Gábor Gelléri
@gaborgelleri.bsky.social
Scholar of cultures of travel within the French-speaking world, living on the Welsh seaside. Nowadays mostly working on the ways travel and education intersect at various periods, and colonial "influencer" tourism.
Now here is something that doesn't happen everyday: I am about to see an unpublished manuscript of Madame de Genlis, famous French educator. I worked on her novels, her guidebooks (which are also language books), her memoirs which contain her travels - but never encountered this manuscript. Excited!
September 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Now here is something that doesn't happen everyday: I am about to see an unpublished manuscript of Madame de Genlis, famous French educator. I worked on her novels, her guidebooks (which are also language books), her memoirs which contain her travels - but never encountered this manuscript. Excited!
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(cont.) ... Davide Vago, Odile Gannier, Pierre Schoentjes, Jean-Baptiste Bernard, Nina Rocipon et Haila Koo. www.fabula.org/actualites/1... Aussi, comptes rendus des livres de Catherine Pinguet, Jean-Jacques Bavoux, Christina Kullberg, Eva Johanna Holmberg et Philippe Antoine - Gilles Louÿs (dirs).
Viatica, HS 8, 2025 : La littérature de voyage au prisme de l'écopoétique (dir. Yvan Daniel & Alain Romestaing
Viatica, HS 8 | 2025 : La littérature de voyage au prisme de l'écopoétique Sous la direction de Yvan Daniel et Alain Romestaing Dossier Yvan Daniel et Alain Romestaing Introduction [Texte intégral] ...
www.fabula.org
September 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
(cont.) ... Davide Vago, Odile Gannier, Pierre Schoentjes, Jean-Baptiste Bernard, Nina Rocipon et Haila Koo. www.fabula.org/actualites/1... Aussi, comptes rendus des livres de Catherine Pinguet, Jean-Jacques Bavoux, Christina Kullberg, Eva Johanna Holmberg et Philippe Antoine - Gilles Louÿs (dirs).
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Vient de paraître: numéro hors-série 8 de la revue Viatica, intitulé "La littérature de voyage au prisme de l'écopoétique". Dirigé par Yvan Daniel et Alain Romestaing, articles par Sylvie Requemora, Anne-Gaëlle Weber, Daniel López, Virginie Teller, Pascale Auraix-Jonchière, Philippe Antoine (cont.)
September 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Vient de paraître: numéro hors-série 8 de la revue Viatica, intitulé "La littérature de voyage au prisme de l'écopoétique". Dirigé par Yvan Daniel et Alain Romestaing, articles par Sylvie Requemora, Anne-Gaëlle Weber, Daniel López, Virginie Teller, Pascale Auraix-Jonchière, Philippe Antoine (cont.)
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(cont.) ... Davide Vago, Odile Gannier, Pierre Schoentjes, Jean-Baptiste Bernard, Nina Rocipon and Haila Koo. www.fabula.org/actualites/1... Also featuring reviews of books by Catherine Pinguet, Jean-Jacques Bavoux, Christina Kullberg, Eva Johanna Holmberg et Philippe Antoine - Gilles Louÿs (dirs).
www.fabula.org
September 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
(cont.) ... Davide Vago, Odile Gannier, Pierre Schoentjes, Jean-Baptiste Bernard, Nina Rocipon and Haila Koo. www.fabula.org/actualites/1... Also featuring reviews of books by Catherine Pinguet, Jean-Jacques Bavoux, Christina Kullberg, Eva Johanna Holmberg et Philippe Antoine - Gilles Louÿs (dirs).
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The latest issue of 'Viatica', journal of travel literature, is out. It is a special issue on travel and ecopoetics, edited by Yvan Daniel and Alain Romestaing, with articles by Sylvie Requemora, Anne-Gaëlle Weber, Daniel López, Virginie Teller, Pascale Auraix-Jonchière, Philippe Antoine (cont.)
September 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The latest issue of 'Viatica', journal of travel literature, is out. It is a special issue on travel and ecopoetics, edited by Yvan Daniel and Alain Romestaing, with articles by Sylvie Requemora, Anne-Gaëlle Weber, Daniel López, Virginie Teller, Pascale Auraix-Jonchière, Philippe Antoine (cont.)
Off to Paris, with a conference in Le Havre and an archives day in Rouen in the middle. If you have a quick Archives nationales or Bnf query, I might be able to help, just let me know in time (today for the Archives as I'm going tomorrow).
September 1, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Off to Paris, with a conference in Le Havre and an archives day in Rouen in the middle. If you have a quick Archives nationales or Bnf query, I might be able to help, just let me know in time (today for the Archives as I'm going tomorrow).
Sames.
how do you even write your silly little book living in this moment.
August 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Sames.
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We are now escalating our efforts! @ucu.org.uk
With just over 830 signatories, we are looking for 1000+ so we can take these requests higher on up.
Please do sign against outsourcing @uniofsurrey.bsky.social
With just over 830 signatories, we are looking for 1000+ so we can take these requests higher on up.
Please do sign against outsourcing @uniofsurrey.bsky.social
Please sign to halt outsourcing plans 👇
University of Surrey proposes to employ all new Professional Services staff through a subsidiary company on lesser T&Cs.
This is an existential threat to our university & sector.
speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/operate-surr...
@ucu.org.uk
University of Surrey proposes to employ all new Professional Services staff through a subsidiary company on lesser T&Cs.
This is an existential threat to our university & sector.
speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/operate-surr...
@ucu.org.uk
Operate Surrey - Halt Outsourcing Plans at University of Surrey
The University of Surrey proposes to employ all new Professional Services staff through its subsidiary company: Operate Surrey: Operate Surrey - Jobs at the University of Surrey. This constitutes outs...
speakout.web.ucu.org.uk
June 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We are now escalating our efforts! @ucu.org.uk
With just over 830 signatories, we are looking for 1000+ so we can take these requests higher on up.
Please do sign against outsourcing @uniofsurrey.bsky.social
With just over 830 signatories, we are looking for 1000+ so we can take these requests higher on up.
Please do sign against outsourcing @uniofsurrey.bsky.social
Job klaxon: The Department of Modern Languages is looking for an Assistant in French. Lovely students, great colleagues, unbeatable location. Research training and contribute to content teaching possible! jobs.aber.ac.uk/en/vacancy/l...
Aberystwyth University - : Language Tutor (French) (5846)
jobs.aber.ac.uk
June 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Job klaxon: The Department of Modern Languages is looking for an Assistant in French. Lovely students, great colleagues, unbeatable location. Research training and contribute to content teaching possible! jobs.aber.ac.uk/en/vacancy/l...
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Using big LLMs for basic queries is 'like turning on stadium floodlights to look for your keys' - this is good on the AI environmental questions.
We still don’t know how much energy AI consumes
Companies must give us the chance to understand the environmental impact of the tech we use
www.ft.com
May 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Using big LLMs for basic queries is 'like turning on stadium floodlights to look for your keys' - this is good on the AI environmental questions.
After a couple of days working well through the pain barrier, the end of the marking tunnel is in sight.
May 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
After a couple of days working well through the pain barrier, the end of the marking tunnel is in sight.
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Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around.
They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway.
It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing
They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway.
It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing
May 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around.
They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway.
It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing
They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway.
It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing
A really exciting event for next spring in Angers on a very poorly explored topic, travelling children. I am very honoured to be invited as plenary speaker.
CFP - Children on the Move: Histories, Experiences and Representations of Child Travellers (26-27 March 2026,
University of Angers) - Organised by Anne-Florence Quaireau and Tom Williams - Keynote speaker: Gabor Gelléri (@gaborgelleri.bsky.social)
Please help us circulate this CFP far and wide! :-)
University of Angers) - Organised by Anne-Florence Quaireau and Tom Williams - Keynote speaker: Gabor Gelléri (@gaborgelleri.bsky.social)
Please help us circulate this CFP far and wide! :-)
April 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
A really exciting event for next spring in Angers on a very poorly explored topic, travelling children. I am very honoured to be invited as plenary speaker.
Just booked a 10-day Italian holiday, because. Plans include moderate amounts of sightseeing and inordinate amounts of ice-cream and focaccia (when in Liguria...).
March 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Just booked a 10-day Italian holiday, because. Plans include moderate amounts of sightseeing and inordinate amounts of ice-cream and focaccia (when in Liguria...).
We have moved to this new platform, but the annual ALCS appretiation post cannot be cancelled. If you are not registered yet, do - it's easy, and every year provides a handy little sum for your scholarly travails.
March 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
We have moved to this new platform, but the annual ALCS appretiation post cannot be cancelled. If you are not registered yet, do - it's easy, and every year provides a handy little sum for your scholarly travails.
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"Advanced linguistic and cultural skills are essential for any deep understanding of how people see themselves and their relationship to the precarious and rapidly changing world around them"
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mode...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mode...
Modern languages departments are neither colonial nor obsolete
Advanced linguistic and cultural skills remain essential for deep insight into how people see themselves in the world, say five modern languages academics
www.timeshighereducation.com
March 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
"Advanced linguistic and cultural skills are essential for any deep understanding of how people see themselves and their relationship to the precarious and rapidly changing world around them"
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mode...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mode...
Last chance if you need something checked at the Bnf Mitterrand site, will be there tomorrow Tuesday before heading back.
March 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Last chance if you need something checked at the Bnf Mitterrand site, will be there tomorrow Tuesday before heading back.
Is there something you needed to be checked in Paris - mostly BNF and Archives Nationales Pierrefitte? I am lucky enough to head there now, and happy to assist with reference hunting, particularly (but not only) for junior colleagues.
February 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Is there something you needed to be checked in Paris - mostly BNF and Archives Nationales Pierrefitte? I am lucky enough to head there now, and happy to assist with reference hunting, particularly (but not only) for junior colleagues.
New article out in 'Studies in Travel Writing', in a special issue on 'Decolonizing Travel Studies'. It is the 'twin' article to my earlier essay on the settlers as travellees, with the focus on the colonized, assessing their manyfold reactions to travellers. (1) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Exploring travellee agency: local perceptions and uses of a colonial propaganda mission in 1920s Indochina
Travel studies heavily relies on the travelogue as source. This essay endeavours to decentre the travelogue and the traveller through a case study of travellees’ responses. When a group of French f...
www.tandfonline.com
January 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
New article out in 'Studies in Travel Writing', in a special issue on 'Decolonizing Travel Studies'. It is the 'twin' article to my earlier essay on the settlers as travellees, with the focus on the colonized, assessing their manyfold reactions to travellers. (1) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A tad surprised to hear for the first time on Bluesky about this intriguing event happening in the building next to my office, on a topic very close to mine, but it sure looks good.
CFP: Communication & Exchange in the Early Modern - Far From Home
Will surely be of interest to @bsecs.bsky.social members?
#18c #18thC #18thCentury
Will surely be of interest to @bsecs.bsky.social members?
#18c #18thC #18thCentury
December 17, 2024 at 10:22 PM
A tad surprised to hear for the first time on Bluesky about this intriguing event happening in the building next to my office, on a topic very close to mine, but it sure looks good.
That's a no from - I guess - the whole of the UK university and research sector as well as creatives. By the way, where is @ucu.org.uk?
UK proposes letting tech firms use copyrighted work to train AI
Consultation suggests opt-out scheme for creatives who don’t want their work used by Google, OpenAI and others
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2024 at 1:43 PM
That's a no from - I guess - the whole of the UK university and research sector as well as creatives. By the way, where is @ucu.org.uk?
A very intriguing invitation to a workshop to discuss incorporating mobility studies approaches into history of early modern travel and related fields. (I only wish many mobility studies scholars were less systematic in ignoring decades of works in history of travel and of travel literature...)
Together with Sarah Lentz from the @unibremen.bsky.social, I am organising an exciting workshop at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg from 7 to 9 July on Transient Communities and Spaces of Mobility, 1500-1900.
The CfP for the event is now open.
www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
#earlymodern #history 🗃️
The CfP for the event is now open.
www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
#earlymodern #history 🗃️
December 11, 2024 at 3:00 PM
A very intriguing invitation to a workshop to discuss incorporating mobility studies approaches into history of early modern travel and related fields. (I only wish many mobility studies scholars were less systematic in ignoring decades of works in history of travel and of travel literature...)
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Cardiff Archaeological Society. Thurs 12th Dec with Dr Toby Driver
Landscapes of fear and respect :exploring the hillforts of Iron Age Wales.
This lecture will look at the people, landscape and monuments of Iron Age Wales
It's a zoom only lecture, email cardiffarchaeologicalsociety.co.uk to join us
Landscapes of fear and respect :exploring the hillforts of Iron Age Wales.
This lecture will look at the people, landscape and monuments of Iron Age Wales
It's a zoom only lecture, email cardiffarchaeologicalsociety.co.uk to join us
December 8, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Cardiff Archaeological Society. Thurs 12th Dec with Dr Toby Driver
Landscapes of fear and respect :exploring the hillforts of Iron Age Wales.
This lecture will look at the people, landscape and monuments of Iron Age Wales
It's a zoom only lecture, email cardiffarchaeologicalsociety.co.uk to join us
Landscapes of fear and respect :exploring the hillforts of Iron Age Wales.
This lecture will look at the people, landscape and monuments of Iron Age Wales
It's a zoom only lecture, email cardiffarchaeologicalsociety.co.uk to join us
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“Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme”👏
Our youth have been robbed of the freedom of movement we enjoyed - this is the absolute least the Gov’t can do for them
sussexbylines.co.uk/news/educati...
Our youth have been robbed of the freedom of movement we enjoyed - this is the absolute least the Gov’t can do for them
sussexbylines.co.uk/news/educati...
Bring back Erasmus+ and youth mobility in Europe
Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme
sussexbylines.co.uk
December 6, 2024 at 8:12 PM
“Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme”👏
Our youth have been robbed of the freedom of movement we enjoyed - this is the absolute least the Gov’t can do for them
sussexbylines.co.uk/news/educati...
Our youth have been robbed of the freedom of movement we enjoyed - this is the absolute least the Gov’t can do for them
sussexbylines.co.uk/news/educati...
They were not joking with the red weather alert. Currently electricity is out in Aberystwyth, and I don't think I have ever heard wind howling like this.
December 7, 2024 at 7:26 AM
They were not joking with the red weather alert. Currently electricity is out in Aberystwyth, and I don't think I have ever heard wind howling like this.