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Paul Babinski @paulbabinski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Come join us in Athens! My department (the Department of Religion at the University of Georgia) is hiring an Assistant Professor of Religion specializing in religion, ethics, and politics. Please apply and spread the word.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

My heart is heavy that we are making a collective miscalculation in undervaluing the humanities - from my FT piece www.ft.com/content/fbde...

Thinking is hard. Reflection is hard. Perhaps we will persist with our collective miscalculation and ignore all that philosophy, literature, classics and history have to offer us. The humanities have a word for this: tragedy.

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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oxford is looking for a new Chair in History of Art - please share widely my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together

photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Jesus. 35 UK universities quietly- without debate - joined the Ministry of Defence’s “Battlefield Alliance” which seeks to “reorientate academia towards Defence and National Security” They’re destroying the social sciences and humanities while militarising the institutions

• Durham University
• Newcastle University
• Northumbria University
• Lancaster University
• University of Cumbria
• University of Lancashire
• University of Liverpool
• University of Manchester
• University of Huddersfield
• University of Sheffield
• University of York
• Loughborough University
• University of Lincoln
• University of Nottingham
• Aston University
• University of Birmingham
• University of Warwick
• King's College London
• Kingston University
• Queen Mary University of London
• University College London
• University of Oxford
• University of Portsmouth
• University of Surrey
• University of Bath
• University of Bristol
• University of Exeter
• University of Plymouth
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Glasgow
• University of Strathclyde
• Cardiff University
• Swansea University
• Queens University Belfast
• Cranfield University

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14 July 2026
UK Universities Betray Public Trust by Joining MoD's 'Battlefield Advantage' Alliance
Without Debate
A coalition of campaign groups has accused UK universities of quietly integrating themselves into Britain's defence infrastructure after 35 institutions signed up to the Ministry of Defence's Defence Universities Alliance (DUA).
The Ministry of Defence says the alliance aims to "reorientate academia towards Defence and National Security", strengthen links between universities and the defence sector, and translate research into "battlefield advantage".
Campaigners say the move represents a significant shift in the role of higher education and has taken place without meaningful public debate.
Among the founding members are the University of Oxford, University College London, King's College London, the University of Manchester, the University of Edinburgh, Cardiff University and Queen's University Belfast.
"We are witnessing the formal incorporation of Britain's universities into the defence ecosystem," said Jinsella Kennaway, Founder and Executive Director of Demilitarise Education.
"The Ministry of Defence is explicit about its intentions. Universities exist to advance knowledge and foster critical inquiry, not to become pipelines for military research and defence recruitment.
Students and staff deserve to know who agreed to this and why."
Campaigners are calling on all 35 universities to publish the governance documents and board minutes relating to their decision to join the alliance, and to explain whether staff and students were consulted.
Many UK universities already maintain relationships with major defence companies, including BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, Leonardo, Thales, Lockheed Martin and QinetiQ. Critics argue that the DUA formalises and accelerates the integration of academia, industry and the state.
The coalition warns that, at a time of rising defence spending, universities risk becoming increasingly aligned with governme…

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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Just over 2 weeks to go for this fully-funded PhD on long 19th-century France - projects welcome on history, literature, culture, music, medical humanities, clothing and more.

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Julia Hartley @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

So many emotions seeing the architectural art of Achaemenid Susa at the Louvre in real life for the first time in years. Even though I have written about it for years, I had somehow forgotten quite how awe-inspiring the scale and the beauty were.

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

MLO | Most Read 'Italo Pizzi’s Shahnameh: Oriental Studies, Comparison, and Translation at the Origins of the Italian Nation' by @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social ➡️ Read it freely #OA: bit.ly/MLO-Hartley @hpartzsch.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social @saraharens.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Now online! A book forum collection on "Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France" (Tauris & Co, 2025) by @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social. In time the forum will emerge as a print issue - do see her thread on the contributions below ⤵️

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Julia Hartley @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Part of a special issue on Comparative Literature and Translation edited by my colleagues @hpartzsch.bsky.social and @drmirnasolic.bsky.social.

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Julia Hartley @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

My essay 'Italo Pizzi’s Shahnameh: Oriental Studies, Comparison, and Translation at the Origins of the Italian Nation' is now live on @modlangopen.bsky.social ! It expands the origin story of Comparative/World Literature via Oriental Studies by looking at a forgotten Italian. doi.org/10.3828/mlo....

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Paul Babinski @paulbabinski.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I was very happy to be part of this special issue on Julia's wonderful book, which I used as an opportunity to reflect on the broader history of Persian literature in Europe and the limits of viewing translation and literary history through a national lens.

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Julia Hartley @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

It was so intellectually rewarding to work with @global-ih.bsky.social on a special section on my book! The essays by @paulbabinski.bsky.social and @drjoeford.bsky.social extended the reflection temporally, while @saraharens.bsky.social and Richard Hibbitt made me reflect on my critical method.

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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Over the moon for having been awarded a 12-month Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 'Experimental Empire: Science, Technology, and Belgian Colonialism, 1897-1958' and beyond grateful to my wonderful academic pals + my endlessly patient colleagues at @livunihss.bsky.social 💚

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

MOST READ | 'Multilingual Locals and Significant Geographies: For a Ground-up and Located Approach to World Literature' by Karima Laachir, @saramarzagora.bsky.social & Francesca Orsini. Read it #OA: bit.ly/MLO-LMO @saraharens.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social @fmussgnug.bsky.social

'Multilingual Locals and Significant Geographies: For a Ground-up and Located Approach to World Literature' by Karima Laachir, Sara Marzagora, and Francesca Orsini.

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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 02/12/2025

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

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Julia Hartley @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Excited to give the keynote for the Dante Futures conference tomorrow at Warwick, where I was a Leverhulme ECF. The interconnection between Medievalism and Orientalism is a new topic for me and I look forward to the conversations at the conference and beyond with Dantists & scholars of Orientalism.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

So a book I need to see — Albert Schouteet, De klerken van de Vierschaar te Brugge met inventaris van hun protocollen (Brugge, 1973) — seems only to exist in a couple of libraries in Belgium and the Netherlands. If it's near you and you could take some pictures, I'll happily pay for your time!

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Popular article on MLO this week⬇️ 'Investigating the Canon: The Reader as Detective in Reworkings of Madame Bovary and Jane Eyre' by Dr Katie Jones @standrewsenglish.bsky.social Read it #OpenAccess: bit.ly/_Detective @saraharens.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social @saramarzagora.bsky.social

'Investigating the Canon: The Reader as Detective in Reworkings of Madame Bovary and Jane Eyre' by Katie Jones on a purple and lilac banner.

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Julia Hartley @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

We are on! Alexander’s Feast staets now live on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social I’ll be doing the interval commentary at 8.30pm, telling more about Achaemenid Persia, the burning of Persepolis and its Western retellings.

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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

🚨 Tim Unwin Early Career Researcher Grant 🚨 Early career researcher grants of up to £500 are available to SDN members to assist with a research project related to 19th-century French studies. Send us your application by 1 September! More info here: uksdn.co.uk/ecr-grant/

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Tim Unwin Early Career Researcher Grant SDN ECR Grant_Application form with notesDownload Early career researcher grants of up to £500 are available to members of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes to…

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

We are delighted to share this year's LUP Reviewer Rewards. Read the full list on the LUP blog: bit.ly/ReviewerRewards24 Winners include: ‪ @amyhubbell.bsky.social @sonjasg.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social @goringpd.bsky.social Congratulations to all recipients!🏆

'Liverpool University Press Reviewer Rewards: Rewarding excellence in scholarly reviewing from leading journals at Liverpool University Press' written in red font on a cream background with a line drawing of a trophy on the bottom left of the image.

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The University of Glasgow & the British Library have announced a fully funded PhD Studentship on "Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practice and Inclusion in a National Collection" www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

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Julia Hartley @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

A truly special occasion and a great reminder of why we chose a career in academia.

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Julia Hartley @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Very excited to see the BBC Proms programme released today and to share that I'll be returning this year as an interval commentator for the performance of Handel's 'Alexander's Feast' on 30/8/25! I'll be talking Persepolis🔥 🏛️🔥 and operatic treatments of Persia 🎼 👑🗡️📯 www.bbc.co.uk/events/e8qbc....

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Julia Hartley @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

In today's episode of Julia's deep dive into Italian Orientalism, Italo Pizzi (who was to become Italy's first Professor of Persian) writes in 1878 of the dejection of being thirty and having to rely on precarious teaching positions due to not having found permanent academic employment in his field.

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Julia Hartley @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

After almost a decade of working on French Orientalism, I'm turning to Italian Orientalism. Today's two highlights from De Gubernatis, founding father of Italian Oriental Studies: 1) he brags about Renan blowing him a kiss at a conference 2) proudly declares his right to research everything he loves

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Kate Astbury @100days1815.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

2000 Black prisoners of war were brought to Portchester Castle in 1796. Abigail Coppins has been meticulously researching them since 2008 but unscrupulous writers are taking her research without citing her properly. If you read someone else on Portchester, it’ll be her work they’re basing it on 🗃️

A view of the map on the floor at Portchester taken from the mezzanine gallery

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Julia Hartley @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Both my books and several articles. Enraging.

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Julia Hartley @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

As it’s that time of year, here is a throwback to a Nowruz (Persian New Year) special of BBC Radio’s 3 Thinking that I recorded last year in excellent company: Michelle Assay, Susan Babaie and our own @UofGlasgow Ide Haghi. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Belgian university VUB is offering funding and a dedicated point of contact to attract US researchers whose work is in jeopardy 🇧🇪 press.vub.ac.be/vub-zet-deur...

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VUB zet deuren open voor gecensureerde Amerikaanse onderzoekers

Universiteit voorziet budgetten en contactpunt voor Amerikaanse onderzoekers die willen verhuizen naar Brussel

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Julia Hartley @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The challenge of teaching Mary Renault's The Persian Boy is... fighting back the tears before class 😭❤️

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Julia Hartley @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Off to Liverpool to give a talk on my current book project! If you are in town it's tomorrow (Wednesday) at 1pm at 7 Abercromby Square, Seminar Room 6, hosted by @saraharens.bsky.social as part of the Languages, Cultures and Film Departmental Seminar Series.

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Julia Hartley @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Yesterday I had the trepidation and then the joy of reading the Journal of @frenchstudies.bsky.social review of my book Iran and French Orientalism by none other than Prof Michèle Hannoosh. 🤩

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