🚨JOB KLAXON🚨 @kingsmusic.bsky.social is delighted to offer a permanent Lectureship/Senior Lectureship, starting ASAP, in the history of opera and/or music theatre (any timeframe) OR historically European music c. 1780 to1900. SHORT DEADLINE – 31 AUGUST APPLY HERE: tinyurl.com/2t34j665 SHARE!!!

SKIN OF THE CITY: an installation of 3000+ fragments of stony matter that have flaked, chipped or crumbled from the walls, pavements and roads of Glasgow, now forming a lithic map of the city. By our own Minty Donald, w Nick Millar + Malú Cayetano. Ends on Sun! architecturefringe.com/festivals/20...

Just two more weeks to go! We can't wait to see you at our summer showcase: 26 June, 7pm. Excerpts from 5 brilliant plays written by playwrights from our Playwriting & Dramaturgy MLitt, read by professional actors under Philip Howard's expert direction. Don't forget to book your free tickets! Link 👇

For those in/near Glasgow: we're celebrating the work of the fantastic playwrights in our Playwriting & Dramaturgy MLitt with a play-reading showcase on 26 June. We'd love you to join! Excerpts from new plays by Chris Kane, Kilda Kennedy, Sophie Pass, Matthew Taylor & Katy-Valentine Willcocks...

Glasgow pals: Maya El Naha & @theatrestudiesuog.bsky.social PhD researcher Gonca Yalcin are leading a workshop for children (5-12 yrs) involving story-telling & puppetry-making inspired by the book Olive Harvest in Palestine. 10 May 2pm CCA. Funds will be donated: www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/ol...

The Alfred Fagon Award, the leading award for Black British Playwrights is now open for 2025 entrants. You have until August 31st to enter and have the chance to join winners who include the outstanding Inua Ellams who won last time out…

Geographers! Please join 300 of us — at every career stage — who are urging the Royal Geographical Society to reaffirm its commitment to trans inclusion in the face of Supreme Court ruling, and to oppose the EHRC’s interim update. Sign by WED 30 April 1700 GMT docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Our Doctoral Researcher, Liam Young, and the Contemporary Research Group are organising this online event reflecting on the legacy of Fredric Jameson. Confirmed speakers are MP @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social and Dr Patricia McManus, author of Critical Theory and Dystopia (MUP, 2022). Please join us!

Bona diada de Sant Jordi a tothom! My favourite day of the year in Catalunya, when we express love and affection by gifting books and roses 🌹 📖

Lots of opportunities here - including a £2k commission to create a unique piece of artwork marking 25 yrs of advocacy and support in opening up arts and culture to deaf, deafened and hard of hearing audiences. Please share :)

Here two more scholarships for MA studies for students of Gaza at the Uni of Sussex, UK. Due date for applications 1st June 2025. Please share. www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

Rest in power, John Fox. Welfare State was a guiding light to a generation of theatre and performance-makers. 🏮

If you are planning to visit Spain for your holidays, please do consider alternatives to AirBnB - tourist flats are a big driver in the country's housing emergency, together with property speculation. Less flats available for long-term rent at spiralling places: folk simply can't afford to live.

And this by @alcs.co.uk contains some suggestions on what you can do about Meta's use of LibGen

The @societyofauthors.bsky.social has written to Lisa Nandy, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, demanding that Meta is held to account following allegations that authors’ works have been used without permission/remuneration to train its AI model. You can add your name here 👇

If this is for you, get involved. If it isn’t, let someone who might be know…

250,000 more people will face relative poverty after Rachel Reeves’ benefits cuts, DWP says – spring statement live

This looks great & what a brilliant set of guest speakers!

Pleased to have an essay in this new book on Dennis Kelly’s writing for stage and screen. Congratulations to Jacqueline Bolton and Nicholas Holden, who’ve edited the volume with such care and rigour. 👏

Sent off the final round of proofs for my book- out in August so plenty of time to add to modules on playwriting/ feminist theatre/ contemporary drama for next academic year😉 Chapters on plays by Jasmine Lee-Jones, RashDash, Ella Hickson, Alice Birch, Lucy Kirkwood www.bloomsbury.com/uk/radical-r...

Here's the link to join us on the live stream for 'Making Work Accessible' 🔗 youtube.com/live/25670NB... Come and join us now at The Lowry until 17:00! #transformingleadershipnational #leadershipdevelopment #disabilityemployement #accesstowork #disabilityart

My brilliant colleague Liz Tomlin has just published a short book on staging class conflict in the UK. ✨ FREE ✨ to read/download using this link: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Wonderful to welcome our second Theatre Studies Visiting Fellow to the University of Glasgow- Amanda Cumberbatch, who joins us from the University of the West Indies, Barbados.

If you are a Yorkshire-based artist working in any theatre discipline, take a look at Red Ladder's artist development policy. Wonderful folk.

A reminder that the calls for papers for the 13 working groups of the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA @tapra.bsky.social) are live. We’ll be hosting the event here at Warwick from 27-29 August 2025. The deadline for abstracts is 10 March. Details: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

Morning! Just a quick note to say that Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow is now on Bluesky! Do give us a follow for updates on our Glasgow Theatre seminar series, research events & other news ☺️ @theatrestudiesuog.bsky.social

BOOK LAUNCH!! 🎉 Super excited to launch my monograph Contemporary Performance & Political Economy. Join us on 27 March to hear responses by Shane Boyle (QMUL), Rosalie Doubal (Tate), Marcela Fuentes (Northwestern) & Elena Loizidou (BBK). Chair: Maria X (UaL). Details at: katerinaparamana.com/launch

Deadline approaching!

Very much looking forward to sharing some of the details of my new book, a global history of modern dance, courtesy of @rcsofficial.bsky.social Exchange Talks next week. Monday 24 Feb at 6pm (GMT), online and all welcome! events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a0bd2f...

Theatre Studies at Glasgow will be welcoming soon Hamish Mabala Neill, our inaugural Global South Visiting Fellow. We're delighted. You're all warmly welcome to his lecture presentation on theatre-making & applied theatre in South Africa. 21 Feb, 3pm GMT, hybrid: www.gla.ac.uk/events/listi...

How brilliant is this? Part self-governing writing group, part workshop series, part creative coaching for playwrights 🐎

Theatre Studies @uofglasgow.bsky.social & Scottish Theatre Archive are piloting a Practitioner Residency! Open to self-employed artist practitioners not funded in full by another org to develop a project engaging w/ archive. Fee: £2000. Deadline: 21 Feb. Pass it on! www.gla.ac.uk/subjects/the...

Theatre Studies @uofglasgow.bsky.social & Scottish Theatre Archive are piloting a Practitioner Residency! Open to self-employed artist practitioners not funded in full by another org to develop a project engaging w/ archive. Fee: £2000. Deadline: 21 Feb. Pass it on! www.gla.ac.uk/subjects/the...

Cardiff University is planning to cut all UG Provision in Modern Languages. We cannot and should not let this happen. Please, sign this petition: www.change.org/p/save-mlang...

After much forceful swaying under Storm Éowyn, a tree eventually came down in one of the neighbouring back courts. Thankfully, it didn't seem to cause any additional harm or damage... What a restless day, everything howling, swirling, trembling.

The Production Managers Forum and Scottish Theatre Sustainability Group are running a Sustainability Day on Thursday 20 March 2025 at the Tron Theatre. The theme is "Greening UK Theatre: a cross border dialogue". ♻️ www.productionmanagersforum.org/news/sustain...

Devastating news…

Just over a week until my exhibition of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins rare books and manuscripts closes at the Cadbury Research Library @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come and visit!

omg my book is now listed on Bloomsbury's website with a publication date (aug 2025). it's starting to feel real! 😍https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/radical-realisms-in-contemporary-british-theatre-9781350425811/

Merry Christmas

My brilliant colleague Alex Coupe’s book, The Gender Politics of Contemporary Performance in Northern Ireland, is out! @irishinstitute.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social 🎉 #TaPS #theatresky #feministtheatre

For those unfamiliar with FutureLearn: the platform has paid options for those seeking lifetime access to courses, completion certificates, or access to multiple courses at once. But you can indeed take this playwriting course across 4 weeks for free! Scroll all the way down to access it for free

I've been very quiet here, but here's a great thing that happened recently: Theatre Studies at the U. of Glasgow has launched a *free* online introduction to playwriting in partnership with Playwrights' Studio, Scotland! www.futurelearn.com/courses/an-i... Do pass on to anybody interested!

So, it passed. Here were my thoughts on the assisted dying bill, again. eve.gd/2024/10/14/m...

Excellent substack from @kityates.bsky.social about the misleading evidence given at the Covid inquiry on the benefit of FFP3s by Susan Hopkins & Chris Whitty. open.substack.com/pub/kityates...

RIP Fredric Jameson

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Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce a new publishing partnership with the Society for French Studies, to publish the journals French Studies and French Studies Bulletin from 2025. Find out more at: bit.ly/LUP-Society-for-French-Studies @frenchstudies.bsky.social #FrenchStudies