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Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · 2d

Many thanks, this looks wonderful! I've found the work of Elleke Boehmer and Dominic Davies on literary infrastructure really useful - & noted that A. Tickel has a new book on infrastructure and citizenship in Indian literature. I've mostly worked on the interaction between urban and literary form.

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Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · 2d

A grad seminar on infrastructure and literature sounds great! Any chance of having a peek at the syllabus?

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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 3d

TTiN’s first event of the new term. Join us online for this lunchtime discussion about infrastructure, art, and autoethnography.

Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 3d

How can art and storytelling help us to make sense of infrastructures? Join us online at lunchtime on Wed 29 Oct for our first session of the new academic year with visual artist, urban walker, and comics creator Giada Peterle. Sign up below! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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Game Research Lab @gameresearchlab.bsky.social · 9d

Come work with us! We are hiring 3 postdoctoral researchers working in cultural game studies from the beginning of 2026 until the end of 2027. Read more and apply by 31.10.2025 (at 23.59.00 EET / UTC+2):

3 Postdoctoral Researchers (cultural game studies) / 3 tutkijatohtoria (kulttuurinen pelitutkimus)

tuni.rekrytointi.com

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Hanna Nikkanen @hannanik.bsky.social · 13d

The world’s largest carbon registry, Verra, has pulled millions of carbon credits from the market after they were scrutinized in my and Jonas Gerding’s @longplay.fi investigation (so far only available in Finnish, but more stories are coming up!)

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Verran linja muuttui Long Playn paljastusten jälkeen

www.longplay.fi

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 14d

A major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and rule.

Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger is now available in #paperback: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

#History #Habsburg

Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger. A major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and rule.

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 22d

🌱 Fully funded PhD scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University!

A unique opportunity to collaborate with Marco Caracciolo, Elly McCausland, and me on innovative research connecting literature, culture, and ecology.

PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University

Discover a PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 20d

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilInfestation

Playmobil figure kitted out as prehistoric iceman Ötzi.

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Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · 25d

Thanks, JD and everyone at #railwayaesthetics for great company on an unforgettable journey!

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 25d

I spent the last 4 days with a band of mad academics and artists rolling from Vienna to Istanbul for a conference on #railwayaesthetics held on the train. The work was great and I can’t thank them enough. Some images

Vienna Hauptbahnhof at. Out. Wet and modern and shiny

Hungarian monument to the Malenkij Robot. Spooky as hell and politically welllll

The conference car where the presentations were held

Open gravel mine. Romania. An enormous project of replacing the rail ties with concrete underway

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Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · 27d

Crossing into Bulgaria, #RailwayAsthetics

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Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · 27d

Looking for a telephone operator

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Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · 28d

panel "Disconnected Branches" starting at the Royal Salon, Bucharest North station), at the Railway Aesthetics conference lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2605

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Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · 29d

Tot ziens in Wenen!

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Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · 29d

I'll present a paper on “Literary Flickers of Fossil-fueled Modernity”, with the focus on the sudden appearances of lights, fumes and glares as seen from a train window. Looking forward to reconnect with old acquaintances and to get to know new people in infrastructure & mobilities humanities.

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Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · 29d

In Vienna for the Railway Aesthetics conference, which takes place in and around trains, including several night-trains on the trajectory Vienna – Bucharest – Istanbul. Program includes a panel at the Royal Salon in Bucharest & visit to the Energy Museum in Istanbul lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2605

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Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · Sep 4

In Tartu for the one-week Nordplus course "Eco-Critical Approaches to Narratives across Media: A Nordic Perspective". I presented on bird poetry and allegorical approaches to flooded cities, drawing a.o. on the work of Karoliina Lummaa and my earlier work on allegory lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2580

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Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · Aug 31

This looks timely!

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Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our book series in Literary Urban Studies is accepting proposals, do get in touch with me or one of my co-editors if you want to discuss a book idea!

Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · Aug 27

The book ontinues what has become a tradition of publishing high-quality edited volumes on the basis of ALUS conferences, previous volumes including Literature and the Peripheral City (2015), Literary Second Cities (2017), Literatures of Urban Possibility (2021), Fair and Unfair Cities (2023).

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Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social · Aug 27

Great to welcome the latest addition to our Palgrave Literary Urban Studies series: "Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, and Resistance", edited by Eric Prieto, Liam Lanigan and Anni Lappela, based on a 2022 conference at UC Santa Barbara. lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2560

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Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social · Aug 22

New from @edinburghup.bsky.social The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel, edited by Loïc Bourdeau and @cilloyd.bsky.social, “provides a compassionate, capacious and complex analysis of the over-discussed but under-analysed concept of the millennial and its relationship to long-form fiction”

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Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social · Aug 18

It's alive! Publication day! Play in Utopian and Dystopian Ficion arrived in the mail. Thanks Liverpool University Press for producing such a beautiful book.

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AUTOSTORY Project @autostory.bsky.social · Aug 19

The first collaborative outcome of the project AUTOSTORY is out!

"Social media and the value of literature" in TfL's latest issue written by @mariamakela.bsky.social, K. Malmio, @laurapiippo.bsky.social, M. Kangaskoski, and M. Lehtimäki is now available at publicera.kb.se/tfl/article/...

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · Aug 18

Increasingly, what makes sense to me is framing a class as a *dialogic community* and assessing students on their contributions as members of that community. Such contributions can be and should be as spontaneous as they are regulated. +

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