So where can art history take you?

We've taken our @marsdenfund.bsky.social "Poetics of Treaties" project on the road! Spending time today at the Agowiidiwinan Centre & at the Museum of Human Rights thinking about treaties in those contexts, then speaking tomorrow at UW. Thank you to @kerrysinanan.bsky.social for hosting us there

Please join the ELCC programme for the launch of Charles Ferrall's new book this Thursday at Unity! www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-eve...

Rawe! 50 years of Maori language week today: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... ""We've gone from a time when te reo Māori was barely heard in public, to a time when it's sung in stadiums, spoken in workplaces and celebrated in our homes."

#HowToDad doing the mahi that nz news won’t #blackferns

Congratulations to our very own Charles Ferrall on his new book! It's being launched at Unity Books on Thurs 18 Sept - hope to see you there

This is how you know you’re at the cutting edge of your field! 🤣

Māori Wards honour Te Tiriti. They ensure Māori voices are at the council table helping to make better decisions. That makes local democracy fairer, more representative and better for everyone. Vote to KEEP Māori Wards.

this comes out next week (i’m teaching it the week after!) Northanger Abbey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) By Jane Austen Introduction by Patricia A. Matthew Edited by Patricia A. Matthew

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As someone whose work has benefitted hugely from both the ANU and its Humanities Research Centre, this cause is close to my heart - please sign to protect colleagues from redundancy and to defend the Humanities: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...

@annagk.bsky.social and I are welcoming short pedagogy articles/approaches that use Dickens's Working Notes, or that center compositional process or serial form in some way. If you teach Dickens, check out the dickensnotes.com platform!

"AI has no Dreaming, it has no kinship, country, or cultural obligations," she said. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Sometimes I feel like a chump. But on a good day? With my students? I hope anyway.

I'm really honoured to have been asked to give the keynote for the online BARS conference in 2026. Hope to connect with you all then

The New Zealand Election Study data for the 2023 general election is now out, and available publicly at dataverse. I have remade my Treaty graph, replacing 2020 with 2023. The long term trend towards Toitū Te Tiriti is unchanged.

Great work here from Tina Ngata - a website where you can look up Tiriti positive local body candidates 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 #Aotearoa www.votefortetiriti.com

very much saddened to learn that bucknell university press will be closing. they took a chance on my first book when other presses said it was too short or too narrowly focused on minor authors. www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

“Seeing vowels present in Māori words grows a person’s ability to communicate and to understand New Zealand English, of which many Māori words are an everyday part.” — Vincent Olsen-Reeder and Corinne Seals.

Every work email that begins "Say hello to..." always contains unspeakable horrors

A collage conversation to celebrate The Venetian Blind Poems - poets ask about punctuation, politics, writing as an invasion of your own privacy, poetry as a form of friendship... nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/08/12/p...

…I’m also struck that they — in their brilliance, creativity, competence, and ethical commitment — represent what the academy *could be*, but it’s burning them all out, exhausting their goodwill. Their obligations are now to each other, rather than to the industry for which they’ve sacrificed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CXg... #ToitūTeTiriti

In which choosing a subject you like and excel at is described as "gaming the system" 🙄 www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

Terrier, Worrier doesn't come out in the US till November so there's still time to forget you pre-ordered it and be surprised! www.skylightbooks.com/search/site/...

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Oz history people, I'm interested in reading about Thomas Brisbane and the land grants system in the early 1820s - any good recommendations for books or articles? @kfullagar.bsky.social, you might have some suggestions?

Wellington 😍

11-year-old me would have been delighted at the thought of this possibility! Hope someone takes it up 👇

This is heartbreaking news. Amelia is a wonderful scholar and it's so cruel to force colleagues into competition with each other. Solidarity with our friends at the ANU

FINAL REMINDER: *JULY 1* deadline for abstracts for the Romantic Studies Association of Australasia / David Nichol Smith conference in Wellington, New Zealand The theme is "Living / Building" w/ keynotes Manu Samriti Chander, Karen Harvey, and Ngarino Ellis ⭐ CFP👇 www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...

Great news for Ingrid Horrocks, who worked on this book as our THW-Creative NZ Writer in Residence in 2023!

Everything to play for! ❤️👀🏀

'Sancho and his World', a British Academy/Northeastern University Conference in March 2026. CFP deadline, 14th July 2025. #18thC #18thCentury #18C #CFP @bsecs.bsky.social

Oh man, we're now on to THIS! ♥️😢 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewxm...

I'm at HOME cafe at the National Library today, and they've got the most incredible 80s love ballad playlist going - the memories! the feeeeelings! ♥️♥️ Right now, it's this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfk6...

If you are in Christchurch, come along on Tuesday? Erik Kennedy, Helen Rickerby, Vana Manasiadis and Claudia Jardine are all going to be reading new work, as we give Terrier Worrier a South Island launch, at Scorpio Books: scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-l...

Mānawahia a Matariki

Only 2 weeks left till our CFP closes for this year's 18C & Romantic studies conference in Wellington! Great abstracts so far, and looking forward to what the next 2 weeks delivers - keep them coming! Keynotes: Ngarino Ellis, Manu Samriti Chander, & Karen Harvey www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...

A wild, mournful day here in Pōneke, but I’m loving the mix of autumn oranges, yellows, greens and reds amongst these trees

Congratulations to former ELCC PhD students Lindsay Hayasaka (nee Morton) and Mehdy Sedaghat Payam, who have won the 2025 Susan L Greenberg Prize for the best research paper at the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies)! We love seeing our graduates out succeeding in the world ❤️

Congratulations @dougalmcneill.bsky.social 🎉

18C people, can anyone point me to environmental or ecological readings of Gray's Elegy?

The moon from von Zedlitz

We've got our 1st abstracts for our 18C & Romanticism conference in Wellington! The CFP is open now & we're making rolling decisions, so we will be able to give you an answer promptly. We also have bursaries for ECRs, postgrads, & precarious employed colleagues. www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...

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“The need for these discussions is urgent. We have perhaps not progressed the conversation as far as we ought to have in the nearly 10 years since the publication of the Matike Mai report.” — Carwyn Jones.