Michèle Mendelssohn
@mendelight.bsky.social
Literature professor @ox.ac.uk @engfac.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk • Armchair cosmopolitan researching #Women in #Polar #Exploration @ieadeparis.bsky.social • #OscarWilde biographer & curator http://makinghistory.magd.ox.ac.uk
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What does #OscarWilde have to do with #AI?
In a "Turning Point" piece for #TextualPractice, Charlie Tyson & I unpack that
Read "The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI"
Published online today!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In a "Turning Point" piece for #TextualPractice, Charlie Tyson & I unpack that
Read "The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI"
Published online today!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Michèle Mendelssohn
This is good. If anyone wants to do something similar in humanities and social sciences give me a shout
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Trading firm XTX donates £26mn for maths research at UK universities
Billionaire Alex Gerko says Britain is missing out on top academic talent
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December 1, 2025 at 6:44 AM
This is good. If anyone wants to do something similar in humanities and social sciences give me a shout
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Rest in peace #RachelCooke, a writer I admired on the page for a long time. I only met her once and in our brief chat she radiated such warmth, intelligence and puckishness. What a blessing she was.
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Rest in peace #RachelCooke, a writer I admired on the page for a long time. I only met her once and in our brief chat she radiated such warmth, intelligence and puckishness. What a blessing she was.
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Post-doc applications for next year's seminar on "Translation" at Rutgers' Center for Cultural Analysis are "live"! The seminar will be co-ed by Preetha Mani and Jeff Lawrence. Fellow academics: let your early-career colleagues, students, and former students know! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/263...
November 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Post-doc applications for next year's seminar on "Translation" at Rutgers' Center for Cultural Analysis are "live"! The seminar will be co-ed by Preetha Mani and Jeff Lawrence. Fellow academics: let your early-career colleagues, students, and former students know! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/263...
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“We have the brightest and the best. Let’s keep it that way.”
@rupahuq.bsky.social MP and academic stands with UCU members voting for fair pay, secure jobs and a stronger future for higher education.
Vote. Share. Mobilise. We can do this.
@rupahuq.bsky.social MP and academic stands with UCU members voting for fair pay, secure jobs and a stronger future for higher education.
Vote. Share. Mobilise. We can do this.
November 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“We have the brightest and the best. Let’s keep it that way.”
@rupahuq.bsky.social MP and academic stands with UCU members voting for fair pay, secure jobs and a stronger future for higher education.
Vote. Share. Mobilise. We can do this.
@rupahuq.bsky.social MP and academic stands with UCU members voting for fair pay, secure jobs and a stronger future for higher education.
Vote. Share. Mobilise. We can do this.
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Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
October 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
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📣BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
October 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
📣BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
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"Libraries and archives are the labs of humanities and social science scholars, and history is not possible without them." 🔥
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"Libraries and archives are the labs of humanities and social science scholars, and history is not possible without them." 🔥
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This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
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Zadie Smith called it “essential reading.”
Next Tuesday (25 Nov), discover the extraordinary 'The Third Reich of Dreams' in a seminar with Amanda Rubin-Lewis & Devorah Baum.
📍 Wolfson College
Free and open to all
Register: shorturl.at/dHVbc
@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social
Next Tuesday (25 Nov), discover the extraordinary 'The Third Reich of Dreams' in a seminar with Amanda Rubin-Lewis & Devorah Baum.
📍 Wolfson College
Free and open to all
Register: shorturl.at/dHVbc
@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Zadie Smith called it “essential reading.”
Next Tuesday (25 Nov), discover the extraordinary 'The Third Reich of Dreams' in a seminar with Amanda Rubin-Lewis & Devorah Baum.
📍 Wolfson College
Free and open to all
Register: shorturl.at/dHVbc
@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social
Next Tuesday (25 Nov), discover the extraordinary 'The Third Reich of Dreams' in a seminar with Amanda Rubin-Lewis & Devorah Baum.
📍 Wolfson College
Free and open to all
Register: shorturl.at/dHVbc
@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social
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🕯️ Santanu Das, Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at @ox.ac.uk, @engfac.bsky.social, highlights the essential need to acknowledge the millions of men of color who served in WW1, placing their stories back in history.
#PLPEXPeditions
#PLPEXPeditions
November 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
🕯️ Santanu Das, Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at @ox.ac.uk, @engfac.bsky.social, highlights the essential need to acknowledge the millions of men of color who served in WW1, placing their stories back in history.
#PLPEXPeditions
#PLPEXPeditions
Utopia. 🌈
It's an important topic to think about in this troubled moment.
Today, come join @duncanbell.bsky.social & Astor Visiting Professor Douglas Mao @ox.ac.uk for a conversation about this timely, timeless topic.
Huge thanks to @mpblanco.bsky.social for her organisational masterminding
It's an important topic to think about in this troubled moment.
Today, come join @duncanbell.bsky.social & Astor Visiting Professor Douglas Mao @ox.ac.uk for a conversation about this timely, timeless topic.
Huge thanks to @mpblanco.bsky.social for her organisational masterminding
Looking forward to talking with Douglas Mao about our new book, Utopia, this Wednesday in Oxford
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/utopia...
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/utopia...
'Utopia across Disciplines': A conversation between Douglas Mao and Duncan Bell
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Utopia. 🌈
It's an important topic to think about in this troubled moment.
Today, come join @duncanbell.bsky.social & Astor Visiting Professor Douglas Mao @ox.ac.uk for a conversation about this timely, timeless topic.
Huge thanks to @mpblanco.bsky.social for her organisational masterminding
It's an important topic to think about in this troubled moment.
Today, come join @duncanbell.bsky.social & Astor Visiting Professor Douglas Mao @ox.ac.uk for a conversation about this timely, timeless topic.
Huge thanks to @mpblanco.bsky.social for her organisational masterminding
I fell in love with Pudlo Pudlat's "Winds of Change/ Vents de changement" in the Baud/Jacot collection of Arctic print and sculptures.
Now the collection has a new home!
ARCTIC WORLDS: From Alaska to Nunavut
Musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer, until 3 July , 2026
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Now the collection has a new home!
ARCTIC WORLDS: From Alaska to Nunavut
Musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer, until 3 July , 2026
musee.boulogne-sur-mer.fr
October 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I fell in love with Pudlo Pudlat's "Winds of Change/ Vents de changement" in the Baud/Jacot collection of Arctic print and sculptures.
Now the collection has a new home!
ARCTIC WORLDS: From Alaska to Nunavut
Musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer, until 3 July , 2026
musee.boulogne-sur-mer.fr
Now the collection has a new home!
ARCTIC WORLDS: From Alaska to Nunavut
Musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer, until 3 July , 2026
musee.boulogne-sur-mer.fr
Reposted by Michèle Mendelssohn
Workshop: Learn how to write an abstract! ❄️
Join us at 12:00 EST (17:00 BST / 18:00 CET) on Sunday 29th June and learn how to make your abstract sing.
Can’t make the live session? We’ll send a link to watch the recording out to everyone who RSVPs. ✨
RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/1FSF...
Join us at 12:00 EST (17:00 BST / 18:00 CET) on Sunday 29th June and learn how to make your abstract sing.
Can’t make the live session? We’ll send a link to watch the recording out to everyone who RSVPs. ✨
RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/1FSF...
June 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Workshop: Learn how to write an abstract! ❄️
Join us at 12:00 EST (17:00 BST / 18:00 CET) on Sunday 29th June and learn how to make your abstract sing.
Can’t make the live session? We’ll send a link to watch the recording out to everyone who RSVPs. ✨
RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/1FSF...
Join us at 12:00 EST (17:00 BST / 18:00 CET) on Sunday 29th June and learn how to make your abstract sing.
Can’t make the live session? We’ll send a link to watch the recording out to everyone who RSVPs. ✨
RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/1FSF...
Fantastic coverage of our #POLARX conference about #women and #extractivism at the world's poles by New York Times bestselling author and journalist @juliaflynnsiler.bsky.social
juliaflynnsiler.com/2025/06/16/a...
juliaflynnsiler.com/2025/06/16/a...
A Dispatch from POLAR X: Telling True Stories About Women at the Poles - Julia Flynn Siler
It was sweltering in Paris over the weekend of Polar X, an inaugural workshop and symposium at the Université Paris Cité which brought together scholars, artists, and writers from around the world to ...
juliaflynnsiler.com
June 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Fantastic coverage of our #POLARX conference about #women and #extractivism at the world's poles by New York Times bestselling author and journalist @juliaflynnsiler.bsky.social
juliaflynnsiler.com/2025/06/16/a...
juliaflynnsiler.com/2025/06/16/a...
Reposted by Michèle Mendelssohn
Very excited to be attending the Polar X workshop online today and tomorrow, organized by @mendelight.bsky.social and Cécile Roudeau, focusing on gender and extractivism. Grateful to colleauges who make space for hybrid gatherings! polar-x.weebly.com
POLAR X WORKSHOP & SYMPOSIUM
WOMEN'S NARRATIVES OF POLAR ENCOUNTERS, EXTRACTIVISM AND EXPLORATION FROM THE 19TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT
polar-x.weebly.com
June 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Very excited to be attending the Polar X workshop online today and tomorrow, organized by @mendelight.bsky.social and Cécile Roudeau, focusing on gender and extractivism. Grateful to colleauges who make space for hybrid gatherings! polar-x.weebly.com
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Management's threat to make £140million of cuts at the University of Edinburgh is shocking.
Yesterday, we heard from branch president, Sophia, on the questions this announcement has raised.
The Scottish govt must call on university management to halt these devastating cuts.
Yesterday, we heard from branch president, Sophia, on the questions this announcement has raised.
The Scottish govt must call on university management to halt these devastating cuts.
February 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Management's threat to make £140million of cuts at the University of Edinburgh is shocking.
Yesterday, we heard from branch president, Sophia, on the questions this announcement has raised.
The Scottish govt must call on university management to halt these devastating cuts.
Yesterday, we heard from branch president, Sophia, on the questions this announcement has raised.
The Scottish govt must call on university management to halt these devastating cuts.
Reposted by Michèle Mendelssohn
Interested in polar archives?
A workshop on establishing a Polar Archive Network is set for 17–18 March 2025 at the @scottpolar.bsky.social (Cambridge, UK & online) to shape a Polar Archive Network & draft a SCAR action group proposal.
Register by 28 Feb: scar.org/scar-news/ar...
A workshop on establishing a Polar Archive Network is set for 17–18 March 2025 at the @scottpolar.bsky.social (Cambridge, UK & online) to shape a Polar Archive Network & draft a SCAR action group proposal.
Register by 28 Feb: scar.org/scar-news/ar...
February 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Interested in polar archives?
A workshop on establishing a Polar Archive Network is set for 17–18 March 2025 at the @scottpolar.bsky.social (Cambridge, UK & online) to shape a Polar Archive Network & draft a SCAR action group proposal.
Register by 28 Feb: scar.org/scar-news/ar...
A workshop on establishing a Polar Archive Network is set for 17–18 March 2025 at the @scottpolar.bsky.social (Cambridge, UK & online) to shape a Polar Archive Network & draft a SCAR action group proposal.
Register by 28 Feb: scar.org/scar-news/ar...
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A message from @ducuuo.bsky.social 📢
We're calling on university management to rule out the use of compulsory redundancies 🔥
We're calling on university management to rule out the use of compulsory redundancies 🔥
February 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A message from @ducuuo.bsky.social 📢
We're calling on university management to rule out the use of compulsory redundancies 🔥
We're calling on university management to rule out the use of compulsory redundancies 🔥
Reposted by Michèle Mendelssohn
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Oxford Faculties of English & History are delighted to host the 25th anniversary conference of the British Association for #Victorian Studies on 23–25 July.
Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC
Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC
British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference
www.english.ox.ac.uk
February 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Oxford Faculties of English & History are delighted to host the 25th anniversary conference of the British Association for #Victorian Studies on 23–25 July.
Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC
Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC
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I signed this letter for these reasons:
If, like me, you are a UCU member and agree the union should stop wasting time and effort on a fruitless round of pay strikes at a time when tens of thousands of academic jobs are at risk, then please consider signing this open letter (link early on the document): ucucommons.org/2025/02/13/m...
Motion to HEC: Focus on Defending Jobs and Reforming UK HE
Two UCU Commons HEC members are bringing the following motion to the special HEC meeting on Wednesday 19th February. We are looking for UCU members in HE to add their names in support of the motion…
ucucommons.org
February 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I signed this letter for these reasons:
Still vicariously feeling #TheaKopalaRøhme and #LisenStrøm's calm exhilaration as they ski Norway's remote arctic peninsula. Just one of the brilliant films on show at this year's @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social 👏👏https://youtu.be/5aE9ygwf7Oo?feature=shared
Odyssey of Loppa: traversing an arctic peninsula | Trailer
YouTube video by Rab Equipment
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February 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Still vicariously feeling #TheaKopalaRøhme and #LisenStrøm's calm exhilaration as they ski Norway's remote arctic peninsula. Just one of the brilliant films on show at this year's @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social 👏👏https://youtu.be/5aE9ygwf7Oo?feature=shared
What does #OscarWilde have to do with #AI?
In a "Turning Point" piece for #TextualPractice, Charlie Tyson & I unpack that
Read "The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI"
Published online today!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In a "Turning Point" piece for #TextualPractice, Charlie Tyson & I unpack that
Read "The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI"
Published online today!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
What does #OscarWilde have to do with #AI?
In a "Turning Point" piece for #TextualPractice, Charlie Tyson & I unpack that
Read "The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI"
Published online today!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In a "Turning Point" piece for #TextualPractice, Charlie Tyson & I unpack that
Read "The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI"
Published online today!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Michèle Mendelssohn
🌟 Join us for our next Activist Workshop: Having Hard Conversations about Abortion 🌟
🗓 Sat Feb 15, 1-2:30pm ET on Zoom.
Learn how to talk to your friends and family, young children, and teens about abortion. Register here! www.arcc-cdac.ca/activist-wor...
#prochoice #cdnpoli #ActivistWorkshop
🗓 Sat Feb 15, 1-2:30pm ET on Zoom.
Learn how to talk to your friends and family, young children, and teens about abortion. Register here! www.arcc-cdac.ca/activist-wor...
#prochoice #cdnpoli #ActivistWorkshop
January 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
🌟 Join us for our next Activist Workshop: Having Hard Conversations about Abortion 🌟
🗓 Sat Feb 15, 1-2:30pm ET on Zoom.
Learn how to talk to your friends and family, young children, and teens about abortion. Register here! www.arcc-cdac.ca/activist-wor...
#prochoice #cdnpoli #ActivistWorkshop
🗓 Sat Feb 15, 1-2:30pm ET on Zoom.
Learn how to talk to your friends and family, young children, and teens about abortion. Register here! www.arcc-cdac.ca/activist-wor...
#prochoice #cdnpoli #ActivistWorkshop
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Droit à l’avortement en Pologne : une cour d’appel ordonne un nouveau procès dans une affaire emblématique
Droit à l’avortement en Pologne : une cour d’appel ordonne un nouveau procès dans une affaire emblématique
La militante du droit à l’avortement Justyna Wydrzynska avait été reconnue coupable, en 2023, d’avoir aidé une femme à avorter et condamnée à des travaux d’intérêt général, une première en Pologne. Jeudi, la cour d’appel a rejeté « dans son intégralité le jugement contesté ».
www.lemonde.fr
February 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Droit à l’avortement en Pologne : une cour d’appel ordonne un nouveau procès dans une affaire emblématique