Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue: "Contaminated Bodies, Contaminated Lands: Transcorporeality in Eco-narratives" Interdisciplinary Literary Studies. A Journal of Criticism and Theory networks.h-net.org/group/announ... Deadline: until 30th of November 2025

One week left to send us your amazing proposals for papers on medical themes or for flashlight talks on your current projects on any topic (neo)Victorian!

Friendly reminder that you can still send us your proposals! 📝🩺 The workshop is free and open to all 🙌

Now that the ink is dry, I am excited to announce that I will take my energy project north & start a new position as lecturer and researcher at the University of Bremen next month! I look forward to working with Ursula Kluwick & the fantastic blue humanities team in Bremen over the next 6 years 🌊🪸📚

Die von der #Union torpedierte Wahl der Verfassungs­richter ist kein Betriebs­unfall, sondern Anzeichen eines Richtungs­kampfes bei den Konser­va­tiven, meint Wolfgang Hübner. Vor allem vor Jens #Spahn solle man aufpassen. 👉 buff.ly/VuMZQZm

INDIANA JONES AND THE INTERMINABLE FACULTY MEETING

Our next DACH Victorianists workshop will happen in December (see below). Yay! Consider submitting a proposal and spread the word!

📢CFP -- "Mediating Medicine: Health and Illness in the Victorian Age", 5 December 2025, Online Workshop Send us your proposals for 15min papers or 5min flashlight talks by 30 Sept!⚕️💉👨‍⚕️🚑📖📰 PGR, ERC & NeoVictorian contributions very welcome 🫶 #MedHum #19Century #Victorian shorturl.at/ePhU5

The final roundtable on Extractivism and Material Histories features Madhavi Jha, Nic Wong and Oliver Tappe in discussion: soundcloud.com/ucd-humaniti...

Missed the Minerals roundtable series? Luckily we recorded all the sessions & the final two are now available! Listen to Roundtable III: Extraction & Forms of Representation with @nathankhensley.bsky.social @juliaditter.bsky.social Adelene Buckland & Charlotte Rogers: soundcloud.com/ucd-humaniti...

Die österreichische Hanna heißt Conni! Sie forscht prekär in Wien statt Washington, aber das wird als Erfolg verkauft. @unterbauuniwien.bsky.social hat das richtig gestellt: www.instagram.com/p/DKZdKu_MESH/ #ichBinHanna #ichBinConni

Our PGR Network are hosting a conference 'Disability within Environments: disability studies perspectives' on 17th September 2025. The call for papers is live with a deadline of 12th June. Please share with your networks

Deadline extended to 13 June! Send us your brilliant work please! 📝📚

Deadline extended to 13 June! We are particularly looking for nominations for the positions of Chair, Vice-Chair, and Publicity Officer. If you have questions about Chair / Vice-Chair, get in touch with @tedilta.bsky.social; for publicity officer @juliaditter.bsky.social can answer your questions.

„…die Entscheidung der Gründer, an 1 Konzern zu verkaufen, der Profit über alles stellt u bekannt dafür ist, die Mitarbeiter*innen, die das Produkt aufgebaut haben, rücksichtslos zu feuern.“ Wenn der angebliche „family“ Spirit in #StartUps dann endet, haben die einen 300 Mio.. Die anderen: nichts.

Adriana Smith was 9 weeks pregnant when she died. Her body has being kept ‘alive’ by machines for the last 3 months, (and is ongoing) forced to grow a foetus that has fluid in the brain and may not survive birth. All because of Georgia’s abortion ban. This is absolutely sickening.

Remembering Coal: legacy, memories, heritage Monday 16 June (all day) University of Birmingham Panel discussions available to view online as well as those attending in-person. Visitors free to dip in and out of the day's activities. #UoB125 To register & info www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rememberin...

🔊C21 are excited to be commissioning a series of new review essays! Check out the suggestion of topics and titles in this thread and get in touch via email or DM our review editors (@heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and @olihaslam.bsky.social) if you’d like to review any of these recent publications!📖

Friends, I am seeking a historian in either Irish or Scottish lore specialized in leviathans, basking sharks, or any other marine creatures.

Hands up everyone who works on the #history, #aesthetics & #geography of #logistics & #energy ! What is your take / project?

Excited about travelling to Hamburg later today to meet many of my lovely colleagues and learn more about their research in the medical humanities! 🩺⚕️📚📺

Looking forward to talk about my research on Scottish literature, environmental methodologies, borders and literary form at the Scot Hub next week! 📚⛰️🐔🌊

Really pleased to announce our new series, 'The New Nineteenth Century', which tracks the ever-evolving dynamism of long nineteenth-century studies by publishing exciting innovations and diverse voices in the field. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/th... Reach out if interested!

Proofs are in! 'Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel' should find its way into circulation later this year with CUP 👀🚂 Too many folk to thank here but those acknowledgements are full! www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

With our new website, official membership registration is now open at the following rates: Benefits: attend the yearly conference, submit your work for the yearly monograph, postgraduate essay and edited collection prizes, receive monthly newsletters and more! Sign up here: bacls.org/site/join/

Come join our Executive Committee by nominating yourself by 23rd May 2025! We are looking to fill the following positions: Chair Vice Chair Treasurer Membership Secretary Web Administrator Publicity Officer 3 Graduate Student Reps 1 Ordinary Member Details: bacls.org/site/site/me...

🏆📚 The BACLS Monograph Prize, Edited Collection Prize and Postgraduate Essay Prize are now open for submission! Entries are invited for work published in 2024 in the English language on any area of ‘contemporary literary studies’. Deadline: 23 May More details: bacls.org/site/prizes/...

maybe I’m naive but I never expected the university to spend quite so much money sabotaging any attempt to teach my students to fucking read

Lost in the world of medical drama and nearly done with my talk for our BritCult workshop on illness and health next week. Super excited to see and meet everyone! 🩺🏥⚕️💊 More info here: www.britcult.de/category/wok...

Die AfD will die öffentlich-rechtlichen Medien abschaffen. Doch die größte Gefahr liegt woanders. Die Sender sind von innen heraus bedroht.

By "free speech," the Americans mean creating a media environment in your country dominated by American digital fascism preparatory to right-wing regime change. Vance essentially said as much in Munich. Give in now, forget about sovereignty later. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

📣📣 THE NDHUMS MENTORSHIP SCHEME 2025/26 IS LIVE! We are delighted to announce that our non-hierarchical neurodivergent research partnership programme is now open for applications. Follow the link to learn more and apply. ndhumanities.com/mentorship-s...

2/ Link to Mother Jones article about Joe Kent. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, ASLE's journal, is seeking a managing editor. Deadline to apply April 28, 2025, details at www.asle.org/stay-informe... #AcademicSky #envhum

CFP for a special issue of Victorian Periodicals Review in honour of Brian Maidment:

We are delighted to announce that the competition is now open for the 2025 biennial ASLE-UKI book prizes in three categories: academic monograph, prose creative writing, and poetry. The closing date for nominations is 15 April. Find out more and nominate a title online: asle.org.uk/awards/book-...

When you’re chronically ill, it takes a spectacular amount of energy to engage with the world Most of our suffering occurs behind closed doors. People have no idea how hard it is for us to survive another day We hide our pain. We say “I’m fine” when we’re anything but What if we stopped hiding?

Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving. Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.

They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30. “Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government” They are so afraid of us.

CFP: Victorian Infrastructures and their Environmental Legacies Irmtraud Huber and I are looking for submissions to our special collection to be published with @openlibhums.bsky.social Abstracts due 31 October, full texts due 31 March '26. Find the full CFP here: shorturl.at/OvPc4

#CFP/ Call for Papers: #OLHJournal Special Collection "Victorian Infrastructures and their Environmental Legacies", guest edited by Julia Ditter (@juliaditter.bsky.social) and Irmtraud Huber: www.openlibhums.org/news/796/ 📅 Deadline 31 October 2025

CFP: Victorian Infrastructures and their Environmental Legacies Irmtraud Huber and I are looking for submissions to our special collection to be published with @openlibhums.bsky.social Abstracts due 31 October, full texts due 31 March '26. Find the full CFP here: shorturl.at/OvPc4

This is such a heartwarming thread.

🚨 I am delighted to announce that Tom Turnbull’s and my volume with @stanfordpress.bsky.social is out today, featuring Jennifer Eaglin, Victor Seow, Shellen Wu, Antoine Missemer, Giuliano Garavini, Michael Dobson, Laura A. Twagira, Damilola Adebayo, Troy Vettese, Liz Chatterjee, and Rebecca Wright

Readers & literary scholars, do you know any novels where a #port / #harbour plays a central or at least important role? (any period, any language) #literature

📢Exciting opportunity: @c21literature.bsky.social is seeking a new editor for a three-year term, to start on 19th May 2025 C21, the journal of BACLS, is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication & circulation of 21C writings. More details on the role: c21.openlibhums.org/news/793/

My lovely dept, The School of English at Trinity College Dublin, is hiring! We are looking for a postcolonial scholar who can also teach American literature. We’re a lovely bunch, I promise. Please spread the word!

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland, is now on Bluesky. Please sign up for the latest ASLE-UKI news. As always, you can also find us, and join us, on our website at www.asle.org.uk. See you soon!

Hello, world! The Universityof Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies has moved to this platform, and will share news of its activities here. Posts will be created members of the CVS.