PPFD Project

Letters and Literature 1500-2025 at The Open University Digital Humanities allows scholars to approach old problems with new means, or to ask new questions that could not have been asked with the traditional means of humanistic enquiry. Whatever the approa...

Check out the beautiful postcards shared by colleagues presenting their work alongside ours next week at the Letters and Literature 1500-2025 conference, organised by the #OpenUniversity and #SHARP.

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📢 Our full open-access catalogue is coming soon! In the meantime, check out this short reel – a quick snapshot of some of the fictions we're excited to share from our extensive catalogue 📚

We're excited to announce that our article on "Multimodality, Transmediality, and Ethics in Post-Postmodernist Fictions of the Digital" is now out in Narrative: muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/artic... @alicebellposts.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social

Really excited to be running an event as part of the @beinghumanfest.bsky.social at the @nvmuk.bsky.social in #Sheffield on 13th November, 5.30-7.30pm. More info and booking: tinyurl.com/yupdj58a

We're excited to be presenting our research on e-pistolary 21st century fiction as part of the ‘Letters and Literature 1500-2025: Histories, Forms, Communities’ conference organised by #SHARP and #OpenUniversity. Our panel is 7th Nov, 11am.

The 2025 Being Human Festival programme is now live 💫

This year's festival runs from 6 - 15 Nov 2025. With over 220 events taking place in 46 towns and cities across the UK, there is a wide range of events to suit everyone's curiosities. Programme highlights: bit.ly/3IsbVWI

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We’re excited to be organising an event as part of this year’s Being Human Festival (6 – 15 November). @BeingHumanFest is the UK’s national festival of the humanities. Browse the full #BeingHuman2025 programme now: beinghumanfestival.org/festival-eve...

The 2025 Being Human Festival programme is now live! 💫 This year's festival runs from 6 - 15 November 2025. With over 220 events taking place in 46 towns and cities across the UK, there is a wide range of events to suit everyone's curiosities.
Programme highlights: bit.ly/3IsbVWI
#BeingHuman2025

We’re excited to be organising an event as part of this year’s Being Human Festival (6 – 15 November). @BeingHumanFest is the UK’s national festival of the humanities. Browse the full #BeingHuman2025 programme now: beinghumanfestival.org/festival-eve...

Celebrating 100th Funded Project

Proud to share our poster in the #AHRC @ukri.org & @dfg.de showcase 🎉 To celebrate 100+ funded UK–Germany collaborations, projects shared posters — incl. ours! Explore them all here 👉 www.dfg.de/en/research-... or view ours here 🔗 www.dfg.de/resource/blo...

Europe in the Pub Monday 18th August 2025 Whose war is it anyway? Vietnam, the US and France in conflict... and comics! with Harriet Earle We all know the image of the American soldier, fresh from jungle combat with a wild stare. He's the staple of Vietnam War pop culture created by the war's losers - the USA. In film and comics, the yank is a mainstay. Sometimes, we also see the French - not often, and not always favourably portrayed. But the war in Vietnam did not belong to either countries; it belongs to Vietnam. After all, in Vietnam, the war is known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ ('Resistance War against America'). Okay, enough word play. Where are the Vietnamese in American comics of the war? Are they capable warriors or childlike naifs? Are they monstrous or are they simply missing?  Forthcoming talks 29th September: Joel Mayfield on The Sheffield Bin Strikes 27th October: Diane Rodgers on Folk Horror 24th November: Edanur Yazıcı on Migrant Exploitation in the Care Industry Last Monday of the month, 7:30pm, upstairs in The Museum, Orchard Square Public talks on Europe, transnationalism and interculturality through Sheffield Hallam Languages & Cultures Twitter, Bluesky, Facebook & Instagram: @europeinthepub Questions & proposals: alex.marshall@shu.ac.uk and a.louis@shu.ac.uk Background image: a comic book drawing of a man in green combat fatigues and a helmet, his shirt open to show his ample chest, standing in front of an American flag shooting a machine gun.

This month, a week earlier than normal, Europe in the Pub has Harriet Earle on Whose war is it anyway? Vietnam, the US and France in conflict... and comics!

Monday 18th August, 7:30pm, The Museum. Come along, and bring friends.

A sneak preview of PALA 2026 Uppsala ... 😍

Nadia Georgiou is also giving a paper at the @palapoeticsling.bsky.social 2025 conference. Hear her talk on: "Posthumanism and the digital: multimodality and cyborgization in Calvin Kasulke’s Several People are Typing and Olga Ravn’s The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century".

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🗓️💻 Tune in online next Wednesday evening at 17:00 CET/ 16:00 GMT for Dr Nadia Georgiou's talk: 'The Post-Postmodernist Fictions of the Digital (PPFD) Research Project: Methodology and Case Studies' to learn more about our research! Click here to register ➡️ events.teams.microsoft.com/event/91bfee...

📢Our research project on 'Post-Postmodernist Fictions of the Digital' is officially live! 💻📚📱 Stay tuned for upcoming events and new publications –exciting things to come! 👀