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Gabriela Minden

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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Durham University | author of Modernism after the Ballets Russes (Oxford University Press) - https://shorturl.at/ReFmK | working on a new book about modern poetic drama and dance

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Gabriela Minden @marieminden.bsky.social · Feb 18

My book officially has a cover – and a page! Or, as my brother pointed out, 224 of them. Modernism After the Ballets Russes, forthcoming with @oxunipress.bsky.social

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 5d

The current REF system really encourages temporary staff to burn down their own careers - either you complete research because you need it for your CV, but an institution can claim any resulting outputs before making you redundant so you've nothing to take elsewhere, or...

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 28d

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 28d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Meindert Peters @meindertpeters.bsky.social · 29d

*please share widely*

Dear Network,
I am looking for temp work: translation/copy-editing German to Dutch and English and English↔️Dutch, as well as fundraising.

All leads very welcome! DM or email at meindertpeters @ gmail
☺️🙏

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Gabriela Minden @marieminden.bsky.social · Oct 2

Wish you were close enough to join!

Gabriela Minden @marieminden.bsky.social · Oct 2

Excited to mark the launch of my book alongside Katharina Herold-Zanker’s Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany. Two wonderful guests, Stefano Evangelista and Megan Girdwood, will be introducing the works.

If you're in the Durham area, please join!

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Book Launch - Durham University

www.durham.ac.uk

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Gabriela Minden @marieminden.bsky.social · Sep 30

That's so kind! (I think - with Sweeney it's hard to say).

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · Sep 25

The people they are talking about deporting include, to pluck one example from the air, my 59-year-old sister who has lived here since the age of six and is on a low income due to being a nursery school teacher. These plans are utterly scandalous and anyone who supports them is a disgrace.

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Gabriela Minden @marieminden.bsky.social · Sep 25

Now with a discount code!

Gabriela Minden @marieminden.bsky.social · Sep 22

Can't wait to hear your thoughts!

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Meindert Peters @meindertpeters.bsky.social · Sep 18

Required reading for anyone working with ECRs… not just in French History

will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · Sep 17

“Cataclysmically bad”

This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.

1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

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ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk

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Meindert Peters @meindertpeters.bsky.social · Sep 16

CfP Alert! 🔥🔥
@wesleygrafwald.bsky.social and I are putting together a special issue for Dance Research Journal on Early Twentieth-Century Dance Photography. Please share widely and don't hesitate to be in touch when you are interested or have questions!
Find the CfP below, or DM us for the PDF.

Full text of our Call for Papers on Early Twentieth-Century Dance Photography.

Full text of our Call for Papers on Early Twentieth-Century Dance Photography. Page two.

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · Sep 12

Problematic (to put it kindly) on so many levels.
1) there isn't really 'unfunded' research. The REF is there to allocate resources so that research is possible without a grant.

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Sep 12

Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ .

Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ - Research Professional News

Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Hannah Greenstreet @hgreenstreet1.bsky.social · Sep 8

For anyone in/ near Oxford, @marieminden.bsky.social and I are having a public conversation about our new books and ’new approaches to theatrical form’ with the fabulous Sos Eltis in November. There will be cake! www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/new-ap...