Olga Prokopis
@olgaphoos.bsky.social
I live and work on unceded Brayakaulung country. Disabled scholar researching Shakespeare and Richard III. Graduate researcher in history at the Centre for Contemporary Histories Deakin University.
'Maintain your rage and enthusiasm.'
'Maintain your rage and enthusiasm.'
Pinned
January 23, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Reposted by Olga Prokopis
#ArticleSnapshot📸: Anthony Grafton's "Toward a Conjectural History of Conjectural Histories" examines "the connection between conjectural history and classical philology."
Read this #OpenAccess #PhilologyNow article here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...
Read this #OpenAccess #PhilologyNow article here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...
TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth-century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers tra...
doi.org
January 20, 2026 at 7:27 PM
#ArticleSnapshot📸: Anthony Grafton's "Toward a Conjectural History of Conjectural Histories" examines "the connection between conjectural history and classical philology."
Read this #OpenAccess #PhilologyNow article here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...
Read this #OpenAccess #PhilologyNow article here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...
Reposted by Olga Prokopis
Shady SA premier behind the attempted cancellation of Dr Abdel-Fattah
January 19, 2026 at 4:34 AM
Shady SA premier behind the attempted cancellation of Dr Abdel-Fattah
RICHARD
Lady, you know no rules of charity,
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
ANNE
Villain, thou know’st nor law of God nor man.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
RICHARD
But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
#RichardIII 1.2.66-70
#ShakespeareSunday
Lady, you know no rules of charity,
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
ANNE
Villain, thou know’st nor law of God nor man.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
RICHARD
But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
#RichardIII 1.2.66-70
#ShakespeareSunday
January 18, 2026 at 9:33 AM
RICHARD
Lady, you know no rules of charity,
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
ANNE
Villain, thou know’st nor law of God nor man.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
RICHARD
But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
#RichardIII 1.2.66-70
#ShakespeareSunday
Lady, you know no rules of charity,
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
ANNE
Villain, thou know’st nor law of God nor man.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
RICHARD
But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
#RichardIII 1.2.66-70
#ShakespeareSunday
Reposted by Olga Prokopis
Issue 42.2 of Parergon was released just before Christmas. A special issue focused on medieval English attitudes to the outside world, Alison Hudson's article 'Elephants in English Literature, Art, and Material Culture before the Reign of Henry III' is currently open access!
doi.org/10.1353/pgn....
doi.org/10.1353/pgn....
January 17, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Issue 42.2 of Parergon was released just before Christmas. A special issue focused on medieval English attitudes to the outside world, Alison Hudson's article 'Elephants in English Literature, Art, and Material Culture before the Reign of Henry III' is currently open access!
doi.org/10.1353/pgn....
doi.org/10.1353/pgn....
William Heath's 1814 'The Rival Richards, or Shakespear in Danger' depicts the public rivalry between #RichardIII actors Edmund Kean and Charles Mayne Young.
January 17, 2026 at 9:10 PM
William Heath's 1814 'The Rival Richards, or Shakespear in Danger' depicts the public rivalry between #RichardIII actors Edmund Kean and Charles Mayne Young.
77 Years of Genocide: January 18th Newsletter #freepalestine #genocide
77 Years of Genocide: January 18th Newsletter
Illegal settlers steal 200 sheep, a vehicle amid attack in occupied West Bank
open.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:09 PM
77 Years of Genocide: January 18th Newsletter #freepalestine #genocide
Respect to all the writers who showed such ferocity and integrity.
Adelaide Festival Corporation apologises to author Randa Abdel-Fattah
The Adelaide Festival Corporation, which oversees Adelaide Writers' Week, has apologised to Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah and says she will be invited to speak at its next event in ...
www.abc.net.au
January 15, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Respect to all the writers who showed such ferocity and integrity.
Louis XVI translated Horace Walpole’s ‘Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third’ while imprisoned in the Bastille awaiting his execution
January 14, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Louis XVI translated Horace Walpole’s ‘Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third’ while imprisoned in the Bastille awaiting his execution
Time’s up for Islamophobes
January 14, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Time’s up for Islamophobes
Reposted by Olga Prokopis
"My community’s security will not be possible at the expense of others. That is not safety. It is scapegoating."
January 13, 2026 at 10:38 PM
"My community’s security will not be possible at the expense of others. That is not safety. It is scapegoating."
Wonderful news
Breaking: Randa Abdel-Fattah launches defamation proceedings against SA Premier
Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah says her lawyers have launched defamation proceedings against South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas, following his public commentary about her sch...
www.abc.net.au
January 13, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Wonderful news
This is not a sorry outcome. Acts of racism must have consequences. Australian authors, supported by international authors and the Australian public, have shown that we will not tolerate these blatant acts of anti-Palestinian racism and the sustained attack on the arts and academia.
Adelaide writers’ week 2026 cancelled as board apologises to Randa Abdel-Fattah for ‘how decision was represented’
Almost all remaining festival board members have resigned after backlash to decision to disinvite the Palestinian Australian author
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:45 AM
This is not a sorry outcome. Acts of racism must have consequences. Australian authors, supported by international authors and the Australian public, have shown that we will not tolerate these blatant acts of anti-Palestinian racism and the sustained attack on the arts and academia.
An Imam and his wife were attacked and bashed in Noble Park by white supremacists on Saturday. Hasn’t made any news outlets yet. This is what Australia is, always has been, and this element is becoming more and more emboldened.
January 11, 2026 at 8:32 PM
An Imam and his wife were attacked and bashed in Noble Park by white supremacists on Saturday. Hasn’t made any news outlets yet. This is what Australia is, always has been, and this element is becoming more and more emboldened.
Queen Elizabeth:
Welcome, destruction, blood, and massacre.
I see, as in a map, the end of all.
#RichardIII 4.2.58-59 #ShakespeareSunday
Image: Jennifer Reed as Queen Elizabeth alongside Randy Kim as Richard III in 1973
Welcome, destruction, blood, and massacre.
I see, as in a map, the end of all.
#RichardIII 4.2.58-59 #ShakespeareSunday
Image: Jennifer Reed as Queen Elizabeth alongside Randy Kim as Richard III in 1973
January 11, 2026 at 5:51 AM
Queen Elizabeth:
Welcome, destruction, blood, and massacre.
I see, as in a map, the end of all.
#RichardIII 4.2.58-59 #ShakespeareSunday
Image: Jennifer Reed as Queen Elizabeth alongside Randy Kim as Richard III in 1973
Welcome, destruction, blood, and massacre.
I see, as in a map, the end of all.
#RichardIII 4.2.58-59 #ShakespeareSunday
Image: Jennifer Reed as Queen Elizabeth alongside Randy Kim as Richard III in 1973
The attempt to silence universities, academics, writers and artists is a 'social' technique of genocide, as established by Raphael Lemkin in 'in 1944. The persistent and sustained attacks on thinkers by institutions and the government equals complicity in genocide.
January 11, 2026 at 4:47 AM
The attempt to silence universities, academics, writers and artists is a 'social' technique of genocide, as established by Raphael Lemkin in 'in 1944. The persistent and sustained attacks on thinkers by institutions and the government equals complicity in genocide.
77 Years of Genocide: January 11th Newsletter
77 Years of Genocide: January 11th Newsletter
“The Hind Rajab Foundation is starting 2026 the way it means to go on — seeking justice for the Palestinian people and an end to Israeli impunity.
open.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:23 PM
77 Years of Genocide: January 11th Newsletter
Louise Adler, the director of Adelaide Writers Week, is the daughter of Holocaust survivors. Is it understood that this censorship regime is persecuting Jewish people as well?
January 10, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Louise Adler, the director of Adelaide Writers Week, is the daughter of Holocaust survivors. Is it understood that this censorship regime is persecuting Jewish people as well?
Adelaide Writer's week implodes after its attempts to weaponise the Bondi massacre against a Palestinian academic. The Bondi tragedy must not be conflated with criticism of Israel, and must not used to veil anti-Palestinian racism. This only diminishes the actual act of antisemitism.
Writers' Week under threat of collapse as list of writers leaving nears 100 - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia
A multitude of high-profile authors has joined the flood of names demolishing the Writers' Week lineup.
www.indailysa.com.au
January 9, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Adelaide Writer's week implodes after its attempts to weaponise the Bondi massacre against a Palestinian academic. The Bondi tragedy must not be conflated with criticism of Israel, and must not used to veil anti-Palestinian racism. This only diminishes the actual act of antisemitism.
How we are coping with the heat today.
January 8, 2026 at 10:14 PM
How we are coping with the heat today.
