Michèle Mendelssohn
@mendelight.bsky.social
Literature professor @ox.ac.uk @engfac.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk • Armchair cosmopolitan researching #Women in #Polar #Exploration @ieadeparis.bsky.social • #OscarWilde biographer & curator http://makinghistory.magd.ox.ac.uk
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What does #OscarWilde have to do with #AI?
In a "Turning Point" piece for #TextualPractice, Charlie Tyson & I unpack that
Read "The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI"
Published online today!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In a "Turning Point" piece for #TextualPractice, Charlie Tyson & I unpack that
Read "The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI"
Published online today!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Utopia. 🌈
It's an important topic to think about in this troubled moment.
Today, come join @duncanbell.bsky.social & Astor Visiting Professor Douglas Mao @ox.ac.uk for a conversation about this timely, timeless topic.
Huge thanks to @mpblanco.bsky.social for her organisational masterminding
It's an important topic to think about in this troubled moment.
Today, come join @duncanbell.bsky.social & Astor Visiting Professor Douglas Mao @ox.ac.uk for a conversation about this timely, timeless topic.
Huge thanks to @mpblanco.bsky.social for her organisational masterminding
Looking forward to talking with Douglas Mao about our new book, Utopia, this Wednesday in Oxford
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/utopia...
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/utopia...
'Utopia across Disciplines': A conversation between Douglas Mao and Duncan Bell
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Utopia. 🌈
It's an important topic to think about in this troubled moment.
Today, come join @duncanbell.bsky.social & Astor Visiting Professor Douglas Mao @ox.ac.uk for a conversation about this timely, timeless topic.
Huge thanks to @mpblanco.bsky.social for her organisational masterminding
It's an important topic to think about in this troubled moment.
Today, come join @duncanbell.bsky.social & Astor Visiting Professor Douglas Mao @ox.ac.uk for a conversation about this timely, timeless topic.
Huge thanks to @mpblanco.bsky.social for her organisational masterminding
I fell in love with Pudlo Pudlat's "Winds of Change/ Vents de changement" in the Baud/Jacot collection of Arctic print and sculptures.
Now the collection has a new home!
ARCTIC WORLDS: From Alaska to Nunavut
Musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer, until 3 July , 2026
musee.boulogne-sur-mer.fr
Now the collection has a new home!
ARCTIC WORLDS: From Alaska to Nunavut
Musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer, until 3 July , 2026
musee.boulogne-sur-mer.fr
October 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I fell in love with Pudlo Pudlat's "Winds of Change/ Vents de changement" in the Baud/Jacot collection of Arctic print and sculptures.
Now the collection has a new home!
ARCTIC WORLDS: From Alaska to Nunavut
Musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer, until 3 July , 2026
musee.boulogne-sur-mer.fr
Now the collection has a new home!
ARCTIC WORLDS: From Alaska to Nunavut
Musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer, until 3 July , 2026
musee.boulogne-sur-mer.fr
Reposted by Michèle Mendelssohn
Workshop: Learn how to write an abstract! ❄️
Join us at 12:00 EST (17:00 BST / 18:00 CET) on Sunday 29th June and learn how to make your abstract sing.
Can’t make the live session? We’ll send a link to watch the recording out to everyone who RSVPs. ✨
RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/1FSF...
Join us at 12:00 EST (17:00 BST / 18:00 CET) on Sunday 29th June and learn how to make your abstract sing.
Can’t make the live session? We’ll send a link to watch the recording out to everyone who RSVPs. ✨
RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/1FSF...
June 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Workshop: Learn how to write an abstract! ❄️
Join us at 12:00 EST (17:00 BST / 18:00 CET) on Sunday 29th June and learn how to make your abstract sing.
Can’t make the live session? We’ll send a link to watch the recording out to everyone who RSVPs. ✨
RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/1FSF...
Join us at 12:00 EST (17:00 BST / 18:00 CET) on Sunday 29th June and learn how to make your abstract sing.
Can’t make the live session? We’ll send a link to watch the recording out to everyone who RSVPs. ✨
RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/1FSF...
Fantastic coverage of our #POLARX conference about #women and #extractivism at the world's poles by New York Times bestselling author and journalist @juliaflynnsiler.bsky.social
juliaflynnsiler.com/2025/06/16/a...
juliaflynnsiler.com/2025/06/16/a...
A Dispatch from POLAR X: Telling True Stories About Women at the Poles - Julia Flynn Siler
It was sweltering in Paris over the weekend of Polar X, an inaugural workshop and symposium at the Université Paris Cité which brought together scholars, artists, and writers from around the world to ...
juliaflynnsiler.com
June 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Fantastic coverage of our #POLARX conference about #women and #extractivism at the world's poles by New York Times bestselling author and journalist @juliaflynnsiler.bsky.social
juliaflynnsiler.com/2025/06/16/a...
juliaflynnsiler.com/2025/06/16/a...
Reposted by Michèle Mendelssohn
Very excited to be attending the Polar X workshop online today and tomorrow, organized by @mendelight.bsky.social and Cécile Roudeau, focusing on gender and extractivism. Grateful to colleauges who make space for hybrid gatherings! polar-x.weebly.com
POLAR X WORKSHOP & SYMPOSIUM
WOMEN'S NARRATIVES OF POLAR ENCOUNTERS, EXTRACTIVISM AND EXPLORATION FROM THE 19TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT
polar-x.weebly.com
June 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Very excited to be attending the Polar X workshop online today and tomorrow, organized by @mendelight.bsky.social and Cécile Roudeau, focusing on gender and extractivism. Grateful to colleauges who make space for hybrid gatherings! polar-x.weebly.com
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Management's threat to make £140million of cuts at the University of Edinburgh is shocking.
Yesterday, we heard from branch president, Sophia, on the questions this announcement has raised.
The Scottish govt must call on university management to halt these devastating cuts.
Yesterday, we heard from branch president, Sophia, on the questions this announcement has raised.
The Scottish govt must call on university management to halt these devastating cuts.
February 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Management's threat to make £140million of cuts at the University of Edinburgh is shocking.
Yesterday, we heard from branch president, Sophia, on the questions this announcement has raised.
The Scottish govt must call on university management to halt these devastating cuts.
Yesterday, we heard from branch president, Sophia, on the questions this announcement has raised.
The Scottish govt must call on university management to halt these devastating cuts.
Reposted by Michèle Mendelssohn
Interested in polar archives?
A workshop on establishing a Polar Archive Network is set for 17–18 March 2025 at the @scottpolar.bsky.social (Cambridge, UK & online) to shape a Polar Archive Network & draft a SCAR action group proposal.
Register by 28 Feb: scar.org/scar-news/ar...
A workshop on establishing a Polar Archive Network is set for 17–18 March 2025 at the @scottpolar.bsky.social (Cambridge, UK & online) to shape a Polar Archive Network & draft a SCAR action group proposal.
Register by 28 Feb: scar.org/scar-news/ar...
February 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Interested in polar archives?
A workshop on establishing a Polar Archive Network is set for 17–18 March 2025 at the @scottpolar.bsky.social (Cambridge, UK & online) to shape a Polar Archive Network & draft a SCAR action group proposal.
Register by 28 Feb: scar.org/scar-news/ar...
A workshop on establishing a Polar Archive Network is set for 17–18 March 2025 at the @scottpolar.bsky.social (Cambridge, UK & online) to shape a Polar Archive Network & draft a SCAR action group proposal.
Register by 28 Feb: scar.org/scar-news/ar...
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A message from @ducuuo.bsky.social 📢
We're calling on university management to rule out the use of compulsory redundancies 🔥
We're calling on university management to rule out the use of compulsory redundancies 🔥
February 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A message from @ducuuo.bsky.social 📢
We're calling on university management to rule out the use of compulsory redundancies 🔥
We're calling on university management to rule out the use of compulsory redundancies 🔥
Reposted by Michèle Mendelssohn
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Oxford Faculties of English & History are delighted to host the 25th anniversary conference of the British Association for #Victorian Studies on 23–25 July.
Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC
Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC
British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference
www.english.ox.ac.uk
February 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Oxford Faculties of English & History are delighted to host the 25th anniversary conference of the British Association for #Victorian Studies on 23–25 July.
Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC
Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC
Reposted by Michèle Mendelssohn
I signed this letter for these reasons:
If, like me, you are a UCU member and agree the union should stop wasting time and effort on a fruitless round of pay strikes at a time when tens of thousands of academic jobs are at risk, then please consider signing this open letter (link early on the document): ucucommons.org/2025/02/13/m...
Motion to HEC: Focus on Defending Jobs and Reforming UK HE
Two UCU Commons HEC members are bringing the following motion to the special HEC meeting on Wednesday 19th February. We are looking for UCU members in HE to add their names in support of the motion…
ucucommons.org
February 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I signed this letter for these reasons:
Still vicariously feeling #TheaKopalaRøhme and #LisenStrøm's calm exhilaration as they ski Norway's remote arctic peninsula. Just one of the brilliant films on show at this year's @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social 👏👏https://youtu.be/5aE9ygwf7Oo?feature=shared
Odyssey of Loppa: traversing an arctic peninsula | Trailer
YouTube video by Rab Equipment
youtu.be
February 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Still vicariously feeling #TheaKopalaRøhme and #LisenStrøm's calm exhilaration as they ski Norway's remote arctic peninsula. Just one of the brilliant films on show at this year's @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social 👏👏https://youtu.be/5aE9ygwf7Oo?feature=shared
What does #OscarWilde have to do with #AI?
In a "Turning Point" piece for #TextualPractice, Charlie Tyson & I unpack that
Read "The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI"
Published online today!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In a "Turning Point" piece for #TextualPractice, Charlie Tyson & I unpack that
Read "The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI"
Published online today!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
What does #OscarWilde have to do with #AI?
In a "Turning Point" piece for #TextualPractice, Charlie Tyson & I unpack that
Read "The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI"
Published online today!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In a "Turning Point" piece for #TextualPractice, Charlie Tyson & I unpack that
Read "The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI"
Published online today!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Michèle Mendelssohn
🌟 Join us for our next Activist Workshop: Having Hard Conversations about Abortion 🌟
🗓 Sat Feb 15, 1-2:30pm ET on Zoom.
Learn how to talk to your friends and family, young children, and teens about abortion. Register here! www.arcc-cdac.ca/activist-wor...
#prochoice #cdnpoli #ActivistWorkshop
🗓 Sat Feb 15, 1-2:30pm ET on Zoom.
Learn how to talk to your friends and family, young children, and teens about abortion. Register here! www.arcc-cdac.ca/activist-wor...
#prochoice #cdnpoli #ActivistWorkshop
January 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
🌟 Join us for our next Activist Workshop: Having Hard Conversations about Abortion 🌟
🗓 Sat Feb 15, 1-2:30pm ET on Zoom.
Learn how to talk to your friends and family, young children, and teens about abortion. Register here! www.arcc-cdac.ca/activist-wor...
#prochoice #cdnpoli #ActivistWorkshop
🗓 Sat Feb 15, 1-2:30pm ET on Zoom.
Learn how to talk to your friends and family, young children, and teens about abortion. Register here! www.arcc-cdac.ca/activist-wor...
#prochoice #cdnpoli #ActivistWorkshop
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Droit à l’avortement en Pologne : une cour d’appel ordonne un nouveau procès dans une affaire emblématique
Droit à l’avortement en Pologne : une cour d’appel ordonne un nouveau procès dans une affaire emblématique
La militante du droit à l’avortement Justyna Wydrzynska avait été reconnue coupable, en 2023, d’avoir aidé une femme à avorter et condamnée à des travaux d’intérêt général, une première en Pologne. Jeudi, la cour d’appel a rejeté « dans son intégralité le jugement contesté ».
www.lemonde.fr
February 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Droit à l’avortement en Pologne : une cour d’appel ordonne un nouveau procès dans une affaire emblématique
Reposted by Michèle Mendelssohn
We need two people to lead Environmental Humanities into a future that needs #envhum work more than ever. Please apply 👇
Are you an #envhum scholar looking to make a difference for the field?
Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities!
We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here:
environmentalhumanities.org
Contact us if you have any questions.
Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities!
We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here:
environmentalhumanities.org
Contact us if you have any questions.
Environmental Humanities – A journal published by Duke University Press
environmentalhumanities.org
February 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We need two people to lead Environmental Humanities into a future that needs #envhum work more than ever. Please apply 👇
Alright, so today, in my book, it's 19 June 1914, and my polar team has landed at Igarka, in #Siberia. But for you and me, that means a virtual saunter down this icy tunnel in the Museum of #Permafrost
maps.app.goo.gl/5mKteRfsRsqU...
maps.app.goo.gl/5mKteRfsRsqU...
February 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Alright, so today, in my book, it's 19 June 1914, and my polar team has landed at Igarka, in #Siberia. But for you and me, that means a virtual saunter down this icy tunnel in the Museum of #Permafrost
maps.app.goo.gl/5mKteRfsRsqU...
maps.app.goo.gl/5mKteRfsRsqU...
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Damit schreiben auch Sie endlich Ihren Roman: Der Optimierungspodcast verrät, wie Sie kreativ in Schwung kommen – mit Tipps der Autorin des Buchs "Der Weg des Künstlers".
Optimierungspodcast: Wie Sie aus einer kreativen Blockade herauskommen
Damit schreiben auch Sie endlich Ihren Roman: Der Optimierungspodcast verrät, wie Sie kreativ in Schwung kommen – mit Tipps der Autorin des Buchs "Der Weg des Künstlers".
www.zeit.de
February 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Damit schreiben auch Sie endlich Ihren Roman: Der Optimierungspodcast verrät, wie Sie kreativ in Schwung kommen – mit Tipps der Autorin des Buchs "Der Weg des Künstlers".
Reposted by Michèle Mendelssohn
Reposted by Michèle Mendelssohn
Take a chance on love this Valentine's season with our "Blind Date with a Book" display! All of these used books were carefully chosen by booksellers to be someone's perfect match. Could it be you? Find out soon, these blind date books are only available in store while supplies last! 💕
February 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Take a chance on love this Valentine's season with our "Blind Date with a Book" display! All of these used books were carefully chosen by booksellers to be someone's perfect match. Could it be you? Find out soon, these blind date books are only available in store while supplies last! 💕
Which reminds me that I can put on a jumper and a scarf instead of turning up the radiator in my in office today
Dressing for the cold.
Photo from the 1911 Norwegian expedition, led by Roald Amundsen, which became the first to reach the South Pole. More here: buff.ly/2kblsAc
Photo from the 1911 Norwegian expedition, led by Roald Amundsen, which became the first to reach the South Pole. More here: buff.ly/2kblsAc
February 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Which reminds me that I can put on a jumper and a scarf instead of turning up the radiator in my in office today
Boston/ Cambridge friends:
don't miss Eli Zuzovsky in conversation with Claire Messud
@harvardbookstore.bsky.social about becoming a man, queer lust, shame and the threat of war
www.harvard.com/event/eli-zu...
don't miss Eli Zuzovsky in conversation with Claire Messud
@harvardbookstore.bsky.social about becoming a man, queer lust, shame and the threat of war
www.harvard.com/event/eli-zu...
www.harvard.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Boston/ Cambridge friends:
don't miss Eli Zuzovsky in conversation with Claire Messud
@harvardbookstore.bsky.social about becoming a man, queer lust, shame and the threat of war
www.harvard.com/event/eli-zu...
don't miss Eli Zuzovsky in conversation with Claire Messud
@harvardbookstore.bsky.social about becoming a man, queer lust, shame and the threat of war
www.harvard.com/event/eli-zu...
Reposted by Michèle Mendelssohn
Come on @financialtimes.com! You can do better than misleading international readers by quoting #MordechaiRichler -- one of Canada's dead greats but also one its most unrepresentative, divisive and polemical writers -- to illustrate a piece about Canadian identity
on.ft.com/40JbbSe
on.ft.com/40JbbSe
Trump forces the question: what is Canada?
A quarter of young Canadians are open to exploring union with the US
on.ft.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Come on @financialtimes.com! You can do better than misleading international readers by quoting #MordechaiRichler -- one of Canada's dead greats but also one its most unrepresentative, divisive and polemical writers -- to illustrate a piece about Canadian identity
on.ft.com/40JbbSe
on.ft.com/40JbbSe