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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre
@nccratbournemouth.bsky.social
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We're an interdisciplinary research centre focused on narrative and culture based at Bournemouth University. Our interests include comics, crime fiction, autofiction, spatiality, medical humanities, and memory studies. https://www.litsampersand.org/nccr
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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · Jan 28
Hello from Bournemouth, Bluesky! We're an interdisciplinary research centre based in the Department of Humanities & Law which is based in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University, where the sun is currently almost shining.
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yugin.bsky.social
World Literature Podcast Parts 2 & 3 on the 20th Anniversary of the publication of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go with me and Laura Colombino, and hosted by Ivan Stacy, is now available on their YouTube channel youtu.be/1vILMft2DkQ?...
#ishiguro #kazuoishiguro #neverletmego #faber
Never Let Me Go with Laura Colombino and Yugin Teo - part 2
YouTube video by The World Literature Podcast
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May 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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hypnojoo.bsky.social
Time to shamelessly promote this new #comicsstudies collection ‘Horror and Comics’ - edited by me, @barbarachamberlin.bsky.social and @komkunyosying - and packed with #horror themed goodness and looking at a global selection of comics! Due to be published by university of wales press next month.
My hand holding a Hardback book entitled ‘Horror and Comics’ with a cover picture of some battered copies of creepy and various Spanish comics on a rack at a flea market
May 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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jntod.bsky.social
With GCSE English exams looming, it's time to dust off of my most popular posts (and pet hates). It's not too late to change your mind about metre, kids! someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/10-reasons...
10 Reasons Why the Iambic Pentameter is Not Like the Human Heartbeat
On an idea about poetry that needs to die
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May 8, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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The programme is now up and registration is now open for our Literatures & Medicines Online Symposium (April 23 2025)--please check it out and sign up! www.litsampersand.org/literatures-...

#medicalhumanities #literature #onlineevent @bournemouthuni.bsky.social
Literatures & Medicines 2025 — Literatures &
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March 31, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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We're delighted to host Kirsty Logan, author of the short story collection No & Other Love Stories (2025) and the novel Now She Is Witch (2023) etc. this Wednesday at our speaker series. Everyone is welcome--scroll down here for Zoom details: www.litsampersand.org/nccr #kirstylogan #authortalks
Cover of No & Other Love Stories by Kirsty Logan, a pink lollipop with a wasp or bee perched on it
March 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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victoriabates.bsky.social
Full Special Issue now out! 'Senses and Spaces of Modern Health/Care' www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfss20/1...
The Senses and Society
Senses and Spaces of Modern Health/Care. Volume 19, Issue 3 of The Senses and Society
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February 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
nccratbournemouth.bsky.social
Unfortunately we have to cancel this for today, but we'll reschedule for as soon as we can!
nccratbournemouth.bsky.social Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · Feb 21
Everyone knows a shelf like this, right? Join us next week to think about what it all means, when @joparsons.bsky.social presents her research into the #bonkbuster at our online #NCCR seminar, Wed 26th Feb at 4pm UK time. Zoom link & deets here: www.litsampersand.org/nccr
#shareyourshelf #literature
Shelf of books by authors like Judith Krantz and Jilly Cooper
February 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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alishagrauso.bsky.social
Legendary hater Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin from @lettersofnote: I loathe, I abhor the sea and all ships which sail on it. --Charles Darwin to his sister, 4 Aug 1836 I hate a barnacle as no man ever did before -- Charles Darwin to William Fox 24 Oct 1852 I am very tired, very stomachy and hate nearly the whole world. -- Charles Darwin to Thomas Haxley 10 September 1860 I am poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything -- Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell 1 Oct 1861 I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees. -- Charles Darwin to John Lubbock 3 Sept 1862
February 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
nccratbournemouth.bsky.social
Everyone knows a shelf like this, right? Join us next week to think about what it all means, when @joparsons.bsky.social presents her research into the #bonkbuster at our online #NCCR seminar, Wed 26th Feb at 4pm UK time. Zoom link & deets here: www.litsampersand.org/nccr
#shareyourshelf #literature
Shelf of books by authors like Judith Krantz and Jilly Cooper
February 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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victoriabates.bsky.social
If you were interested in the birthing pool history piece, Jenny, Maria and I also wrote this companion article that just came out in a SI on experience: 'The Construction and Politics of the ‘Birth Experience’ in Britain, 1948–93' www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
February 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
nccratbournemouth.bsky.social
Loving the flurry of proposals as the deadline for our Literatures & Medicines Online Symposium approaches--it's February 15th (but realistically you've got till Monday EOB at least!)
www.litsampersand.org/literatures-... #litsmeds2025 #medicalhumanities #literature #cfp @bournemouthuni.bsky.social
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February 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
For #ValentinesDay, I'll be posting #HistoricalHearts

Let's start with this life-size papier-mâché heart by the French anatomist Louis Thomas Jérôme Auzoux from the 19th century. Photo: Alex Peck.
A heart made from papier-mâché showing the veins and arteries in blue and red.
February 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
nccratbournemouth.bsky.social
Gentle reminder about our CFP for the April 'Literatures & Medicines Online Symposium'; deadline is Fri 15 Feb. Attendance and participation are free! #litsmeds2025 #medicalhumanities #literature #academia #cfp
For more details see below:
www.litsampersand.org/literatures-...
Please share widely!
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February 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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joparsons.bsky.social
Excited to be sharing my love for the #bonkbuster with @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social in a couple of weeks. Thanks to @drmllz.bsky.social for inviting me to indulge myself in my favourite subject!
February 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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desfitzgerald.bsky.social
Next week, the brilliant Prof. Tracey Loughran is running a series of online sessions for early career people in the medical humanities. I'm speaking on publishing, but there's also webinars on career opportunities and job applications. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/career-opp...
Career Opportunities Within and Beyond the Health and Medical Humanities
What career opportunities are available for health and medical humanities researchers?
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February 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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wordsmith.bsky.social
Applications for our inky, thoughtful, fabulous and, importantly, funded, Print Matters Summer School close on Wednesday 12th February!
www.thinicepress.org/events/print...
Print Matters summer school: Thin Ice Press — Thin Ice Press
What does it mean to think about matter and materiality through the medium of letterpress printing?  We invite scholars of matter, materiality and/or material culture (broadly conceived) in any ...
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February 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Artists have always loved to sketch!

Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC.

Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used flakes of limestone rather than paper sketchpads!

MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

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#Archaeology
Met Museum photo of an Ancient Egyptian artist’s painting of a swallow on a flake of limestone, dated to the New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, c. 1479-1458 BC. The sparrow stands in profile with head to the right. It is delicately painted with a pinkish body with the outline and details painted in a reddish/brown. It’s legs, eye, and beak are painted black. H. 6.6 cm (2 5/8 in.) W. 10.6 cm (4 3/16 in.) This may have been a practice drawing of the sparrow hieroglyph which was used for words meaning ‘small’, ‘poor’, or ‘bad’. The Egyptian artisans who decorated tombs and temples made practice sketches on flakes of limestone which are known by egyptologists as ostraca (singular: ostracon). Sometimes the drawings were used as a template when transferring an image to the wall of a tomb or a temple. Limestone flakes were readily available for this purpose as by-products of the construction of temples and rock-cut tombs. A number of ostraca were recovered at Deir el-Bahri during the 1922-23 MMA excavations.
February 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
nccratbournemouth.bsky.social
So excited about our new poster for the April Literatures & Medicines Online Symposium! (Proposals due 15 Feb www.litsampersand.org/literatures-...)

#litsmeds2025 #medicalhumanities #literature #academia #onlineconference @bournemouthuni.bsky.social
The image shows a woman looking over Bournemouth Pier and the seaside--it's designed to evoke an old Great Western Railway tourism poster
February 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Thrilled @cemathieson.bsky.social is keynoting our April Literatures & Medicines Online Symposium with 'From “seaside girls” to “the sun-tanning crowd”: Cultures of Suntanning in Britain, c.1900-1940'. CFP deadline Feb 15: www.litsampersand.org/literatures-...
#literature #medicalhumanities #cfp
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January 31, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
If you think today's news headlines are horrific, check out this one from 1906. Chilling.
A newspaper clipping that reads: "Noisy, Hungry Frogs Sadden Farmer's Life. They scare his cattle and they also eat his flannel shirt."
January 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
nccratbournemouth.bsky.social
#nccrbu member Dr Jaron Murphy is a judge for the Orwell Society/NUJ Young Journalists Award 2025. Open to student journalists & journalists born in/after 1995 resident full-time in the UK. Deadline March 24 2025. orwellsociety.com/bursary/the-...
The Orwell Society/NUJ Young Journalists Award 2025 open for entries
Are you a young journalist, full-time resident in the UK, studying for a journalism qualification or starting out on your journalism career, who would like to win a prestigious award that significantl...
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January 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
nccratbournemouth.bsky.social
One of our PGRs, the marvellous @zbloodyqueen.bsky.social and her crew at @cerealkillernet.bsky.social have this coming up tonight!
cerealkillernet.bsky.social Cereal Killer Network @cerealkillernet.bsky.social · Jan 21
Just 1 week to go!🩸

🗣 Dr Coltan Scrivner
🔪 Why do we love True Crime?
📅 28th Jan
🕐 7pm - 8.30pm GMT
📍Zoom

Dr. Coltan Scrivner is a behavioural biologist & leading researcher on the science behind morbid curiosity, including the human fascination with horror & true crime.
a close up of a crime scene tape that says " crime scene do "
Alt: a close up of a crime scene tape that says "crime scene do not enter"
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January 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
nccratbournemouth.bsky.social
We're hosting an event this April: Literatures & Medicines Online Symposium--abstract deadline is February 15th. Participation and attendance are free. #onlineconference #literature #medicalhumanities #academia #litsmeds2025
www.litsampersand.org/literatures-...
Literatures & Medicines 2025 — Literatures &
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January 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
nccratbournemouth.bsky.social
We have a monthly online research seminar series--usually the last Wednesday of the month during the semester--everyone welcome! The details are here: www.litsampersand.org/nccr
Narrative, Culture and Community — Literatures &
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January 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nccratbournemouth.bsky.social
Hello from Bournemouth, Bluesky! We're an interdisciplinary research centre based in the Department of Humanities & Law which is based in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University, where the sun is currently almost shining.
January 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM