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Frederik Van Dam

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Frederik Van Dam @frederikvandam.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Three exciting CFPs for contributions to EJES!
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Florian Fuchs @fuchsflrn.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Finishing this book got me through the pandemic & made a dream come true! A deep history of the agential autonomy of short narrative forms since 1700 – topos, lettre de cachet, fable, novella, fairy tale, proverb, commonplace, epiphany, enacted story, videotale … www.zonebooks.org/books/150-ci...
Book Cover of Florian Fuchs: "Civic Storytelling. The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature", New York: Zone Books, 2023. The background artwork is a photo showing about a dozen people sitting on the ground in a barely lit park in the middle of the night talking to each other.
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The European Journal of English Studies is inviting proposals for special issues in volume 31 (2027). 👉 essenglish.org/messenger/bl...
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Frederik Van Dam @frederikvandam.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
As if these days could not get any darker. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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Celebrated pianist and writer Alfred Brendel dies aged 94
Widely regarded as the ‘musicians’ musician’ Brendel was the first pianist to record all of Beethoven’s piano works during a much-garlanded career spanning 60 years
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Karakter - Tijdschrift voor Wetenschap @karakterasl.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
In Karakter 89: een pleidooi voor contemplatie (Antoon Vandevelde), de laïcisering van KU Leuven (Marc Vervenne), Aby Warburg (Barbara Baert), chronische pijn (Iris Coppieters), hoe de indeling van een tekst ons doet denken (@frederikvandam.bsky.social), en meer! 📖 tijdschriftkarakter.be
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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Publication and issue: EJES (European Journal of English Studies Volume), 30 (2026): “Cabinets of Curiosities: Collecting, Displaying, Consuming”. Deadline for proposal submissions: 7 April 2025. #essecfp. 👉 essenglish.org/cfp-volumes-...
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Frederik Van Dam @frederikvandam.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope is now out in paperback! Still feels and reads as if it was published yesterday. PAPER30 will give you a 30% discount when ordering directly from Edinburgh UP (edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...).
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Frederik Van Dam @frederikvandam.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Uses of literature.
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Frederik Van Dam @frederikvandam.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Preparing for my next class on 18C literature. Ironic - or fitting - that I am turning to a French book?
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Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
It's really heartening - to see student outspokenness about the negative effects of running universities like a business & making every aspect of life transactional. There's a growing call for a university education to be centered in intellectual life & not whims of job markets & donors.
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ARNOLD | Kotlikoff to Retire: Who’s Next?
We don’t need another technocrat to usher us into the future — Cornell needs to return to its roots, where our education is valued more than our future donations as alumni.
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Frederik Van Dam @frederikvandam.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
Schrödinger’s pancake.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 29/06/2024
From The New School's 1919 course catalog: “courses of study have not been arranged under usual departmental headings — political economy, sociology, history, psychology, etc. — for this tends to obscure the constant connection and interplay of the various interests and activities of mankind.”
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Frederik Van Dam @frederikvandam.bsky.social · 05/06/2024
I've been spending the past months learning how to sail. If the academic career doesn't work out, perhaps a different future beckons. www.theguardian.com/travel/artic...
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My mission? A two-day voyage along the Norfolk coast to deliver potatoes for a chip shop
One man is trying to revive zero-carbon cargo routes by sailing produce along England’s eastern seaboard – and taking paying passengers along for the thrilling ride
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Frederik Van Dam @frederikvandam.bsky.social · 18/05/2024
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
Check out the #cfp for the special issue of Studies in the Novel @lydiacooper.bsky.social and I are guest editing on disease and disability in the novel. Please share widely and please consider auottong www.studiesinthenovel.org/submit/call-...
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Call for Papers | Studies in the Novel
Call for Papers for a Special Issue: Disability and Disease in the Novel Editors: Dr. Lydia R. Cooper (University of Seattle) and Dr. Matthew L. Reznicek (University of Minnesota)
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
I wrote for @placesjournal.bsky.social about cardboard boxes 📦 as logistical media and designed objects, as pandemic emblems, as capitalist equipment and detritus, as modules for all kinds of modernist imaginings, and as shapers of landscapes!
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World in a Box: Cardboard Media and the Geographic Imagination
Cardboard’s ubiquity rests on simple claims: I can hold that, and I can go there. But cardboard boxes hold a world of meaning — a global anatomy of commerce, consumption, disposal, and reuse.
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Frederik Van Dam @frederikvandam.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
Next week Tuesday I'll be giving a short talk (in Dutch) at Pint of Science. Why do people craft stories about diplomats? Where can we find diplomacy in fiction, and fiction in diplomacy? Register (for free) at pintofscience.nl/events/nijme...
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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
RIP Marjorie Perloff, 28 September 1931 – 24 March 2024. What an extraordinary body of work.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
This is happening next Tuesday, 5pm, at Princeton! Olga Touloumi and I are talking about tables as interfaces of diplomacy and assemblage! www.instagram.com/p/C5CdWVFOFb...
A black-and-white image showing multiple tables and chairs, with the title: Branden Hookway Interface 2024 / Shannon Mattern, Olga Touloumi
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Frederik Van Dam @frederikvandam.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
What is the OED's problem with intertextuality?
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Frederik Van Dam @frederikvandam.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
On Thursday I am moderating the second 'Serendipity Session' at the InScience Film Festival. Three academics will give shed some light on what darkness means in their research fields: dark emotions, dark vision, and dark tourism. Please come and join! www.insciencefestival.nl/nl/vertoning...
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Frederik Van Dam @frederikvandam.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
Exciting developments in Groningen. www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...
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Frederik Van Dam @frederikvandam.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
In the past two years, I worked with @drchrislouttit.bsky.social and Joanna Hofer-Robinson to edit an EJES issue on 19th-century interstitial spaces. I am chuffed to announce that this issue has arrived at its port of call! More @ www.tandfonline.com/toc/neje20/c....
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European Journal of English Studies
Nineteenth-Century Interstitial Spaces. Volume 27, Issue 2 of European Journal of English Studies
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 30/11/2023
Have you checked out the latest issue of @19birkbeck.bsky.social? A fav new issue dedicated to Nineteenth-Century Infrastructures guest-edited by Joanna Hofer-Robinson and @nicolakirkby.bsky.social Read it here: 19.bbk.ac.uk/issue/915/in...
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Frederik Van Dam @frederikvandam.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
On opening my pigeon-hole in the office, I found some Iberian ham. A Sicilian message?
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Environmental Media Lab (EML) @envmedialab.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Grad students looking for extra mentorship, please consider applying to the EML residency (online, March 2024). Details at link: environmentalmedialab.com/grad-scholar...
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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
zines, y'all (h/t @kaibosworth.bsky.social) haters.noblogs.org/zines/
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Frederik Van Dam @frederikvandam.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
The article says that we've got rats in our uni building, but what I am hearing is that we need a squad of cats. www.voxweb.nl/nieuws/kou-e...
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Charlotte Boyce @c19thceleb.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
If you missed the special issue on death, celebrity and material culture that Danielle Dove and I edited for Victoriographies in 2022, you can now access it for FREE throughout January! www.euppublishing.com/toc/vic/12/1
Screen shot of first page of special issue
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Pete Orford @peteorford.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
I'm happy to announce a conference next June here at Buckingham on the life and works of Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens (to commemorate Collins's bicentenary). CFP is on the site, along with details of bursaries courtesy of @dickenssociety.bsky.social www.collins-and-dickens.com
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Frederik Van Dam @frederikvandam.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Are you working on English Lit/Culture and mobility/infrastructure/transport? I am co-organising a panel on literary and artistic engagements with trains and the railroad at ESSE 2024 in Lausanne - wp.unil.ch/esse2024/fil.... Join us!
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
My Reading Year. (My last Guardian Books cartoon of 2023)
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Title: My year-end reading statistics.
Five diagrams detailing the reading habits of a rather lazy reader.
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Frederik Van Dam @frederikvandam.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
As part of its free access campaign, @edinburghup.bsky.social is opening up all content from its journals in literary studies (until the end of January): www.euppublishing.com/literarystud....
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Frederik Van Dam @frederikvandam.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
We're hiring! The Faculty of Arts is looking for a new assistant professor in Arts and Culture Studies. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
We're thrilled to announce that the premiere issue of Critical AI is now online and paywall-free for a limited time! Read more about this new interdisciplinary journal on today's blog: dukeupress.wordpress.com/2023/10/05/n...
A section of a painting showing a human hand holding a lit torch, the figure is wearing red cloth. "critical AI" is in white and gray text in a red banner at the bottom.
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Frederik Van Dam @frederikvandam.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
On Monday we are organizing a small symposium on the study of coffee. This will be (we hope) the first of a series of sessions in which we explore how the serendipitous encounter between different disciplines may yield new and unexpected insights. Plus: free specialty coffees, cookies, and buns!
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
New at PB: Sharon Marcus reviews Eleanor Catton's BIRNAM WOOD. “Encrypted in Birnam Wood’s bleak vision of human nature," Marcus writes, "lies a subtle counterfactual story of the great good that might result from a decent person’s daily stream of care.” www.publicbooks.org/capitalism-a...
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