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Yugin Teo @yugin.bsky.social · May 19

World Literature Podcast Parts 2 & 3 on the 20th Anniversary of the publication of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go with me and Laura Colombino, and hosted by Ivan Stacy, is now available on their YouTube channel youtu.be/1vILMft2DkQ?...
#ishiguro #kazuoishiguro #neverletmego #faber

Never Let Me Go with Laura Colombino and Yugin Teo - part 2

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · May 7

Time to shamelessly promote this new #comicsstudies collection ‘Horror and Comics’ - edited by me, @barbarachamberlin.bsky.social and @komkunyosying - and packed with #horror themed goodness and looking at a global selection of comics! Due to be published by university of wales press next month.

My hand holding a Hardback book entitled ‘Horror and Comics’ with a cover picture of some battered copies of creepy and various Spanish comics on a rack at a flea market

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · May 8

With GCSE English exams looming, it's time to dust off of my most popular posts (and pet hates). It's not too late to change your mind about metre, kids! someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/10-reasons...

10 Reasons Why the Iambic Pentameter is Not Like the Human Heartbeat

On an idea about poetry that needs to die

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · Mar 31

We have a number of scholars from near and far presenting on medicine in Victorian literature, contemporary literature, literature and public health, graphic medicine and mental illness and neurodivergence.

We're looking forward to it!

Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · Mar 31

Our keynotes are @cemathieson.bsky.social (University of Surrey) on ‘From “seaside girls” to “the sun-tanning crowd”: Cultures of Suntanning in Britain, c.1900-1940’ and Professor Sam Goodman (@bournemouthuni.bsky.social ) on 'Wishful Drinking?: Alcohol, Medicine and Wellbeing, Past and Present'

A woman with a Bournemouth University hoodie looks over Bournemouth Pier. The tagline is Bournemouth: For Health and Pleasure, which is an old railway poster slogan

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · Mar 31

The programme is now up and registration is now open for our Literatures & Medicines Online Symposium (April 23 2025)--please check it out and sign up! www.litsampersand.org/literatures-...

#medicalhumanities #literature #onlineevent @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · Mar 24

We're delighted to host Kirsty Logan, author of the short story collection No & Other Love Stories (2025) and the novel Now She Is Witch (2023) etc. this Wednesday at our speaker series. Everyone is welcome--scroll down here for Zoom details: www.litsampersand.org/nccr #kirstylogan #authortalks

Cover of No & Other Love Stories by Kirsty Logan, a pink lollipop with a wasp or bee perched on it

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Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · Feb 26

Full Special Issue now out! 'Senses and Spaces of Modern Health/Care' www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfss20/1...

The Senses and Society

Senses and Spaces of Modern Health/Care. Volume 19, Issue 3 of The Senses and Society

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · Feb 26

Unfortunately we have to cancel this for today, but we'll reschedule for as soon as we can!

Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · Feb 21

Everyone knows a shelf like this, right? Join us next week to think about what it all means, when @joparsons.bsky.social presents her research into the #bonkbuster at our online #NCCR seminar, Wed 26th Feb at 4pm UK time. Zoom link & deets here: www.litsampersand.org/nccr
#shareyourshelf #literature

Shelf of books by authors like Judith Krantz and Jilly Cooper

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · Feb 20

Legendary hater Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin from @lettersofnote:

I loathe, I abhor the sea and all ships which sail on it. --Charles Darwin to his sister, 4 Aug 1836

I hate a barnacle as no man ever did before -- Charles Darwin to William Fox 24 Oct 1852

I am very tired, very stomachy and hate nearly the whole world. -- Charles Darwin to Thomas Haxley 10 September 1860

I am poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything -- Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell 1 Oct 1861

I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees. -- Charles Darwin to John Lubbock 3 Sept 1862

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · Feb 21

Everyone knows a shelf like this, right? Join us next week to think about what it all means, when @joparsons.bsky.social presents her research into the #bonkbuster at our online #NCCR seminar, Wed 26th Feb at 4pm UK time. Zoom link & deets here: www.litsampersand.org/nccr
#shareyourshelf #literature

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Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · Feb 18

If you were interested in the birthing pool history piece, Jenny, Maria and I also wrote this companion article that just came out in a SI on experience: 'The Construction and Politics of the ‘Birth Experience’ in Britain, 1948–93' www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · Feb 14

Loving the flurry of proposals as the deadline for our Literatures & Medicines Online Symposium approaches--it's February 15th (but realistically you've got till Monday EOB at least!)
www.litsampersand.org/literatures-... #litsmeds2025 #medicalhumanities #literature #cfp @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · Feb 14

For #ValentinesDay, I'll be posting #HistoricalHearts

Let's start with this life-size papier-mâché heart by the French anatomist Louis Thomas Jérôme Auzoux from the 19th century. Photo: Alex Peck.

A heart made from papier-mâché showing the veins and arteries in blue and red.

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · Feb 11

If you're interested in coming along, let us know and we'll send you the Zoom details--4pm on February 26th.

Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · Feb 11

Gentle reminder about our CFP for the April 'Literatures & Medicines Online Symposium'; deadline is Fri 15 Feb. Attendance and participation are free! #litsmeds2025 #medicalhumanities #literature #academia #cfp
For more details see below:
www.litsampersand.org/literatures-...
Please share widely!

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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · Feb 10

Excited to be sharing my love for the #bonkbuster with @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social in a couple of weeks. Thanks to @drmllz.bsky.social for inviting me to indulge myself in my favourite subject!

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · Feb 7

Next week, the brilliant Prof. Tracey Loughran is running a series of online sessions for early career people in the medical humanities. I'm speaking on publishing, but there's also webinars on career opportunities and job applications. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/career-opp...

Career Opportunities Within and Beyond the Health and Medical Humanities

What career opportunities are available for health and medical humanities researchers?

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Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social · Feb 7

Applications for our inky, thoughtful, fabulous and, importantly, funded, Print Matters Summer School close on Wednesday 12th February!
www.thinicepress.org/events/print...

Print Matters summer school: Thin Ice Press — Thin Ice Press

What does it mean to think about matter and materiality through the medium of letterpress printing?  We invite scholars of matter, materiality and/or material culture (broadly conceived) in any ...

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · Feb 7

Artists have always loved to sketch!

Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC.

Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used flakes of limestone rather than paper sketchpads!

MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · Feb 3

We wanted to evoke this Great Western Railway poster from the 1930s--Bournemouth has a long history of being a site for convalescence and wellbeing as well as holiday hijinks.

#seaair #geographiesofhealth #literaturesandmedicines #literature #interdisciplinary #onlineconference

Image is a Great Western Railway poster from the 1930s, showing a woman in an evening gown looking over the Bournemouth seafront

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · Feb 3

So excited about our new poster for the April Literatures & Medicines Online Symposium! (Proposals due 15 Feb www.litsampersand.org/literatures-...)

#litsmeds2025 #medicalhumanities #literature #academia #onlineconference @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

The image shows a woman looking over Bournemouth Pier and the seaside--it's designed to evoke an old Great Western Railway tourism poster

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · Jan 31

Thrilled @cemathieson.bsky.social is keynoting our April Literatures & Medicines Online Symposium with 'From “seaside girls” to “the sun-tanning crowd”: Cultures of Suntanning in Britain, c.1900-1940'. CFP deadline Feb 15: www.litsampersand.org/literatures-...
#literature #medicalhumanities #cfp

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · Jan 30

If you think today's news headlines are horrific, check out this one from 1906. Chilling.

A newspaper clipping that reads: "Noisy, Hungry Frogs Sadden Farmer's Life. They scare his cattle and they also eat his flannel shirt."

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Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social · Jan 30

#nccrbu member Dr Jaron Murphy is a judge for the Orwell Society/NUJ Young Journalists Award 2025. Open to student journalists & journalists born in/after 1995 resident full-time in the UK. Deadline March 24 2025. orwellsociety.com/bursary/the-...

The Orwell Society/NUJ Young Journalists Award 2025 open for entries

Are you a young journalist, full-time resident in the UK, studying for a journalism qualification or starting out on your journalism career, who would like to win a prestigious award that significantl...

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