🔮 Surrealism and the Tarot 📅 Thursday, January 29, 2026 (online) ⏰ 6:00 PM (CET) ⚠️ Please check your local time zone Join the ISSS virtual roundtable celebrating Surrealism and the Tarot: A Love Story (Fulgur Press, 2025). 📖 https://loom.ly/CpzuRr4 #Surrealism #Tarot #ISSS #OccultStudies

Last Friday I defended my Phd thesis on Mina Loy, ending the presentation with one of my favourite archival finds: "The curious soul / opens adventurous doors / upon the Infinite". Hasn't quite sunk in yet that I'm done... but do send your tips on getting the book published! 🙃

This is also a good time to mention that nominations are open for *5* positions on the BAMS committee & *3* postgraduate representative roles. To apply see here bams.ac.uk & for an idea of what being a PGR Rep involves, see a blog from our reps here: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/b...

Today's the day! We're looking forward to seeing you all at New Work in Modernist Studies 15. If you're presenting or attending today, we would love to hear from you! Share with us using #NWiMS15 🌟

💥Extension announcement!💥 New deadline for proposals: 30 January (thanks so much to everyone who submitted amazing abstracts already!). New notification of acceptance: 27 February. In the meantime, we are happy to announce our confirmed keynotes: Mahdi Baraghithi and Anna Borgos! 💅🏽✨

A companion text to the award-winning web resource, TRAVELS WITH MINA LOY by Suzanne W. Churchill, Linda A. Kinnahan, & Susan Rosenbaum is out Sept 2026! Read more and pre-order here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/T/Trav...

Snow on the hilltops of Fiesole above @euilibrary.bsky.social

Greeted by thousands of starlings as I return to Florence

Home.

Winter solstice

Last full moon of 2025 (and a supermoon, no less...)

Found a little wild foal in the Grey Wethers stone circles on Dartmoor

Just found out that Amy Levy's personal papers have been opened up! www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/Amy-...

Heavy rains followed by dramatic skies. I wrote for 10 hours today.

Interested in pursuing a #PhD in #History in a uniquely multicultural environment? 📣 Applications for our fully-funded PhD programme are now open 👉 loom.ly/pvk17dc ⏰ Apply by 15 January 2026 Want to know more? Meet us on our: 🌐Virtual Open Day - 2 December 2025 👉 loom.ly/sp5lOKM 🎓 #academicsky

Beautiful sunset tonight @eui-eu.bsky.social @eui-history.bsky.social

Mina Loy understood how it felt to write a thesis:

This #ModWrite I am finishing a section on Mina Loy's 'Parturition' (1914) and early twentieth century mysticism

Autumn sunset in Florence

We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live! 1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

Domenica.

"From the Eternal Out of the past In the present For the future" - Roberto Assagioli

Weekend walk

Last week I attended the 11th International Psychosynthesis Meeting at the final home of Roberto Assagioli. Met some fascinating people & spent a lot of time in the archives! His office remains as it was when he died. The house is not a museum tho - it's an active centre for practitioners still.

Last week I attended the 11th International Psychosynthesis Meeting at the final home of Roberto Assagioli. Met some fascinating people & spent a lot of time in the archives! His office remains as it was when he died. The house is not a museum tho - it's an active centre for practitioners still.

Villa Braggiotti, prev. home to American musicians (& enthusiasts of vegetarianism & the Bhagavadgītā) Lily & Isadore Braggiotti in the early 20th C, is for sale for €12,000,000. www.italy-sothebysrealty.com/it/vendita/i...

Forthcoming this Autumn with the CSMBR ONLINE LECTURE SERIES #CSMBR #Lecture #astromedicine

The bees of @eui-eu.bsky.social in Villa Salviati, Florence (@eui-history.bsky.social)

This #ModWrite I am writing about the founder of Psychosynthesis, Roberto Assagioli (1888-1974), in his personal library in Florence

We’re excited to share #TheModernistReview57, our first autumn issue! It includes seven reviews on diverse topics in modernist studies. Go check it out! we hope you enjoy reading: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/t...

Pilgrimage to Tomaso Buzzi's fantastical "ideal city" of theatres, La Scarzuola - hidden in the hills of Umbria down an unpaved road

Pilgrimage to Tomaso Buzzi's fantastical "ideal city" of theatres, La Scarzuola - hidden in the hills of Umbria down an unpaved road

Umbrian road trip begins in Perugia

Some solid advice on how to appreciate modern art from the Chicago Record Herald of 1913: "HOW TO APPRECIATE IT - Eat three welsh rarebits, smoke two pipefuls of "hop" and sniff cocaine until every street car looks like a goldfish and the Masonic Temple resembles a tiny white mouse."

Some solid advice on how to appreciate modern art from the Chicago Record Herald of 1913: "HOW TO APPRECIATE IT - Eat three welsh rarebits, smoke two pipefuls of "hop" and sniff cocaine until every street car looks like a goldfish and the Masonic Temple resembles a tiny white mouse."

The most beautiful greenhouse that I have ever seen is this one in Florence, Italy - look at the details above the doors! Made predominantly of glass and iron, and overseen by architect and engineer Giacomo Roster, it was completed in 1880.

We are delighted to share the exciting news that the CFP for the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference - next year called Weird Modernisms - jointly held with @modernistudies.bsky.social at @lborouniversity.bsky.social is now live! More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

CBCP will host a one-day in-person symposium on scholarly editing on 23rd Sept 2025. More information on the programme will be available soon, but in the meantime, please save the date. More info here: research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...

This is really cool! The Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam is doing some really interesting stuff. Check them out.

The covering of a covered entrance

Hilma af Klint, Tree of Knowledge, No.1. watercolour, gouache, graphite, metallic paint and ink on paper, 1913

This #ModWrite I am hiding from the 40 degree heat with nothing but a fan trying to sort out a section of a chapter on Mina Loy's metaphysics

📢Excited to reveal the lovely poster for our Sea Changes event at the @britishlibrary Knowledge Centre & online 6-8 Sept booking now! opengravesopenminds.com/sea-changes-20

A suitably sunny day to receive my author copy of Cripping the Archive: Disability, History, and Power from @illinoispress.bsky.social Looking forward to exploring the other chapters! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

It's kind of an insane example to make, given the centrality of the wool and silk trades to European economic integration and industrial development. Even if you wanted to be a philistine about the value of historical scholarship, you could at least be competent at it.

Tell me you don't understand the purpose of humanities research without telling me you don't understand the purpose of humanities research @economist.com @eui-history.bsky.social www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

In 2026, the MSA Conference will look a bit different-- weird, even! That's because we're having a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social in Loughborough, UK from July 1- 4, 2026. The CFP will be out soon! But in the meantime, please save the date.

Gertrude Stein-ass tweet right here ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Working late in the university tonight