helengroth.bsky.social
@helengroth.bsky.social
Professor of Literary Studies
University of New South Wales
University of New South Wales
marching for Gaza with over 100,000 people in Sydney today
August 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
marching for Gaza with over 100,000 people in Sydney today
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It’s time to reconsolidate a counterculture and politics against this shit. Science, art, medicine, poetry, philosophy as the beautiful life, the fullness of human civilization, that they want to destroy. Humanism, not cynicism, not slop, not tech “””nerd””” culture
May 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
It’s time to reconsolidate a counterculture and politics against this shit. Science, art, medicine, poetry, philosophy as the beautiful life, the fullness of human civilization, that they want to destroy. Humanism, not cynicism, not slop, not tech “””nerd””” culture
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‘Al Jazeera reports that 14,500 Palestinians have been arrested since October 2023 in the West Bank (some since released). The testimony of those who have been released indicates that their treatment has never been so brutal.’
Selma Dabbagh on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Selma Dabbagh on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Selma Dabbagh | ‘How life is in there’
The British brought the system of administrative detention to Palestine when they were the mandatory power. The rules...
www.lrb.co.uk
March 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
‘Al Jazeera reports that 14,500 Palestinians have been arrested since October 2023 in the West Bank (some since released). The testimony of those who have been released indicates that their treatment has never been so brutal.’
Selma Dabbagh on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Selma Dabbagh on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
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#skystorians 🗃️
The national Archivist has important roles in other areas besides presidential documents… and we should be alarmed. action.everylibrary.org/we_should_al...?
We Should All Be Paying Attention To What's Happening to the National Archives
Guest post from Dominic Byrd-McDevitt: Open knowledge advocate | Dedicated to building community and serving the public interest via data & tech.
action.everylibrary.org
February 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
#skystorians 🗃️
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The Australian Health Dept needs to get it together on info campaigns & immunisation rates here for adults as well as kids: the US will soon be spreading to the world a lot of ‘old’ diseases that make babies & kids blind, deaf, miserable or dead.
February 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The Australian Health Dept needs to get it together on info campaigns & immunisation rates here for adults as well as kids: the US will soon be spreading to the world a lot of ‘old’ diseases that make babies & kids blind, deaf, miserable or dead.
If you are in Sydney or close by please come along.
UNSW LITERARY PROVOCATIONS HUB SEMINAR
Astrid Lorange (UNSW Art & Design), "Towards a Literary Theory of the Headache: On Jason Compson’s Headaches in The Sound and the Fury"
3:00 pm, Wednesday, 19 February
Robert Webster 334, UNSW Main Campus
No need to register. Come along!
Astrid Lorange (UNSW Art & Design), "Towards a Literary Theory of the Headache: On Jason Compson’s Headaches in The Sound and the Fury"
3:00 pm, Wednesday, 19 February
Robert Webster 334, UNSW Main Campus
No need to register. Come along!
January 31, 2025 at 10:05 PM
If you are in Sydney or close by please come along.
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Photo of the Day. Taken by Omar Al-Qattaa for AFP.
A river of the displaced walking north towards Gaza City after crossing the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians returning to see if anything is left of their homes.
A river of the displaced walking north towards Gaza City after crossing the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians returning to see if anything is left of their homes.
January 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Photo of the Day. Taken by Omar Al-Qattaa for AFP.
A river of the displaced walking north towards Gaza City after crossing the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians returning to see if anything is left of their homes.
A river of the displaced walking north towards Gaza City after crossing the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians returning to see if anything is left of their homes.
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If you need a break from the ongoing techbro apocalypse, consider this piece on the sound of typesetting. From the late Peter Campbell, designer of the @londonreview.bsky.social:
Peter Campbell · Diary: In the Print Shop
I still work with print and play with words, but the sound of typesetting is now the tapping of a writer at a word...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
If you need a break from the ongoing techbro apocalypse, consider this piece on the sound of typesetting. From the late Peter Campbell, designer of the @londonreview.bsky.social:
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Every educational, academic, and cultural institution in Gaza where I studied, worked, or attended a conference or event—every theater, every archive, every historic landmark and site—has been completely destroyed. They no longer exist.
January 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Every educational, academic, and cultural institution in Gaza where I studied, worked, or attended a conference or event—every theater, every archive, every historic landmark and site—has been completely destroyed. They no longer exist.
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Curran Fellowships are now open for applications (due Jan 15, letters Jan 22), and they can be a big help to anyone researching any aspect of the 19th-c. British press. Topics pursued by past winners have ranged far and wide: rs4vp.org/awards/curra...
Details here: rs4vp.org/awards/curra... #19th
Details here: rs4vp.org/awards/curra... #19th
The Curran Fellowships – RSVP
The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...
rs4vp.org
December 12, 2024 at 4:36 AM
Curran Fellowships are now open for applications (due Jan 15, letters Jan 22), and they can be a big help to anyone researching any aspect of the 19th-c. British press. Topics pursued by past winners have ranged far and wide: rs4vp.org/awards/curra...
Details here: rs4vp.org/awards/curra... #19th
Details here: rs4vp.org/awards/curra... #19th
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Do you write about modernism? Do you have an article that's ready to go, but not sure yet where to send it? Try Affirmations: of the modern, the journal of the Australasian Modernist Studies Network. We'd love to review your work.
affirmationsmodern.com/index.php/up...
affirmationsmodern.com/index.php/up...
Affirmations: of the modern
Affirmations: of the modern seeks to stir up modernism studies by publishing work that unsettles the empiricist consensus and pursues unusual, ambitious, and theoretically adventurous paths around the...
affirmationsmodern.com
December 3, 2024 at 2:20 AM
Do you write about modernism? Do you have an article that's ready to go, but not sure yet where to send it? Try Affirmations: of the modern, the journal of the Australasian Modernist Studies Network. We'd love to review your work.
affirmationsmodern.com/index.php/up...
affirmationsmodern.com/index.php/up...
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"Targeted & Assassinated": Gaza Soup Kitchen Chef Mahmoud Almadhoun Killed by Israeli Drone
Gaza Soup Kitchen Chef Mahmoud Almadhoun Killed by Israeli Drone
Israel killed more than 200 Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, including 40 members of a single family. The official death toll in Gaza is now over 44,000, although experts believe that is a vast undercount...
www.democracynow.org
December 2, 2024 at 5:30 PM
"Targeted & Assassinated": Gaza Soup Kitchen Chef Mahmoud Almadhoun Killed by Israeli Drone
really? two words that hardly capture the mood of 2024.
There's a name for that feeling you get after spending too long scrolling aimlessly -- and Oxford University Press has chosen it as its 2024 word of the year. cnn.it/3OB7nwu
December 2, 2024 at 8:27 PM
really? two words that hardly capture the mood of 2024.
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this week's column www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...
Sport may be a blunt tool of social change, but it’s time to take a stand against Israel | Jonathan Liew
As the bombardment continues in Gaza, bodies such as Fifa and the IOC have evaded taking a stand. But fans’ solidarity with Palestinians is growing and should not be ignored
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 9:47 AM
this week's column www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...
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The advert for our Research Associate post in Victorian Cultural and Material History is now up on jobs.ac.uk - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r...
Please spread the word!!!!
Please spread the word!!!!
Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History at Lancaster University
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 21, 2024 at 3:26 PM
The advert for our Research Associate post in Victorian Cultural and Material History is now up on jobs.ac.uk - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r...
Please spread the word!!!!
Please spread the word!!!!
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We are pleased to announce that the Hamilton Prize winner for 2024 is Olivia Krauze for the essay "What is a Violent Emotion?" We look forward to publishing Olivia's essay in an upcoming issue. The runner up is Lucy Lawrence for an essay on "The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal (1895-97)."
November 18, 2024 at 8:49 PM
We are pleased to announce that the Hamilton Prize winner for 2024 is Olivia Krauze for the essay "What is a Violent Emotion?" We look forward to publishing Olivia's essay in an upcoming issue. The runner up is Lucy Lawrence for an essay on "The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal (1895-97)."
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I have created a "starter pack" for intellectual history, broadly construed, composed of historians, philosophers, political theorists, literary scholars, & more! Sorry for those I missed & cannot add (limit 150), but do reply, like, & share this post so that people can find you!
go.bsky.app/77uSk3m
go.bsky.app/77uSk3m
November 8, 2024 at 10:44 AM
I have created a "starter pack" for intellectual history, broadly construed, composed of historians, philosophers, political theorists, literary scholars, & more! Sorry for those I missed & cannot add (limit 150), but do reply, like, & share this post so that people can find you!
go.bsky.app/77uSk3m
go.bsky.app/77uSk3m
Looking forward to reading this issue
Zarena Aslami @zda.bsky.social and I are happy to launch our INFRASTRUCTURE special issue of Victorian Literature and Culture! Our brilliant authors analyze canals and railways and standpipes and pensions and photography and stagecoaches and waste and vampires. And more! 1/
Latest issue | Victorian Literature and Culture | Cambridge Core
Victorian Literature and Culture
www.cambridge.org
November 18, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Looking forward to reading this issue
excellent panel
Israel's assault on Gaza "continues to be a war on children," says Palestinian scholar Noura Erakat, in conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor at @palfest.bsky.social this weekend.
“America & the War on Palestine”: Noura Erakat, Ta-Nehisi Coates at PalFest
Thousands attended a Palestine Festival of Literature event about “America and the War on Palestine” at the historic Riverside Church in New York Sunday, featuring conversations about U.S. complicity ...
www.democracynow.org
November 18, 2024 at 9:13 PM
excellent panel
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Crisis in the Profession, or the Failure to Imagine the New: academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
Crisis in the Profession, or the Failure to Imagine the New
Abstract. This essay provides a thorough analysis of Bruce Robbins’s, Jonathan Kramnick’s, and John Guillory’s recent books on the state of the discipline
academic.oup.com
November 16, 2024 at 1:24 AM
Crisis in the Profession, or the Failure to Imagine the New: academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
Amazing resource!
Thought I’d make my first post both positive and useful-so here’s a list of all of the free-to-view titles now available on the British Newspaper Archive:
blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a...
blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a...
List of Free to View Pages | British Newspaper Archive
Working in partnership with the British Library, here we present a list of all newspaper pages included in our free to view newspaper collection.
blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
November 14, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Amazing resource!
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A blog I created for my unpublished/unpublishable climate rants. So far there's only one.
jasonscottwarren.wordpress.com
jasonscottwarren.wordpress.com
climate anger
blogging the end times
jasonscottwarren.wordpress.com
August 3, 2024 at 7:25 PM
A blog I created for my unpublished/unpublishable climate rants. So far there's only one.
jasonscottwarren.wordpress.com
jasonscottwarren.wordpress.com