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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Literatures, Ecologies, and Fictions seminar is back in business for autumn! We've got a joyfully eclectic range of distinguished speakers lined up this term, presenting on falcons, botany, and everything in-between

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21st Oct. Dr Lewis Wynn, ‘Falcon Fascinations in J.A. Baker’s The Peregrine’
18th Nov. Professor Claire Preston, ‘The Bible and botany: Thomas Browne meets everywhere with vegetables’
25th Nov. Professor Pedro Niemeyer de Cesarino, title TBC
2nd Dec. Professor Andrew McRae: ‘The Ethics of Settlement in Drayton’s Poly-Olbion’

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In an entirely predictable turn of events, looks like I'll be taking a rucksack full of books, rather than edible provisions, with me to a remote Highlands hostel. Guess it's only time someone took renaissance humanism's 'digesting texts' metaphor seriously

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Jam-making, it seems, has become my full-time occupation

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I fear my thesis might be about to take a sudden archival turn just so I can work in the air con oasis of special collections reading rooms

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I agree with all the takes about an attack on the humanities being an attack on critical thinking, &c. It’s also about joy, though. ‘Why bother studying that’ is always also a sneer at — why do you think you should get to do something you enjoy? Grow up and be miserable all the time!

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Fans at the ready for day 2 of the Poetry and Science conference at a heatwave-hit University of York🌞looking forward to another day of brilliant talks and the opportunity to visit the Thin Ice Press scientificpoetry.org/events/poetr...

Flyer for the conference: Poetry and Science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Came home from a conference to find my bike has been stolen from Cambridge train station. If anyone in Cam sees a bike like this around/second-hand for sale, please let me know💔

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Looking forward to presenting my paper today at the Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World workshop at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies. I'll be speaking on igneous ingeny and George Starkey's 'Art of Fire' - fuelled by copious quantities of stroopwafles for breakfast

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Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World | NIAS

How do material conditions shape both what we know and how we come to know the natural world? This Expert Workshop brings together scholars in the history of science and in literature and science to e...

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Down books; there's a storm on (and it's a good 'un)

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

There's no joy like that of watching the single tomato on your self-seeded (read: accidental) plant start ripening against all odds. Who knows: maybe I'll be rewarded with the smallest caprese known to womankind later this summer

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Our final Literatures, Ecologies, and Fictions seminar for this academic year takes place today at 5pm in SR24! Roman Bartosch and Kate Rigby are giving a joint paper on 'Multispecies Storytelling for Catastrophic Times'. Hope you see you there🌿

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

We're excited to share the latest term card for the Literatures, Ecologies, and Fictions seminar🌿We've got some brilliant speakers and ecocritical workshops lined up - all welcome!

LEAF term card, including talks from Peter Riley (13th May), and Kate Rigby and Roman Bartosch (27th May)

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Really looking forward to this conference!

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

(1/3) Amidst the algorithms of sensational content, the hatred spewed out by Trump’s invective-ridden posts, and the disturbing rise of AI-generated misinformation, is news of this latest stage in the gradual, insidious suffocation of the BBC. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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BBC to cut almost one in 10 staff in £500m savings

The BBC's interim director general says the cuts will require

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 09/04/2026

There I stayed, and there forgot, my cheek laid on my Beloved fair. And all things ceased, and I was lost and all my worldly doubt and care were sunk among the lilies there. ‘Dark Night’, a poem by John of the Cross, translated by Martha Sprackland. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Martha Sprackland · Poem: ‘Dark Night’

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Our final Lent session for the Literatures, Ecologies, and Fictions seminar is this Wednesday at 5pm in SR24. James Paz is presenting a paper entitled: ‘The Phoenix Speaks: An Ecocreative Response to an Old English Allegory’. All warmly welcome!🐦‍🔥

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

LEAF field trip to Fen Drayton, featuring cormorants, yellowhammers (via John Clare), moorhens, hawks (via Ted Hughes), great crested grebes, among others🐦‍⬛

A group of graduate students at Feb Drayton nature reserve, reading poems in a group

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

LEAF is heading to Fen Drayton this Saturday for birdwatching and in-situ poetry readings; send us an email if you'd like to join!🐦‍⬛🪲

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Little late but LEAF reconvenes this evening for Ben Smith's talk 'A History of Storms: Generating New Climate Narratives in an Era of Eroding Confidence'. SR24 (English Faculty) in 30 mins!⛈️

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

🌿Literatures, Ecologies, and Fictions (LEAF) reconvenes this afternoon for the first session of our Lent speaker series. Lisa Mullen will be presenting on 'Hothouse flowers: Technology and vegetal teleology in the time-lapse films of John Nash Ott'. Come along to SR24 for all things ecocrit🌿

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

A plot against Robert Plot? Or is he just losing the plot? The moral of this tale, for any seventeenth-century scientists out there, is to keep your conical flasks safe, folks

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

🌿Literatures, Ecologies and Fictions seminar term card is out🌿We're springing into action with an exciting series of ecocritical talks and workshops - all welcome!

Term card for LEAF seminars. 18th Feb - Lisa Mullen. 4th Mar - Ben Smith. 18th Mar - James Paz. Birdwatching field trip at Fen Drayton (date tbc)

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Winter solstice swim this morning at the lido🌝🌞

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Very exciting to see Robert Fludd's 'Utriusque cosmi' (1617) transformed into beautiful tapestry form by Patricia Jaffe hanging in Newnham's library🌌 here's one of the original illustrations depicting the creation of light, which you can see in the top right @newnhamcollege.bsky.social

Tapestry showing the creation of the universe using motifs from Fludd's Utriusque cosmi. The tapestry was made between 1982-95

Illustration from Fludd's Utriusque cosmi depicting the creation of light (a black circle surrounded by flames)

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Really excited to be launching (and presenting at) the first Literatures, Ecologies, and Fictions (LEAF) seminar this evening, along with two other fantastic papers🌿

Outline of the LEAF seminar programme for 19th Nov 2025, including talks by Sarah Upton, William Lamb, and Jess Dunmore

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Commonplace Cambridge @commonplacecam.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Lovely to see everyone again this evening for a discussion of the masques 'Cupid his Coronation' and 'Cupid and Death'♥️💀 (ft some very fitting background music from the medieval seminar next door)

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Commonplace Cambridge @commonplacecam.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

We're dipping into Urquhart's translation of Rabelais' Pantagruel this week, including his catalogue of fictional books. Still wondering if The Prickle of Wine and The Spur of Cheese would make good reading for a Commonplace wine and cheese night (see you on Thurs 5pm in GR03)

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Really excited to be launching and co-convening Commonplace Cambridge, a reading and research group for early modern graduate students. I’ll be leading the first session of our reading group on Anne Southwell, giving me the perfect excuse to spend more time delving into her commonplace book:)

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Thank you so much to the organisers and fellow presenters at the Women's Scientific Literatures conference: two days of incredibly stimulating papers and discussion. Now I have a reading list as long as my arm of early modern women writers to discover😌 scientificpoetry.org/events/women...

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Women’s Scientific Literatures: The Poetry and Poetics of Early Modern Natural Philosophy

26-27th June, 2025, Anglia Ruskin Univeristy, CambridgeConference Programme

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I’m really looking forward to the Women’s Scientific Literatures conference taking place at Anglia Ruskin next week. Come along if you’re in Cambridge for what promises to be a stimulating programme about the poetics and philosophies of early modern women🌿 scientificpoetry.org/events/women...

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Women’s Scientific Literatures: The Poetry and Poetics of Early Modern Natural Philosophy

26-27th June, 2025, Anglia Ruskin Univeristy, CambridgeConference Programme

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Jess Dunmore @jessdunmore.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Had such an amazing time attending the IMCS conference - two days of hearing stimulating papers, meeting incredible Cavendish scholars and, needless to say, eating lots of delicious Sevillian food

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