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Arif Camoglu @arifcmgl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Very excited to be giving this talk at Stanford next week! Join us if you happen to be around!

Arif Camoglu @arifcmgl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Turkish authorities have used accusations of obscenity to justify a wave of raids and arrests targeting the LGBTQ+ community, which has grown to include journalists as well as more than 150 arrested during protests against the raids."

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Turkey detains dozens in crackdown on LGBTQ+ activists and journalists

Protesters teargassed as minister claims widespread raids and arrests under obscenity laws were to ‘protect families’

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Arif Camoglu @arifcmgl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There needs to be an urgent international condemnation of this: "Police in Turkey have detained 47 people in a series of raids on gay bars and the homes of LGBTQ+ activists...Raids took place...as part of a campaign dubbed My Family is Safe." www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Turkish police detain dozens in raids on gay bars and homes of LGBTQ+ activists

Human rights groups in Turkey have accused the government of using a family- values campaign to target the LGBTQ+ community.

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Arif Camoglu @arifcmgl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"...as to who among us is a ghost and who not I have nothing to say: it is a question we can only stare at in silence, like a bird before a snake, hoping it will not swallow us." Lesson plan for teaching Coetzee's Foe: Ask students to read the novel out loud and then just let the haunting happen.

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Arif Camoglu @arifcmgl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Wonder if today's industries of anti-aging and artificial intelligence are mutually constituted, since they both seem to privilege hallucinations over markings of temporality. How entangled is aversion to getting old with resistance to knowledge that requires time (some aging) to be processed?

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Arif Camoglu @arifcmgl.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#academicsky let's celebrate the edited book chapter. What is an edited book chapter that you're particularly proud of, or you think deserves more readers? #celebratebookchapter I'm honored to be among the contributors of this amazing, freshly "worlded" companion!

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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It (nearly) lives! Forthcoming from OUP in November or December! My first reaction, for once, was glee — though the terror of writing a book is that it’s never finished. Eek! Woohoo! Wild to have proofs in hand!!!!

Title page of forthcoming book by me, titled Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Cosmologies of the Human: Worlds Unmanned. From Oxford UP.

Table of contents for forthcoming book.

Introduction: Poetry, Person, Planet — with subsections on William Wordsworth; Sylvia Wynter and lyricization; climate, affectability, impress; and criticism, canonicity, and counterbumanism.

First chapter on Wordsworth, Charles Lyell, and c19 manscapes — with subsections on Wordsworth’s and Lyell’s lyric theologies, the pathetic fallacy (Ruskin) and Wynter on desperate realization, and apostrophizing Toussaint Louverture.

Second chapter on Tennyson’s In Memoriam, the possibilities and limits of posthumanism, and ambivalent reading — with subsections on extinction and apostrophe.

Third chapter on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the problem of reference, and infrastructures of reading — with subsections on Swedenborgianism, sphericity, plantation inheritances, and the slippages of rhyme.

Fourth chapter on Phillis Wheatley, extractivism, extractionist reading, and salvage criticism—with subsections on solar intergumanism, allusion, reticence, and refusal.

Coda on contemporary representations of climate collapse, Wynter on transumption, and the afterlives of c19 aesthetic imaginaries.

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Arif Camoglu @arifcmgl.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Whatever one's shortcomings or mistakes are, nobody should have suffered such lack of compassion, and denial of grace and dignity. It's hard not to feel we all have failed here.

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Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Applications due 1 Feb for this PhD scholarship - please get in touch if you'd like to discuss a dissertation that would fit, and come and work with me at Te Herenga Waka--Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Arif Camoglu @arifcmgl.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Some good news: My article "An Archive of Silences: Postcolonial Readability of the Ottoman Turkish Novel" has just been published in Journal of World Literature! brill.com/view/journal...

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Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Exactly one year till we host a joint Australasian 18C and Romantic Studies conference here in Wellington, NZ - I'm hosting and very much hoping you will join us www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...

wgtn.ac.nz

Living / Building—A joint RSAA & David Nichol Smith Conference | Te Wāhanga Aronui / Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Exploring eighteenth-century connections in today’s world.

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Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 19/11/2024

An extremely attractive two-year postdoc at NYU Shanghai, open to philosophers, that will not appear in the usual venues for philosophers. Each year, one semester teaching in the core curriculum, one semester doing research. Happy to answer any questions. Please share! www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This is the final day to submit a proposal for this amazing conference organized by Sarah Quesada and @aarthivadde.bsky.social. We are plotting something cool with @arifcmgl.bsky.social, Pelin Kıvrak, and Ipek Sahinler.

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