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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 23h

@dreframss.bsky.social we can’t wait! 🎮

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 1d

Register & sign up below for 2 exciting #Halloween season #Gothic events! ⬇️🎃

Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 7d

The #Gothic haunting season is upon us! Free online events⬇️

👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link.

🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 5d

Tis the #Halloween séance season 👻 and a great time to read the #TalesOfTheWeird @britishlibrary.bsky.social collections! Summoned to the Séance features 14 lesser-known stories from Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Florence Marryat, F. Scott Fitzgerald and more. Really enjoyed editing this! 👻

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 6d

🤞There are also caps and backpacks - merch mania!

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 6d

Just in time for #Halloween, the @britishlibrary.bsky.social #TalesOfTheWeird books have merch! Here’s the t-shirt for my Summoned to the Séance collection: shop.bl.uk/products/sum...

Summoned to the Séance T-shirt

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 7d

The #Gothic haunting season is upon us! Free online events⬇️

👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link.

🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 8d

Exciting news! Join @gothicauob.bsky.social for 👾 Video Game Gothic 👾 with our special guest speaker @dreframss.bsky.social on Zoom on Thursday 23rd October 5.00pm - 6.30pm (UK). As an expert in occulture, Efram's talk will explore issues of video game censorship during the 1980s ‘Satanic Panic’ ⬇️

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 12d

Join @cncsi.bsky.social on Halloween 🎃 for 1 day of talks on ‘Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives’. Our 5 expert speakers (announced very soon!) will focus on multimedia (video game, radio, film, TV, art) adaptations, receptions, revivals, and reimaginings. Register here: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...

Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives - CNCSI

Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives Free and Online One-Day Halloween Workshop Friday 31st October, 10.45 am ̶ 5.00 pm (Central European Time) Registration is required. Sign up here. The Centre ...

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 12d

Congratulations - this sounds amazing! 🎉

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 15d

Take a look at some of our project’s work on narrative vulnerability during the #Covid19 pandemic and its impact on young people and textual expression, perhaps what we could see as a form of scriptotherapy ✍️

Media and Epidemics @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social · 15d

You can read our Media and Epidemics @euchanse.bsky.social @ukri.org ‘Story of Change’ which reflects our project’s work on narrative vulnerability during #Covid19 as a result of a collaboration with non-profit organisation Fragile Society. See this and more here: chanse.org/medep/ #hstm #medhums

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Media and Epidemics @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social · 20d

We have an insightful new blog post from Dmytro Yesypenko about the role of folklore and epidemics in nineteenth-century #Ukranian literature #hstm #histmed #litsci #medhums: mediaepidemics.com/2025/08/29/e...

Epidemics in Word and Imagination: Ukrainian Literature Between Folklore, the Press, and Science

“…epidemics are never only about pathogens. They are also filtered through the words of newspapers, proclamations, and popular accounts — words that, like folk tales, provided framework…

mediaepidemics.com

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 22d

Fascinating hearing about the highly gendered visual and textual marketing and media representations of the Polidin vaccine in Romania (first marketed as an influenza cure, then a panacea) where female scientists were depicted as industrious yet unnamed #hstm #histsci #histmed #medhums

Media and Epidemics @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social · 22d

Gendered media representations depicted women scientists in photographs as industrious innovators yet their names remained invisible in texts, whereas male scientists were named and celebrated in texts marketing the vaccine. We look forward to reading the published research soon!

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Media and Epidemics @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social · 27d

The Media and Epidemics team and @dremilyvincent.bsky.social really enjoyed presenting at the @euchanse.bsky.social #WeAreCHANSE conference, meeting humanities & social sciences researchers from across Europe to see how digital culture has (& continues to) transform over time @horizoneu.bsky.social

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 29d

Any #ECRs wanting to represent and support @bavs-uk.bsky.social (and work with me, yay!) you have until this Wednesday 10th September (5pm UK) to apply ⬇️🎉

BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social · Aug 21

Do you want to join the BAVS Executive Committee? We have a vacancy for an ECR/Postdoctoral Representative (x 3-year term), and we'd love to hear from you if so! The deadline for applying is 10th September. More info here: bavs.ac.uk/executive-co...

» BAVS Executive Committee VacanciesBAVSBAVS Executive Committee Vacancies | BAVS

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 29d

A free online conference (Oct 2-3rd) organised by Bernard Lightman and Sarah Qidwai on #C19 royal asiatic societies and nineteenth-century science. See on @cncsi.bsky.social here: cn-csi.com/conferences/... #hstm

The Royal Asiatic Societies and Nineteenth Century Science - CNCSI

Online Conference Thursday October 2nd to Friday October 3rd, 2025 How did Imperialism shape science, and how did science, in turn, shape Empire(s)? This conference invites scholars of Asian Studies, ...

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Media and Epidemics @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our project was represented by @dremilyvincent.bsky.social who focused on the necessary diversity of our sources (from historic newspapers, to postage stamps) for examining the range of lived #pandemic experiences and how our research of the past can prepare us for pandemic futures #hstm #medhums

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · Sep 8

I’ll be presenting our team’s findings later this afternoon 🎉 🇵🇱

Media and Epidemics @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Media and Epidemics (MEDEP) team have arrived in Kraków for the @euchanse.bsky.social #WeAreCHANSE conference. We’re looking forward to sharing our findings and meeting the rest of the CHANSE projects!

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · Sep 5

I’m looking forward to presenting our findings on historic epidemics and technologies of communication on behalf of @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social at the @euchanse.bsky.social conference in Kraków on Monday! 🇵🇱 #hstm #histsci #litsci #epidemics #pandemic #medhums

Media and Epidemics @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Media and Epidemics team are excited to present an overview of our research activities (from archival research to creative writing workshops) & key outputs (books, journal articles, an international conference & more) @euchanse.bsky.social Final Conference in Kraków on Monday! 🇵🇱

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Media and Epidemics @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social · Sep 1

Our research into historical #pandemics and literature has just been published on the medical humanities platform @the-polyphony.bsky.social - find it here ⬇️ #medhums #hstm #histsci #litsi

The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · Sep 1

Members of the Media and Epidemics Research Network provide three vignettes illustrating the different ways 'Russian Flu' was reflected in media and literary culture.

thepolyphony.org/2025/09/01/m...

Media and Epidemics: the 1890s ‘Russian Flu’ Epidemic

Members of the Media and Epidemics Research Network provide three vignettes illustrating the different ways ‘Russian Flu’ was reflected in media and literary culture.

thepolyphony.org

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · Aug 29

Exciting news! @bavs-uk.bsky.social are hiring an ECR/Postgrad Rep to work alongside me to develop early career professional development and networking opportunities. 10th Sept deadline, details below ⬇️ DM me with any queries 🎉

BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social · Aug 21

Do you want to join the BAVS Executive Committee? We have a vacancy for an ECR/Postdoctoral Representative (x 3-year term), and we'd love to hear from you if so! The deadline for applying is 10th September. More info here: bavs.ac.uk/executive-co...

» BAVS Executive Committee VacanciesBAVSBAVS Executive Committee Vacancies | BAVS

bavs.ac.uk

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · Aug 19

Me and Melissa Dickson will be co-presenting research from our forthcoming @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social book to the Sydney Uni Interdisciplinary 19C Study Group on Thursday 21st on Zoom. I’ll be looking at how influenza epidemics were represented in spiritualist fiction and periodicals 📰 📖 👻

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · Aug 12

The rite of passage is complete! 🎉

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · Aug 11

Visited the UK’s official book town Hay-on-Wye and was pleasantly surprised to find this excellent selection of @britishlibrary.bsky.social #TalesoftheWeird! Thanks to the bookseller at Addyman Books for my 5 minutes of fame with my collection, Summoned to the Seance: shop.bl.uk/products/sum...

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · Aug 1

A summery day on campus @unibirmingham.bsky.social for yesterday’s group writing day in the Arts building ✍️ 💻

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · Jul 25

A special moment and throwback to my MSt presenting @engfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk on Wilde, ‘moral pestilence’ and epidemic influenza in the 1890s (at Wilde’s university) as part of @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social project for @bavs-uk.bsky.social #BAVS2025

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