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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"The air itself is one vast library on whose pages are forever written all that man has ever said or woman whispered.” (Babbage) Enjoying Claudia Arozqueta and Zeynep Bulut's inspiring discussion of sensing, heartbeat, voice, atmospheric memory, embodied listening #IAWIS2026, Bak Basecamp, Utrecht

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Marco Maggi @literatureonly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Book launch: Sedimentation Iawis Belo Horizonte 2023

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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

León Ferrari, ‘The Disasters of War’, Goya, 1810 + ‘The Apocalypse of St John’, Dürer, c. 1500, 1995 botfrens.com/collections/14375/cont…

Presented by Alicia and León Ferrari 2008

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"Waiting to forget Something", one of William Kentridge's mottoes from Words (2023), speaks to me today.

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

So hot in the British Museum Print Room, looking at Biblical catastrophes and thinking about the present moment in this precious place with a glass roof not made for today's temperature. How much of our archival infrastructure needs rethinking and rehousing?

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

BREAKING News from medieval Clacton-on-Sea (Binfield Byelection) New Accessions: politics, satire.

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Romanticism across Borders is out open access. I enjoyed this Parisian invitation to think transnationally about how #Turner inflected #Exodus through #Poussin in the wake of #Napoleon's #Egyptian #Campaign 2026 (36) 71 | LITTERARIA PRAGENSIA share.google/BDKvR8Bm5w3o...

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2026 (36) 71 | LITTERARIA PRAGENSIA

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This would be a wonderful precedent to see Princeton UK (and other presses) emulate in the UK.

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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Fix the undergraduate funding model, Burnham.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It's not the worst aspect of the University of Exeter news, but the fact that the scale, focus and timing of the planned redundancies came as such a shock to staff says something quite fundamental about the staff of staff/management relations in UK HE today. Where is respect? Collegiality? Teamwork?

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1. past simple and past participle of poleaxe 2. to hit someone so hard that…

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

ISRF's Dispatches series--views on university crises from academics--continues with a piece on curricular and teaching coercions that come from a seemingly neutral European-wide practice called constructive alignment. troubles of false neutrality. mailinglist.isrf.org/p/pedagogica...

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Pedagogical State Apparatus

Lars Cornelissen argues that the theory of constructive alignment is not a neutral guideline, but rather centres a particular philosophy of learning & teaching which foreclose alternative pedagogies.

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Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Universities often encourage academics to leave their ivory towers. Yet such work is veiled in risk assessments and reputational management. In this Dispatch, Eric Lybeck argues for the slow and uneven practice of meaningful civic engagement

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What Makes Public Engagement So Difficult (and Why It Still Matters)

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Myself and colleagues from across Higher Ed have gathered under the auspices of @isrfoundation.bsky.social to think about new models for Higher Education... We'll be adding pieces as we go, and we've already published quite a few. We can't go on like this, and we shouldn't. isrf.org/projects/rec...

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Reconstructing the British University

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 09/06/2026

It's just such transparent elitism and shuttering of HE. And it's nonsense. Birkbeck English department ranked 2nd in the country for research in the last REF. Many other success stories from universities that this report would like to dismiss.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 05/06/2026

My Thinking Through Printing keynote began with this provocation—as an interface for interacting with large language models, the chat box relies on a flawed skeuomorphism that misleads users, obscuring rather than revealing the relationship between users’ inputs & the language model systems’ outputs

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A Skeuomorphic View of Book History | Ryan C. Cordell

Book history, digital humanities, old newspapers, and information sciences

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Helen Dallas @helcdall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Come along tomorrow at 5pm BST to this exciting @bars.bsky.social digital event on Romantic drama and contemporary performance that I organised with Chris Bundock, featuring amazing speakers doing very cool work with 18th C and Romantic theatre! Sign up: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6461

Romantic Drama, Contemporary Performance: A Roundtable Discussion

With support from the Centre for Theatre Research and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Literary Studies at the University of Essex

Well into the twentieth century it was common to think of Romanticism as a period somewhat allergic to the stage. Even today, anthologies and surveys of the period emphasise the achievements of lyric poetry and the novel. When drama does arise, it often takes the form of what Byron called “mental theatre.” However, over the last 30 or 40 years, scholars have challenged this view to reveal in the period a “ranging debate about the theatre” in which, according to Greg Kucich,“there is a recurrent insistence on stage production as an indispensable component of dramatic writing.” This roundtable builds on this critical reassessment of the Romantic stage and how it informs contemporary work on Romantic drama. The question of whether (and which) Romantic plays were viable on the commercial stage has been re-energised by the emergence of practice-as-research methodologies, which have seen contemporary scholars experimenting with producing Romantic drama for modern audiences.

Join our speakers, Chris Bundock, Helen Dallas, David Francis Taylor, James Harriman-Smith, Omar F. Miranda, for a roundtable on Romantic theatre and its afterlives!

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Relieved to see more coverage of the grip Nous is getting on #UKHE. Thanks @privateeyenews.bsky.social! A million pound @cardiffucu.bsky.social alone. That’s a lot of money for the very same PowerPoint…

Scrap merchants. Australian management consultancy Nous, which promises to help universities define the pathway forward for budget model change, has been picking up plenty of lucrative work in the struggling UK higher education sector this year. Having been involved in controversial restructurings at Australian and Canadian universities, Eye 1659 notes last year that the company was one of several being paid thousands of pounds for management advice by de Montfort University (which has its own business school chock full of people who teach postgraduate-level management). Since thenNous is known to have advised the university of Edinburgh on academic efficiency opportunities, carried out a portfolio review at QMUL and been involved in the hunt for savings atpartsmoith, Plymouth, and Derby universities. Information released by Cardiff university, in response to a freedom of information request from UCU revealed the university has paid more than £1 million to Nous in the last couple of years much of it for transformationsupport

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Really enjoyed William #Kentridge's Mackenzie Lecture, in conversation with Peter McDonald at the Schwarzman yesterday. I am so looking forward to discussing the codex as a moving image technology in "Waiting for the Sibyl" at Textual Ecologies in Passau in July.

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

So looking forward to discussing Blake's approaches to illustration @blakesociety.bsky.social

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

For arts and humanities PhDs, the proportion in teaching-only roles rose from 28% to 33% 2018-2022. Just a reminder that the British Academy's ECRN is designed for recent (within 10 years) UK SHAPE postdocs, whether working in universities or not, has resources for you, and is free to join. 2/2

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Early Career Researcher Network

An inclusive, researcher-led network for UK-based early career researchers working in the humanities and social sciences

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 20/05/2026

Very much looking forward to the Textual Ecologies conference!I will be speaking on a panel with @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social and Elaine Treharne :)

Textual Ecologies:
Media, Materials,
Environments

15–17 July 2026, University of Passau

Speakers:
Tania Aguila-Way
Edward Allen
Miranda Burgess
Luisa Calè
Alex da Costa
Polly Dickson
Caroline Edwards
Martin Eve
Martin Foys
Amy Gore
Matt Kerr
Matthew Kirschenbaum
Karis Kraus
Victoria Mills
Hannah Ryley
Susanna Sacks
Devani Singh
Tim Shao-Hung Teng
Elaine Treharne

Conference Organizers: Katharina Boehm, Luisa Calè,
Orietta Da Rold, and Victoria Mills

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

In 1811 Thomas Frognall Dibdin claimed that a collector had illustrated four lines of Genesis with 700 plates. Today's marvel: #PhysicaSacra

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Come and join us for the opening of the Jo Spence exhibition, curated by Patrizia di Bello, in the Peltz Gallery: www.bbk.ac.uk/research/cen...

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Current Exhibition - Birkbeck, University of London

Information about current exhibitions and events at Peltz Gallery at Birkbeck, University of London.

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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

EVENT! Thinking Forwards:Collaboration :The Davy Notebooks Project A crowdsourced initiative to transcribe & study notebooks of Sir Humphry Davy (1778–1829), revealing a pioneering chemist & poet whose ideas emerged through collaboration - SIGN UP! englishassociation.ac.uk/thinking-for...

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Thinking Forwards: Collaboration | The Davy Notebooks (15 May 2026, 13:00 - 14:00) | The English Association

We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Looking forward to joining an interactive reading of #Blake's #Jerusalem at #Blake'sCottage in Felpham on Saturday. @blakecottagetrust.bsky.social @blakesociety.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/breaking-t...

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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We’re very pleased to share news of this research fellowship position, working with our wonderful CECS / English Literature colleague Prof Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social on the collected works of Mary Wollstonecraft: 🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL782/r...

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Research Fellowship: The Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft at University of York

Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Fellowship: The Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

15 Floreal... I did not know that the Paris Commune reinstated the revolutionary calendar.

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

'How do you know but ev'ry bird that cuts the airy way, is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?' #Blake's question's in my head thinking about birds taking flight, inspired by the new Wonder of Birds exhibition @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Do see it, if you can.

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Looking forward to Morris and Utopia #BBKArtsWeek Join us on 5 May at 6pm Birkbeck, Clore Auditorium, 27 Torrington Sq., London Book your free place here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... @drvickymills.bsky.social

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

#BBKArtsWeek: this is the best time in the year, when we open our doors to share projects, ideas, dreams: Centre for Nineeteenth-Century Studies William #Morris & #Utopia Michael Robertson 5 May, 6pm, Birkbeck Clore, Torrington Square. Details & free booking here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

A lovely post from Jeanette Croen, a PhD placement student, on her work at the British Library doing computational analysis on early printed book descriptions www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

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Computational analysis of book descriptions: placement project

A PhD placement reflects on her time at the British Library and her research in using computational analysis on early printed book descriptions.

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Happy for, inspired by and proud of @luisacale.bsky.social and her stunning inaugural lecture today. Watched a dear friend reach a career milestone and a truly intermedial scholar share her latest trailblazing work in book history and visual culture. Congratulations Professor Calè!

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Liber Studiorum: thinking about the serial formalism produced by book formats through #Turner digressions as I get ready for my talk tomorrow: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

This may not be as striking a headline as immediate redundancies in the triple figures, but it is as impactful in overturning what academia is. The consultancies are removing research from education, taking the bite out of what university is and does.

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Exodus: Reading for the Images in & out of Books -- How is the Exodus narrative questioned & challenged by pictures? #Turner, #Blake, an 1880s half-tone of an exhumed #mummy as a head vignette at the beginning of Exodus. Join us in-person in London or online on 26/3. Book here: shorturl.at/pxGAm

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

A dream of nine nights: so looking forward to hearing about #Blake's The Four Zoas through the eyes of a contemporary artist @blakesociety.bsky.social

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Off to see some #Turner sketchbooks on Thursday, so I am looking for inspiring essays about the #sketchbook as a cultural form and material support for invention. Please send recommendations

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Please join us to discuss detached pieces, single leaves, and un/bound forms, and mark the publication of The Book Unbound @universitypress.cambridge.org Friday 30 January, Senate House, University of London @ies-sas.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social, @bsecs.bsky.social please spread the word

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Looking forward to discussing printmakers' book forms with printmaker and book artist Marina Bindella in Rome tomorrow. This is the first outing of my monograph The Book Unbound, coming out universitypress.cambridge.org on 8 January. @blakesociety.bsky.social @blakequarterly.bsky.social

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

How odd to bump into #Blake's life mask at the National Portrait Gallery on the day he died

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

follow serpentine paths: will Eternity swallow 'the vast / Leviathan, the Bubbles vain, that ride / High on the foaming Billow'? This #Blake watercolour @britishmuseum.bsky.social sees a scaly green man riding his glorious green serpent up from the bottom of the sea around Edward Young's words...

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Applications are invited for the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher with expertise in digital and spatial humanities (11 months, whole-time) - to work with me and @insightcentre.bsky.social on a project called 'Data Travels: Analysing the Ladies of Llangollen'. ore.ucc.ie (Job ID: 088233)

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University College Cork Vacancies

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