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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 1d

Who's Here? 👋

A warm welcome to:
Dr Audrey Borowski (Cambridge)
Dr Elizabeth Sarah Coles (Pompeu Fabra)
Dr Sheila Crane (Virginia)
Dr @darlingorlaith.bsky.social (UC Dublin)
Dr @kareemestefan.bsky.social (Cambridge)
Dr @fernandag.bsky.social (Cambridge)
Dr Jan Kerkmann (Freiburg)

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Who’s Here? Introducing CRASSH Fellows in Michaelmas Term 2025 - CRASSH

A brief introduction to new fellows joining CRASSH this term.

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 4d

Excellent! Would love to have you

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 7d

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48078...
I will be hosting a reading group on the work of Lauren Berlant Oct.-Nov. @crasshlive.bsky.social. Berlant's writing on sentimentality and the public sphere has lots to say to the current moment we're living through + anyone in Cambridge should please join us!

Lauren Berlant: A Michaelmas Reading Group - CRASSH

In an early talk about Cruel Optimism, Lauren Berlant describes their critical object: namely, the “desire”, which they perceive as endemic to capitalism, “to have a cluster of feelings in lieu of hav...

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 9d

Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 18d

Ooh I will absolutely!

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 18d

www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/about/events... I will be a visiting fellow at @crasshlive.bsky.social and Wolfson College from Oct-Dec. Come see me talk about my new project at Wolfson Humanities Society! I believe the event will also be MS Team-ed @ucdhumanities.bsky.social

Wolfson College Cambridge: Everything’s Fine, Nothing’s Fine: The Sad Girl Novel

Why are so many millennial women so sad?

www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 25d

Clare Moriarty: I’ve cracked the afterschool childcare problem. It has cheap coffee, wifi and over-excited toddlers

As Dua Lipa pulsed through the soft play centre in Kildare, and I tried to write a lecture on Descartes’ sixth Meditation, I finally experienced the real distinction of mind and body

www.irishtimes.com

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 29d

Tune in to hear me talk about Research Ireland postdocs (formerly the IRC)

Deirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social · Sep 5

IASIL ECR: Research Ireland Postdoc Information Session

6-7pm [Irish time] September 11, 2025, ONLINE

Thanks to @lnhowley.bsky.social

Please share #IrishStudies #ECR #Postgrad #IrishResearch

sign up & more info:
www.iasil.org/2025/09/iasi...

PS - MENTORS we want you (see more at the link)

IASIL ECR: Research Ireland Postdoc Information Session – International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

www.iasil.org

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · Sep 1

srael is no longer seeking approval for issuing bonds through Ireland's Central Bank.

Despite the pathetic Irish Government refusing to formally stop authorising Israeli bonds, the concerted pressure of a popular campaign here led to this outcome.

www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...

Irish Central Bank will no longer approve Israeli bonds

The latest bond prospectus issued by Israel has been approved by Luxembourg and not the Central Bank in Ireland.

www.rte.ie

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · Aug 29

the phrase 'crisp rugby shirts' makes me want to boke

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · Aug 22

Entirely man-made famine.

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · Aug 22

Like everyone, I am listening to obscene amounts of Oasis recently and would like to have a moment of appreciation for Liam's incredible diction (a fraught topic between myself and my childhood singing teacher)

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Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social · Aug 22

Fellowship from Bloomsbury for early career academics who are Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship 2025 - Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship scheme aims to help early career academics get their book idea into a form which is ready for publication.

www.bloomsbury.com

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · Aug 20

Absolutely!

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · Aug 20

People are, I think, simply pick-mes who like to make a personality out of badmouthing critically and popularly acclaimed writers like Rooney. So boring.

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · Aug 19

www.litencyc.com/php/speople....
New Literary Encyclopedia entry on Sally Rooney just dropped. A real joy to think about her oeuvre, and a real challenge to fit it into concise entry!

Sally Rooney

Background Sally Rooney is the author of poetry, short stories, essays,...

www.litencyc.com

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · Aug 14

Call out to drop me your favourite love poems🥰

Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · Aug 14

In Ireland, I had to do a health check before registering, but that's because anyone above a certain (very low) income threshold has to pay GP fees and they want to make as much money out of you as possible 😅

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Literature Ireland @literatureireland.bsky.social · Aug 12

Would you like to contribute to the public consultation about the Basic Income for the Arts? 💡

Fill out this survey from Minister O’Donovan at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Basic Income for the Arts public consultation

ec.europa.eu

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thrilled that Fionnula and myself have been granted generous funding by @ucdhumanities.bsky.social to run this conference. Anyone interested in women's lit/mental health/disability studies keep your eyes peeled for CfP!

UCD Humanities Institute @ucdhumanities.bsky.social · Aug 7

'Bad Feelings: Sadness and Gender in Contemporary Culture' - @darlingorlaith.bsky.social and Fionnula Simpson

'Craft: Activism, Literature, Labour' - Katherine Fama and Benjamin Anderson

'Energy, Creativity, Sustainability' - Derval Conroy, Jane Grogan, and Jeanne Riou

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UCD Humanities Institute @ucdhumanities.bsky.social · Aug 7

We're pleased to announce funding awarded to 6 projects catalysing research across the CAH Research Strands. The projects are funded by the HI Seed Funding Scheme: CAH Research Strands 2025-2026. We're delighted these projects can be realised and look forward to collaborating with the project leads.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Jul 21

"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled"

Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · Jul 21

Leafing through old Irish poetry anthologies to look for wedding readings is renewing my gratitude to a later generation of Irish writers, editors, and publishers for championing gender representation. Mad to think that efforts from the recent past (within my lifetime) including one woman poet...

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · Jul 1

spending a day in bed reading Brandon Taylor's Substack all day and calling it research: summer 2025 vibes

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