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Gábor Gelléri

@gaborgelleri.bsky.social
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Scholar of cultures of travel within the French-speaking world, living on the Welsh seaside. Nowadays mostly working on the ways travel and education intersect at various periods, and colonial "influencer" tourism.

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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
THEY ARE GONE. THEY ARE DONE.
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Closes at 7pm Central European time.
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Elections day in Hungary. Send whatever vibes you can.
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This is entirely bonkers :) Not really the style I would like to (or could) emulate but it is hilarious (particularly as I was a student of cultural anthropology struggling with the idea of fieldword), will read when I have the opportunity.
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Another BNF day today - let me know if you have quick things to check, happy to help.
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Really liked this one!
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
In French this time!
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
That travel writing is not some sort of 'true account' of the visited country, or even of the 'thoughts of the author', and that using some amount of fiction in travelogues has been the norm more or less at all times.
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
BNF day today - drop me a word in the next two hours if you have a small thing you would like to have checked.
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Je viens de lire son livre "L'échange des princesses", j'ai tout de suite pensé à elle!
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Yes, I am looking or writing IN French. I will be looking at the Blois etc programmes, but I am also looking at possibly older examples. Thanks Surekha!
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
What are your favourite French books of 'narrative' history, for larger audiences? Any period, any theme - looking for examples of great, accessible writing.
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This is my traditional @alcs.co.uk appreciation post. It is truly appreciated.
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Off 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.
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Now 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!
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Viatica 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).
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Viatica, HS 8, 2025 : La littérature de voyage au prisme de l'écopoétique (dir. Yvan Daniel & Alain Romestaing
Viatica, 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] ...
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Viatica Revue @viaticarevue.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Vient 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.)
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Viatica 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).
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Viatica Revue @viaticarevue.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The 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.)
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Off 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).
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Sames.
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Lemon squares - one tray uses up 5-6 lemons. Would recommend reducing sugar compared to most recipes, if you are happy with tangy favours. Can be frozen.
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ucusurrey @ucusurrey.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
We 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
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Job 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.uk
Aberystwyth University - : Language Tutor (French) (5846)
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 21/05/2025
Using 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.com
We still don’t know how much energy AI consumes
Companies must give us the chance to understand the environmental impact of the tech we use
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
After a couple of days working well through the pain barrier, the end of the marking tunnel is in sight.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Labour 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
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A 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.
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Just booked a 10-day Italian holiday, because. Plans include moderate amounts of sightseeing and inordinate amounts of ice-cream and focaccia (when in Liguria...).
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
We had a great discussion about Allais's paintings in my Humour module (where Allais is one of the authors we study) - they prompted very diverse and quite intense reactions this year.
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
We 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.
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Jonathan 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.com
Modern languages departments are neither colonial nor obsolete
Advanced linguistic and cultural skills remain essential for deep insight into how people see themselves in the world, say five modern languages academics
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Last chance if you need something checked at the Bnf Mitterrand site, will be there tomorrow Tuesday before heading back.
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
If possible, yes. Where is it?
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Is 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.
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Same from me - solidarity!
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I must admit I am quite proud of it; came through a lot of hard work, in difficult circumstances, and survived an encounter with one of those "reviewer 2s" as well. My thanks to Natalya Din-Kariuki and Guido van Meersbergen, issue editors and organisers of the Hakluyt colloquium this grew out of.
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Through the case study of an elite French student mission, sent to Indochina in 1924 to promote colonial ideologies, I am exploring ways in which we can de-centre our understanding of travel. Most importantly, can we see travels without necessarily focussing on the traveller and on the travelogue?
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
New 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....
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Exploring travellee agency: local perceptions and uses of a colonial propaganda mission in 1920s Indochina
Travel 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...
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
A 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.
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
That'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?
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UK proposes letting tech firms use copyrighted work to train AI
Consultation suggests opt-out scheme for creatives who don’t want their work used by Google, OpenAI and others
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A 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...)
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kimiannucci.bsky.social @kimiannucci.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Cardiff 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
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
We are back on the grid - for about two hours everything was down. I think it's still difficult to get out of town, buses and trains cancelled according to last updates.
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Peter 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...
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Bring back Erasmus+ and youth mobility in Europe
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
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Gábor Gelléri @gaborgelleri.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
They 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.
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Institute 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-...
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What Does It Mean To Have A Diverse Curriculum 2: Schools and Higher Education in Collaboration in English Studies and Modern Foreign Languages
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Dr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
If 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 though
manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk
Language Tutor (French) - (8008) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers
All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Could 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!
Ad for the position posted at interfolio @ apply.interfolio.com/159279
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