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Delphine Grass

@delphinegrass.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature, Lancaster University. Creative-critical practice | Translation | Eco-translation | Comparative Literature | Languages | AI | Biosemiotics

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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There is still time to register for our ‘Natures in #Translation: AI, Ethics and Environmental Conservation‘ conference, 1-2 October, @Lancaster University! wp.lancs.ac.uk/animalsintra... Keynotes: Ursula Heise Khairani Barokka César Rodríguez-Garavito Eva Meijer Şebnem Susam-Saraeva. 🌍🌱🐬
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hey @ericlipton.nytimes.com 👋 AI is not “evolving” on its own. *People* are choosing how to build it. *People* are choosing how to train it. *People* are choosing how to run it. Maybe the problem is that they are the *wrong people* to make these choices.
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Every university should have broad subject coverage; that's what a university is
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
#skystorians Please sign and share. Petition to save the Humanities at University of Hertfordshire c.org/kK5v9MTdNr
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Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire
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Sara Van Goozen @drsvg.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
It's not often that you can say a publication is a "first of its kind", but this may very well be the first handbook of its kind. We'll be exploring animal politics from all its angles, and provide a genuinely broad overview of this exciting and urgent field. Well keen to get going.
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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I wrote 'Worlding the Common: Liquid Tongues and the Radical Art of Interspecies #Translation'. Commissioned for Bogna Burska & Daniel Kotowski's fantastic Liquid Tongues exhibition at the Polish Pavilion, Venice #Biennale 2026. #envhum 🌍 tinyurl.com/kjdvyzw7
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Wording the Common: Liquid Tongues and the Radical Art of Interspecies Translation
Grass, Delphine. 'Worlding the Common: Liquid Tongues and the Radical Art of Interspecies Translation.' In Liquid Tongues, edited by Ewa Chomicka and Jolanta Woszczenko, 162–179. Warsaw: Zachę...
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Speak4Nature @speak4nature.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Hoy tendrá lugar el seminario "Las Humanidades ecológicas: un ámbito de investigación transdisciplinar", a las 11:00h, de la mano de Andoni Alonso Puelles (UC3M), Adrián Almazán Gómez (UC3M) y Julia Ramírez Blanco (UCM)
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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Save the date! We're very excited to announce THE FOUCAULT CENTURY, a conference commemorating the centennial of Michel Foucault's birth, happening in Philadelphia from Sept. 24-25! More information coming soon! Free registration available at this link: www.library.upenn.edu/events/fouca...
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The Foucault Century
2026 marks the centennial of Michel Foucault’s birth and the 50-year anniversary of the publication of his landmark History of Sexuality, Vol. 1. This two-day symposium offers a renewed assessment of ...
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Deadline for conference abstracts is TODAY! ⚡️
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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Solidarity shout-out to all my UKHEI colleagues facing another week of job insecurity ✊️
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Our CFP deadline has been extended to 30th April, please do consider submitting an abstract and do share widely! 🤖🐋⚡️
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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
📣 Still thinking about submitting? You still have time! 🌍 Conference: ‘Natures in Translation: AI, Ethics and Environmental Conservation’ (AHRC/BRAID). New deadline: 30 April Join us for a rich, interdisciplinary conversation! #AcademicSky #envhum #ethology #translation #AI tinyurl.com/yhjzjyvz
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Uilleam Blacker @uilleamblacker.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I translated a letter from Lesia Ukrainka to Olha Kobylianska for my students, and since it's Lesia's birthday, here it is - with a short essay on why she matters right now. open.substack.com/pub/uilleamb...
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Speaking Truth in a Time of War: A translation of a letter by Lesia Ukrainka on her birthday.
Last year, the Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature series published a brilliant new translation of Lesia Ukrainka’s play Cassandra by Nina Murray (which began life as part of a special translation...
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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Deadline fast approaching for abstracts engaging with this terrific topic 👇
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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Excited to share the CfP for our AHRC-funded conference “Natures in Translation: AI, Ethics and Environmental Conservation” #conference which will take place 1-2 October 2026 at Lancaster Uni. Deadline for abstracts 20th of April. #academicsky #envhum 🌍 #conservation wp.lancs.ac.uk/animalsintra...
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ICHO @histocean.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Article (Free access): online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...
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Encounters in the Living OceanGiant Squid and Human Understanding of the Sea
Scientists’ limited observations of giant squid have fueled a centuries-long fascination with these elusive creatures. Technological developments have recently allowed researchers to study them in gre...
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Colloque international - Résister à l’abandon: langue, culture et écologie Centre de recherche sur le contact des langues et des cultures Collège universitaire Glendon, Université York 15 et 16 octobre 2026 niche-canada.org/2026/04/10/c... #ecology #language #envhist #envhum #envstudies
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Call for Papers - Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology
Resisting Abandonment will foreground the idea that languages, like ecosystems, are sites of relationality and care.
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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Excited to share the CfP for our AHRC-funded conference “Natures in Translation: AI, Ethics and Environmental Conservation” #conference which will take place 1-2 October 2026 at Lancaster Uni. Deadline for abstracts 20th of April. #academicsky #envhum 🌍 #conservation wp.lancs.ac.uk/animalsintra...
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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
We have website for our AHRC/BRAID-funded project ’Animals in Translation: AI, Ethics and the Future of Interspecies Dialogue’, and a *CfP* for our conference ‘Natures in Translation‘ - with some fabulous confirmed keynote speakers/performers. Deadline 20th April. Join us! 📣 shorturl.at/hdwdp
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CfP Natures in Translation: AI, Ethics and Environmental Conservation Lancaster University, UK 1-2 October 2026 Conference funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and BRAID Abstract subm…
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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Looking forward to meeting Edinburgh colleagues soon!
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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I am very excited to be Project Lead on our new AHRC/Braid-funded project “Animals in Translation:AI, Ethics and the Future of Interspecies Dialogue”, working with a wonderful team of colleagues across Lancaster University, NYU and Edinburgh University. Details of conference CfP soon! ⏱️ rb.gy/4bsz7f
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Exploring the ethical implications of AI animal translation tools in environmental conservation
Led by Dr Delphine Grass, Lancaster University, in collaboration with New York University.As AI systems increasingly promise to translate animal communications into human language, this pr
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I'm super excited to be a Co-Investigator on our new AHRC BRAID-funded project 'Animals in Translation: AI, Ethics, and the Future of Interspecies Dialogue', led by the wonderful Delphine Grass at Lancaster University! ✨🐋🤖
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Ibrahim Nasrallah - "A New Year in Gaza"
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‘A New Year in Gaza’: By Ibrahim Nasrallah
The people named in this poem are the writers, painters, and musicians martyred in the genocide. They are only a few of the many artists who were martyred in the past two years of war against Gaza.
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
On the eve of the University of Toronto's festschrift honoring the late philosopher (and overall wonderful human) Brian Cantwell Smith, I'm re-reading his 2019 book, "The Promise of Artificial Intelligence". (1/4) ischool.utoronto.ca/festschrift-...
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Festschrift Honouring the Late Professor Brian Cantwell Smith - Faculty of Information
Morning 9:00 AM: Welcome Coffee & Registration Coffee and pastries will be served. 9:40 AM: Opening Remarks Host: Kelly Lyons, Professor, Faculty of Information, cross-appointed with the Department of...
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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Imagine writing a policy that required you to be explicit that you would not forcibly confiscate refugees’ wedding rings
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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
"Computational Humanities is far more than a collection of essays; it is a meticulously curated critical tool kit." This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
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Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...
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Raluca Tanasescu @ecoarts.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Very happy to guest edit a special issue on "Media Ecologies of Translation" in Translation Matters 9.1 (Spring 2027)! The call is available at drive.google.com/file/d/14yBk.... Submission deadline for full articles: July 15, 2026. Thank you for sharing widely!
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Pioneering scientists past and present have broken from the pressures and limitations of human exceptionalist thinking. Charles Darwin, Lynn Margulis, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Frans de Waal–their work looms large in my own research (1/3).
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Dr. des. Jonatan Palmblad @palmblad.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I just got back from a workshop on "Multispecies Intellectual History" at the University of Oxford. Philosophy, history, physics, botany, anthropology, art, and other fields were represented in the discussions, and a publication on this is to be expected. Read more here: cas.au.dk/en/umih #envhum
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Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Translation Multiples goes to London! Join me on 22 October at 4pm at the University of London (@soasuni.bsky.social), discuss several engaging examples together in an interactive format. The event is free, but registration is required: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/... @princetonupress.bsky.social
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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Honoured to be a keynote speaker for the Translation and Life Writing conference organised by the brilliant Lucile Davier & Elisa Ruckstuhl @ the University of Geneva. Taking place June 18-19 2026 & financial support for ECR available! Abstract submission by 16 Nov 2025 www.unige.ch/lifewritingt...
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Home - lifewritingtranslation - UNIGE
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CTIS Manchester @ctis-manchester.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
13 November: Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social @globalaffairslu.bsky.social, Anna Lafranchi @anna-lanfranchi.bsky.social @warwicktranslation.bsky.social & Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social CTIS A Triple Book Showcase: Recent Trends in Literary Translation Research zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CTIS Research Seminar 2: A Triple Book Showcase: Recent Trends in Literary Translation Research. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email ab...
Speakers: Delphine Grass, Lancaster University, Anna Lafranchi, University of Warwick, and Kasia Szymanska, University of Manchester
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
It’s official: the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concludes Israel is committing genocide. The UN body calls on nations to stop sending weapons to Israel, ensure people within their jurisdiction aren’t aiding or inciting the genocide, and hold those who are accountable.
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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
As the Nov/Dec iteration of my new course Writing Experimental Memoir got booked up in a couple of days, I’m going to repeat it in Feb! 3, 10, 17 Feb 2026 6.30-8.30 via Zoom £120 for course, £160 for course + half hour feedback on up to 3000 words 📧 jenniferannecalleja at gmail dot com
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Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
👊🏻Join me for this 'Translation as Activism' workshop at the 2025 Manchester Literature Festival 👊🏻 @mcrlitfest.bsky.social manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/trans... 🤜🏻10 free tickets can be claimed by MMU (@manmetuni.bsky.social) & UoM (@uomhums.bsky.social) students ➡️📧 zoe@englishpen.org
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Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Important work by @britishacademy.bsky.social, keeping track of emerging cold spots, and contracting opportunities for young people who want to make a difference in the world through the study of SHAPE subjects.
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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
My latest chapter, ‘Translating the Anthropocene: Ulrike Almut Sandig’s ‘In die Natur‘ and Robin Wall Kimmerer’s ‘Braiding Sweetgrass‘ as Planetary Eco-Translation Practices’ Free download / Open Access www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/read-... #envhum #envhist #bluehumanities #translation #ecolit
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Today we have "Digital Translations and Playable Space: Ready, Set, Yokohama!" by @jkdahl.bsky.social This is the first article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/09/11/d... #envhist #envhum #japan
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Digital Translations and Playable Space: Ready, Set, Yokohama!
Digitizing Toyokuni IV’s 1872 board game, scholars recreated Yokohama’s hybrid modernity, blending history, travel, and playful discovery for students.
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Smell Studies Group @smellstudiesgroup.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
#newbook: "Materiality of Air" (ed. Tatiana Konrad, Exeter Press) Full OA access and info: champ.ly/EwXPsOzw #smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #envhum #atmospheres
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EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
#newbook: "Literature and Botany", ed. Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec, Paweł Piszczatowski, Tomasz Szybisty, Justyna Włodarczyk (Brill, V&R press) OA and info: www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde... #envhum #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism #planthumanities
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Literature and Botany
An interdisciplinary exploration of how literature and botany intersect through myth, symbolism, and ecology, reflecting human-plant relationships in cultural and environmental contexts.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say something and have it not matter than to be silent.
To be a person of consequence is to matter. If you matter, you
have rights, and your words serve those rights and give you the
power to bear witness, make agreements, set boundaries. If you
have consequence, your words possess the authority to determine
what does and does not happen to you, the power that underlies the
concept of consent as part of equality and ­ self-​­ determination.
Even legally women’s words have lacked consequence: in only a
few scattered places on earth could women vote before the twenti-
eth century, and not so many decades ago, women rarely became
lawyers and judges; I met a Texas woman whose mother was
among the first women in their region to serve on a jury, and I was
an adult when the first woman was appointed to the U.S. Supreme
Court. Until a few decades ago, wives throughout much of the
world, including the United States, lacked the right to make con-
tracts and financial decisions or even to exercise jurisdiction over
their own bodies that overrode their husbands’ ability to do so; in
some parts of the world, a wife is still property under the law, and
others choose her husband. To be a person of no consequence, to
speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though
you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as
though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say some-
thing and have it not matter than to be silent.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Some people have wished I wrote more about the bad old days of silencing and gender violence since I put up that Guardian piece about how normalized it all was in the 1970s-1990s, and, well, I did: Recollections of My Nonexistence. Here are some excerpts.
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Xaq Frohlich @comedoergosum.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I'm really nerding out on this great critical history of GenAI in the @criticalai-journal.bsky.social : read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/... Just what I needed to wrap my head around how AI can work for the humanities, and the need for more critical AI literacy and human-centered AI.
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The Origins of Generative AI in Transcription and Machine Translation, and Why That Matters
Abstract. In this essay, written in dialogue with the introduction to this special issue, the authors offer a critical history of the development of large language models (LLMs). The essay's goal is t...
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This 2025 collection on the political economy of ecology and antiracism includes essays by brilliant scholars - Malcom Ferdinand, Arturo Escobar, Nadia Yala Kisukidi … Edited by the most amazing Fatima Ouassak! I hope it gets translated for the anglosphere and beyond!
Book cover of Terres et Liberté:Manifeste antiraciste pour une écologie de la libération Back cover of the book
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Personnes non blanches, pauvres, femmes... sur les sujets cli-matiques, les plus vulnérables sont les plus touchés. Ce sont pourtant celles et ceux que l'on voit et que l'on entend le moins dans l'écologie politique. Ces personnes ne sont pourtant ni absentes ni muettes, elles sont simplement invisibilisées.
Terres et Liberté veille à définir les principaux enjeux, sujets de controverse, champs d'action et luttes concrètes de l'écologie antiraciste contemporaine. En ce sens, cet ouvrage a pour objectif de répondre de manière inédite à une demande de grilles d'analyse et de perspectives en matière d'écologie politique et d'antiracisme, deux champs encore trop rarement envisagés conjointement.Table of contents «Écologies de la libération» est une collection plurielle qui donne à voir la complexité, les soubresauts et les tâtonnements propres aux esthétiques expérimentales dans les traditions antiracistes, décoloniales et écoféministes; un espace qui déploie les analyses documentées des auteurices de la collection, présentes dans le champ décolonial et/ou l'écologie politique; et qui veille à préserver la poésie, la singularité de la pensée et la sensibilité de ses auteunces.
Plusieurs axes guident les choix éditoriaux: l'ancrage des ouvrages dans les luttes de terrain - pour s'appuyer sur ces luttes et en retour leur servir d'outils; la valorisation des savoirs situés et périphériques; le travail sur les esthé-tiques, les imaginaires et les utopies depuis les marges; et la défense de l'égale dignité humaine et des libertés fondamentales comme principes non négociables.
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The book of my life (so far), ANNAH, INFINITE is an escape story. A translation of a painting, in speculative nonfic, poetry & art. Took 14 yrs, &I’m inviting you to love it as I do. Aug 19 UK, Nov 11 US. For reviews/i’views/events: tramy@tiltedaxispress.com www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infini...
On a pink background with a dark red slash on the cover, book shows title, ‘Annah, Infinite by Khairani Barokka’, and ‘Tilted Axis Press’.
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The Norton Library edition of my translation of the Iliad, with stylish red cover, is now available. It has complete text, maps, notes, introduction and translator's note, and it's yours for under $10 (as are many other tempting Norton Library volumes). wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Max Chervin Bridge's "Still a Silent World: Fish Ears, Whale Politics, and the Science of Ocean Noise, 1941–1990" from the October 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #oceanhistory #sensoryhistory #animalhistory www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Still a Silent World: Fish Ears, Whale Politics, and the Science of Ocean Noise, 1941–1990 | Environmental History
Abstract This article brings together a history of more-than-human sensory life across the multitude of underwater environments that shaped knowledge of and concern about the effects of anthropogenic ...
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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Loving the sound of this sound/article!
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
UK-based academics: sign & circulate this open letter pub'd by @bmj.com to Starmer & Lammy to act to stop genocide & famine in Gaza www.bmj.com/content/390/... The letter was initiated by UK medical experts but UK academics of all disciplines are asked to sign forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
Displacement of Gaza residents in 2025. Copyright Jaber Jehad Badwan. Image is not linked to the letter but is taken from a post about the famine in Gaza by one of the letter's authors https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres/health-humanitarian-crises-centre/news/465306/famine-and-genocide-gaza-personal-view
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