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Catriona Seth

@catrionaseth.bsky.social

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18th-century cultural history, French literature, art etc. Currently Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford/All Souls College

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Catriona Jane Seth, FBA is a British scholar of French literature and the history of ideas. Since 2015, she has been Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. .. more

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 2h

NEW: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

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Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social · 2h

Vielen Dank. Die Detektivarbeit hat mir wirklich Spaß gemacht!

Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social · 23h

This was really fun (see also @thetimes.com)... looking for the real Marie-Antoinette! humanities.web.ox.ac.uk/article/rese...

Research finds 'defining' childhood portrait of Marie Antoinette is really her sister

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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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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 2d

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

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PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

www.unilu.ch

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 5d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 5d

Just found out this is appening today (5 October) in Bristol. This Black mum from Wales, will be sick with worry. 'Anti-inmigration' is code for anti Black and Brown and those wearing the hijab if you didn't know. Thanking Claire, people and places like The Watershed for offering shelter. 🙏🏾

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 5d

‘175 years ago this year, Queen Victoria gave her assent to “an Act for enabling town councils to establish public libraries & museums”, that enabled local authorities… to levy a ha’penny on the rates to establish a free public library.’ @richove.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Libraries are palaces for the people. Their ramparts need...

The spirit of public improvement that led to the legislation that created free public libraries 175 years go needs to be rekindled

observer.co.uk

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 5d

This striking gold necklace was made over 2,400 years ago. In ancient Greece, acorns were symbols of abundance and fertility, and used as decoration on gold objects.

The necklace was excavated over 150 years ago from the necropolis of Nymphaion in the Crimea, previously an ancient Greek colony.

A gold necklace with pendants in the shape of acorns hanging across the whole piece

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 5d

”Cher Monsieur Germain…
Without you, without the affectionate hand you extended to the small poor child that I was, without your teaching & example none of all this would have happened…”
Albert Camus wrote to his teacher, after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
#WorldTeachersDay2025

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 5d

If you are looking for a thought provoking night out in London this week we are holding a free evening of talks, exhibits, performance and even zine making on Thursday. All on the theme of ‘Living with the Planet’. You need to book but tix are free
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/livin...

Living with the planet LATE

Tackle big questions and explore bold ideas about the future of our planet in this season’s British Academy Late. Immerse yourself in the sounds and music of the rainforests of Papua New Guinea; discu...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds @lcsleeds.bsky.social · 6d

It’s blowing a gale here in Leeds but it’s warm in our building and full of staff, students and stories! Welcome to our Open Day! 🥳🎉

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Peter Ricketts @lordrickettsp.bsky.social · 6d

Good to talk to Amol Rajan on the Today Programme earlier about the Hamas statement. It’s a remarkably astute move, accepting Israel’s key demand for hostage release, thereby earning an approving response from Trump and throwing all the pressure back on Netanyahu. Could still go wrong. But 1/6

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ISECS/SIEDS @isecs-sieds.bsky.social · 6d

Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer la parution du sixième volume de notre revue en ligne, la RIEDS, sur le thème « La science du goût ». Il est disponible dès maintenant sur le site internet de la SIEDS :

oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/portail/gscw...

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ISECS/SIEDS @isecs-sieds.bsky.social · 6d

We are happy to announce the publication of the sixth issue of our online journal, IRECS, on “The Science of Taste”. It is now available on the ISECS website:

oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/portail/gscw...

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Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social · 6d

Disadvantaged students ‘more likely to miss out on GCSE foreign languages’

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Disadvantaged students ‘more likely to miss out on GCSE foreign languages’

In 2004, language learning ceased to be compulsory at Key Stage 4, aged 14 to 16.

www.independent.co.uk

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Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social · 6d

Paging @eparpillee.bsky.social, a river-woman extraordinaire!

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 6d

Huge congratulations to the @bodhumslib.bsky.social team for such a successful opening of the New Humanities Library at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities this week! Wonderful feedback for readers and such happy staff!

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 6d

I own a book by one of the “Women Who Dared.” My 1837 French edition of On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Scottish polymath Mary Somerville, the first person to be referred to as a "scientist” in an 1833 review of this book. 🧪

An almost 200 years old book with a paper blue cover. In black type is printed: DE LA CONNEXION
DES
SCIENCES PHYSIQUES
OU
EXPOSÉ SIMPLE ET RAPIDE
DE TOUS LES YRINCIPAUX PRÉNOMÈNES
ASTRONOMIQUES, PHYSIQUES, CHIMIQUES, GÉOLOGIQUES, ET MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES;
ACCOMEAORE
DES DÉCOUVERTES ET EXPÉRIENCES
LES PLUS BEMARQUABLES DES SAVANS MODERNES, TANT
PRANCAIS QU'ETRANCHES:
MARY SOMERVILLE;
Traduit de lAnglais
SOUS LES AUSPIGES DE M. ARAGO, PAR M"• MEULIEN.
PARIS,
LIBRAIRIE DE F. G. LEVRAULT.
RUE DE LA HARPR, 81;
KT MÊME MAISON, A STRASBOURG, NUE DES JUIFS, 33,
1837.

#HistSci 📚💙 #Womeninstem

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Catherine Colonna @ccolonna.bsky.social · 7d

Le poison antisémite a encore tué, cette fois dans une synagogue de Manchester, en plein Yom Kippour.

La lutte implacable contre l’antisémitisme est un impératif pour nos démocraties, dont toutes les valeurs sont contraires à cette haine abjecte.

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German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 7d

35 years ago, Germany was reunified.

German reunification celebrations in front of the Reichstag on 3 October 1990

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Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social · 7d

Daniel Droixhe @ Liège University knows more than anyone about foreigners in Spa, where they stayed, what the different inns etc. were like.

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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 8d

There have likely been 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25.

@gsoh31.bsky.social, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes, argues that the Higher Education system as we know it is coming to an end.

Where now for Britain’s Universities?

UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

politicalquarterly.org.uk

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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 8d

Berkeley is offering its alums a free online course on Openness to Opposing Views. Was curious to see how they pitch it so signed up. In the welcome video, one creator talks of how her familiarity with foreign languages made her keen to think about how concepts can be described differently...

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Zoë Flood @zoeflood.bsky.social · 8d

Our world. So unbearably messed up and so unbearably beautiful.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 8d

We’ve opened a call for our British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships which enable established scholars to have the time to complete a significant piece of humanities or social sciences piece of research, through a one year period of leave
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships

The British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships are intended to enable established scholars, needing relief from teaching and administration, to have the time to bring to completion a signi...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 9d

Happy #BHM25 🎉🎈🎈
A reason to smile this morning.
This photo is taken from a short video. A teenager approached me via social media. She said they were few in her school who were passionate about Black History. She wanted me to help with a message to the their school.

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School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds @lcsleeds.bsky.social · 9d

We are so sorry to announce the death of our long time colleague and friend, Nigel Armstrong. He taught and researched here in French for twenty years and will be deeply missed by colleagues and students alike.

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The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social · 9d

"This book brings vital attention to the incredible women that have pushed boundaries and improved humanity whether through political, creative, intellectual or societal contributions."
– Devi Sridhar, Professor of Global Public Health, University of Edinburgh

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