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Felicity Callard
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Geographies & histories of what we have come to call “mental health” | the university | daydreams & fantasies | Freud | Marx

Editor, History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 13d
I wrote on psychic life and Palestinian resistance

– to ensure more people read Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
For the Palestinian people, psychic life is just as much a site of struggle for liberation as social life. Palestinians are persistently refused psychological amplitude, characteristics easily granted to those who are never worried they might fall out of what is constituted as the category of the human. Abdaljawad Omar’s writings in English published since October 7, 2023 (as well as writings by other Palestinians, other Arabs, and those of Palestinian descent) offer means of understanding material resistance in relation to the terrain of the psyche. Omar offers distinctive accounts of mourning, loss, and ruins, as well as of how settler colonialism reorganizes experiences of time and relations between past, present, and future. The article reads Omar’s writings against other accounts of mourning and of psychic phenomena that are indebted to psychoanalysis. Omar’s analyses of Palestinians’ resistance to unfreedom and annihilation open up other ways of understanding the psychic vicissitudes of those who suffer, grieve, and struggle to exit a colonial condition characterized by the colonizer’s repeated attempts to break psychic worlds as well as erase bodily life. Understandings of psychic life that do justice to how Palestine is redrawing the world are central to the work of ‘cracking history open’.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3h
“AI makes it easier to do more—but harder to stop”

Each paragraph compounds the one before in showing how AI aids the expansion of work into every crack of every day (and every morning, every evening)
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 10h
Ah ok. Please provide an update in a few weeks

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 10h
Oh Des. Agree it might be worse and also am struggling without success to work out how this could function as a “replacement”. Mouthfeel? Amount of liquid? Taste? Crockery to be used?

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 11h
We're looking for a new editor for @histhum.bsky.social's para-site histhum.com (founding editor @desfitzgerald.bsky.social; subsequent editors @sarahvmarks.bsky.social @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social), who will also be the journal's social media editor

Honorarium

Deadline: 9 March 2026

Please circulate

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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 12h
BREAKING NEWS: We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that the Southbank Centre - the Hayward Gallery, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall and skaters undercroft - has finally been Grade II listed by DCMS after a 35 year long campaign.

➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/southba...
The Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Lambeth – London County Council (LCC) and Greater London Council (GLC) Architect’s Department, 1963-68 Image © Morley von Sternberg

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 14h
‘But I refuse to die.

Since if I did

[…]

I would not walk

to the birthday parties

of my martyred friends

in the nearby graveyard

as I have decided to do tonight.’
arablit.bsky.social ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 14h
‘A New Year in Gaza’: By Ibrahim Nasrallah

The people named in this poem are the writers, painters, and musicians martyred in the genocide. They are only a few of the many artists who were martyred in the past two years of war against Gaza.
‘A New Year in Gaza’: By Ibrahim Nasrallah
The people named in this poem are the writers, painters, and musicians martyred in the genocide. They are only a few of the many artists who were martyred in the past two years of war against Gaza.
arablit.org

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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 14h
‘A New Year in Gaza’: By Ibrahim Nasrallah

The people named in this poem are the writers, painters, and musicians martyred in the genocide. They are only a few of the many artists who were martyred in the past two years of war against Gaza.
‘A New Year in Gaza’: By Ibrahim Nasrallah
The people named in this poem are the writers, painters, and musicians martyred in the genocide. They are only a few of the many artists who were martyred in the past two years of war against Gaza.
arablit.org

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Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · 1d
The @versobooks.bsky.social Jameson Reading Group returns next Sunday for our final session ever. We’re reading Jameson’s last book, The Years of Theory, alongside the book’s editor Carson Welch and Patrick Lyons. Not too late to sign up for this free communal ed project: forms.gle/ZQn3aWDs5VPm...

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 1d
Jay Todd @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and I discussed the dangerous hardening of a particular model of 'sex' in our paper on the Sullivan Review rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/....

Just look at the violence of that phrase 'sex-rejecting procedures'
walkerbragman.bsky.social Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 1d
SCOOP: The Department of Health and Human Services has been using the term “sex-rejecting procedures” to describe gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary individuals.

The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group.

www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
HHS Has Been Using Anti-Trans Language From a Christian Right Think Tank
The department refers to gender-affirming care as “sex-denying procedures,” a term coined by the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
www.importantcontext.news

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History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 1d
❗Applications open for new editor for History of the Human Sciences (HHS) online blog (histhum.com) and HHS social media. Honorarium.

Deadline: 9 March 2026

Please circulate
www.histhum.com/applications...
Applications open for new editor for HHS online blog (histhum.com) and social media
The editors of international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal History of the Human Sciences (HHS) invite applications for a new editor of its online blog histhum.com.&nbsp…
www.histhum.com

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 1d
Urgent writing on Birzeit U from @hamayel.bsky.social

“Terror…disciplines through anticipation, exhaustion, and saturation. Subjects end up managing risk instead of imagining alternatives. Education as a space of experimentation becomes intolerable…” @mondoweiss.net mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-...
The hollowing out of Palestine’s most important university
Birzeit University is no longer what it once was. The transformation has been gradual and, therefore, easily rationalized, but the result has been the hollowing out of a university that once led the P...
mondoweiss.net

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 1d
SCOOP: The Department of Health and Human Services has been using the term “sex-rejecting procedures” to describe gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary individuals.

The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group.

www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
HHS Has Been Using Anti-Trans Language From a Christian Right Think Tank
The department refers to gender-affirming care as “sex-denying procedures,” a term coined by the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
www.importantcontext.news

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Lynn Abrams, Felicity Callard , and 1 more

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Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social · 1d
The special issue of Cultural and Social History on “Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives” (co-ed. w Georgina Brewis & Jodi Burkett) is live - yay! Several articles are OA :) Huge thanks to our contributors & the journal editors!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfcs20/2...
Cultural and Social History
Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives. Volume 23, Issue 1 of Cultural and Social History
www.tandfonline.com

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3d
I keep on thinking of the students who might have been compelled to take her classes

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3d
This interview featuring a prominent medieval historian and a man whose other interviewees literally include “Tommy Robinson” is beyond disgusting.

Made in Nov 2025 and clocking up YouTube numbers. Tying your name forever to this monstrosity youtu.be/vhj5hFlMo9M?...
How Palestinian propaganda hacks our minds with stolen Christian imagery: Prof Miri Rubin
YouTube video by Jonathan Sacerdoti
youtu.be

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3d
“no one who has witnessed over two years of genocide in Gaza is likely to disagree with either Hammad or Said that the intellectual class has utterly failed to fulfill its social function”
lareviewofbooks.bsky.social Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 8d
"What is the task of the intellectual at a time when, at the heart of liberal democracies, genocide is normalized and protest suppressed?"

Rebecca Ruth Gould revisits Edward Said: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/edward-said-representations-intellectual-gaza-crisis-israel-fitzcarraldo/

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 4d
Look forward to reading

Reposted by John Hogan

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 4d
Ramsey McGlazer wrote a fantastic essay on the Mechanical Turks of campus food delivery robots in 2020 lareviewofbooks.org/article/conf...

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 4d
Thank you for reading and for your comment. I have been so incensed by how the academy in the west has responded to and written about Palestinian resistance. Hence my desire to try to do justice to how the writings of Abdaljawad Omar in English return us to the complexities of resistance, repeatedly

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 4d
Really impressed by the humility and clarity of this reading of @hamayel.bsky.social from @felicitycallard.bsky.social - qualities whose absence from scholarly responses to Palestinian resistance could hardly be more prominent. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
‘Cracking History Open’: Psychic Life and Palestinian Resistance | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
‘Cracking History Open’: Psychic Life and Palestinian Resistance - Volume 2
www.cambridge.org

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 5d
*Thank you* for this special issue, Eman

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 6d
I'm in the new look @publicbooks.bsky.social talking with @anniemcc.bsky.social, Vineeta Singh, Dan Nemser, and Rana Jaleel about higher education, how we have studied and organized around it, and what possibility lies therein.
Defending the Possibility of the University: A Roundtable on “University Keywords” - Public Books
“What would it look like for faculty unions and graduate student unions to collaborate or work together with K-12 teachers’ unions to push back against anti-DEI legislation or book bans?”
www.publicbooks.org

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 6d
Jay (first author of our Sullivan Review paper) in their thread discusses one of the lesser known parts of the Review:

its offensive against established principles surrounding ethical review, research governance, and community involvement

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
jaytoddgla.bsky.social Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social · 6d
The Sullivan Review & Ethics: A Thread

A key problematic of the Review is its significant consequences for ethical principles/governance. Its 2nd report recommends universities consider ‘paring back the scope and power of ethics committees’ in varied ways Read them below

doi.org/10.1111/tran.70057
Text from Sullivan Review Report 2 that reads - 13. The expansion and politicisation of ethics committees poses serious risks to research, including research on sex and gender, potentially affecting researchers working from any perspective on this issue. To address this: a. The terms of reference of ethics committees should state that it is not within their remit to prevent researchers from using the concept of sex, collecting data on sex, or using sex-based language. b. Ethics committees should not refer researchers to ask advice from EDI committees. c. Universities should consider paring back the scope and power of ethics committees, including removing the requirement for low-risk research which does not involve any medical or other experimental intervention or contact with children or vulnerable populations or genuine risk of harm to research participants or researchers or potentially unlawful acts to undergo formal ethical review by default. Text from the Sullivan Review report 2 that reads - . Ethics committees must ensure that ethical review does not lead to onerous delays, in particular in the case of time-sensitive research. By default, ethics committees should approve research proposals and should do so promptly. e. Ethical review is continually expanding, for example to cover undergraduate students, and to cover secondary data analysis. This expansion should be halted. f. Ethics committees must explicitly distinguish between ethical risk and reputational risk, and not conflate the two. Reputational risk should never be treated as an ethical consideration, let alone a reason to treat a proposal as ‘high risk’ by an ethics committee. g. The centralisation of ethics committees should be reconsidered. Paradoxically, review by a centralised committee can lead to projects deemed ‘high risk’ being judged by academics lacking in relevant expertise, whereas ‘low risk’ projects are more likely to be judged by disciplinary peers. h. ESRC should review its guidance for research organisations and research ethics committees with a view to reducing the burden on research organisations, reducing risks to academic freedom, and acknowledging the risk of politicisation of ethics processes. Guidance should highlight the value of academic freedom as a value which underpins the ability of researchers to deliver knowledge as a public good which benefits society as a whole. The risk that research ethics committees may prevent valuable research from being carried out in a timely way should be noted. ESRC should engage with academic experts on research ethics and ensure transparency in the process of reviewing its guidance.

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Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social · 6d
The Sullivan Review & Ethics: A Thread

A key problematic of the Review is its significant consequences for ethical principles/governance. Its 2nd report recommends universities consider ‘paring back the scope and power of ethics committees’ in varied ways Read them below

doi.org/10.1111/tran.70057
Text from Sullivan Review Report 2 that reads - 13. The expansion and politicisation of ethics committees poses serious risks to research, including research on sex and gender, potentially affecting researchers working from any perspective on this issue. To address this: a. The terms of reference of ethics committees should state that it is not within their remit to prevent researchers from using the concept of sex, collecting data on sex, or using sex-based language. b. Ethics committees should not refer researchers to ask advice from EDI committees. c. Universities should consider paring back the scope and power of ethics committees, including removing the requirement for low-risk research which does not involve any medical or other experimental intervention or contact with children or vulnerable populations or genuine risk of harm to research participants or researchers or potentially unlawful acts to undergo formal ethical review by default. Text from the Sullivan Review report 2 that reads - . Ethics committees must ensure that ethical review does not lead to onerous delays, in particular in the case of time-sensitive research. By default, ethics committees should approve research proposals and should do so promptly. e. Ethical review is continually expanding, for example to cover undergraduate students, and to cover secondary data analysis. This expansion should be halted. f. Ethics committees must explicitly distinguish between ethical risk and reputational risk, and not conflate the two. Reputational risk should never be treated as an ethical consideration, let alone a reason to treat a proposal as ‘high risk’ by an ethics committee. g. The centralisation of ethics committees should be reconsidered. Paradoxically, review by a centralised committee can lead to projects deemed ‘high risk’ being judged by academics lacking in relevant expertise, whereas ‘low risk’ projects are more likely to be judged by disciplinary peers. h. ESRC should review its guidance for research organisations and research ethics committees with a view to reducing the burden on research organisations, reducing risks to academic freedom, and acknowledging the risk of politicisation of ethics processes. Guidance should highlight the value of academic freedom as a value which underpins the ability of researchers to deliver knowledge as a public good which benefits society as a whole. The risk that research ethics committees may prevent valuable research from being carried out in a timely way should be noted. ESRC should engage with academic experts on research ethics and ensure transparency in the process of reviewing its guidance.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 6d
yes: I read it a year or so ago having previously prevaricated. Read most it before during and after visiting Mann family house on the extraordinary Curonian spit in Lithuania

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 6d
‘Naila Ahmed, head of campaigns at advocacy group CAGE, said: “This acquittal is a huge victory for the movement but [sic] nationally & abroad who campaigned on behalf of the defendants, & a powerful affirmation of jury independence and moral courage in the face of extraordinary political pressure’
scotnational.bsky.social The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 6d
Six Palestine Action activists have declared victory after being cleared of committing aggravated burglary over a break-in at an Israel-based defence firm’s UK site
Activists celebrate victory as all 6 cleared in Israeli arms factory trial
www.thenational.scot

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 6d
Six Palestine Action activists have declared victory after being cleared of committing aggravated burglary over a break-in at an Israel-based defence firm’s UK site
Activists celebrate victory as all 6 cleared in Israeli arms factory trial
www.thenational.scot

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 6d
My friend told me yesterday that the mother of this student is the chief arts critic of the Observer. I checked out her (the mother’s) recent posts on X and they are full of “gender critical” [I always put that phrase in quotation marks] RTs
Thea Sewell One of the world's best universities has been captured by trans-obsessed zealots Students ostracised me at Cambridge for believing in the reality of biological sex Thea Sewell (centre) co-founded the Cambridge University Society of Women with friends Maeve Halligan (left) and Serena Worley after being hounded for her views about sex and gender Credit: John Lawrence

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 6d
'Sasha Roseneil, the University of Sussex’s vice-chancellor, criticised the investigation at the time, arguing that the OfS had ignored or turned down nine requests by the university to meet with investigators, despite taking lengthy statements from Stock.'