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Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · 11h

We’re excited in Liverpool to hear that LJMU will be hosting the fab @bavs-uk.bsky.social conf in July. I can’t wait to see Victorian scholars treading the corridors of my historic c19th building. Well done to @drhorrocks.bsky.social for getting this off the ground! Now to dust of my organisers hat…

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 8h

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

www.dispatch.com

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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · 12d

The deadline for Curran Fellowships is fast approaching: Oct 15 (letters due a week later). Who doesn't want money for travel & research? So much exciting work to do on British/empire periodicals of the long 19th c!

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Aug 16

📣 Curran Fellowships are now OPEN! Per our most recent newsletter, we've moved up our Curran awards to allow recipients time to plan summer travel. Applications due Oct. 15. As always, guidelines and more info are on our website!
rs4vp.org/awards/curra...

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...

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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · 23d

bit.ly/3IxZOqW Fellowship: Curran Fellowships (Application deadline: 10/15/25)

Fellowship: Curran Fellowships (Application deadline: 10/15/25) | NAVSA

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24d

today in books received!

go @maeveadams.bsky.social !!

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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · 26d

Nilkantha's paper at RSVP-Chicago was terrific & I'm excited to read this essay.

Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 26d

Nilkantha Pal investigates the emergence of children’s #periodicals in Bengali literary culture. Learn how these vernacular periodicals helped shape a literary selfhood among Bengali middle classes from the 1870s onward: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org #ExpandingTheField

Illustration titled “Andhamunir Putraśok” from Sandeś 2, no. 1 (Baiśāk 1321/April–May 1914), courtesy of Jadavpur University Central Library, Kolkata. Image accompanied by text that says: Nilkantha Pal, Imagining Childhood in Colonial Bengal: Children’s Periodicals, Readership, and
Vernacular Publishing, ca. 1880–1920, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 1, Spring 2025.

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Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · 26d

The Race and Transimperialism Reading Group has returned! On September 26th at 1PM EST, we're discussing Guilmette's “Unsettling the Coloniality of the Affects" (2019) and Samalin's “Affect Theory’s Colonial Sources" (2022) on Zoom. @navsa.bsky.social DM for details.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Sep 12

“UC Berkeley released the names of individuals and their ‘potential connection’ to reports of alleged antisemitism.”

Potential, alleged, reports: these words tell us that any student, at any time, can now make any claim, w/ or w/o evidence, & get a faculty member investigated, fired, &/or arrested

Hunter Plummer @hunterplummer.bsky.social · Sep 12

Well, that's terrifying.
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

UC Berkeley turns over personal information of more than 150 students and staff to federal government

UC Berkeley has provided the personal information of roughly 160 students, staff and faculty to the federal government in a directive from the UC Office of the President.

www.dailycal.org

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Sep 12

hey if you're going to @navsa2025.bsky.social & want to split a room with somebody to help keep costs down, the wonderful Kate Oestreich has built a crowdsourced roomshare page, which is available below and at the website: navsa.georgetown.edu

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Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · Sep 10

soo exciting that @susanzieger.bsky.social's Logistics and Power is out today! We're lucky to have her coming to LSU in early October.

Susan Zieger @susanzieger.bsky.social · Sep 9

My book is out today! Find out how logistics organizes modern power: www.ucpress.edu/books/logist...

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · Sep 9

Proofs!
I hope that novel people and #19thc people will like this essay on Ali Smith & her remaking of Victorian serial fiction (hey, I hope that people like and read Ali Smith!). Many thanks to @ceyingst.bsky.social for their help in the final stages of the essay's preparation.

Abstract for an essay "Ali Smith and the Unfinished Book: Novels, Middles, and Serialization in an Electronic Age"

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Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · Sep 6

I'm so sorry -- it's devastating.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Sep 5

today in faculty work under authoritarianism: not one but two meetings on same day w PhD students about their departure, emigration, exile from the U.S., how to finish dissertations, how to never return, how to renounce citizenship, how to mourn student visas, how to find a life elsewhere

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Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · Sep 6

so thrilled to have been included in this book -- many thanks to @katiabowers.bsky.social and Margarita Vaysman for everything. My chapter is "Victorian Realisms in the Age of Global Trade."

Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social · Sep 5

Margarita Vaysman & I have been working on this for the past 5 (!) years, but it's finally done- the online version is up and the hardcover should be out later this month! Welcome to the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, feat. 41 chapters and beautiful cover art: academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 🎉

The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms

Abstract. Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across different media, from early

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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · Sep 5

We have a wonderful line up of keynote speakers for RSVP-Dublin:
KATHERINE BODE (Australian National University) will deliver the Wolff keynote and ANDREW LEWIS and TEJA VARMA PUSAPATI will be in conversation for the Colby keynote!
And you too can be there - submit a proposal by Nov 1.

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Sep 1

✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.

RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP

The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or…

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Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · Sep 4

The theme of RSVP's 2026 conference in Dublin is movements and migrations -- submit an abstract! rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...

RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP

The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or ...

rs4vp.org

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Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · Sep 4

The theme of RSVP's 2026 conference in Dublin is movements and migrations -- submit an abstract! rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...

RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP

The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or ...

rs4vp.org

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H-Material Culture @h-materialculture.bsky.social · Aug 26

Call for Book Review Editors for H-Material Culture. If you're interested, get in touch by sending an email to [email protected] and we'll follow up! #MaterialCulture

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · Aug 13

There are currently wildfires in every province of Canada. My cousin on Vancouver Island had to evacuate from his home late last week. It's been messing with my head, as someone who grew up in B.C., to think of that normally rainy place burning.

A CURSE on petrocapitalists & their cronies.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Jul 31

anonymous student reports notably useless as data now have the power to get teachers fired and / or arrested—not great

Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · Jul 30

What the hell is Brown thinking agreeing to this??

“Student course evaluations that are collected on an anonymous basis at the end of each semester will be regularly reviewed to identify any reports of antisemitism, which will be promptly referred to OECR for appropriate action”

www.brown.edu

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · Jul 18

Call for Applications: BARS Communications Fellow 2025-26

BARS would like to invite applications for a Communications Fellow to assist with the BARS Blog and social media for a period of one year tenable from August 2025.

Details: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6062

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Abby Clayton @abbyclayton.bsky.social · Apr 29

For students and scholars trying to think about or beyond the nation in our times, this list offers some starting points. Thanks to the folks at @jstordaily.bsky.social for the opportunity. daily.jstor.org/transtlantic...

Transatlantic Studies: A Reading List - JSTOR Daily

Using the Atlantic Ocean as a guiding metaphor, transatlanticism emphasizes the fluid nature of contrived national boundaries and identities.

daily.jstor.org

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Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · Jul 13

I’m so impressed with the live tweeting of #rsvp2025 by @marielsj.bsky.social — if you want a good overview of the excellent scholarship at this year’s conference, read her posts

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Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · Jul 3

overheard at French Truck Coffee -- "I’m confused about the bill. It'll make life more difficult for people like us. [change in tone] But these young people! All they want is a house, a car, and vacations — I didn’t have vacations when I was their age!"

how dare people want housing and mobility!

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Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · Jun 27

Exciting to return home to this! Thank you to Elisha Cohn and Juliette Atkinson for including me in this collection and for their ever insightful suggestions and edits.

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