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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 14d

Template letter to advocate for second evacuation of Gaza students with UK university scholarships: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Gaza students second MP letter template

Dear [Name] MP On Monday 22 September, and as reported in the Guardian, 34 students from Gaza arrived in the UK to take up their places at our country’s top universities. These students have overcom...

docs.google.com

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Annie Webster @anniewebbo.bsky.social · Jun 27

Also wonderful to have @wasafirimag.bsky.social join us!

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Annie Webster @anniewebbo.bsky.social · Jun 27

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Annie Webster @anniewebbo.bsky.social · Jun 27

Here's the full programme!

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Annie Webster @anniewebbo.bsky.social · Jun 27

An inspiring two days of talking about displaced arts - thinking about how creative practices can be used to inhabit, expose, navigate or contest global geographies of asylum.

Thank you to all our speakers, @leverhulme.ac.uk, and @iashedinburgh.bsky.social for making this gathering possible!

A black door with the number 2 on it and a poster for the Displaced Arts symposium.

A group of presenters from the Displaced Arts symposium.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Jun 20

UCU members at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social are striking today over University of Edinburgh plans to make £140million in cuts and threaten jobs

We're fighting against these reckless proposals

Share to show your support ✊

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UCL Department of Geography @uclgeography.bsky.social · Jun 2

📣 Global Migration Conference 2025: Creating Spaces of Sanctuary 🕊️

An afternoon of talks and discussion with speakers from @helenbamber.bsky.social, @hackneycouncil.bsky.social and @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social.

📅 Tues 17 June | 1–4pm
🎟 Free + open to all

#UCL #RefugeeWeek2025 #GlobalMigration

Creating Spaces of Sanctuary

Join us to explore how we can build true sanctuary through solidarity, care, and resistance alongside refugees and migrants.

tinyurl.com

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Annie Webster @anniewebbo.bsky.social · Feb 21

Congratulations!! Really looking forward to reading this

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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · Feb 19

Shubbak 2025 has announced the "first wave" of their lineup:

shubbak.co.uk/festival-2025/

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Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network @eehnetwork.bsky.social · Feb 11

The deadline for the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network Visiting Fellowships 2025-26 is 28 February. blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...

Fellowships – EEHN

blogs.ed.ac.uk

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · Jan 14

Laith is not on here, so I shall do his publicising work for him and advertise this new article 😌 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“Bringing ‘The Magic Carpet Up to Date’: Imperial Airways in Iraq, 1920–1932” | Itinerario | Cambridge Core

“Bringing ‘The Magic Carpet Up to Date’: Imperial Airways in Iraq, 1920–1932”

www.cambridge.org

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Annie Webster @anniewebbo.bsky.social · Jan 13

*CFP deadline this Wednesday!*

Final few days to submit abstracts for 'Displaced Arts: Creative Practices and Geographies of Asylum' @iashedinburgh.bsky.social

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Annie Webster @anniewebbo.bsky.social · Dec 12

Updated call for papers!

I'm delighted that we have Professor Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
confirmed as a keynote for 'Displaced Arts: Creative Practices and Geographies of Asylum' hosted by @iashedinburgh.bsky.social on 24th June 2025.

CFP below and more details here: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/call-pa...

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Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · Nov 21

CFP Alert! I'm very pleased to be co-organising the 24th International Congress of the French Society for Scottish Studies (SFEE) which will be held from 15th – 17th October 2025 at the University of La Rochelle on the theme of "Scotland and the Coast" sfee.fr/congres2020/

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · Nov 27

Crucial post from UCU Edinburgh:
'1. The University makes an operational surplus
2. The evidence of financial troubles offered by the Principal is misleading
3. The University is wealthier than it has ever been'
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/2eppzf7...

Dire Financial Straits at UoE? NO! — UCU Edinburgh

Are things really as bad as they say? Find out the truth behind the numbers!

www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk

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Annie Webster @anniewebbo.bsky.social · Nov 25

Call for papers!

Displaced Arts: Creative Practices and Geographies of Asylum

24th June 2025 at @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh

CFP below and more details here:

www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/call-pa...

Please share!

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