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Ana Parejo Vadillo
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emmamerkling.bsky.social
Calling all c19 art and queer theory ppl! @frankiedytor.bsky.social and I are still welcoming proposals for our #AAH panel on c19 British art after trans studies: see CFP below. #c19 #lgbtqhistory
Call for papers: “The nineteenth century saw profound transformations in how being and embodiment were figured across British culture. Art and science were at the forefront of these changes. As new forms of subjectivity were being formulated, the relationship between the self and the body, and between the body and life itself, were being reconfigured in visual productions and scientific writings alike. These transformations were entangled with new, ambivalent, and profoundly modern ways of thinking about gender, sexuality, form, and the nature and limits of the human. In Victorian art, the body was opened up to forces and flows which constituted and exceeded it. This panel invites papers which centre trans studies as a lens through which to explore these turbulent transformations in nineteenth-century art. What modes of…” “… embodiment, being, or becoming come into view when Victorian visual culture is approached via trans theory? What kinds of subjects and materials come to matter differently? What are the uses of transness— attuned to transition, indeterminacy, multiplicity, and bodily change—as a theoretical and historical framework? We invite 20-minute papers exploring British art (broadly conceived) in the long nineteenth century through the lens of trans theory and/or from trans perspectives. Topics might include, but are not limited to: • The (un) making of the human; nonhuman bodies; monstrosity; animality • Ecology, metamorphosis, bodies and environments • Racialization of sex, gender, and embodiment • Coloniality of gender; imperialism and difference • Transness and disability; mutable, prosthetic, and anomalous bodies • Fairytales, folklore, myth, and transformation • Spirituality and immaterial bodies • Sexology and medical imaging”
October 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
veryverso.bsky.social
Due to public demand we have increased the number of tickets available, for the book launch of Alice Meynell. Talks by Alex Wong, Laura Mulvey and yours truly. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies: Alice Meynell- Book Launch with Talks by Alex Wong and Laura Mulvey
Book Launch with talks Selected Poems and Essays by Alice Meynell Edited by Alex Wong Prefaced by Laura Mulvey
www.bbk.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social
Just a reminder of the conference tomorrow

‘Why does Pre-Raphaelitism matter now? Contemporary interventions in art and literature’.

Date and Location: starting at 9am, Sat 20 Sept 2025, Birmingham and Midland Institute, UK.

For all the details: www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/event-detail...
September 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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drbibliomane.bsky.social
Only 3 more days to submit to the roundtable on Olga Tokarczuk's 18th Century that @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social and I are organizing for the 2026 ASECS. Your abstracts have to go through the ASECS portal, but please reach out to us individually if you're thinking of submitting & have any questions.
drbibliomane.bsky.social Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · Sep 7
#18thc pals, pls RT: @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social & I are assembling a roundtable for the American Society for 18th-C Studies mting in Philly in April, on Olga Tokarczuk's 18th Century. Abstracts due 9/22. Pls help us think together about this fabulous novelist's wayward ways with our period & its 📚.
Olga Tokarczuk's Eighteenth Century, Co-chairs Katarzyna Bartoszyska and Deidre Shauna Lynch We are assembling a roundtable on the novels of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk. We hope to identify other scholars who are interested in how her fiction lays claim to the legacy of eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, repurposing the Enlightenment’s encyclopedism and universalism and its concepts of print communications, the public sphere, and the trans-national republic of letters. How do we re-see our period —its modernity, its concerns with gender, nature, violence, nation—through the lens provided by this 21st-century Polish novelist? Alternately, how might we trace continuities from the eighteenth century to the present in the formal experiments or thematic concerns of novels such as Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and The Books of Jacob, and what new architectures of totality or concepts of voice might we discover by doing so?
September 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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September 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Book launch of a new Alice Meynell collection! Please book your seat. Talks by Alex Wong and great grand daughter, and renowned film theorist, Laura Mulvey. Date 31 October 2025.
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies: Alice Meynell- Book Launch with Talks by Alex Wong and Laura Mulvey
Book Launch with talks Selected Poems and Essays by Alice Meynell Edited by Alex Wong Prefaced by Laura Mulvey
www.bbk.ac.uk
September 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Feliz de que se pueda leer por fin en castellano a Levy, Harkness y Black. Gracias Gonzalo Montor y gracias a El Pais.
August 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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pacogomezescribano.bsky.social
El traductor Gonzalo Gómez Montoro da a conocer por primera vez en castellano obras de las escritoras Amy Levy, Clementina Black y Margaret Harkness elpais.com/cultura/2025...
Las ‘sinsombrero’ inglesas de finales del XIX llegan a España tras 100 años de olvido
El traductor Gonzalo Gómez Montoro da a conocer por primera vez en castellano obras de las escritoras Amy Levy, Clementina Black y Margaret Harkness
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July 31, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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amnestyuk.bsky.social
As the Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza amidst its ongoing genocide, aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed themselves and their families.

Read on: amn.st/63322fK1Ze

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July 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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79 people shot in Gaza over the weekend: There is no excuse for starving people and then opening fire on civilians desperately lining up for food. None.

Congress must not give Netanyahu another penny of unconditional military aid.
July 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Unbearable
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Killing of young siblings at Gaza water point shows seeking life’s essentials now a deadly peril
Karam al-Ghussain, 9, and Lulu, 10, were fetching water from a nearby distribution station when an Israeli strike hit it, and them
www.theguardian.com
July 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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ciaragemmam.bsky.social
Spanish TV before Eurovision today
May 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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drbeldavis.bsky.social
I went to talk to BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour yesterday morning to talk about my @mitpress.bsky.social book 'Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past and Present'. Catch it on iPlayer.
#nonfictionreads
April 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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The wonderful Isabel Davis!
April 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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janeford.bsky.social
It was so great to have @drsallybd.bsky.social and @bradders953.bsky.social on campus for their amazing paper, “Do Androids Dream of Vernon Lee?” yesterday. There are still two speakers left in Teesside English and Creative Writing seminar series. All welcome!
April 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
veryverso.bsky.social
Word of the day? Penguins
April 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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socalleslie.bsky.social
Tesla tea party! 😂
March 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
veryverso.bsky.social
I loved every minute of this. What a wonderful conference. With thanks to the brilliant @juliemariewise.bsky.social and @yivory.bsky.social Papers by new scholars in the field were 🔥🔥And there was a #MichaelField strand too!
juliemariewise.bsky.social Julie Wise @juliemariewise.bsky.social · Mar 2
What a fantastic event this has been! Smart papers, witty conversations, good friends, old and new. Thanks to extraordinary co-organizer @yivory.bsky.social, keynotes @kristinmahoney.bsky.social and @veryverso.bsky.social, as well as everyone else who made this weekend happen. Now, time for a nap.
Publicity announcement for a conference, featuring a drawing of a woman in 1890s dress, rendered in bold yellow, white, and black
March 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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juliemariewise.bsky.social
What a fantastic event this has been! Smart papers, witty conversations, good friends, old and new. Thanks to extraordinary co-organizer @yivory.bsky.social, keynotes @kristinmahoney.bsky.social and @veryverso.bsky.social, as well as everyone else who made this weekend happen. Now, time for a nap.
Publicity announcement for a conference, featuring a drawing of a woman in 1890s dress, rendered in bold yellow, white, and black
March 2, 2025 at 1:12 AM
veryverso.bsky.social
Friends, do come along if you are in the Boston area for my talk on Michael Field and Women Artists @harvard.edu
libcal.library.harvard.edu/event/14158949
Spring 2025 Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture on "Queer Bindings: Women Artists and the Michael Field Book"
Houghton Library welcomes Ana Parejo Vadillo, who will give the Spring 2025 Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture on "Queer Bindings: Women Artists and the Michael Field...
libcal.library.harvard.edu
March 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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That’s right. 🇺🇦
March 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
veryverso.bsky.social
Huge congrats Isabel!!!! It’s beautiful
drbeldavis.bsky.social Isabel Davis @drbeldavis.bsky.social · Mar 4
Dear BlueSky,

Please widely share that my book is out today. 🚀 It tells wild & wonderful, (& arrestingly illustrated) little-known histories from the reproductive frontline. It is a history like no other and like any other, ie brill & for any history lover anywhere.

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The cover of my beautiful new book, Conceiving Histories. Black and white photo collage of a naked woman arms crossed riding a guppy side-saddle, in front of a moon. Title is in coral pink. Names of author and illustrator in white.
March 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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victorianpoetry.bsky.social
Victorian Poetry is thrilled to announce a new open-access special issue, “Transition and Transformation.” Guest edited by Erik Gray, it features contributions by Florence Boos, Mary Ellis Gibson, @lindakhughes.bsky.social , Britta Martens, & Herbert F. Tucker. muse.jhu.edu/issue/53644
Table of contents for the new special issue, “Transition and Transformation”: Special issue preface by ERIK GRAY tracing Victorian Poetry’s recent transitions and celebrating the field’s debt to JOHN B. LAMB, journal editor from 2005 to 2024 LINDA K. HUGHES, “Queer Forms, Queer Grief: Reclaiming and Transcending Loved Remains in Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Michael Field’s The Longer Allegiance” MARY ELLIS GIBSON, “Sensation, Sati, and Retribution in Mary E. Leslie’s Sonnets on the Indian Mutiny” HERBERT F. TUCKER, “Compost Happens: Composition and Decomposition in Victorian Literature” BRITTA MARTENS, “From the Execution Ballad to the Dramatic Monologue: Criminal Confession Reconfigured” FLORENCE BOOS, “Morris the Skald: Icelandic Translation as Social Liberation” Table of contents for 60th anniversary issue: JOHN B. LAMB, “Introduction: The Place of Victorian Poetry” ERIK GRAY, “Keeping Faith in Victorian Poetry” STEPHANIE KUDUK WEINER, “Reflections on Years in Victorian Poetry” LEE O’BRIEN, “Victorian Women’s Poetry and the Near-Death Experience of a Category” MICHELE MARTINEZ, “Undisciplining Art Sisterhood” HELEN GROTH, “Photography, Novelty, and Victorian Poetry” MONIQUE R. MORGAN, “Poetry, Politics, Possibilities” JASON RUDY, “Reaching Wider: Anecdotes from a Victorianist in the Australian Archive” LEE BEHLMAN, “Women and Light Verse: On May Kendall” MARION THAIN, “Reading Victorian Poetry as the World Burns” ANDREW M. STAUFFER, “Analog Intelligence” CHARLES LAPORTE, “Victorian Poetry in an Age of Cultural Secularization” LINDA K. HUGHES, “Whithering: Or ’Tis Twenty Years Since”
February 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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univeng.bsky.social
This is an important letter from bodies representing Arts and Humanities in the UK. Please share widely
artsandhums.bsky.social Arts and Humanities Alliance @artsandhums.bsky.social · Feb 3
The Arts and Humanities Alliance have written an open letter to Bridget Philippson, Secretary of State for Education, on the recently announced cuts across the sector. We are concerned that these measures disproportionately affect our disciplines and call for an urgent government review.
February 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
January 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM