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Dr. des. Jonatan Palmblad @palmblad.bsky.social · 3d

I just got back from a workshop on "Multispecies Intellectual History" at the University of Oxford. Philosophy, history, physics, botany, anthropology, art, and other fields were represented in the discussions, and a publication on this is to be expected. Read more here: cas.au.dk/en/umih #envhum

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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 2d

Lucky Londoners! :)

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Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social · 2d

Translation Multiples goes to London! Join me on 22 October at 4pm at the University of London (@soasuni.bsky.social), discuss several engaging examples together in an interactive format.

The event is free, but registration is required: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

@princetonupress.bsky.social

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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 9d

Aah, thank you Kasia ❤️

Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 9d

Honoured to be a keynote speaker for the Translation and Life Writing conference organised by the brilliant Lucile Davier & Elisa Ruckstuhl @ the University of Geneva. Taking place June 18-19 2026 & financial support for ECR available! Abstract submission by 16 Nov 2025
www.unige.ch/lifewritingt...

Home - lifewritingtranslation - UNIGE

www.unige.ch

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CTIS Manchester @ctis-manchester.bsky.social · 17d

13 November: Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social @globalaffairslu.bsky.social, Anna Lafranchi @anna-lanfranchi.bsky.social @warwicktranslation.bsky.social & Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social CTIS

A Triple Book Showcase: Recent Trends in Literary Translation Research
zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CTIS Research Seminar 2: A Triple Book Showcase: Recent Trends in Literary Translation Research. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email ab...

Speakers: Delphine Grass, Lancaster University, Anna Lafranchi, University of Warwick, and Kasia Szymanska, University of Manchester

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 23d

It’s official: the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concludes Israel is committing genocide.

The UN body calls on nations to stop sending weapons to Israel, ensure people within their jurisdiction aren’t aiding or inciting the genocide, and hold those who are accountable.

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 24d

As the Nov/Dec iteration of my new course Writing Experimental Memoir got booked up in a couple of days, I’m going to repeat it in Feb!

3, 10, 17 Feb 2026 6.30-8.30 via Zoom

£120 for course, £160 for course + half hour feedback on up to 3000 words

📧 jenniferannecalleja at gmail dot com

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Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social · Sep 9

👊🏻Join me for this 'Translation as Activism' workshop at the 2025 Manchester Literature Festival 👊🏻 @mcrlitfest.bsky.social
manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/trans...

🤜🏻10 free tickets can be claimed by MMU (@manmetuni.bsky.social) & UoM (@uomhums.bsky.social) students ➡️📧 [email protected]

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Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social · 23d

Important work by @britishacademy.bsky.social, keeping track of emerging cold spots, and contracting opportunities for young people who want to make a difference in the world through the study of SHAPE subjects.

The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Sep 10

Humanities, arts and social sciences degrees are disappearing in many UK regions.

With more young people than ever studying close to home, course cuts are narrowing their choices at university.

@timeshighered.bsky.social covers our 'Cold Spots' report today. Read more at https://bit.ly/46e3wOy

Humanities and arts degrees disappearing in parts of UK

Students from rural and disadvantaged areas disproportionally affected by subject cuts, British Academy warns

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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 24d

My latest chapter, ‘Translating the Anthropocene: Ulrike Almut Sandig’s ‘In die Natur‘ and Robin Wall Kimmerer’s ‘Braiding Sweetgrass‘ as Planetary Eco-Translation Practices’ Free download / Open Access www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/read-...
#envhum #envhist #bluehumanities #translation #ecolit

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 28d

Today we have "Digital Translations and Playable Space: Ready, Set, Yokohama!" by @jkdahl.bsky.social

This is the first article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2025/09/11/d...

#envhist #envhum #japan

Digital Translations and Playable Space: Ready, Set, Yokohama!

Digitizing Toyokuni IV’s 1872 board game, scholars recreated Yokohama’s hybrid modernity, blending history, travel, and playful discovery for students.

niche-canada.org

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Smell Studies Group @smellstudiesgroup.bsky.social · 28d

#newbook: "Materiality of Air" (ed. Tatiana Konrad, Exeter Press)

Full OA access and info: champ.ly/EwXPsOzw

#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #envhum #atmospheres

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EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · 28d

#newbook: "Literature and Botany", ed. Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec, Paweł Piszczatowski, Tomasz Szybisty, Justyna Włodarczyk (Brill, V&R press)

OA and info: www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...

#envhum #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism #planthumanities

Literature and Botany

An interdisciplinary exploration of how literature and botany intersect through myth, symbolism, and ecology, reflecting human-plant relationships in cultural and environmental contexts.

www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25d

To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say something and have it not matter than to be silent.

To be a person of consequence is to matter. If you matter, you
have rights, and your words serve those rights and give you the
power to bear witness, make agreements, set boundaries. If you
have consequence, your words possess the authority to determine
what does and does not happen to you, the power that underlies the
concept of consent as part of equality and self- determination.
Even legally women’s words have lacked consequence: in only a
few scattered places on earth could women vote before the twenti-
eth century, and not so many decades ago, women rarely became
lawyers and judges; I met a Texas woman whose mother was
among the first women in their region to serve on a jury, and I was
an adult when the first woman was appointed to the U.S. Supreme
Court. Until a few decades ago, wives throughout much of the
world, including the United States, lacked the right to make con-
tracts and financial decisions or even to exercise jurisdiction over
their own bodies that overrode their husbands’ ability to do so; in
some parts of the world, a wife is still property under the law, and
others choose her husband. To be a person of no consequence, to
speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though
you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as
though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say some-
thing and have it not matter than to be silent.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25d

Some people have wished I wrote more about the bad old days of silencing and gender violence since I put up that Guardian piece about how normalized it all was in the 1970s-1990s, and, well, I did: Recollections of My Nonexistence. Here are some excerpts.

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Xaq Frohlich @comedoergosum.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm really nerding out on this great critical history of GenAI in the @criticalai-journal.bsky.social : read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

Just what I needed to wrap my head around how AI can work for the humanities, and the need for more critical AI literacy and human-centered AI.

The Origins of Generative AI in Transcription and Machine Translation, and Why That Matters

Abstract. In this essay, written in dialogue with the introduction to this special issue, the authors offer a critical history of the development of large language models (LLMs). The essay's goal is t...

read.dukeupress.edu

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · Aug 26

This 2025 collection on the political economy of ecology and antiracism includes essays by brilliant scholars - Malcom Ferdinand, Arturo Escobar, Nadia Yala Kisukidi …
Edited by the most amazing Fatima Ouassak!
I hope it gets translated for the anglosphere and beyond!

Book cover of Terres et Liberté:Manifeste antiraciste pour une écologie de la libération

Back cover of the book
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Personnes non blanches, pauvres, femmes... sur les sujets cli-matiques, les plus vulnérables sont les plus touchés. Ce sont pourtant celles et ceux que l'on voit et que l'on entend le moins dans l'écologie politique. Ces personnes ne sont pourtant ni absentes ni muettes, elles sont simplement invisibilisées.
Terres et Liberté veille à définir les principaux enjeux, sujets de controverse, champs d'action et luttes concrètes de l'écologie antiraciste contemporaine. En ce sens, cet ouvrage a pour objectif de répondre de manière inédite à une demande de grilles d'analyse et de perspectives en matière d'écologie politique et d'antiracisme, deux champs encore trop rarement envisagés conjointement.

«Écologies de la libération» est une collection plurielle qui donne à voir la complexité, les soubresauts et les tâtonnements propres aux esthétiques expérimentales dans les traditions antiracistes, décoloniales et écoféministes; un espace qui déploie les analyses documentées des auteurices de la collection, présentes dans le champ décolonial et/ou l'écologie politique; et qui veille à préserver la poésie, la singularité de la pensée et la sensibilité de ses auteunces.
Plusieurs axes guident les choix éditoriaux: l'ancrage des ouvrages dans les luttes de terrain - pour s'appuyer sur ces luttes et en retour leur servir d'outils; la valorisation des savoirs situés et périphériques; le travail sur les esthé-tiques, les imaginaires et les utopies depuis les marges; et la défense de l'égale dignité humaine et des libertés fondamentales comme principes non négociables.
Fatima Ouassak

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · May 20

The book of my life (so far), ANNAH, INFINITE is an escape story.

A translation of a painting, in speculative nonfic, poetry & art. Took 14 yrs, &I’m inviting you to love it as I do. Aug 19 UK, Nov 11 US.

For reviews/i’views/events: [email protected]
www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infini...

On a pink background with a dark red slash on the cover, book shows title, ‘Annah, Infinite by Khairani Barokka’, and ‘Tilted Axis Press’.

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · Apr 21

The Norton Library edition of my translation of the Iliad, with stylish red cover, is now available. It has complete text, maps, notes, introduction and translator's note, and it's yours for under $10 (as are many other tempting Norton Library volumes). wwnorton.com/books/978132...

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · Jul 30

Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Max Chervin Bridge's "Still a Silent World: Fish Ears, Whale Politics, and the Science of Ocean Noise, 1941–1990" from the October 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #oceanhistory #sensoryhistory #animalhistory

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Still a Silent World: Fish Ears, Whale Politics, and the Science of Ocean Noise, 1941–1990 | Environmental History

Abstract This article brings together a history of more-than-human sensory life across the multitude of underwater environments that shaped knowledge of and concern about the effects of anthropogenic ...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · Aug 4

Loving the sound of this sound/article!

Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · Jul 30

New publication!

Translucence: Some Notations on Sediments, Amber, Toxic Chemicals, and the Possibility of Returns

In collaboration with my friend and sound artist Korana Jelača who composed a piece that accompanies the text. Very experimental

#envhum

edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4...

Edizioni Ca' Foscari

Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Venice University Press

edizionicafoscari.unive.it

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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · Aug 2

UK-based academics: sign & circulate this open letter pub'd by @bmj.com to Starmer & Lammy to act to stop genocide & famine in Gaza
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
The letter was initiated by UK medical experts but UK academics of all disciplines are asked to sign
forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

Displacement of Gaza residents in 2025. Copyright Jaber Jehad Badwan. Image is not linked to the letter but is taken from a post about the famine in Gaza by one of the letter's authors https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres/health-humanitarian-crises-centre/news/465306/famine-and-genocide-gaza-personal-view

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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · Jul 16

"[UNSEASONABLE] is a necessary book for environmental and ecocritical humanists interested in expanding their sense of climate change literatures beyond those produced in the Global North."-Patrick Whitmarsh, ISLE. buff.ly/SfXzTKm

#Phenology #Envhum #ClimateChange #Environment #BookReview #ReadUP

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · Jul 17

🥳We have just published a new virtual exhibition!🥳

"Once Upon a Dune: Coastal (Hi)Stories" is now online on the Environment and Society Portal (link below).

Go over to the Portal to explore the coastal (hi)stories yourself!

#virtualexhibition #dunes #online #openaccess #envhist #envhum #coast

Once Upon a Dune: Coastal (Hi)Stories

www.environmentandsociety.org

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