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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · 2d

That's quite the all-you-can-eat breakfast 😆

School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · 3d

You can visit the Creole Connections hub here: www.creoleconnections.cahss.ed.ac.uk/interactive/...

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Creole Connections is an Interactive Research Project.

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · 3d

During the episode, Charlotte touches on Creole Connections, an online bilingual media platform she helped build that features interviews and media from people living in San Andrés and Providencia.

The platform shares stories, needs and experiences of people across the Raizal-Creole diaspora.

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · 3d

What can Indigenous Latin American cinema and filmmaking tell us about memory, cultural identity, and the need for different stories? 📽️

Find out all this and more from Dr Charlotte Gleghorn as she discusses her research in the new episode of Beyond the Books.

Full episode: youtu.be/jOfjUtz1Yew

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Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social · 12d

💬 🤝 We'll be hosting a range of seminars this semester, run in collaboration with students and staff from across our university and beyond.

💻 ⬆️ You can follow the link in our bio to find out more about these events, as well as the reading and discussion groups we have planned over the next months!

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · 13d

"Every country has its scapegoats... David Rizzio became one of Scotland’s most haunting."

Read Dr Emanuela Patti's timely piece on why Mary Queen of Scots' murdered private secretary was a political scapegoat in @scotsman.com

www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Why Mary Queen of Scots' murdered private secretary David Rizzio was a political scapegoat

History shows that political anger is often channelled towards outsiders, a pattern that is being repeated today

www.scotsman.com

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Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social · 28d

👨‍🏫 🧭 We’ll be kicking off the new academic year with the return of the Denys Hay lecture to @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, as we welcome @philippebuc.bsky.social from @unileiden.bsky.social to deliver a talk on his recent comparative historical research looking at both medieval Europe and Japan.

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · 24d

This is such an exciting new project on young people, creativity, literacy and wellbeing. It's one to watch and you can do so on various platforms:
Website: rewriting-worlds.ed.ac.uk
Bluesky: @re-writer.bsky.social
Instagram: www.instagram.com/rewriting.wo...

Bravo 👏 Patrick Errington

Patrick James Errington @pat-err.bsky.social · 26d

🎉 Thrilled to share that I've received a @ukri.org #FutureLeadersFellowship for our transdisciplinary, participatory, & practice-partnered project #RewritingWor(l)ds @re-writer.bsky.social/ rewriting-worlds.ed.ac.uk researching #poetry, creative engagement, & #wellbeing for young people

Rewriting Wor(l)ds

Rewriting Worlds is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project researching young people's creative engagement with poetry at the University of Edinburgh.

rewriting-worlds.ed.ac.uk

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Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · Aug 21

Lovely to see this write up of our project in the Smithsonian Magazine. #EarlyModern 📜 🗃️ @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...

Read the Dramatic 17th-Century Memoirs of Alice Thornton, Who Wrote Four Versions of Her Life Story

Researchers have digitized all four volumes, which are now available online. The autobiographies offer a compelling window into a tumultuous period in English history

www.smithsonianmag.com

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · Aug 5

For a great blog read on the genesis of this project, including a text from her Dad and a bus stop encounter with LLC’s Professor Suzanne Trill (Co-Investigator), do check out Cordelia’s very first post on the Alice Thornton’s Books website: thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...

Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · Aug 4

Team @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social - we are in the Guardian! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @uoe-llc.bsky.social

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 4

Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thrilled to see our very own Dr Jonathan Wild has been awarded a Spring 2025 Research Award for his project, 'The Influence of Scotland on Charles Dickens’ Life and Work'!

Jonathan's project will be the first major study of Dickens' engagement with Scotland - we can't wait to see how it develops! 🤩

Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA) @sahavoice.bsky.social · Jul 23

The RSE’s Research Awards Programme runs twice a year in spring & autumn. It aims to support Scotland’s research sector by nurturing promising talent, stimulating research in Scotland, and promoting international collaboration.

Congratulations to the latest research awardees 👏

Read the full list

RSE awards over £724K to boost Scotland’s vibrant research sector

We are pleased to announce that 72 exceptional research projects were selected at the spring 2025 Research Awards open call.

rse.org.uk

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · Jul 21

LLC's former Head of School, Professor Jeremy Robbins, is among the British Academy's newly elected Fellows! 🎉

Jeremy's outstanding contributions within Hispanic Studies has been recognised with one of the Academy's highest honours, and we're all thrilled for him.

See the full list below 👇

The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Jul 18

The British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in 2025 – a higher number than in previous years due to new Fellowship places for candidates whose research spans more than one discipline www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...

The British Academy welcomes 92 new Fellows in 2025

92 distinguished scholars have today been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · Jul 1

Join LLC's own Dr Terri Ochiagha (English Literature) at her free @britishacademy.bsky.social conference on acclaimed African writer Chinua Achebe ✍️

Leading experts and interdisciplinary researchers will gather to discuss the author in a range of lights.

📆 3 - 4 July
📍 Online
🎟️ edin.ac/3TEPVKl

Achebe Redivivus

In this two-day conference, world-leading scholars and rising stars in the fields of anthropology, literary modernism, African politics, African literature, African history, and African art will offer...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · Jun 27

Further reading! If you want to go deeper into Xuelei’s work, her book Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell is now available @universitypress.cambridge.org‬

www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

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Scents of China

Cambridge Core - Asian Literature - Scents of China

www.cambridge.org

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · Jun 27

Researchers! Are you a fox 🦊 or a hedgehog 🦔? In this episode of Beyond the Books, Beth talks to self-professed fox-type, Dr Xuelei Huang. From cinema to smells, they dive into the softer side of history and cultural cosmopolitism in Republican China.

Full episode: youtu.be/lrl234hkIZo

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · Jun 25

Originally from New York City, Zebib completed medical school and a psychiatry residency in the US before pursuing her passion for writing on our Creative Writing MSc. She continues to work as a psychiatrist while writing.

Read more: llc.ed.ac.uk/news/meet-ou...

@janealexander.bsky.social

The image is a quote from an interview with the writer Zebib K. Abraham. It is about her two careers, as psychiatrist and writer. It says I see a lot of parallels between creativity and psychiatry, and these different disciplines also inform each other. I like to listen to stories, form an understanding of motivation, assumptions, fears, patterns. This is what we want to do in our own writing, as we come to understand a fictional world, its rules, our characters’ histories and motivations.

School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · Jun 25

On #NationalWritingDay Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award winner Zebib K. Abraham has some tips:
Start to write regularly, even if it’s just a few lines or pages here and there... without expectations and with a lot of self-compassion.

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Portrait style photo of the writer Zebib K Abraham. She is smiling and looking at the camera. There is a horizontal band of text running across the image. It reads meet our graduates; Zebib K Abraham

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Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social · Jun 13

A complete honour to be able to write about Una Marson and her magazine, The Cosmopolitan, for @thetls.bsky.social: www.the-tls.co.uk/politics-soc... There is so much I didn't get to include, but hopefully this gives a taste of the importance & scope of Marson's Cosmopolitan - in Jamaica, & beyond.

Our young people

“Where there is no vision the people perish.” With this proverb, the Cosmopolitan, a new Jamaican magazine, announced itself to the world in May 1928.

www.the-tls.co.uk

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · Jun 6

… and, for further reading, we can definitely recommend Paul’s book “Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis” (Oxford University Press) – winner of the British Association for American Studies’ Book Prize 2025 ‪@officialbaas.bsky.social

Check it out: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · Jun 6

Fancy an even deeper dive? If you'd like to explore Paul's work in more detail, you can watch or listen to his Inaugural Lecture - What are the Economic Humanities? A Short Guide to an Interdisciplinary Field - recorded in Edinburgh in March 2024:

youtu.be/Aj8jP_FF0G4

LLC Inaugural Lectures: Professor Paul Crosthwaite

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · Jun 6

Can literature’s ‘what if’ questions help us reset our relationship with money? Dive into speculative fiction and the emerging field of the Economic Humanities in the new episode of Beyond the Books ft. Paul Crosthwaite, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature.

Full ep: youtu.be/hWlrWuaz5IQ

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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Jun 5

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
So excited to release the programme for our upcoming conference on the Maghreb - June 19-21!! 🤗 We’ve made the event hybrid so make sure to register for the Zoom link (or to attend in person of course)! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/postcoloni... À bientôt! !أتطلع للقائكم 🇩🇿 🇲🇦 🇹🇳 🇱🇾

Postcolonial Temporalities: Space, Time and Identity in the Maghreb

A three-day hybrid conference aims to interrogate the ongoing challenges involved in the decolonial process of the Maghreb.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · Jun 4

Read an extract from Nature's Genius on the Encouter Nature app
www.encounter-nature.com/features

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · Jun 2

ICYMI the 2025 James Tait Black Prizes winners were announced on Friday. Britain's oldest literary awards, the Prizes are the only accolades of their kind to have students on the judging panel. PhD student Beth was there to soak up some amazing fiction and biography...

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One minute at the James Tait Black Prizes 2025 #booktok

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · May 31

For the first time, both James Tait Black Prizes have gone to works in translation: Lamia Ziadé's My Great Arab Melancholy and Lucas Rijneveld's My Heavenly Favourite. www.ed.ac.uk/news/transla...

Translated works win UK’s oldest book awards

A portrait of obsessive desire and a lushly illustrated elegy for the lost identity of the Arab world have won the UK’s longest-running literary awards.

www.ed.ac.uk

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