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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

UK publishing generated £7.4 billion in revenue last year. Compare that to: Premier League football: £6.6 billion Home entertainment: £5.6 billion UK film industry: 2.8 billion Now tell me again why authors don't deserve fair contracts and better pay.

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I'm doing a short introduction to this on Sunday but that's not why you should come. You should come because it's an amazing film. There will be a discussion afterwards when you can tell me why I got it all wrong in my introduction. Click the link for details www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/hiros...

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

March's Research Café should be fantastic! Featuring Professor Katharine Cox, Dr Ruth Larsen, and myself talking about Wuthering Heights as a film, as a novel, and its setting in the wild and sensual landscape. Thursday 19th March, 6.45pm #AcademicSky #EnvironmentalHumanities v.gd/ETjstR

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Research Cafe: The Sensual Landscape in Wuthering Heights and Beyond | Derby QUAD

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The 21st is, of course, Wednesday - you have a whole extra day to submit your paper proposal!

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I love French new wave cinema and so I am completely delighted to be giving an introduction to Hiroshima Mon Amour as part of Derby QUAD's new wave season www.derbyquad.co.uk/season-festi...

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QUAD Essentials - French New Wave Archives | Derby QUAD

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I have found the MCCT to be a convivial and supportive space for developing new work and new ideas with a broad and interdisciplinary crowd of international 'thought workers': academics, film makers, artists, activists, and anyone who draws on or is developing ideas in the critical theory tradition.

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This year, Midlands Conference in Critical Thought will be held at the University of Warwick on May 21st and 22nd. The deadline is fast approaching but please do consider submitting a paper even if it is a speculative or exploratory one. Perhaps especially so.

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

IMMINENT DEADLINE REMINDER: Call for papers - MCCT Stream: (trickle, river, flood, wadi) Post-Anthropocene Scenes Tuesday, 21st January. Details of this and other streams here: mcct.margins.org.uk

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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

As a flavour, these are last year's papers. Contributors were from beyond the Midlands and there was a comparable range of ideas mcct.margins.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I went in 2024 (it was at NTU) and loved the variety of papers: from Brazilian psychoanalytic eco-literary analysis to the sociology of work today and many, many points inbetween. I found it supportive and convivial. So much so that myself and a colleague hosted 2025's iteration at Derby

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Sami Eerola @eerolasami.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Elon Musk has now the same opinions as the most extreme of the fascists

Dylann Roof’s Rhodesian, South African Flags Symbolize White Supremacy. So Does the Confederate Flag
That a racist mass murderer would embrace of the three flags should end the debates about whether or not the Confederate flag can mean anything other than racism.

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

free | nonhierarchical | dialogic Activists, artists, academics, archivists: is this the conference you have been waiting for? #academicsky cfp deadline: 21st January mcct.margins.org.uk

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Cromford Bridge. If you try and cross it after dark Crooker might take you to feed the River Derwent. I mentioned it writing about Derbyshire & Lincolnshire wetlands & the connecting rivers. The article is partly abt folklore, politics & ecological consciousness; hopefully published soon in Revenant

A photograph of a low, arched bridge over a river. Three arches are visible with a fourth arch concealed behind low hanging tree branches. The sky is a mostly cloud ranging in colour from white to dark grey. The river is low with the stony riverbed reveaaled in the left of the foreground. Current can be seen in the river between the two central arches.

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Lovely, kind words from @lunatraktors.bsky.social - I cannot understand why I had not heard their music before. It is sublime!

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Super hyped to be involved with this!

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The book is concerned with unpacking and demonstrating how these ideas are claimed but also challenged and contested through ‘grassroots’ storytelling, everyday expressions of spiritual life, and the complex class histories of the telling and retelling of folklore.

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

These concerns are interwoven with disputes about nature as a resource for human exploitation or as a transcendent quality of life on Earth, often both. This is rendered more complex by the intersection of these disputes with a gendered and nominally indigenous claim to the land by ethnonationalists

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

If you're curious about what I'll be yapping about, this is a summary: This book will provide the reader with a strong understanding of the way in which land, landscape, and the idea of nature have been central concerns of folklore and politicised forms of national culture in England.

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I am really happy to have signed a contract with Bloomsbury Academic for Mermaids, Waters, Places: Folklore, Politics, and Cultural Landscapes in England. (The 'cover' below is a fake I made while I was celebrating - the mermaid image is an open source image made by GDJ and distributed via Pixabay).

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Amazing. That is pretty much a dream gig!

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The next Research Cafe is 20th February and I will be picking up a thread that emerged in @malcschofield.bsky.social & David Sheffield's December talk and will be exploring the question, 'What is Hauntology?' As ever, it is free but it helps if you book via: www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/resea...

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I'm really looking forward to tonight's Research Cafe at Derby QUAD - Dr Julia Thomasz of the Institute for Advanced Study (UCL) talking about the importance of poetry in our lives and more widely. Free and at 7pm if you can make it.

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

CFP for Midlands Conference in Critical Thought extended to Monday 20 January. It is a free, non-hierarchical conference being held in Derby in April, 2025. Please see the linked document for more details. static1.squarespace.com/static/64468...

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I'd particularly like to draw your attention to the stream I am co-convening with the excellent Dr Teodora Todorova - 'Critical Whiteness Studies'. There are 17 streams in total ranging across theory, politics, creativity, and healing.

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

This has crept round quickly! Deadline for paper proposals for the Midlands Conference in Critical Thought is 7th January. mcct.margins.org.uk

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MCCT – Midlands Conference in Critical Thought

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

December's Research Café is going to be amazing. Psychologists Dr Malcolm Schofield and Professor David Sheffield who will be offering seasonal spookiness with 'Psychology's Ghosts'. 12th December, 7pm. I'm looking forward to the talk and discussions immensely. www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/resea...

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Research Cafe: Christmas Ghost Stories – Haunted by Psychology | Derby QUAD

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

4 funded heritage science PhDs at Nottingham Trent University. Due date: 14 February 2025. 1. Creative Approaches to the Representation of Crisis Heritage in the Museum using Digital Means (tinyurl.com/ymfnja7b) Cont...

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

It was good to be on 'the other side' of a lecture theatre last week. I really enjoyed @br00kes.bsky.social Mick Aston lecture on Assemblies in the Early Middle Ages. All of it was very engaging but I was especially interested in the role of folklore of preserving some memories of assembly locations

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I have just got tickets for the daughter and myself; I am amazed there are any left. £15 for Nosferatu lived score by one of the best soundtrack groups? Can't say no. www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/conf...

Screen shot of the webpage linked to in the post. It advertises 'Nosferatu with Live Score' - only used because BlueSky wasn't giving a very good preview of the link.

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

You've got to hand it to the tentacled one - inspiring strangeness in a world cascading down a spiral of ever increasing terminal novelty really takes some doing!

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

As I am sure everyone is aware, this is excellent news and I am sure to indulge myself and listen to it all this weekend. But what is that chanting I hear whispering in the wind? I can only make out a little of it, '....mglw'nafh...R'lyeh...fhtagn...'

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Tonight, I was talking about queering humanity and rethinking our being as being a symbiont in an endlessly scaling web of symbionts. Maybe I was wrong; maybe humans are just irredeemably odd. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/w...

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Bathing in Oil at a Climate Summit? It Leaves a Stain.

In Azerbaijan, site of the COP29 climate talks and a petrostate, people aren’t only proud of their oil. They swear by its health benefits and visit resorts to soak in it.

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

If anyone is close to Derby and fancies joining a chat about humans' troubled relationship to/with/in nature, feel free to drop in to tonight's Research Café at the Quad - 7pm. www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/resea...

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Ohh, thanks for the rec! This is superb :-)

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Please, yes - enchanted strata in the landscape and spectral water haunt all my current thought: I have a very leaky head.

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The Gray Ladies aka Nine Stones Close. A site of fairy music and dancing women come midnight and midday. I went straight after the school run and missed out on the festivities.

An image of the Gray Ladies, a stone circle in Derbyshire. It consists of four large, slender stones, each roughly 2 metres tall. In the photograph their site is covered in snow with a blue sky banded by creamy white clouds. A tall tree stands to the left of the stones.

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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Harp & a Monkey Folk Music Club @harpmonkey.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This is a great opportunity for folkies and non-folkies alike to embrace a traditional song and have it featured on an album likely to attract national attention….

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

However, as squatting taught me, once you get behind the door you get to reinvent the spaces you inhabit. We had some excellent support and guidance from the American Folklore Society along the way. Onwards.

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Andrew Fergus Wilson @afwilson.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

We were hosted by The Folklore Society who have a floor of the RAI. Yes, we were aware of the irony of doing so in the home of an organisation associated with the silencing and flattening of cultures in the global South.

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