Very excited about the BSECS theme for 2025, on Bodies and Embodiment 🪇 Get your abstracts in this autumn!

In this hybrid essay artist and researcher Sarah Scaife reflects on sauntering, the etymology of the word and its possibilities as form of walking for wellbeing thepolyphony.org/2024/07/09/sau…

Delighted to have a piece in this special issue.

Chuffed to have my article on Beckett and sincerity in Doug Battersby's banger special issue of Journal of Modern Literature. Links to my piece and the issue: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/…

Excited to announce a new series from Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing - 'The Blue Humanities', ed. Steve Mentz and Serpil Oppermann! Accepting submissions for monographs and edited collections now, so send us your watery musings! Details on the flyer and our webpage: bit.ly/4bQHlyG

📢 Teaching Modernisms 📌 25 July - 5 August 2024 📍Online, free A collaboration between 7 international organisations! Programme: shorturl.at/S6JP4 AMSN British Association for Modernist Studies MSA (Modernism) Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA) Société d'études modernistes (SEM)

In our newsletter, guest writer Julie Tanner chats to Art Without Heroes: Mingei WilliamMorrisGallery curator Roísín Inglesby about the Japanese folk-craft movement Mingei, the commodification of craft, the reassurance of the tactile in times of crisis, and what Mingei means today 🏺🧶

Delighted to be hosting the tenth annual Samuel Beckett Society conference at Edinburgh University in June 2025! CFP: beckettsrelationships.co.uk/cfp Thanks to hannahclarkson.co.uk for our poster. SamuelBeckettSociety Samuel Beckett The Samuel Beckett Research Centre #Samuelbeckett #cfp

We recently found an online version of "Waiting for Godot in San Quentin," a short documentary of the 1988 San Quentin Godot production featuring an all-inmate cast. Part of Global Village's The Beckett Project, produced/directed by John Reilly and Melissa Shaw-Smith. Link👇

Call for papers! Esp. if you work in ecocriticism or energy humanities! Malcolm Cook and me are organising an online symposium called "Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil" next Jan. More details here: networks.h-net.org/group/announce… Please RT!

CALL for APPLICATIONS: The Constructive Advanced Thinking (CAT) Programme for early-career researchers - a collaboration between SCAS and its European sister institutes of the NetIAS group. Deadline: 15 Sept 2024. Read more: swedishcollegium.se/subfolders/Int…

Jade and I are happy to share two more articles of our special issue. Baby step of guest co-editing for the special issue of the Journal of Medical Humanities...

‘It felt shameful’: the profound loneliness of modern motherhood theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/a…

Really glad to see this out from the brilliant Lee Jenkins at English UCC - great topic and a really nicely written book.

Check out our #EphemeralModernisms Special Issue!

In case you’re in the area.

Come along to what promises to be an interesting and informative discussion around OA in the humanities featuring the brilliant Paul Longley Arthur and others from the The British Academy

Save the date- Thursday 21st- Saturday 23rd November for The Care Lab's Festival of Care at The Whitworth Art Gallery

Had a great time writing this short article for EPOCH on the Anglo-Soviet Cultural Agreements and the place of cultural exchange in international relations! Grateful for the editorial team for all their assistance and I’m excited to check out the rest of the articles! 👇🏻

Read the cfp for the special anniversary issue on the Future of Medical Humanities, 25 Years of MH: Equity, Justice, and the Future(s) of Medical Humanities, bit.ly/460JFSd #medhums