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felicitycallard.bsky.social
Felicity Callard
@felicitycallard.bsky.social
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Researching daydreams and fantasies. I am employed as a human geographer and also work in the medical humanities Editor, History of the Human Sciences
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3h
‘If the university’s continued financial viability relies on making a world that is safe for settler colonialism, then the past is not such a foreign country’.
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Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social · 3h
UK universities claim to be reckoning with their imperial and colonial pasts, but refuse to see their implication in the genocidal settler colonialism of the present – so how serious are these exercises? wrote about this for @versobooks.bsky.social blog

www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
Race Reports
In July 2025, the University of Edinburgh published a wide-ranging ‘Review of Race and History’ that attempts to confront its legacies of enslavement and colonialism. Four months earlier, the Universi...
www.versobooks.com
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3d
I love seeing this gathering of those who have experienced different parts of a longer theoretical/pedagogical moment. Glad to welcome you into this thread @ylbooks.bsky.social
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 4d
The 'Battle of Cable Street', which took place on 4 October, 1936, has become a foundational myth of anti-fascism in Britain. This excerpt from my 'No Platform' book explores how 'Cable Street' was used as inspiration for student activists in the 1970s.

hatfulofhistory.com/2020/10/03/t...
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 4d
Jake Romm looks at one painting by Luca Giordano – hard, repeatedly – and what an essay he ends up writing
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Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 8d
For the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Luca Giordano's St. Michael, but also about art & empire, & airstrikes, & Gaza

I feel strongly about this one: it articulates something about art and looking that I'd previously struggled with, & also I think it's my best writing about art)
Against the Wound | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jake Romm navigates artistic depictions of genocide and religious violence—some illuminating, others devoid of substance—from Renaissance Italy to modern-day Berlin, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no...
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 4d
Reading Trump's compact for universities & checking off how many demands (institutional neutrality, the need to interpret 'male', 'female' according to reproductive function/biology, etc.) British universities have already embraced/appear willing to embrace
www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 9d
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
Early last semester, Droubi said, students began approaching Cheyfitz with complaints that a graduate student in the “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance” class appeared to be recording them, possibly to “gather their names and comments” and intimidate them. “We believe that a student came to the course for the sole reason of surveilling and potentially harming students in the class,” Droubi said. “That ended up proving itself to be true because multiple students came forward and shared their concerns with Professor Cheyfitz.” Cheyfitz said one Palestinian student quit the class after telling him she felt upset and frightened. Current Issue Cover of October 2025 Issue October 2025 Issue According to Cheyfitz, the graduate student often steered conversations away from the assigned readings—which at that point mostly focused on definitions of genocide and international law on Indigenous rights—to defend Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza and argue with others in the class. “He clearly had not done the readings,” Cheyfitz said. “It was disruptive.” Cheyfitz said he met with the graduate student in late January and spoke to him about concerns from his classmates. During the conversation, he asked the graduate student to drop the course, and by the next class, he did, Cheyfitz said. The graduate student, Oren Renard, a PhD candidate in computer science whose identity was confirmed by other students in the class, previously served in Israel’s elite military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, according to his LinkedIn profile.
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 11d
“When Palestine in English revolts, it’s because Palestine in Arabic gives it life. Palestine in English resists becoming ghost because

Palestine in Arabic is never ghost, no matter the immensity of ruin”: Fady Joudah in @parapraxismag.bsky.social www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/exh...
Exhibit G: Baby Moses & Khalas — Parapraxis
or Notes on Palestinian Interiority Fady Joudah
www.parapraxismagazine.com
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 12d
“Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather than a problem of desire (or the material conditions that shape desire)” Claire Wilmot @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
Claire Wilmot | Fascistic Dream Machines
Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather...
www.lrb.co.uk
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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 13d
Intervention — "On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada" by Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) antipodeonline.org/2025/09/24/o...
Intervention—“On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada” - Antipode Online
Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) Baba, when will we study astronomy in school? … I want to learn about the moon and stars. (Banias, age 9, quoted ...
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 12d
I so enjoyed reading this in @nplusonemag.com: @lilyscherlis.bsky.social thinking about groups, group relations, Bion, the left as she moves between experiences in a Palestine encampment and in the annual Tavistock Institute of Human Relations group conference www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...
Experiences in Groups | Lily Scherlis
The more experienced attendees explain that here, one’s individual experience is seen as a symptom of the group’s dynamics. If someone is physically ill, it is because the system needs to eject someon...
www.nplusonemag.com
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 15d
I recommend this article, which provides an excellent introduction to the history both of the term autism and the ways in which the label has been applied to a changing set of human characteristics, in line with changing scientific and diagnostic approaches.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
How autism became autism - Bonnie Evans, 2013
This article argues that the meaning of the word ‘autism’ experienced a radical shift in the early 1960s in Britain which was contemporaneous with a growth in e...
journals.sagepub.com
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 15d
Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free.

www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
Cover of Dr Bonnie Evans' book The Metamorphosis of Autism: A History of Child Development in Britain (Manchester University Press, 2017)
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 15d
Remembering Jonathan Lear coming to talk about the death drive when I was a grad student and his conversations with us at Birkbeck more recently on his essay on Gettysburg. I’ve been spending a lot of time with his writings on mourning. Thinking of his family, friends, colleagues, analysands today
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 19d
I love reading Greenwell’s sentences. You might find his essay on Roth of interest yalereview.org/article/gart...
Garth Greenwell: "A Moral Education"
How Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater can make us more generous readers.
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 19d
Wonderful essay. Giovanni’s Room was the first Baldwin I read, as an adolescent. Thank you for helping me understand the work of beauty and the work of the irreparable in this book
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Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social · 20d
I first read Giovanni's Room when I was 14. How did a book built (I now think) on a homophobic logic give me access to dignity? For Harper's, I wrote about why we should complicate our sense of what it means for art to be "affirming." harpers.org/archive/2025...
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Kirsteen Paton @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social · 19d
👋 Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians @socispal.bsky.social have joined Bluesky

Give them a follow for resources, events and upcoming actions calling on sociological professional bodies to us their platforms to stand with Palestinian

If you want to get involved email [email protected]
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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 19d
do you work in a university/faculty/school in the UK that abolished “departments”? willing to share experiences (by DM if preferred)? RTs also appreciated
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 20d
Anyone who has to take the Avanti West Coast will shiver as they see confirmation of just how bad these trains are
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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 20d
Waiting for a (delayed, of course) train & spotted this extraordinary statistic. 40% of Avanti trains at Birmingham are late! 40%! That is insane!
When British people grumble about things getting shitter it’s stuff like this that is part of the grinding down of morale and a functioning society.
Sign with a table listing train performance at Birmingham new st station. Only 60.2% of Avanti trains are on time - 63.8 cross country, 78.3 London northwestern and 77.4 of transport for wales. This compares to an average of 84% for the overall network
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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 20d
There has been virtually no news from Gaza in the past six hours due to a communications blackout caused by ongoing Israeli attacks.

This is deeply alarming.
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 20d
Ha! Bluesky has labelled Guercino’s Venus adult content
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 20d
I am angry every day that so much of what I was able to experience as a grad student — my encounter with art historical research via Shilpa’s research transformed my interior world — has now been ripped away, demolished
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 20d
It was 25yrs ago in year-long seminar designed to bring grad students together across disciplines & Shilpa spoke about this painting and at that point I barely knew Guercino’s name but something started then inside me & has intensified over a quarter of a century

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Venus, Mars and Cupid, by Guercino. Description of painting here: https://ducatoestense.com/en/beni-storici-artistici/venus-mars-and-cupid/
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 20d
I spent a summer looking at Guercino (including in the small town of his birth, Cento) & kept thinking how it was one interdisciplinary seminar — when art historian grad student Shilpa Prasad presented her Guercino research — that redrew the line of this wayward geographer’s life. Thank you Shilpa
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 20d
A more apt headline for this would be: Collective pressure by staff forces ANU management to abandon its plans for forced redundancies.
Well done to ANU staff.
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ABC News (Unofficial) @abc-news.bsky.social · 20d
Breaking: ANU walks back plans for forced redundancies: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-18/anu-walks-back-forced-redundancies-change-proposal/105787248
Breaking: ANU walks back plans for forced redundancies
The Australian National University abandons its plans for forced redundancies as part of its efforts to cut costs.
www.abc.net.au
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 20d
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
The new TOC from academia dot edu. By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.
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