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Shahira Hathout, Ph.D.

@shahirahathout.bsky.social

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Interdisciplinary Research: Posthumanism / New Materialism / Cultural Studies / Aesthetics / 18th & 19th C. (World) Literature/ Anthropocene discourses. Visiting Scholar @ Centre for Feminist Research @York University, Toronto, Canada.

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Shahira Hathout, Ph.D. @shahirahathout.bsky.social · Mar 30

Really glad and grateful to have my piece, "Toward a Posthumanist Sublime in Jane Austen's Persuasion: Lyme Regis in the Anthropocene," now published in Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism and can be accessed here:

journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/po...

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BucknellUPress.bsky.social @bucknellupress.bsky.social · 15h

Congratulations to Linda Zionkowski, Mimi Hart, and all contributors to "Women and Music in the Age of Austen," winner of the American Musicological Society's Ruth A. Solie Award for an outstanding essay collection of exceptional scholarly merit.

For more: lnkd.in/dNa_gmK9
#ReadUP #TeamUP #UPWeek

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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 1d

Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto.
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person

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Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 11d

CFP: “Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World”
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026

How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?

#earlymodern #C18L

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SLAS - Society for Latin American Studies @slaslatam.bsky.social · 14d

📚BLAR’S (44:4) BOOK REVIEWS📚

1⃣ Alex Latta (Wilfrid Laurier University) reviews Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State (University of Arizona Press 2004) by Andrew Canessa and Manuela L. Picq.

READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 13d

Tomorrow night 6-8 pm EST.

Register to join us. In person and on line. Free. Masks provided.

www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 14d

Fascinating - Unesco has launched a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects, presented in a futuristic, dreamlike virtual exhibition. Worth exploring (although they don't tell much about how/where things were stolen, and its a very curious juxtaposition of items): museum.unesco.org

UNESCO launches the World’s First Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural

Three years after its announcement at MONDIACULT 2022, UNESCO is launching an innovative initiative: the Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects. This global platform harnesses cutting-edge digital

www.unesco.org

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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 20d

CfP📢Conference of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies : "Reframing the Enlightenment. Intellectual and political disputes today"
📆10-12 June 2026 |🌍Paris
⏰Application deadline: 26 October 2025
🔗 sissd.it/wp-content/u...

@isecs-sieds.bsky.social

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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 20d

If you're near Limerick, Dr. Harald E. Braun (University of Liverpool) will speak in the Hunt Museum on 5 November, 6-8pm, on:
‘War Crimes: Seventeenth-Century Perspectives from the Bolton Library.’ Organised by @cemslimerick.bsky.social

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · 15d

A date for your diary: Please join the ASLE-UKI Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT. Convened by Brycchan Carey (Northumbria) and Tess Somervell (Oxford). Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...

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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 26d

Join us on 12 November for a @bars.bsky.social Digital Event to celebrate the publication of Volume IV of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (gen. eds. @fraistat.bsky.social & Nora Crook, pub. by @hopkinspress.bsky.social) 🍂 Free tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...

Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

This roundtable will celebrate the publication of the latest volume, Volume IV, of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Studies in Romanticism @studiesinrom.bsky.social · Oct 11

We are excited to announce the publication of our Summer 2025 issue, which includes essays by Hilary Havens, Greta Colombani, and David Mullins. The issue is available Open Access on Project Muse
@projectmuse.bsky.social
: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55681. Details in the thread.

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Matthew Bell @matthewgbell.bsky.social · Oct 2

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My 'Goethe: A Life in Ideas' reviewed by Ritchie Robertson in the Literary Review

Ritchie Robertson - Darkness & Light

Ritchie Robertson: Darkness & Light - Goethe: A Life in Ideas by Matthew Bell

literaryreview.co.uk

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · Sep 30

"A major shift in how we understand colonial growth in the early Caribbean, colonial-Indigenous relations, the origins of slavery in the Caribbean and North America, and the connections between piracy, privateering, and colonization." Greg O'Malley nails it. Congrats @csschmitt.bsky.social!

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Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social · Sep 24

🇯🇲 FROM THE CARIBBEAN TO CALEDONIA 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

On a sun-kissed Autumn’s afternoon on the banks of the River Nith two National Poets sat down to chat about Rabbie Burns, Bob Marley, Dante’s Inferno, the Gaelic and Jamaican tongues, and much more. #poetrypodcast

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/podcast/from...

From the Caribbean to Caledonia: Two National Bards in Conversation

Scotland's current Makar, Peter Mackay, and the former Poet Laureate of Jamaica, Lorna Goodison, exchanged poems, stories, thoughts and much laughter at Ellisland Farm, once home to Robert Burns and h...

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Sep 13

Good article 🌿

How to Blow Up a Planet | Trevor Jackson

What happened to the future? When did we lose it, and what has taken its place? Political scientists have found a continual decline in visions of a shared

www.nybooks.com

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Sep 22

Patricia A. Matthew explores class, leisure, and the historical context of Pride and Prejudice.
lithub.com/what-pride-a...

What Pride and Prejudice Tells Us About British History, Class, and Women’s Leisure Time

The first dialogue readers encounter in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a conversation between a wife and husband who have been married for twenty-three years. Mrs. Bennet is all aflutter abou…

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · Sep 22

New book review by Sarah D. Wald.

In Decolonial Environmentalisms: Climate justice and speculative futures in latinx cultural production, David J. Vázquez discusses anti-racist and decolonial environmental politics across contemporary Latinx art, literature, and film.

doi.org/10.1080/0964...

book cover, hills and palm trees are pictured, they are in flames

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · Sep 16

"In the earliest fragments Benjamin sought to salvage a pure and radical concept of criticism that would not dissolve into the universal truth of philosophy." Anthony Curtis Adler reviews Walter Benjamin's "On Goethe." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-useless-prophet/

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Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · Sep 10

📚 New on the blog

Françoise Vergès reflects on the space she wanted to create and help to hold open for feminists and workers of colour.

Delve into the post here:

Q&A with Françoise Vergès on Decolonial Feminism - Edinburgh University Press Blog

Françoise Vergès reflects on the space she wanted to create and help to hold open for feminists and workers of colour.

euppublishingblog.com

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Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · Sep 18

It’s launch day for No Is Not A Lonely Utterance! So I shared some of my reasons for writing the book 💜💜

Why I Wrote No is Not A Lonely Utterance

Some thoughts shared on launch day!

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · Sep 11

"We must, believed Serres, be in constant motion to establish a reciprocal give-and-take between ourselves and others, in the process ceaselessly altering our understanding." Zach Gibson revisits Michel Serres' "Hermes" series. lareviewofbooks.org/article/revisiting-michel-serress-hermes-series/

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Sep 11

Banksy satirised the state silencing those opposed to Israel’s genocide.

The state then inadvertently made his artwork genius.

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Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · Sep 3

Explore Human Rights with Benjamin P. Davis & Usha Natarajan! They delve into Édouard Glissant's insights on the 'right to opacity' and ethical practices amid challenging global issues.

📚 Explore 'Choose Your Bearing': https://edin.ac/3JIcRne
🔗 Read the full interview:

‘Nous réclamons le droit à l’opacité’: Glissant and the Ethics of Human Rights

Benjamin P. Davis talks to Usha Natarajan about Ben's book on the inspirational Caribbean poet, Édouard Glissant. What we can learn from Glissant about human rights? What does Glissant mean by the 'right to opacity'? Is it necessary and possible to know the Other? How do we 'choose our bearing' and engage in ethical academic and legal praxis amid neoliberal institutions that are in varying degrees complicit in genocide, famine, violence, and suffering?

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Shahira Hathout, Ph.D. @shahirahathout.bsky.social · May 30

"Satire in the Time of Genocide: a diffractive reading of Jonathan Swift’s ‘A Modest Proposal’ (1729) through Israel’s gendered settler-colonial practices in Palestine"

Fifty free copies can be downloaded through this link:

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JWVUX...

Satire in the Time of Genocide: a diffractive reading of Jonathan Swift’s ‘A Modest Proposal’ (1729) through Israel’s gendered settler-colonial practices in Palestine

As Israel’s genocidal campaign in Palestine continues to unfold, the number of murdered Palestinians has now surpassed 46,000 civilians, half of which are women and children. This number includes o...

www.tandfonline.com

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Shahira Hathout, Ph.D. @shahirahathout.bsky.social · Sep 9

My review of Peter Adkin's edited collection, Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene, is now published in @modernistudies.bsky.social # 57 and can be accessed here. Thanks to the wonderful editorial team!

modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/book-review-virginia-woolf-and-the-anthropocene/

Book Review: Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene

9th September 2025 Dr. Shahira Hathout, York University, Toronto Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene, ed. Peter Adkins (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene (2024) …

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