Felicity Callard
@felicitycallard.bsky.social
Researching daydreams and fantasies. I am employed as a human geographer and also work in the medical humanities
Editor, History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social
Editor, History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social
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Even more petitions popping up. Doesn't make for a great endorsement, does it?
Please sign, spread the word, and help us push back against the constant undermining of our university:
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November 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Even more petitions popping up. Doesn't make for a great endorsement, does it?
Please sign, spread the word, and help us push back against the constant undermining of our university:
c.org/MwqdpHLCnZ
c.org/Q6pTJXz87F
c.org/sGNYk5yGpM
Please sign, spread the word, and help us push back against the constant undermining of our university:
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Orwellian levels of political interference in academic affairs: Under pressure from right-wing press and the Minister of Education the prestigious Collège de France cancels the conference ‘Palestine and Europe’ - in the name of academic freedom and neutrality … read this statement by the organizers:
"En cédant à la pression du ministre, Philippe Baptiste, l’administrateur du Collège de France compromet l’indépendance d’une institution fondée il y a plus de quatre siècles, qui a accueilli les plus grands noms de la pensée française, de Foucault à Bourdieu.
Communiqué de presse : le Collège de France cède aux pressions et annule le colloque « La Palestine et l’Europe »
Le Collège de France annule le colloque « La Palestine et l’Europe » sous pression politique. Des universitaires dénoncent l’ingérence ministérielle et un article diffamatoire de Le Point, alertant su...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Orwellian levels of political interference in academic affairs: Under pressure from right-wing press and the Minister of Education the prestigious Collège de France cancels the conference ‘Palestine and Europe’ - in the name of academic freedom and neutrality … read this statement by the organizers:
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If you liked that @lithub.com.web.brid.gy essay on not talking to the NYT about Mamdani, read this @nplusonemag.com piece by the same author on working class higher ed and its enemies.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If you liked that @lithub.com.web.brid.gy essay on not talking to the NYT about Mamdani, read this @nplusonemag.com piece by the same author on working class higher ed and its enemies.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Boycott the New York Times
“A writer at the Times contacted me to talk. He said he was less interested in Mamdani himself than he was in the Africana Studies part…” On why maybe you shouldn’t talk to the New York Times about Zohran Mamdani.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Boycott the New York Times
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November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
The pales winter light outside our workshop window is beautiful
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The pales winter light outside our workshop window is beautiful
Gaza sits inside Ryan Ruby’s essay on Guyotat
Our debates around symbolic violence unfold against a backdrop of terrifying and grisly real violence. Pierre Guyotat’s final book draws a line between the two, parsing the realities of war with the only civilized response: extremity.
Violence and the Sacred | Ryan Ruby
Violence may not be the totality of life, but it is closer to the core than humanists would have us believe.
thebaffler.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Gaza sits inside Ryan Ruby’s essay on Guyotat
Help fight the closure of geography at Leicester. Solidarity with all combatting this
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Help fight the closure of geography at Leicester. Solidarity with all combatting this
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Seems like a good day for big ideas.
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production
Let CUNY socialize EdTech for all of us.
theamericanvandal.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Seems like a good day for big ideas.
The sky is darker than dark outside this replacement bus
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The sky is darker than dark outside this replacement bus
What an article. Thank you for writing this and taking on such important and difficult lines of thought
I've got a new article on Valerie Solanas and her place in feminist history, part of the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
Feminism, Artistry, Madness, and the Ghost of Valerie Solanas
Abstract. Valerie Solanas holds an unsettled place in feminist history, notorious for both her incendiary 1967 diatribe the SCUM Manifesto and her near-fat
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November 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
What an article. Thank you for writing this and taking on such important and difficult lines of thought
but the thing is their AI submits to our AI
overheard conversation between white collar workers on their commute this morning
overheard conversation between white collar workers on their commute this morning
November 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
but the thing is their AI submits to our AI
overheard conversation between white collar workers on their commute this morning
overheard conversation between white collar workers on their commute this morning
This is a beautiful essay
On the day of the NYC mayoral election, Ali Raz pens a gorgeous essay reflecting on how Mamdani's rhetoric evinces a poetics of the Universal and convokes a shared commons united by labor and by the rhythms of life spent working in cities most of us cannot afford.
mid-theory.com/2025/11/04/m...
mid-theory.com/2025/11/04/m...
Mamdani Feelings
Starting from a place of extreme negativity, political speech can brush the bright membrane that forms literature’s impossible horizon. The rent is too high in Los Angeles. Consider a number: “One …
mid-theory.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This is a beautiful essay
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"As long as the university system in the UK is so wildly underfunded as it is now, universities will be vulnerable to attacks like this." That’s the crux of it, isn’t it?
Pretty extraordinary story here
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China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show - BBC News
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
"As long as the university system in the UK is so wildly underfunded as it is now, universities will be vulnerable to attacks like this." That’s the crux of it, isn’t it?
Please read and consider signing the letter in solidarity with Dr Farhana Sultana who has been placed on leave for extramural speech in the context of intensifying repression docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Please read and consider signing the letter in solidarity with Dr Farhana Sultana who has been placed on leave for extramural speech in the context of intensifying repression docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
‘The university told her that a combination of administrative issues meant they could no longer support her work. But further inquiries suggested the university was “explicitly trading my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market,” Murphy said’
November 3, 2025 at 6:35 AM
‘The university told her that a combination of administrative issues meant they could no longer support her work. But further inquiries suggested the university was “explicitly trading my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market,” Murphy said’
Loved the Wayne Thiebaud at the Courtauld. Can’t get my head around the fact that is the very first museum show of his work in the UK
November 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Loved the Wayne Thiebaud at the Courtauld. Can’t get my head around the fact that is the very first museum show of his work in the UK
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“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
When and where does the imperial core’s genocidal violence disrupt academic scholarship in the Anglo-American academy? Where and how does Gaza appear (and, equally, where does it not)?
This comes from the start of an essay on Theweleit’s Male Fantasies read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
This comes from the start of an essay on Theweleit’s Male Fantasies read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
October 31, 2025 at 8:15 AM
When and where does the imperial core’s genocidal violence disrupt academic scholarship in the Anglo-American academy? Where and how does Gaza appear (and, equally, where does it not)?
This comes from the start of an essay on Theweleit’s Male Fantasies read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
This comes from the start of an essay on Theweleit’s Male Fantasies read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
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SOAS University becomes the first British University to Issue a Statement on Scholasticide in Gaza www.soas.ac.uk/about/news/s...
Senate statement on Gaza, Palestine
The Senate has published a ‘Senate Statement on Scholasticide in Gaza, Palestine’.
www.soas.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 7:51 AM
SOAS University becomes the first British University to Issue a Statement on Scholasticide in Gaza www.soas.ac.uk/about/news/s...
Ooh! Current issue of History of the Present has a forum (currently freely accessible) on
Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies - in his time and ours read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies - in his time and ours read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
Volume 15 Issue 2 | History of the Present | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
October 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Ooh! Current issue of History of the Present has a forum (currently freely accessible) on
Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies - in his time and ours read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies - in his time and ours read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
Solidarity with all British Library workers on strike
Due to ongoing strike action, all St Pancras Reading Rooms will be closed on Friday 31 October and Saturday 1 November.
Reader Registration will also be closed on 1 November and operating at a reduced level on 31 October. Find all service updates on our website.
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Reader Registration will also be closed on 1 November and operating at a reduced level on 31 October. Find all service updates on our website.
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Planned strike action in St Pancras
We have been notified of planned strike action taking place between Monday 27 October and Sunday 9 November 2025.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Solidarity with all British Library workers on strike
Took me several years to take this down from my bookshelf to read; I had read several shattering reviews over the years. I finished it this evening and need now to sit in silence
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Took me several years to take this down from my bookshelf to read; I had read several shattering reviews over the years. I finished it this evening and need now to sit in silence