoessay at @movingimagenyc.bsky.social and discusses the merits of this burgeoning methodology
🔗 rdg.ac/3DaPxOW
February 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Thank you for posting this! And thank you to my wonderful video essay peeps! 💖
Part 3 #History students working with the #Hiroshima collection @ University of Reading Special Collections 💚 big thank you to @archivesgb.bsky.social 🙏
February 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Part 3 #History students working with the #Hiroshima collection @ University of Reading Special Collections 💚 big thank you to @archivesgb.bsky.social 🙏
Part 1 #History students @themerl.bsky.social working with primary sources on the US #environmental movements in the 1920s and 1960s 💚 so lucky to have these materials here in the most beautiful setting!
February 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Part 1 #History students @themerl.bsky.social working with primary sources on the US #environmental movements in the 1920s and 1960s 💚 so lucky to have these materials here in the most beautiful setting!
Super excited to be teaching my new module on the US 🇺🇸, The Global Environment and Sustainability 💚
February 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Super excited to be teaching my new module on the US 🇺🇸, The Global Environment and Sustainability 💚
🙌🙌🙌🙌💪💪💚
*taps mic* we're launching a podcast!
Here's a round-up of our highlights for the months ahead: from a blockbuster garden exhibition, to free talks and tours (online and in-person), and the pilot of our very own podcast, Absolute Units.
merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...
Here's a round-up of our highlights for the months ahead: from a blockbuster garden exhibition, to free talks and tours (online and in-person), and the pilot of our very own podcast, Absolute Units.
merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...
February 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🙌🙌🙌🙌💪💪💚
Research day @ my happy place 💚 the Museum of English Rural Life @themerl.bsky.social #sustainability
February 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Research day @ my happy place 💚 the Museum of English Rural Life @themerl.bsky.social #sustainability
I love my job has gone to a whole new level!! Spent the morning with my partners in crime @fidgitpig.bsky.social Jacqui Turner & Eugene McSorley walking around Harris Garden for our new project: Bring Power to the Garden! 💚 #interdisciplinaryresearch #environmentalsustainability
February 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I love my job has gone to a whole new level!! Spent the morning with my partners in crime @fidgitpig.bsky.social Jacqui Turner & Eugene McSorley walking around Harris Garden for our new project: Bring Power to the Garden! 💚 #interdisciplinaryresearch #environmentalsustainability
No filter- just blue 💙
January 30, 2025 at 10:19 AM
No filter- just blue 💙
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The big day is here! Join in! Hybrid book launch at the National Archives at Kew on 23 January, 4:00-6:00 pm (refreshments from 3:30 pm) for Archives and Emotions co-edited with @ValeriaVanesio www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archives-a...
Archives and Emotions: book launch
Join us at The National Archives and online for the launch of the ground-breaking Archives and Emotions edited collection.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
The big day is here! Join in! Hybrid book launch at the National Archives at Kew on 23 January, 4:00-6:00 pm (refreshments from 3:30 pm) for Archives and Emotions co-edited with @ValeriaVanesio www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archives-a...
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As we prepared for the Trump onslaught, I sat down (virtually) with friends and colleagues to discuss (some) one-term presidents. Thanks Clodagh and Alex for having me. You can listen to the conversation here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
The one-termers
Podcast Episode · A Chicken in Every Pot · 20/01/2025 · 55m
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January 21, 2025 at 6:46 AM
As we prepared for the Trump onslaught, I sat down (virtually) with friends and colleagues to discuss (some) one-term presidents. Thanks Clodagh and Alex for having me. You can listen to the conversation here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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🗣️ Arts and Humanities Scholars: Are you ready? 🗣️
We are 👏 thrilled 👏 to announce that ORCID now supports an expanded range of work types, such as 🎼 musical compositions, 🎨 still and 🎞️ moving images, and even 📝 teaching materials!!
Learn more: https://info.orcid.org/new-work-types/
We are 👏 thrilled 👏 to announce that ORCID now supports an expanded range of work types, such as 🎼 musical compositions, 🎨 still and 🎞️ moving images, and even 📝 teaching materials!!
Learn more: https://info.orcid.org/new-work-types/
January 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
🗣️ Arts and Humanities Scholars: Are you ready? 🗣️
We are 👏 thrilled 👏 to announce that ORCID now supports an expanded range of work types, such as 🎼 musical compositions, 🎨 still and 🎞️ moving images, and even 📝 teaching materials!!
Learn more: https://info.orcid.org/new-work-types/
We are 👏 thrilled 👏 to announce that ORCID now supports an expanded range of work types, such as 🎼 musical compositions, 🎨 still and 🎞️ moving images, and even 📝 teaching materials!!
Learn more: https://info.orcid.org/new-work-types/
Research day at my happy place @themerl.bsky.social 💚
January 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Research day at my happy place @themerl.bsky.social 💚
🫣🥹😀 so grateful for this wonderful experience! And especially the to the incredibly generous and loving video essay community, especially @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social @willdigravio.bsky.social John Gibbs and Kevin B. Lee! #interdisciplinaryresearch
January 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
🫣🥹😀 so grateful for this wonderful experience! And especially the to the incredibly generous and loving video essay community, especially @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social @willdigravio.bsky.social John Gibbs and Kevin B. Lee! #interdisciplinaryresearch