Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Elections day in Hungary. Send whatever vibes you can. 272
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Another BNF day today - let me know if you have quick things to check, happy to help. 011
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 30/03/2026BNF day today - drop me a word in the next two hours if you have a small thing you would like to have checked. 000
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 30/03/2026What are your favourite French books of 'narrative' history, for larger audiences? Any period, any theme - looking for examples of great, accessible writing. 882
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Off to France today. First stop Angers, where I give the plenary at a conference on travelling children, followed by a few days of poking around in Paris. After a nonstop whirlwind semester, and with the sight of the world on fire, I need to calm down, be cool to enjoy all this as much as possible. 140
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Now here is something that doesn't happen everyday: I am about to see an unpublished manuscript of Madame de Genlis, famous French educator. I worked on her novels, her guidebooks (which are also language books), her memoirs which contain her travels - but never encountered this manuscript. Excited! 040
Reposted by Gábor GellériViatica Revue @viaticarevue.bsky.social · 03/09/2025(cont.) ... Davide Vago, Odile Gannier, Pierre Schoentjes, Jean-Baptiste Bernard, Nina Rocipon et Haila Koo. www.fabula.org/actualites/1... Aussi, comptes rendus des livres de Catherine Pinguet, Jean-Jacques Bavoux, Christina Kullberg, Eva Johanna Holmberg et Philippe Antoine - Gilles Louÿs (dirs).fabula.orgViatica, HS 8, 2025 : La littérature de voyage au prisme de l'écopoétique (dir. Yvan Daniel & Alain RomestaingViatica, HS 8 | 2025 : La littérature de voyage au prisme de l'écopoétique Sous la direction de Yvan Daniel et Alain Romestaing Dossier Yvan Daniel et Alain Romestaing Introduction [Texte intégral] ... 023
Reposted by Gábor GellériViatica Revue @viaticarevue.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Vient de paraître: numéro hors-série 8 de la revue Viatica, intitulé "La littérature de voyage au prisme de l'écopoétique". Dirigé par Yvan Daniel et Alain Romestaing, articles par Sylvie Requemora, Anne-Gaëlle Weber, Daniel López, Virginie Teller, Pascale Auraix-Jonchière, Philippe Antoine (cont.) 102
Reposted by Gábor GellériViatica Revue @viaticarevue.bsky.social · 03/09/2025(cont.) ... Davide Vago, Odile Gannier, Pierre Schoentjes, Jean-Baptiste Bernard, Nina Rocipon and Haila Koo. www.fabula.org/actualites/1... Also featuring reviews of books by Catherine Pinguet, Jean-Jacques Bavoux, Christina Kullberg, Eva Johanna Holmberg et Philippe Antoine - Gilles Louÿs (dirs).fabula.org 001
Reposted by Gábor GellériViatica Revue @viaticarevue.bsky.social · 03/09/2025The latest issue of 'Viatica', journal of travel literature, is out. It is a special issue on travel and ecopoetics, edited by Yvan Daniel and Alain Romestaing, with articles by Sylvie Requemora, Anne-Gaëlle Weber, Daniel López, Virginie Teller, Pascale Auraix-Jonchière, Philippe Antoine (cont.) 101
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Off to Paris, with a conference in Le Havre and an archives day in Rouen in the middle. If you have a quick Archives nationales or Bnf query, I might be able to help, just let me know in time (today for the Archives as I'm going tomorrow). 000
Reposted by Gábor Gellériucusurrey @ucusurrey.bsky.social · 24/06/2025We are now escalating our efforts! @ucu.org.uk With just over 830 signatories, we are looking for 1000+ so we can take these requests higher on up. Please do sign against outsourcing @uniofsurrey.bsky.social 022
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Job klaxon: The Department of Modern Languages is looking for an Assistant in French. Lovely students, great colleagues, unbeatable location. Research training and contribute to content teaching possible! jobs.aber.ac.uk/en/vacancy/l...jobs.aber.ac.ukAberystwyth University - : Language Tutor (French) (5846) 012
Reposted by Gábor GellériCatherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 21/05/2025Using big LLMs for basic queries is 'like turning on stadium floodlights to look for your keys' - this is good on the AI environmental questions.ft.comWe still don’t know how much energy AI consumesCompanies must give us the chance to understand the environmental impact of the tech we use 9326136
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 19/05/2025After a couple of days working well through the pain barrier, the end of the marking tunnel is in sight. 000
Reposted by Gábor GellériOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around. They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway. It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing 29264091553
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 23/04/2025A really exciting event for next spring in Angers on a very poorly explored topic, travelling children. I am very honoured to be invited as plenary speaker. 031
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Just booked a 10-day Italian holiday, because. Plans include moderate amounts of sightseeing and inordinate amounts of ice-cream and focaccia (when in Liguria...). 030
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 25/03/2025We have moved to this new platform, but the annual ALCS appretiation post cannot be cancelled. If you are not registered yet, do - it's easy, and every year provides a handy little sum for your scholarly travails. 100
Reposted by Gábor GellériJonathan Ervine @jonathanervine.bsky.social · 12/03/2025"Advanced linguistic and cultural skills are essential for any deep understanding of how people see themselves and their relationship to the precarious and rapidly changing world around them" www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mode...timeshighereducation.comModern languages departments are neither colonial nor obsoleteAdvanced linguistic and cultural skills remain essential for deep insight into how people see themselves in the world, say five modern languages academics 052
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Last chance if you need something checked at the Bnf Mitterrand site, will be there tomorrow Tuesday before heading back. 030
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Is there something you needed to be checked in Paris - mostly BNF and Archives Nationales Pierrefitte? I am lucky enough to head there now, and happy to assist with reference hunting, particularly (but not only) for junior colleagues. 101
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 28/01/2025New article out in 'Studies in Travel Writing', in a special issue on 'Decolonizing Travel Studies'. It is the 'twin' article to my earlier essay on the settlers as travellees, with the focus on the colonized, assessing their manyfold reactions to travellers. (1) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comExploring travellee agency: local perceptions and uses of a colonial propaganda mission in 1920s IndochinaTravel studies heavily relies on the travelogue as source. This essay endeavours to decentre the travelogue and the traveller through a case study of travellees’ responses. When a group of French f... 141
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 17/12/2024A tad surprised to hear for the first time on Bluesky about this intriguing event happening in the building next to my office, on a topic very close to mine, but it sure looks good. 030
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 17/12/2024That's a no from - I guess - the whole of the UK university and research sector as well as creatives. By the way, where is @ucu.org.uk?theguardian.comUK proposes letting tech firms use copyrighted work to train AIConsultation suggests opt-out scheme for creatives who don’t want their work used by Google, OpenAI and others 030
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 11/12/2024A very intriguing invitation to a workshop to discuss incorporating mobility studies approaches into history of early modern travel and related fields. (I only wish many mobility studies scholars were less systematic in ignoring decades of works in history of travel and of travel literature...) 030
Reposted by Gábor Gellérikimiannucci.bsky.social @kimiannucci.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Cardiff Archaeological Society. Thurs 12th Dec with Dr Toby Driver Landscapes of fear and respect :exploring the hillforts of Iron Age Wales. This lecture will look at the people, landscape and monuments of Iron Age Wales It's a zoom only lecture, email cardiffarchaeologicalsociety.co.uk to join us 2299
Reposted by Gábor GellériPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/12/2024“Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme”👏 Our youth have been robbed of the freedom of movement we enjoyed - this is the absolute least the Gov’t can do for them sussexbylines.co.uk/news/educati...sussexbylines.co.ukBring back Erasmus+ and youth mobility in EuropeTaking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme 301338394
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 07/12/2024They were not joking with the red weather alert. Currently electricity is out in Aberystwyth, and I don't think I have ever heard wind howling like this. 240
Reposted by Gábor GellériInstitute of Languages, Cultures and Societies @ilcs.bsky.social · 26/11/2024📢 'Decolonising the Discipline' Join us on 6 December in our round table discussion on decolonising the discipline in Modern Foreign Languages and English Studies! 3:30-5pm online via Zoom, all welcome. Registration below 👇 #MFLBluesky @ies-sas.bsky.social ies.sas.ac.uk/events/what-...ies.sas.ac.ukWhat Does It Mean To Have A Diverse Curriculum 2: Schools and Higher Education in Collaboration in English Studies and Modern Foreign Languages 13021
Reposted by Gábor GellériDr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social · 05/12/2024If you'd like to work with me from January, please apply here: manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy... You'll need to ask the recruiter about start and end date thoughmanmetjobs.mmu.ac.ukLanguage Tutor (French) - (8008) | Manchester Metropolitan University CareersAll about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities. 001
Reposted by Gábor GellériKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Could you all share? We're advertising a 2 yr postdoc position for someone who works in #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEarlyAmericas to help coordinate the @jcblibrary.bsky.social projects and programs around 2026. Fuller info here: apply.interfolio.com/159279 and v happy to answer questions! 2189260
Reposted by Gábor GellériRichard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social · 22/11/2024My edition of four travel journals by 18th-c servants is out now, including accounts of France, Italy, the Low Countries, Germany and the Ottoman Empire by three valets and a maid – the majority of people who went on the 'Grand Tour' #skystorians #18thc #c18th global.oup.com/academic/pro... 55812227
Reposted by Gábor GellériNick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 21/11/2024The key benefit of a humanities education is in all likelihood a person is going to go through several careers over the course of their life because the economy is chaos and a humanities education 1) ideally equips you with a broad basic toolkit and 2) gives you the skills to learn on your own 15313
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 21/11/2024We've been saying this for a while and UCU took their precious time getting here. I went mildly viral a few years ago with a threat pointing out that without reintroducing student number controls, pay-related UCU demands risk throwing non-RG university colleagues under the bus in the long run. 110
Reposted by Gábor GellériJenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 18/11/2024 Everything about this Fara Dabhoiwala piece on Francis Williams in @londonreview.bsky.social is terrific. Come for the take down of Edward Long, but stay for the exquisite read of Williams’ portrait and the evidence hiding in plain sight. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukFara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His DueThe only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who... 13713
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Brief moment of shameless self-promotion: Boydell's 60% sale (on until Nov 30) is an opportunity to purchase my monograph 'Lessons of Travel in 18th-century France' boydellandbrewer.com/978178327436..., aka 'everything you ever wanted to know about French arts of travel but were afraid to ask'.boydellandbrewer.comLessons of Travel in Eighteenth-Century France - Boydell and BrewerA study of the literature of the 'art of travel' in eighteenth-century France, showing how consideration of who should travel and for what purpose provided ... 120
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Me: I did well these last two months. Other me: You said you will start drafting the book. M: I reviewed two book mss and an article. O: YOUR OWN BOOK. M: I reviewed a book. O: THE ONE YOU WERE MEANT TO START. TWO YEARS AGO. M: But I have a book review to write. Two even ! O: *gives up, leaves* 010
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I am devastated to share the news that our colleague and friend, Björn Weiler, Professor of History at Aberystwyth University, passed away after a period of illness. He was one of most kind and helpful people you could encounter in academia, and a world-leading scholar of medieval kingship. 10708
Reposted by Gábor GellériGábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 31/01/2024Have a paper looking for a venue, on the - very loosely interpreted - question of 'art of travelling'? Travel's (dis)advantages, discussions of individual and collective practices, the idea of travel writing? Please consider travel writing e-journal 'Viatica' - get in touch with me to discuss! 005
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Proofs are in for my article due to come out in the "Decolonising Travel Studies' special issue in 'Studies in Travel Writing' - more about it shortly. Fortunately, upon re-reading, I still quite like it. 030
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Plus ça change... "Women, if they wander alone, find but rude entertainment from the masculine sex." (Margaret Cavendish, Assaulted and pursued Chastity) www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...theguardian.comWomen walking Camino de Santiago speak of ‘terrifying’ sexual harassmentSexual aggression said to be ‘endemic’ on route through Spain, Portugal and France with solo female pilgrims at risk 000
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 20/08/2024The first of two "twin" articles, based on my BA/Leverhulme-funded research on local reactions to a colonial propaganda trip to Indochina, is now out in Studies in Travel Writing: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... I am looking here at the rarely explored category of the 'settler travellee' (1/).tandfonline.comVisiting the ruins of the colonial exhibition: a settler parody of a colonial propaganda tripIn 1924, a group of French female students were sent on a sponsored trip to Indochina to experience colonial tourism with the hope that they would become promoters of colonialism. This article stud... 152
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Reading proofs of my article in the upcoming volume 'Microtravel', ed by Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley and Kathryn Walchester (due some time in the spring?). I had fun writing this one, features loads of juicy gossip, outrageous behaviours, as well as silly pictures. 040
Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 31/01/2024Have a paper looking for a venue, on the - very loosely interpreted - question of 'art of travelling'? Travel's (dis)advantages, discussions of individual and collective practices, the idea of travel writing? Please consider travel writing e-journal 'Viatica' - get in touch with me to discuss! 005