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Alice Flinta

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πŸ“š Doctoral Candidate for Euterpe: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective. euterpeproject.eu Centre for Women's Studies & Department of English and Related Literature, University of York πŸ₯‹ Athlete 🌊 In becoming

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A Primer on Pitching Translations - Words Without Borders Award-winning translator Lara Vergnaud offers a tongue-in-cheek guide for translators in search of a publisher.

Award-winning translator Lara Vergnaud offers a tongue-in-cheek guide for translators in search of a publisher. Read β€œA Primer on Pitching Translation (or Why We Should Throw Books at the Evil Machines)" on WWB:

08.08.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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🎧This week the euterpeproject.eu has launched its #Podcast Library!

Listen to my conversation with Prof. Kimberly Campanello #UniOfLeeds on transnational belongings, #translation and writing here: euterpeproject.eu/podcast-library-1/kimberly-campanello

#academicsky #booksky #writingcommunity

02.10.2025 09:14 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Demand UK Universities to divest from border violence | People & Planet Add your voice, sign the petition.

✍️ peopleandplanet.org/petitions/di...

#UKUniversities
#UniofYork

21.09.2025 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Medea, Medes, Marjane and Me: Reflections on colonialism, war, and migration in Marjane Satrapi’s 'Persepolis' | Euterpeproject Eu Home

πŸ“š Looking for a graphic novel read?

"Medea, Medes, Marjane and Me: Reflections on colonialism, war, and migration"
πŸ“– Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, trans. Mattias Ripa.

Read Ninutsa Nadirashvili's full #bookreview: www.euterpeproject.eu/book-reviews...

#literature #booksky

12.08.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“šBeen reading this whilst all sorts of genocidal, political, social, intellectual atrocities are going on.
Whilst I witnessed an intimate wedding proposal in #York Museum Gardens.
This is not "le meilleur des mondes possibles". But we do behold hopeful potential.

#booksky
#Humankind
#literature

03.08.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“– Honoured to be taking part to Black Europe Summer School BESS2025 in Amsterdam, presenting on Afroitalian #literature and the #Mediterranean.
πŸ’‘ In awe of the incredibly groundbreaking research going on in the field of Black European studies

27.06.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can't ask for anything else
#York

19.06.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#booksky #writingcommunity

17.06.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 12353    πŸ” 3024    πŸ’¬ 165    πŸ“Œ 108
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🧡 Shout out to the longest embroidered word: "Intersectionality" - Thank you E.

09.06.2025 07:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🌏 To all the #multilingual contributions, for a curious, open world.

09.06.2025 07:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ’¬To all who who picked up a pen, thread and needle, and felt their way through #feminism and #migration, thank you for your shared memories, wishes, discomfort, concerns and infinite hope.
πŸͺ’We make meaning together.
β€ͺThank you to @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social‬ and #York Explore Library for having us!

09.06.2025 07:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Erratic, I walked into Waterstones thinking "Trees. I need trees" Walked out with this.
To the virtue of seeing the common ground in the eye of a deer, in the texture of a chrysalis's shell, in writing in the abstraction of time and humanness, to become more-than-human

#booksky #Yorkshire #nature

08.06.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ“š Looking for πŸ§› and contemporary political critique?

"A narrative which probes issues of xenophobia and racism in contemporary British society"
πŸ“– White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi. Picador, 2009.

Full #bookreview by SΓ©amus O’Kane www.euterpeproject.eu/book-reviews...

#literature #booksky

03.06.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#2giugno #Repubblica #donna #voto #Referendum
Il voto cambia l'Italia.
Oggi per @mm-repubblica-bot.bsky.social

01.06.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 84    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

πŸ“š Looking for an #italianliterature read?

"Like blood. Like a human sacrifice to the gods for some rain. Like a bride."
πŸ“– Rosso come una sposa by Anilda Ibrahimi. #Einaudieditore, 2008.

Read my full #bookreview www.euterpeproject.eu/book-reviews...

#literature #booksky

27.05.2025 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Il diritto al voto Γ¨ una responsabilitΓ 
#Referendum2025
#8e9Giugno
#ReferendumCittadinanza

27.05.2025 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"It's the sudden jolt of finding yourself at the margins where humans and nature step outside the neat categories we give them"
πŸ“– Rob Cowen, Common Ground, Windmill Books, 2015

#booksky
#nature
#Yorkshire

26.05.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ’‘TODAYπŸ’‘

πŸ—―οΈA Collision with Truth: #Palestinian British Voices, with Nada Shawa, Mohammed Ghalayini, Azhar Herez, Ra Page, in collaboration with @commapress.bsky.social

πŸ“Bowland Auditorium #UoY #York
πŸ•”5pm UK timeπŸ”—Hybrid event
🍷Wine reception

Free ticket: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

21.05.2025 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ“š Looking for a contemporary #Oulipo-feel read?

"The margins are not merely experimental additions"
πŸ“– Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy. Atlantic Books, 2019.

Reed the full #bookreview by Samriddhi Pandey www.euterpeproject.eu/book-reviews...

#literature #booksky

20.05.2025 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stop British Arms Being Used in Gaza Take action today by signing our petition

✍️ www.humanity-inclusion.org.uk/en/campaign/...

20.05.2025 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ’‘TODAYπŸ’‘

Don't miss the chance to experience the incredible Prof. Kimberly Campanello #UniversityofLeeds

πŸ“šUse the Words You Have to Get the Words You Need

πŸ“Bowland Auditorium #UniversityofYork #York
πŸ•”5pm UK timeπŸ”—Hybrid event
🍷Wine reception to follow

Free ticket www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

20.05.2025 06:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ’‘ TODAY πŸ’‘

euterpeproject.eu invites you to:

πŸ“˜ #Translation as Deep Reading and Creative Practice

πŸ“ Bowland Auditorium, #UniversityofYork #York
πŸ•” 5pm UK time πŸ”— Hybrid event
🍷 Wine reception to follow

Book your free ticket here: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

19.05.2025 07:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“’Next week

euterpeproject.eu and @commapress.bsky.social invite you to

πŸ—―οΈA Collision with Truth #Palestinian British Voices, with Nada Shawa, Mohammed Ghalayini, Azhar Herez, Ra Page
πŸ“Bowland Auditorium #UoY #York
πŸ•”5pm UK timeπŸ”—Hybrid event
🍷Wine reception

Free entry www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

14.05.2025 07:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ“š Looking for a non-fiction, well-crafted, elegant read?

πŸ“– Sex and Lies by LeΓ―la Slimani, trans. Sophie Lewis. Faber, 2020.

Read the full #bookreview by Tamara Cvetković www.euterpeproject.eu/book-reviews...

#literature #booksky

13.05.2025 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“’Next week!

The euterpeproject.eu invites you to

πŸ“šUse the Words You Have to Get the Words You Need by Prof. Kimberly Campanello #UniversityofLeeds

πŸ“Bowland Auditorium, #UniversityofYork #York
πŸ“…20 May 2025
πŸ•”5pm UK timeπŸ”— Hybrid
🍷Wine reception to follow

Free ticket: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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Formless

Formless

Formless, 1983 #artbots #basquiat
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5204

13.05.2025 07:49 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“’ Next week!

euterpeproject.eu invites you to:

πŸ“˜ #Translation as Deep Reading and Creative Practice

πŸ“ Bowland Auditorium, #UniversityofYork #York
πŸ“… 19 May 2025
πŸ•” 5pm UK time πŸ”— Hybrid event
🍷 Wine reception to follow

Book your free ticket here: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

12.05.2025 07:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Still time to book your free tickets for the following euterpeproject.eu *hybrid* events at #UniversityofYork #UoY
Book here: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Today K. Campanello is launching #poetry πŸ“–An Interesting Detail at Bluebird bakery, Acomb #York

#Translation #Palestine #booksky #literature

09.05.2025 07:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ“š Looking for Canary Islands vibes - but Real?

"An in-depth exploration of working-class adolescenthood"
πŸ“– Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu, trans. Carolina Hoyos. Blackstone, 2023.

Read the full #bookreview by Auxi Castillo Soto www.euterpeproject.eu/book-reviews...

#literature #booksky

06.05.2025 07:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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euterpeproject.eu & @commapress.bsky.social invite you to

πŸ—―οΈ A Collision with Truth: Palestinian British Voices Panel, with Nada Shawa, Mohammed Ghalayini, Azhar Herez, Ra Page

πŸ“Bowland Auditorium #UoY
πŸ•”5pm UK time πŸ”—Hybrid event
🍷Wine reception

Book your free ticket www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

30.04.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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