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Ge(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Join my seminar on a DH project on a 19C translingual petition by Jong Ah Sing, a Cantonese miner confined in a Melbourne asylum! I'll share how I used Cantonese linguistics + LLMs to reconstruct his writing and to create a digital archive making his voice heard. 27 May, virtual& in person

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Ge(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I was funded by the minerals project to visit Museum Africa to consult its fascinating postcard collections on SA’s extractive histories. The postcards discussed in this article offer a glimpse into how this highly commercial medium shaped global perceptions of mining capitalism and abstract labor.

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Minerals @imperialminerals.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Read @gigitang.bsky.social reflection on the brilliant Critical Minerals symposium she & Katie Donnelly organised for the Minerals project. The symposium was generously supported by UCD College of Arts & Humanities seed funding & @ucdhumanities.bsky.social imperialminerals.ie/2025/12/19/c...

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Imperial Minerals — Critical Minerals Symposium Reflections

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PHRC @phrc-dmu.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

We're also happy to announce the Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage, which start on 30 October, 5.30 pm with none other than Martha Langford! The seminars are all free and online, and you can register here: photographichistory.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/r... #photohist

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Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage – Semester One 2025/26

PHRC is pleased to announce the launch of Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage, a new, free, online series of talks and discussions exploring photography’s intersections with pol…

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cms @camillemarys.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

One of my proudest essays to date is finally out! A text that would have helped me tremendously as a grad student: "The Political Economy of Museums" - ideal for anyone beginning to research this topic. doi.org/10.1093/acre...

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Ge(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

📢Registration is OPEN! Join us at UCD on 7 Nov for the Critical Minerals Symposium – insights & networking all in one place! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/critical-m...

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Ge(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

📢 Deadline Extended! We’ve received requests for late submissions, so the deadline for the Critical Minerals Symposium has been extended until 31 August. Inspiring abstracts are already coming in from across the globe. Don’t miss the chance to add your voice to the conversation!

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Ge(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

It has been a profoundly challenging experience, both emotionally and linguistically, to work on this extraordinary piece of carceral writing. I tried translating it into vernacular Cantonese but had to give up after a few pages. How malleable language can be when under the bend of lived experience!

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Ge(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

⏱️TWO MORE WEEKS to submit your abstract to our critical minerals symposium!!!

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Ge(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

📢 Call for Papers! Katie Donnelly and I are organising an interdisciplinary symposium on Critical Minerals. 🗓️ Deadline: 15 August 📍 University College Dublin @ 7 November 2025 Please share widely! #CFP #CriticalMinerals #EnvironmentalHumanities #ThresholdOfKnowledge #TransnationalisingHumanities

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Ge(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

A real pleasure chairing the Minerals Roundtable series and engaging with the incredible research shared by our speakers - thank you so much for your contribution! If you missed it, the sessions are now available as a podcast - tune in and let us know what you think!

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

you guys @sarahcomyn.bsky.social has developed an absolutely incredible research center on extractive practices & cultural production the C19 British world system, a model for comprehensive sociopolitical and aesthetic analysis— if you haven't checked it out, do: imperialminerals.ie/about/

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Charlotte Connelly @curatorconnelly.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I just finished this by @siobhanangus.bsky.social, please all read it so we can talk about it. It's insightful and thought provoking and hits many of my interests (material-led histories of media, science, exploration and extraction). Now mentally curating the exhibition of the book...

Book cover: Camera Geologica: an elemental history of photography, Siobhan Angus

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Minerals @imperialminerals.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Our final online Minerals roundtable will explore extractivism and material histories on Monday 28 April, 9am (Dublin). Our fantastic line-up of speakers: Dr Madhavi Jha Dr Oliver Tappe Dr Nicholas Y. H. Wong Register here 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minerals-o...

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Minerals Online Roundtable IV: Extractivism and Material Histories

The fourth and final roundtable in our online series for 2024/25 seeks to explore extractivism through the lens of material histories

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Ge(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Looking forward to meeting our speakers and hearing their research on extractivism and material histories! The last three roundtables in this series were incredibly insightful—if you missed them and are interested, the recordings of the first two are available now on the Minerals Project website!

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I'm thrilled to say that to celebrate the launch of my new book, I'll be doing two events in the DC area later this month: Thurs, 4/24, 6 pm @ People's Book, Takoma Park / @peoplesbooktakoma.com Sun, 4/27, 3 pm (w/ novelist Rabih Alameddine). Politics & Prose, DC / @politicsprose.bsky.social 🌿

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Tales Things Tell: Material Histories of Early Globalisms by Finbarr Barry Flood and Beate Fricke is the Winner of the International Center of Medieval Art Book Prize! Learn more about this beautifully illustrated book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Book cover of Tales Things Tell: Material Histories of Early Globalisms
by Finbarr Barry Flood and Beate Fricke.

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UCL Special Collections @uclspeccoll.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Job vacancy! We are looking for an Outreach Programme Manager (maternity cover). Email library.spec.coll.ed@ucl.ac.uk for the full job description. Please share with your networks! jobs.guidantglobal.com/job/outreach...

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Outreach Programme Manager,

Duties and Responsibilities UCL Special Collections is home to the university's collection of rare books, archives and manuscripts, and the outreach team deliver an education programme for schools and...

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Ge(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

In two week’s time! Our third minerals roundtable on April 7 at 3 am Dublin time! Online!

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Dr Tapasya Narang @tapasyanarang.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

So delighted to witness my senior colleagues deep investment in the principles of EDI. Ever grateful for the support and the kind words too. @nlireland.bsky.social

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Today, we're delighted to introduce the next member of our Editorial team here at Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research: General Editor, Kirstin Mills, from Macquarie University Australia 📚 #INCSA

Name and role: Kirstin Mills, General Editor

Research Interests: the Gothic, long-nineteenth-century literature, adaptation studies, literature and science, folklore and the supernatural

Who you'd like to hear from: If you work on anything to do with the nineteenth century, whatever that means to you, I want to hear from you! This journal takes a fresh approach - international, interdisciplinary and intertemporal - to broaden nineteenth-century studies and bring traditionally siloed fields together through articles, forums, practica, and reviews of books, exhibitions, recordings and more. Get in touch!

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Dr Tapasya Narang @tapasyanarang.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Please write to me on tapasyanarang1@gmail.com to RSVP

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Ge(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Join our online roundtable on April 7th and explore how literature, art, and more represent the stories of extraction with experts!!

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Ge(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Truly enjoyed the fabulous discussion, with a lot of take ways; excited to share that the podcast recording is now available!

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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

First read of the new year is this excellent little volume, which uncovers the debates and arguments that accompanied the emergence of the word ‘Capitalism’. Wishing you all a year of good books and much reading.

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 18/12/2024

So cool! This is near where I work in Antarctica. “Scientists estimate that [glass sponges] can live for more than 10,000 years, possibly 15,000 years maximum. One glass sponge observed by researchers in the Ross Sea, a bay of Antarctica, is thought to be the oldest living animal on the planet.”

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Ge(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Looking forward to our second Minerals Online Roundtable, 'Extraction and Racial Capitalism', happening this Thursday! 🤗

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hey #academicsky, there's a great opportunity for a visiting fellowship for someone from the Global South in Arts and Humanities, to spend time at Cambridge. Do pass on! www.cai.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/vi...

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Visiting Bye-Fellowship for scholars from the Global South

The Opportunity

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

This is full, so I have started a second starter pack for academics and organizations focused on the #19th century: see it here go.bsky.app/3W3Ykpe

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Ge(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

📢Our Minerals Online Roundtable II: 'Extraction and Racial Capitalism' is happening on Nov 21, 3-4:10 pm (Dublin time)! Join us for a discussion with our brilliant speakers. Don't miss it! Please register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minerals-r...

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Minerals Roundtable II: Extraction and Racial Capitalism

The second roundtable in the Minerals online series for 24/25

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Minerals @imperialminerals.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Roundtable II in our 24/25 series will be on Thurs 21 November at 3pm (GMT): 'Extraction and Racial Capitalism' featuring: Dr Danielle Kinsey, Carleton University Dr Rebecca Macklin, University of Aberdeen Dr Nick McGee, Durham University Please register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minerals-r...

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Minerals Roundtable II: Extraction and Racial Capitalism

The second roundtable in the Minerals online series for 24/25

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

Amazing snapshot of a multiracial & polyglot extraction zone: petitions submitted to South African mining corporations by indentured laborers from China, c 1900-1910. What a fabulous project

Petitions submitted by Chinese indentured laborers to South African mining corporations c 1910

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Ge(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

imperialminerals.ie/2024/09/20/w... A blogpost by me about a recent research trip to South Africa’s archives where I consulted petitions by Chinese indentured labourers on the mines. Amazed by these writings. Many thanks to IRC for funding this trip and my superior Dr Sarah Comyn for her support.

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Imperial Minerals — Writing from Below: Petitions by Chinese Indentured Laborers in the South African Mines

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Ge(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

I'm thrilled to share that Dr Jarrod Hore, from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, will deliver a seminar titled 'Earth Science from the Geological South', for our MINERALS project, at UCD and online, tomorrow (Jun 19) at 2 pm, Dublin time. imperialminerals.ie/events/earth...

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Imperial Minerals — Earth Science from the Geological South

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Julia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

Happy to announce that my book is available for pre-order! 📗🙌 If are interested in entering a conversation between the environmental humanities, border studies & Scottish literature; & if you believe literary forms matter - this may be for you! #BorderStudies #EnvHum #ScotLit @scotlit.bsky.social

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Scottish Literature, Borders and the Environmental Imagination

Bringing together concerns in border studies, the environmental humanities and Scottish literary studies, this book examines the relationship between borders an…

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Ge(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Looking forward to our last Minerals seminar in our methodology on extraction series, ‘Photography and extraction: Ways of seeing/ways of knowing’, by Dr Siobhan Angus of media studies at Carleton University! Join us in person at UC Dunlin or online!

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Imperial Minerals — Photography and extraction: Ways of seeing/ways of knowing

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

*Petitions and Petitioning from the Late Medieval Period to the Present* 🗃️ Book launch and conversation about the #PowerOfPetitioning, Thursday, May 23rd, 4pm, online! Register for free here: royalhistsoc.org/calendar/pet...

Cover image for Petitions and Petitioning, edited by Richard Huzzey et al.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 07/04/2024

Fully funded PhD Studentship: Colonial Natural Historical Collecting in the South Asian Indian Ocean, University Museum of Zoology and University of Cambridge.

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University Museum of Zoology & The University of Cambridge - CCC University Museum of Zoology & The University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities

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Sarah Comyn @sarahcomyn.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

The fifth Minerals seminar on Methodologies concerning Extractivism will be given by Dr Adam Bridgen (Durham) on Wednesday 17 April at 4pm (Dublin). Join us in person or online: ‘Underworlds and undercurrents: Approaching extractive history from below’ imperialminerals.ie/events/under... #19thC

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Imperial Minerals — Underworlds and undercurrents: Approaching extractive history from below

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Minerals @imperialminerals.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Finally recovered from Christmas? Then this may be the perfect time to read a wonderful new blog post by Minerals postdoc, Ge Tang, on the many Santas that populate the Australian goldfields according to Henry Lawson: imperialminerals.ie/2024/01/05/s...

Newspaper illustration of an Antipodean Santa with many children running to greet him. He is carrying fruit and is adorned with a garland of flowers. In the foreground a group of children are playing with toys

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Sarah Comyn @sarahcomyn.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Research highlight so far is this scrapbook giving me gold (😉)! Amazing #19thC newspaper clippings from the SA goldfields. Does anyone know anything about the game ‘Spoof’?!

Illustrations of attendees costumes from the fancy dress ball held at The Wanderers in 1894

Rules and Regulations of the game of Barberton Spoof handbill

Rules and regulations of the game of Spoof

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