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Elinor Taylor @elinormtaylor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ah, first Central Line meltdown of the new academic year. When will I get home, who knows.
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Elinor Taylor @elinormtaylor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Apart from everything else, this is such a massive ‘fuck you’ to incoming students from management. ‘Hello, we’ve decided to spend the next year fighting our entire staff over basic employment issues. Enjoy your course!’
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Elinor Taylor @elinormtaylor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Which reminds me, it’s time for my annual reread
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Elinor Taylor @elinormtaylor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Two fractional (0.3fte) lectureships at Westminster available (quite a tight application deadline): 1. Creative Writing (permanent): vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/vacancies/26... 2. English Language & Linguistics (2-year): vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/vacancies/26...
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Lecturer in Creative Writing in Central London | University of Westminster
View details and apply for this Lecturer in Creative Writing vacancy in Central London. This post is part-time and permanent, 10.5 working hours per w eek. The salary stated above is the pro-rata a...
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Elinor Taylor @elinormtaylor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Chatted to Political Fictions about Ellen Wilkinson’s The Division Bell Mystery the other day www.podbean.com/ew/pb-4hbq6-...
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The Division Bell Mystery, with Elinor Taylor (#13)
Mark and Cory are joined by Elinor Taylor for our first book! It is Ellen Wilkinson’s The Division Bell Mystery, a political thriller disguised as a golden age detective story. It is written by one of...
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Stuart Hall Foundation @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The Stuart Hall Foundation is seeking an experienced Operations and Finance Manager to support the effective financial, operational, and governance management of the Foundation. Learn more and apply by 2nd August 2026, 11.59pm: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/opportunitie...
Vacancy: Operations and Finance Manager.
The Stuart Hall Foundation seeks to appoint an experienced Operations and Finance Manager to lead on governance, administration, finance, compliance and organisational systems, ensuring the charity operates efficiently, meets its regulatory obligations and has the infrastructure required to deliver its strategic objectives.

Working closely with the Executive Director, team, Treasurer, and Trustees, the Operations and Finance Manager will also support fundraising activities to ensure the long-term sustainability and effectiveness of the Foundation.VACANCY: OPERATIONS AND FINANCE MANAGER.

Role Title: Operations and Finance Manager.

Salary: £42,000 FTE (£25,200 per annum, three days per week). 

Working Days: Part-time (three days per week), Monday to Wednesday. 

Contract: Permanent.

Location: Remote within the UK, with occasional travel to meetings and events. Holidays: 25 days’ annual leave plus public holidays (pro rata for part-time staff).

Benefits: Flexible remote working, a supportive and collaborative team culture, and opportunities for training and professional development. 

Pension: Workplace pension scheme with a 5% employer contribution, matched by a 5% employee contribution.

Probation Period: Three months.

Deadline for applications: Sunday 2nd August 2026, 11:59pm.

Start date: October 2026.
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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We just had a meeting with over 700 (!!) of our members and OVERWHELMINGLY voted in favour of a motion to calling for a strike ballot! 🩷 We're doing this together. We are the University! #DefendExeterUni.
EXETER UCU VOTES IN FAVOUR OF MOTION CALLING FOR STRIKE BALLOT
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Elinor Taylor @elinormtaylor.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Interesting collection of short pieces from the ISRF: ‘Dispatches: Experiencing Academia’s Decline’,
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Dispatches: Experiencing Academia’s Decline
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Elinor Taylor @elinormtaylor.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Looking forward to reading this!
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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Some lovely PhD opportunities available with Amgueddfa Cymru museum.wales/research/doc...
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Doctoral training at Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales | Museum Wales
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity
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Elinor Taylor @elinormtaylor.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Another plug for this!
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
WRITING / REWRITING: CULTURAL STUDIES AND DECONSTRUCTION - ‘THE LINGUISTICS OF WRITING’ 40 YEARS ON June 4, 4-7pm, University of Strathclyde Please join for this event on the legacies of cultural studies and deconstruction today... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writingre-...
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Writing/Re-writing: The Linguistics of Writing 40 Years On
A discussion of cultural studies, deconstruction and 'theory' today
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Elinor Taylor @elinormtaylor.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Come to Westminster on 27 May for this year’s Raymond Williams Society Annual Lecture by Mark Steven (Exeter), ‘24 Revolutions Per Second’: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2026/04/17/2...
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Raymond Williams Society @r-williams-soc.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This year, Prof. Mark Steven (Exeter) is delivering the RWS annual lecture. Join us on 27 May 2026 at the University of Westminster. More details and free tickets available here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2026/04/17/2...
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24 Revolutions Per Second: The Raymond Williams Society Annual Lecture 2026
Please join us in London on 27 May 2026 for this year’s Raymond Williams Society Annual Lecture, to be delivered by Professor Mark Steven (University of Exeter). Mark’s lecture,&nbs…
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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'Cold War Socialism, Non-Alignment and Anti-Colonialism in the Yugoslav Press, 1961-1979' - British Library & University of Exeter www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Deadline for student applications: 5 May (noon)
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PhD: AHRC CDP Studentship | University of Exeter
The University of Exeter and the British Library are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentship from 1 October 2026 under the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral...
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Raymond Williams Society @r-williams-soc.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Our annual postgraduate essay prize is back for a 12th year! The winner receives £250 and a year's subs to RWS, plus the opportunity to revise their essay for publication in Key Words. For details, see: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2026/02/23/r.... Please share widely with relevant postgrads! 🙏
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Raymond Williams Society Postgrad Essay Prize 2026
We are delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay competition for its 12th year. The deadline for entries is Friday 3 April 2026. The prize for the winning …
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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I wrote about The 1930s (co-edited with @elinormtaylor.bsky.social & @thelong1930s.bsky.social) on my own blog (4/-)
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The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction
Nick Hubble, Luke Seaber and Elinor Taylor, eds, The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction, London: Bloomsbury, 2021. Ten years ago, very few people were predicting that we would move into a pe…
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Kasper Braskén @kasperbrasken.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
My essay on the Popular Front is now also available in English via the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung website @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...
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The Popular Front’s Enduring but Ambivalent Legacy - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Unity against the far right is a vital precondition for social transformation, but socialist strategy must go further
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Elinor Taylor @elinormtaylor.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I’m editing a special issue of Key Words on cultural materialism, fascism and the far right for publication next year. Call for contributions and full details here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2026/01/28/c...
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Call for Papers: Cultural Materialism, Fascism and the Far Right, A Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism
Speaking in 1980 amid the New Right upsurge, Raymond Williams noted that ‘cultural struggle is absolutely crucial, because this is the terrain on which the interpretation of the crisis had to be es…
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Elinor Taylor @elinormtaylor.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I’m editing a special issue of Key Words on cultural materialism, fascism and the far right for publication next year. Call for contributions and full details here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2026/01/28/c...
raymondwilliams.co.uk
Call for Papers: Cultural Materialism, Fascism and the Far Right, A Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism
Speaking in 1980 amid the New Right upsurge, Raymond Williams noted that ‘cultural struggle is absolutely crucial, because this is the terrain on which the interpretation of the crisis had to be es…
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Raymond Williams Society @r-williams-soc.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🚨🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨🚨Fancy contributing to a special issue on Cultural Materialism, Fascism and the Far Right, edited by @elinormtaylor.bsky.social? Look no further... Details, including the deadline, at the link: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2026/01/28/c...
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Call for Papers: Cultural Materialism, Fascism and the Far Right, A Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism
Speaking in 1980 amid the New Right upsurge, Raymond Williams noted that ‘cultural struggle is absolutely crucial, because this is the terrain on which the interpretation of the crisis had to be es…
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
With the contract now signed, I’m pleased to say that I’ll be publishing my second book, *Peasant Modernism: Marx, Culture, and the Future of Eating Well*, with Brill in the @histmat.bsky.social Book Series. It should be out by early 2028 at the latest.
Artistic image of an MST militant in traditional dress holding a scythe stood next to harvested crops with a slogan "MST 40 anos de luta e resistência". The art work is by Judy Duarte.
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profpetercole.bsky.social @profpetercole.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
if you wrote a book on labor history published in 2025, I encourage you to apply for the Philip Taft Labor History Award. The term “labor history” is defined broadly to include the history of workers, institutions, and workplaces & working-class life www.ilr.cornell.edu/taft-award
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Philip Taft Labor History Book Award
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Elinor Taylor @elinormtaylor.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Starting 9 October, we have a series of free CRMEP public lectures at Westminster: www.tickettailor.com/events/radic...
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Radical Philosphy Archive Ltd
Buy tickets – Radical Philosphy Archive Ltd
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
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Raymond Williams Society @r-williams-soc.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
🚨🚨Call for contributors to next year's issue of Key Words, a special issue on 'Foreclosure,' guest edited by Chloe Ashbridge and Owain Burrell🚨🚨 Deadline for abstracts is July 18th, 2025. Read more here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/06/09/c... Please share widely.
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Call for Contributors: Foreclosure, a Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism
British cultural production has a long history of foreclosure. Understood as a premature abandonment, or an abortive failure, of radical political projects, foreclosure has an imaginative and mater…
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Elinor Taylor @elinormtaylor.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Really excited for this (free!) event at MayDay Rooms on 26 June about The Aesthetics of Resistance
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Aesthetics of Resistance with Joel Scott + Harun Farocki’s On Display: Peter Weiss – MayDayRoomsFacebookTwitterInstagramAccessibility ToolsIncrease TextDecrease TextGrayscaleHigh ContrastNegative Cont...
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Elinor Taylor @elinormtaylor.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
As course leader for said Westminster MA I endorse this message :) A lovely afternoon talking about our modules and the great work our students produce
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87
Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’
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Elinor Taylor @elinormtaylor.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I’ve written a bit about interwar British antifascism and anti-imperialism (and their limits) for this. Available via this VE Day subscription offer…
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Materialist Institute for Research @ucmarxistinstitute.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
We are devastated to say that our comrade, teacher and friend Joshua Clover passed away last night. He is irreplaceable; We will miss him forever.
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Elinor Taylor @elinormtaylor.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Happy Birthday, Yuri Gagarin, 12 years old today!
A grey tabby is cat sat on a table, and to his right a woman is sat stroking him on his ear. His head is tilted towards her
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Elinor Taylor @elinormtaylor.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Just watched The Women of Llanrumney at Stratford East. Amazing work on Wales’s relationship with slavery, really bowled over by it. www.stratfordeast.com/whats-on/all...
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The Women of Llanrumney
Azuka Oforka’s searing new play powerfully explores the experience of women during slavery.
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Dr Sara Dominici @saradominici.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I am very excited to announce a new fully funded PhD opportunity with Imperial War Museums: "'Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War" Thank you for sharing! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – ‘Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Visiting Fellowships call for University of East Anglia’s archive of contemporary writing: poetry, fiction, nature writing, scriptwriting children’s literature and more. Deadline: end of March. Please share! And if you’re interested in applying, let me know. www.uea.ac.uk/research/res...
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Archives and Collections Visiting Fellowships
University of East Anglia
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Elinor Taylor @elinormtaylor.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Incredibly bleak stuff
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
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University announces new scholarships for Palestinian students
These scholarships will provide fully-funded support for two Palestinian students, with a particular focus on those impacted by the conflict in Gaza
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Submissions open today for the Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize. This prize uplifts the work of writers who are currently & formerly incarcerated. truthout.org/articles/kee... Spread the word! The prize honors my sister, who died five years ago after many years in and out of incarceration. 💔
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Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize
The annual prize is awarded to two writers who are currently or formerly incarcerated.
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Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
🎓 Three fully-funded PhD positions for a project on "Visual Cultures of Fascism" - as timely as it can be in this age of anxiety. @liverpooluni.bsky.social #FascismStudies #Fascism #AcademicSky www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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School of Humanities, University of Westminster @wminhumanities.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Check out our Humanities Research Seminars programme. Very exciting opportunities to learn about a diverse range of topics, from the history of women's employment to the formlessness of the novel! All welcome (external guests please book here: buff.ly/4huoXPi )
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Twentieth Century Communism journal @20thccommunism.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The latest issue of Twentieth Century Communism journal has been published by @lawrencewishart.bsky.social. It is a special issue on poetry and communism, edited by Ben Harker. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2024...
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Twentieth Century Communism: Volume 2024 Issue 27 (2024) - Lawrence Wishart
Twentieth Century Communism: a journal of international history - Issue contents for Volume 2024 Issue 27 (2024)
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Elinor Taylor @elinormtaylor.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Wrote something for this book forum on Auritro Majumder’s excellent *Insurgent Imaginations*, just published: kairostext.in/index.php/ka...
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Vol. 9 No. 1 (2024): Insurgency and Imagination | Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium
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Elinor Taylor @elinormtaylor.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
The Magi
Photo shows small busts of Lenin, Marx and Yuri Gagarin on a bookshelf. Lenin and Marx are wearing Christmas hats and a knitted scarf encircles all three. A small candle illuminates the 3 busts. Merry Christmas!
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Emma Elinor Lundin @emmaelinor.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
CfP: I've received funding for a workshop on Global Solidarity Activism – Connecting Local and Global Histories, which will take place in Malmö, Sweden, 11-12 June 2025. We're particularly keen to explore activism and solidarity as a set of ‘social and affective relations'. CfP attached!
Please contact Emma at emma.lundin@mau.se for the full-length machine-readable version of this document.

Call for papers: Global Solidarity Activism – Connecting Local and Global Histories Malmö, Sweden 11-12 June 2025.

We invite paper submissions for a workshop to be held in Malmö, Sweden that will examine histories of activism in global solidarity movements. Temporally, we are interested in papers that focus on the 1960s onwards and are particularly keen to hear from researchers who are examining activism and solidarity as a set of ‘social and affective relations.’ Drawing inspiration from Ruth Craggs’ scholarship on subaltern geopolitics, we are concerned with further interrogating how ‘friendship and familiarity’ sustained activist networks in the late twentieth century. The solidarity movements discussed might include (but are not limited to) anti-apartheid organisations, movements supporting the liberation of Portuguese colonies, Vietnam War protest movements, Palestinian solidarity movements, and movements in opposition to Latin American dictatorships. As methodological magpies, the organisers are interested in discussing how theoretical and methodological insights gained from other academic disciplines might be used to further our knowledge and understanding of solidarity movement history. We therefore encourage submissions from scholars working in both the humanities and the social sciences.   

Possible topics of discussion might include: 

•	Activists’ personal and professional networks;
•	Lived experiences within solidarity movements;
•	The role of the local in the creation of global activism; 
•	The role of emotions in solidarity activism;
•	Ad-hoc and piecemeal activism;
•	Differences and tensions between activist groups;
•	The connection between non-governmental global networks and national histories;
•	How solidarity activism has been translated into diplomacy and bilateral relations at the end of war or post liberation.

Abstract deadline: 15 Feb.
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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
New book series, "Towards a Global Understanding of Cultural Work," seeks manuscripts. I'm on the advisory board. Please share!
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Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
*Please share widely!* Full NZ PhD scholarship available as part of a Marsden-funded project, for dissertations focused on poetry & negotiation, incl. at least one of these subfields: British 18C and/or Romantic poetry Settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
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PhD scholarship in English: Poetry and Negotiation | Scholarships | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
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Elinor Taylor @elinormtaylor.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Here’s an interesting CDA studentship on the Wapping Post, set up by striking workers in the 86-7 dispute, offered by Brunel & the MML
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AHRC Studentship Collaborative Doctoral Award - The Wapping Post - A partnership between BUL and Marx Memorial Library
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Elinor Taylor @elinormtaylor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Worth noting this can be a 1+3yr studentship for a student who doesn’t already have a master’s. Very rare at the moment and something other funders should be doing.
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