Shahira Hathout, Ph.D.

New History Book Series Call for Proposals: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth- Century Cultures and Societies - BSECS Series Editors: Elaine Chalus, University of Liverpool, UK and Deborah Simonton, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Routledge Editor: Max Novick The long eighteenth century sits as a pivotal poin...

***CALL FOR PROPOSALS***
Routledge Studies in #18thC Cultures & Societies (eds. @profelainechalus.bsky.social & Deborah Simonton) seeks proposals for book-length studies on aspects of British, European, or transnational culture and society c.1680-1850. Full details: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...

The Philosophy of Linguistics Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - The Philosophy of Linguistics

New Cambridge Element | The Philosophy of Linguistics by Ryan M. Nefdt | Now free to read for 2 weeks! www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philosophy #linguistics #PhilSky #LingSky

"[UNSEASONABLE] is a necessary book for environmental and ecocritical humanists interested in expanding their sense of climate change literatures beyond those produced in the Global North."-Patrick Whitmarsh, ISLE. buff.ly/SfXzTKm

#Phenology #Envhum #ClimateChange #Environment #BookReview #ReadUP

So excited to see Aesthetics and the City in print. Congratulations to editors @joeblakey.bsky.social and @amycbarron.bsky.social.

#geosky

Scenes of Violence: Between Ultraobjective and Ultrasubjective Forms of Violence

Thinking about ultraobjective and ultrasubjective violence again.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2017/10/scen...

new book series: Literature and Politics!

first title from Amanda Anderson and Simon During coming soon; pipeline bustling; consider it for your next project

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YouTube video by NPR ‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR

Well, I guess it’s never too early to post this again —

Austen & Turner at Harewood House: What a wonderful encounter and also a reminder that this year, we not only celebrate J. M. W. Turner's 250th anniversary but also that of the great Jane Austen.
#Turner250 #Austen250

For more on this year's Turnercraze see:
www.turnersociety.com/turner-250/

I made a starter park! For the #GlobalJaneAusten conference at Southampton in July! If I’ve missed you and you want in let me know!!

Also, if you want out let me know!

Hoping it’ll be a way to get the most out of what looks like a great event!!

Time and space for social-ecological transformation: care-full commoning in and beyond the ecofeminist city The relevance of civil society participation is well established in literature on environmental politics. However, the ability to join initiatives or movements actively fighting for a socially just...

Time and space for social-ecological transformation: care-full commoning in and beyond the ecofeminist city
@corinna-viajera.bsky.social, @hannavoelkle.bsky.social & @sware.bsky.social
Pages: 861-881
doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Glad to have my article “Melancholy and Hope in the Anthropocene: Keats’ Negative Capability, Barad’s Agential Realism, and the Politics ofPossibilities” published @oxfordpolrev.bsky.social issue 16: Nothing is Ever Always. Thanks to editors&reviewers!

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"Revisiting Richardson"

Edited by Rebecca Anne Barr and Bonnie Latimer

www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/rev...

Published by Bucknell University

#LiteraryStudies #18thCenturyStudies #18thCentury #SamuelRichardson #Gender #Sexuality #Race #Religion #BucknellUniversityPress

Cover of OSIRIS, volume 40. The title reads "Animal Mobilities" in yellow letters on a blue background. Above there is a colorful illustration showing animals and planets on the seabed.

New special issue of OSIRIS: "Animal Mobilities" 🐫🐠🐛

The volume was edited by MPIWG Research Scholars Tamar Novick, @lisaonaga.bsky.social, and Gabriel N. Rosenberg of the working groups "Out of Place, Out of Time" and "Proteins and Fibers."

🔗 bit.ly/amv4025

#HistSci #EnvHist #STS #Zoology

“So, to reiterate our problem: Given that people often say and do different things, and say and want different things, how are we to read them?”

B. D. McClay on Northanger Abbey for our Jane Austen Week. buff.ly/nZO9FpA

“Writers can use literature as a mirror held up to the world, or they can use writing as a consolation for life. I prefer the second approach, although clearly there has to be a blend of both.”

We’ve unlocked our interview with Edmund White. buff.ly/RL8syO5

Emma has been called a detective novel, and with good reason: the fun of first reading it consists largely in scrutinizing the suspects and trying to figure out not whodunnit but whowilldoit.”

Jennifer Egan on Jane Austen’s Emma. buff.ly/OMtoDoP

Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter captures the spirit of two great geniuses, born 250 years ago The exhibition unites the incredible works of two outstanding personalities of the Regency era.

"This incredible exhibition is sure to move everyone who really wishes to engage with the high art and experience the historical spirit of the Regency era." Just delighted to read this fabulous review of Austen and Turner at Harewood House, in The Conversation

theconversation.com/austen-and-t...

Migrant Sense and Migrant Sensibility Abstract. This brief coda situates the essays collected in this issue in relation to both recent and now classic scholarly work on global Romanticism, cosmopolitanism, and nationalism.

coda to tanvi solanki and carlos abreu mendoza’s special issue of “comparative literature” on sensing migrant romanticism

Screenshot of a RPPA workbench showing Sandor Petofi's "A Tisza"

The #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive is open-access and encourages collaboration. All contributions to the platform are individually acknowledged as micro-publications. #RPPA facilitates flexible textual and image/audio/video annotations.

www.romanticperiodpoetry.org

#Romanticism #DH

Jane Austen and Lord Byron Jane Austen and Lord Byron are often presented as opposites, but here they are together at last. In Regency England he was the first celebrity author while she…

JASNA News on 'Jane Austen and Lord Byron' 'well-written & enjoyable, containing fresh observations even for those very familiar with Austen’s work and the Regency period. The correspondences between Austen’s life and Byron’s are fascinating and thought-provoking.' www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...

BSECS Annual Conference BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference

IMPORTANT #BSECS2026 NEWS!
Registration for #BSECS2026 opens on Sunday 1 June!
Submit your CFP on the theme of 'Big & Small' and join us for our 55th annual conference 7-9 Jan 2026 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social
#18thC #skystorians 🗃️
Click on the link for the full CFP

www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

Satire in the Time of Genocide: a diffractive reading of Jonathan Swift’s ‘A Modest Proposal’ (1729) through Israel’s gendered settler-colonial practices in Palestine As Israel’s genocidal campaign in Palestine continues to unfold, the number of murdered Palestinians has now surpassed 46,000 civilians, half of which are women and children. This number includes o...

"Satire in the Time of Genocide: a diffractive reading of Jonathan Swift’s ‘A Modest Proposal’ (1729) through Israel’s gendered settler-colonial practices in Palestine"

Fifty free copies can be downloaded through this link:

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JWVUX...

🧵1/ How can armed resistance enable—not undermine—democracy, peacebuilding, and the revitalisation of Indigenous socio-ecological relations?

In the Annals of the AAG, I write about post/decolonial approaches to territory & the #SalweenPeacePark
doi.org/10.1080/2469... @geographers.bsky.social

📣 📣 My new essay, “Continuous Discontinuities: More-than-Human Temporalities in Jean-Luc Nancy’s Sonic Ontology”, is out now in “KronoScope: Journal for the Study of Time” (@kronoscope.bsky.social), via Brill, as part of a special issue on “Subaltern Temporalities”. 📣 📣

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brill.com/view/journal...

Oooh my new article on P J Harvey, Romanticism, and Lacan is up on the always wonderful Romanticism on the Net:

Now out in paperback, with this endorsement by Robert Pippin: ‘a tour-de-force and astonishingly wide-ranging exploration of the idea of art as a form of philosophical thought. It is also as compelling a defense of that idea as any written’.

Take a walk in my shoes: reflections on space - Collections Connections Communities Take a walk in my shoes: reflections on space Emily Bradfield: Practitioner Research Associate: Collections & Wellbeing (older adults), The Fitzwilliam Museum with participants Georgie, Jo, Alex and D...

🚨More postcards: #takeawalkinmyshoes how museums are lived by those affected by visible and non-visible disabilities @erbradfield.bsky.social #fitzmuseum @camunivmuseums.bsky.social

Second series: reflections on space.

#Postcards #GLAM #access #wheelchair

www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/take-a-...

Making World Literature From universities to governments, the Big Five publishers to Amazon, the influence of institutions abounds in US publishing. A diverse array of books from a...

Hi! Now that my book, Making World Literature, has been out for 6 months, I'm going to do a quick thread.

Let me know if you're interested in reviewing it, and I'll put you in touch to get a review copy!

www.umasspress.com/978162534840...

Haunting biology: Science and indigeneity in Australia By Emma Kowal (Ed.), Durham, NC: Duke UP. 2023. pp. 264. US$27.95, ISBN: 9781478027539 Click on the article title to read more.

Our book review forum on @profemmakowal.bsky.social Haunting Biology is now available (not OA) in TAJA (The Australian J of Anthropology) doi.org/10.1111/taja...
Includes contributions from David Trigger, @lynetterussell.bsky.social and me, with a response from Emma.

@dukepress.bsky.social #sts