Dr Polina Ignatova
@drpolina.bsky.social
Medievalist | Environmental History Series Editor at the Trivent | Kung-fu fighter | Pole dancer
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Dr Polina Ignatova
@drpolina.bsky.social
· Oct 23
My colleague and I are launching a new podcast series called Memory and Nature. If you are a researcher in environmental humanities, we will probably want to interview you! To express interest, send us an abstract by 1 February 2026. See the cfp for details ⬇️
Binged One Piece up to the ongoing episodes, what a time to be alive!
November 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Binged One Piece up to the ongoing episodes, what a time to be alive!
My colleague and I are launching a new podcast series called Memory and Nature. If you are a researcher in environmental humanities, we will probably want to interview you! To express interest, send us an abstract by 1 February 2026. See the cfp for details ⬇️
October 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
My colleague and I are launching a new podcast series called Memory and Nature. If you are a researcher in environmental humanities, we will probably want to interview you! To express interest, send us an abstract by 1 February 2026. See the cfp for details ⬇️
When people say that German or any other language is romantic, Dr. Daruwalla thought, all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language (c) John Irving, 'A Son of the Circus'
October 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
When people say that German or any other language is romantic, Dr. Daruwalla thought, all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language (c) John Irving, 'A Son of the Circus'
Watched Puss in Boots 2 bc a friend of a friend said it's the best animated film ever. Well, Puss meets the personification of death and reassesses his life by making meaningful connections w/ others. In other words, very Irvin Yalom-y
September 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Watched Puss in Boots 2 bc a friend of a friend said it's the best animated film ever. Well, Puss meets the personification of death and reassesses his life by making meaningful connections w/ others. In other words, very Irvin Yalom-y
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My thanks to TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) for posting a notice on their newsletter of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death: teams-medieval.org/untitled-4/. #histmed #MedievalSky #PandemicPedagogy 🧪🗃️
Open-Access Teaching Module on the Black Death Now Available
Free, new materials for teaching the Black Death
teams-medieval.org
September 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
My thanks to TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) for posting a notice on their newsletter of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death: teams-medieval.org/untitled-4/. #histmed #MedievalSky #PandemicPedagogy 🧪🗃️
Tell me this job was created for a friend w/o telling me this job was created for a friend
September 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Tell me this job was created for a friend w/o telling me this job was created for a friend
Finished Wednesday's 2nd season. Why does a late-autumn motorcycle road trip with Uncle Fester suddenly look so good?
September 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Finished Wednesday's 2nd season. Why does a late-autumn motorcycle road trip with Uncle Fester suddenly look so good?
Come to my seminar on sea monsters on Monday at Stockholm University! (It will be in English 😉)
www.su.se/centrum-for-...
www.su.se/centrum-for-...
Medeltidsseminariet: Polina Ignatova, Institutionen för kultur och samhälle, Linköpings universitet - Centrum för medeltidsstudier
Polina Ignatova, Institutionen för kultur och samhälle, Linköpings universitet, presenterar på Medeltidsseminariet 15 september.
www.su.se
September 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Come to my seminar on sea monsters on Monday at Stockholm University! (It will be in English 😉)
www.su.se/centrum-for-...
www.su.se/centrum-for-...
Любимые формулировки из Гулистана Саади (перевод Рустама Алиева):
Однажды ночью, о минувших годах размышляя и даром погубленную жизнь в памяти оживляя, камни дома сердца своего я подтачивал алмазами слёз
Однажды ночью, о минувших годах размышляя и даром погубленную жизнь в памяти оживляя, камни дома сердца своего я подтачивал алмазами слёз
September 4, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Любимые формулировки из Гулистана Саади (перевод Рустама Алиева):
Однажды ночью, о минувших годах размышляя и даром погубленную жизнь в памяти оживляя, камни дома сердца своего я подтачивал алмазами слёз
Однажды ночью, о минувших годах размышляя и даром погубленную жизнь в памяти оживляя, камни дома сердца своего я подтачивал алмазами слёз
Environmental medievalists, we want to see you at the animal sessions at the IMC 2026! Please submit your abstracts by 10 September 🦔 @imc-leeds.bsky.social @leedsims.bsky.social
August 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Environmental medievalists, we want to see you at the animal sessions at the IMC 2026! Please submit your abstracts by 10 September 🦔 @imc-leeds.bsky.social @leedsims.bsky.social
1st day back from my conference Eurotrip - @imc-leeds.bsky.social (where we've plotted forthcoming sessions w/ Medieval Animal Data-Network) and @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social in Prague (where I've tried out medieval studies from the memory perspective). Now let's catch up on this pile of emails
July 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
1st day back from my conference Eurotrip - @imc-leeds.bsky.social (where we've plotted forthcoming sessions w/ Medieval Animal Data-Network) and @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social in Prague (where I've tried out medieval studies from the memory perspective). Now let's catch up on this pile of emails
Travelling to the UK w/ a visa (duh). SAS puts me on the spot by calling me together w/ several other holders of uncool passports to their desk through the fucking intercom.
This is besides the fact I can't check in online bс again my passport is uncool.
This is besides the fact I can't check in online bс again my passport is uncool.
July 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Travelling to the UK w/ a visa (duh). SAS puts me on the spot by calling me together w/ several other holders of uncool passports to their desk through the fucking intercom.
This is besides the fact I can't check in online bс again my passport is uncool.
This is besides the fact I can't check in online bс again my passport is uncool.
Publications are like buses...
My article on representations of fish in medieval children's literature has just come out and it's in OA:
ecp.ep.liu.se/index.php/ha...
My article on representations of fish in medieval children's literature has just come out and it's in OA:
ecp.ep.liu.se/index.php/ha...
Human-Fish Relationship in Medieval Literature for Younger Audiences
| Research Network for Interspecies Relations in Children's Cultures
ecp.ep.liu.se
June 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Publications are like buses...
My article on representations of fish in medieval children's literature has just come out and it's in OA:
ecp.ep.liu.se/index.php/ha...
My article on representations of fish in medieval children's literature has just come out and it's in OA:
ecp.ep.liu.se/index.php/ha...
I struggle a lot with American English I realise
June 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I struggle a lot with American English I realise
Today I have sent out two documents: a publishing agreement for my article and a presentation pic for a pole dancing competition 🤘
May 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Today I have sent out two documents: a publishing agreement for my article and a presentation pic for a pole dancing competition 🤘
Prioritising AI over - well - natural intelligence is a perfect example of how ✨some people✨ want to see humans as expendable materials. I said what I said.
May 26, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Prioritising AI over - well - natural intelligence is a perfect example of how ✨some people✨ want to see humans as expendable materials. I said what I said.
That moment in a romcom when an ugly girl shows up in her prom dress #akademiskahögtiden #Sweden
May 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
That moment in a romcom when an ugly girl shows up in her prom dress #akademiskahögtiden #Sweden
Love that autocorrect tries to replace godkänd with goddamn
May 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Love that autocorrect tries to replace godkänd with goddamn
Did you know that university employees also have human rights? Follow SULF/LiU to find out more!
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SULF Linköpings universitet | LinkedIn
SULF Linköpings universitet | 7 followers on LinkedIn. A chapter of SULF, the Swedish Association of University Teachers and Researchers | Welcome to SULF at Linköping University! We are a chapter of ...
eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Did you know that university employees also have human rights? Follow SULF/LiU to find out more!
eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
My amazing colleague Emelie Fälton and I wrote a chapter on sea monsters and environmentalism. It was published in the open access yesterday, have a look!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Framing Sustainability in Language and Communication | Maida Kosatica,
This collection brings together established and emerging scholars for a critical framing of sustainability through the lens of language and communication,
www.taylorfrancis.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:29 AM
My amazing colleague Emelie Fälton and I wrote a chapter on sea monsters and environmentalism. It was published in the open access yesterday, have a look!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Writing a Black Death lecture fighting the temptation to say 'this is yersinia pestis, it might be small but it's got big plans'
February 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Writing a Black Death lecture fighting the temptation to say 'this is yersinia pestis, it might be small but it's got big plans'
Spotify needs to introduce a repeat mode, but like THE SONG - some different song - THE SONG again- another different song and so on so I can avoid complete degradation
February 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Spotify needs to introduce a repeat mode, but like THE SONG - some different song - THE SONG again- another different song and so on so I can avoid complete degradation
Do you think one can regress from Purgatory i.e. go to Hell instead of Heaven? Like by behaving particularly badly?
February 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Do you think one can regress from Purgatory i.e. go to Hell instead of Heaven? Like by behaving particularly badly?
Albertus Magnus on salpa: according to Pliny the salpa is an obscene, vile, marine fish. It can in no way be cooked unless it is first beaten very forcefully and broken down with a club or stick.
What did salpa ever do to Albert?
What did salpa ever do to Albert?
February 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Albertus Magnus on salpa: according to Pliny the salpa is an obscene, vile, marine fish. It can in no way be cooked unless it is first beaten very forcefully and broken down with a club or stick.
What did salpa ever do to Albert?
What did salpa ever do to Albert?