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Yugin Teo @yugin.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

World Literature Podcast Parts 2 & 3 on the 20th Anniversary of the publication of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go with me and Laura Colombino, and hosted by Ivan Stacy, is now available on their YouTube channel youtu.be/1vILMft2DkQ?... #ishiguro #kazuoishiguro #neverletmego #faber

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Never Let Me Go with Laura Colombino and Yugin Teo - part 2

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Time to shamelessly promote this new #comicsstudies collection ‘Horror and Comics’ - edited by me, @barbarachamberlin.bsky.social and @komkunyosying - and packed with #horror themed goodness and looking at a global selection of comics! Due to be published by university of wales press next month.

My hand holding a Hardback book entitled ‘Horror and Comics’ with a cover picture of some battered copies of creepy and various Spanish comics on a rack at a flea market

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

With GCSE English exams looming, it's time to dust off of my most popular posts (and pet hates). It's not too late to change your mind about metre, kids! someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/10-reasons...

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10 Reasons Why the Iambic Pentameter is Not Like the Human Heartbeat

On an idea about poetry that needs to die

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The programme is now up and registration is now open for our Literatures & Medicines Online Symposium (April 23 2025)--please check it out and sign up! www.litsampersand.org/literatures-... #medicalhumanities #literature #onlineevent @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

We're delighted to host Kirsty Logan, author of the short story collection No & Other Love Stories (2025) and the novel Now She Is Witch (2023) etc. this Wednesday at our speaker series. Everyone is welcome--scroll down here for Zoom details: www.litsampersand.org/nccr #kirstylogan #authortalks

Cover of No & Other Love Stories by Kirsty Logan, a pink lollipop with a wasp or bee perched on it

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Unfortunately we have to cancel this for today, but we'll reschedule for as soon as we can!

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Legendary hater Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin from @lettersofnote:

I loathe, I abhor the sea and all ships which sail on it. --Charles Darwin to his sister, 4 Aug 1836

I hate a barnacle as no man ever did before -- Charles Darwin to William Fox 24 Oct 1852

I am very tired, very stomachy and hate nearly the whole world. -- Charles Darwin to Thomas Haxley 10 September 1860

I am poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything -- Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell 1 Oct 1861

I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees. -- Charles Darwin to John Lubbock 3 Sept 1862

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Everyone knows a shelf like this, right? Join us next week to think about what it all means, when @joparsons.bsky.social presents her research into the #bonkbuster at our online #NCCR seminar, Wed 26th Feb at 4pm UK time. Zoom link & deets here: www.litsampersand.org/nccr #shareyourshelf #literature

Shelf of books by authors like Judith Krantz and Jilly Cooper

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Loving the flurry of proposals as the deadline for our Literatures & Medicines Online Symposium approaches--it's February 15th (but realistically you've got till Monday EOB at least!) www.litsampersand.org/literatures-... #litsmeds2025 #medicalhumanities #literature #cfp @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

For #ValentinesDay, I'll be posting #HistoricalHearts Let's start with this life-size papier-mâché heart by the French anatomist Louis Thomas Jérôme Auzoux from the 19th century. Photo: Alex Peck.

A heart made from papier-mâché showing the veins and arteries in blue and red.

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Gentle reminder about our CFP for the April 'Literatures & Medicines Online Symposium'; deadline is Fri 15 Feb. Attendance and participation are free! #litsmeds2025 #medicalhumanities #literature #academia #cfp For more details see below: www.litsampersand.org/literatures-... Please share widely!

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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Excited to be sharing my love for the #bonkbuster with @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social in a couple of weeks. Thanks to @drmllz.bsky.social for inviting me to indulge myself in my favourite subject!

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Next week, the brilliant Prof. Tracey Loughran is running a series of online sessions for early career people in the medical humanities. I'm speaking on publishing, but there's also webinars on career opportunities and job applications. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/career-opp...

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Career Opportunities Within and Beyond the Health and Medical Humanities

What career opportunities are available for health and medical humanities researchers?

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Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Applications for our inky, thoughtful, fabulous and, importantly, funded, Print Matters Summer School close on Wednesday 12th February! www.thinicepress.org/events/print...

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Print Matters summer school: Thin Ice Press — Thin Ice Press

What does it mean to think about matter and materiality through the medium of letterpress printing?  We invite scholars of matter, materiality and/or material culture (broadly conceived) in any ...

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Artists have always loved to sketch! Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC. Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used flakes of limestone rather than paper sketchpads! MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #FindsFriday #Archaeology

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

So excited about our new poster for the April Literatures & Medicines Online Symposium! (Proposals due 15 Feb www.litsampersand.org/literatures-...) #litsmeds2025 #medicalhumanities #literature #academia #onlineconference @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

The image shows a woman looking over Bournemouth Pier and the seaside--it's designed to evoke an old Great Western Railway tourism poster

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Thrilled @cemathieson.bsky.social is keynoting our April Literatures & Medicines Online Symposium with 'From “seaside girls” to “the sun-tanning crowd”: Cultures of Suntanning in Britain, c.1900-1940'. CFP deadline Feb 15: www.litsampersand.org/literatures-... #literature #medicalhumanities #cfp

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

If you think today's news headlines are horrific, check out this one from 1906. Chilling.

A newspaper clipping that reads: "Noisy, Hungry Frogs Sadden Farmer's Life. They scare his cattle and they also eat his flannel shirt."

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

We're hosting an event this April: Literatures & Medicines Online Symposium--abstract deadline is February 15th. Participation and attendance are free. #onlineconference #literature #medicalhumanities #academia #litsmeds2025 www.litsampersand.org/literatures-...

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

We have a monthly online research seminar series--usually the last Wednesday of the month during the semester--everyone welcome! The details are here: www.litsampersand.org/nccr

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Hello from Bournemouth, Bluesky! We're an interdisciplinary research centre based in the Department of Humanities & Law which is based in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University, where the sun is currently almost shining.

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