Gemma Tidman @gemmatidman.bsky.social · 24/01/2024"male historians also enjoy explaining what excellent allies they are to female historians. [...] This explanation is, often, the limit to their solidarity." 💯 ...academic service, organisation, administration, do distract, after all, from all that time-consuming work of mansserting oneself... 020
Gemma Tidman @gemmatidman.bsky.social · 09/01/2024Ready Listener One! At a loose end at 10pm? Need a podcast while you're making dinner tomorrow? I'm on BBC Free Thinking w/ the most excellent Shahidha Bari, Marcus du Sautoy, Corey Brotherson & Tim Peacock, talking serious play, videogames, gamification & more www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 3 - Free Thinking, Game playingShahidha Bari finds out how to win at rock, paper, scissors and to make a Windrush game. 010
Reposted by Gemma TidmanMarine Roussillon @mroussill.bsky.social · 13/12/2023Un chouette projet qui prend forme (avec @goodmanjess.bsky.social et @gemmatidman.bsky.social). www.fabula.org/actualites/1...fabula.orgSéminaire Alain Viala / Doing things with literature : a toolkit (en ligne)Ce séminaire, entièrement en ligne, est lié au projet de traduction en anglais d’une série d’articles de l'historien et sociologue de la littérature Alain Viala. Le séminaire permettra aux t... 094
Gemma Tidman @gemmatidman.bsky.social · 08/12/2023I listened to this on my morning walk, and besides being a fantastic poet, political activist, and humane thinker, it made me think Benjamin Zephaniah seemed like an absolute diamond bloke. What grace, despite it all (and despite some pretty silly questions here) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... 140
Reposted by Gemma TidmanRachel Murray @rachelmurray.bsky.social · 11/11/2023Disgusted by the Home Office's treatment of my brilliant colleague @DoselineKiguru, whose six-year old daughter has been denied a UK visa. This decision needs to be reversed immediately. Please repost and share. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...theguardian.com‘Unthinkable cruelty’: Kenyan expert working at Bristol University denied visa for six-year-old ...Furious colleagues denounce decision that there are ‘no compassionate grounds’ to allow the child to join her mother 5215198
Reposted by Gemma TidmanJulie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 07/11/2023This is such important and exciting work from Renaud Morieux - and I'm so delighted to see the Guardian, Le Monde, and Radio 4 cover our field like this. Plus the magic of the @prizepapers.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...theguardian.comUnopened 18th-century love letters to French sailors read for first timeLetters from loved ones of captured ship’s crew during seven years’ war lay forgotten for centuries 0165
Reposted by Gemma TidmanOlivier Ritz @olivier-ritz.bsky.social · 07/11/2023Oyez oyez ! Ce n'est pas tous les jours que j'organise des colloques... Imaginer la Révolution française (1830-2024) : faire de l’histoire sans être historien ? 21-22 novembre 2024 à Paris (Université Paris Cité) Propositions à envoyer avant le 1er mars www.fabula.org/actualites/1...fabula.orgImaginer la Révolution française (1830-2024) : faire de l’histoire sans être historien ?Imaginer la Révolution française (1830-2024) : faire de l’histoire sans être historien ? Paris, 21-22 novembre 2024 « Je ne suis pas historien : je suis arrivé au 4 août en ne connaissant rien... 083
Reposted by Gemma TidmanMichael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 03/11/2023JOB at KCL — Early Modern / Modern Philosophy. Permanent position, Lecturer or Senior Lecturer. Closes 8th Jan. Please help spread the word! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/078085-... 077
Reposted by Gemma TidmanMarine Roussillon @mroussill.bsky.social · 25/10/2023De retour d’un séjour de recherche express à Waddesdon Manor, au cœur de la campagne anglaise, dans les collections de livres de fêtes de Ferdinand de Rotschild. Un fil, avec des photos de vieux livres. 2115
Reposted by Gemma TidmanPaula Krebs @paulakrebs.bsky.social · 20/09/2023Rebecca Walkowitz making the big case not only for learning and teaching languages but also, crucially, for research. It’s a long game, she argues, and we cannot know what will prove valuable until it does. Don’t abandon language departments. Don’t abandon basic research.chronicle.comOpinion | Gutting Language Departments Would Be a DisasterOnce a program is gone, it is very difficult and expensive to bring it back. 01810
Reposted by Gemma TidmanDaphna Oren @daphnao.bsky.social · 26/09/2023The Dan David Prize offers up to 9 annual prizes of $300K each to outstanding early/midcareer scholars working in any of the fields listed below. There are just over two weeks left to nominate your amazing colleagues. Find the simple and concise nomination form at www.dandavidprize.org/nominate 🗃️ 01622