Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown

Coda:

My post below refers only to academic staff

My PS colleagues are subject to another timescale

Solidarity ✊️

There's still *so much* to do and uncertainty remains in the long-term.

BUT...very grateful to my local union exec @lancasterucu.bsky.social and my LUCU colleagues for getting my employers to remove CR in the very near future

Onwards and Solidarity

"I Stop Being Human" Rosemary Tonks, Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

In honour of Delia Derbyshire Day, a little post about her collaboration at the BBC with the poet Rosemary Tonks @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/i-stop-bei...

Wonderful to see you here.

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Here's the latest pic of "Daphne"

(17/11/2025)

Green Letters Trees in Ancient Greek and Roman Poetry: An Ecocritical Approach to Classics. Volume 29, Issue 2 of Green Letters

An especially brilliant issue of the always brilliant 'Green Letters ' @asleuki.bsky.social

arrived in the post this week 👇

#OvidAlert

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“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”

Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget

How soil could help us reach climate targets From Paris in 2015 to Belem in Brazil in 2025, soil is slowly becoming part of climate policy but more can be done.

My university colleague Jess Davies on the importance of soil sustainability 👇👇👇

#Soil_Imaginaries

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COP30: UN climate talks fail to secure new fossil fuel promises Nearly 200 countries attended COP30, which aimed to commit the world to take more action on climate change.

As the climate emergency begins to bite a few world leaders meet with a lot of fossil fuel lobbyists and can't even agree that fossil fuels are a problem. Truly frightening. We need radical action not weak willed leaders scared to stand up to the rich and powerful.

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A pine marten.

"The first sighting of a pine marten in Studland, Dorset, in more than a century!" swanage.news/rare-and-end...

Me, James Baldwin and the Un-fragmenting of Euro-modern Time Or how do we enter into a time present, of things future?

Here I reflect on how Baldwin's writing unsettled my fixed idea of linear European time, which traps us into repeating history's evil patterns. 'Instead of speaking about the civil rights movement, let us pretend that I am a survivor of the latest slave rebellion.'

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What a gorgeous photograph !

Taking this vibe into the new week

It's
#DeliaDerbyshireDay

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from A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year, ed. Jane McMorland Hunter

Sunday #morningread
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This week, a first-year undergraduate told me their favourite period of EngLit is early modern and they particularly loved Richard Barnfield's writing (which we don't teach). I was thrilled to direct them to your amazing collection of essays 😀

Such a beautiful, brilliant book! Many congratulations 🎊

Me too: I learned a great deal

Looks terrific ! Congratulations 🎊

THis is still a major victory! It shows that exposing management's unsound financial decision-making alongside tireless organising and pressure works! We hope this sends a message of strength and solidarity to sister unions accross the sector✊

BUT the dispute is NOT over! Serious concerns remain about the university’s financial mismanagement and the consequences of programme closures for staff. We need a long-term solution and we will continue to fight for it!

Strikes suspended in Lancaster University staff job cuts row - BBC News The university is trying to save £30m amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.

📢📢📢We made it to the national news! This time with an important win for our branch!
Management has decided to withdraw compulsory redundancies for academic staff at least until July 2026. ASOS and next week's strikes are therefore called off.
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Cornell are having a 44% off sale until December 5th! Buy books including mine… www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Well you know about this one, but any excuse, I am SHAMELESS...
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@audioandrea.bsky.social Contributors' copies should be with you soon. Duncan and I have the books to mail out :)

Now...

tell me the books you've had published in the last month

I've really missed your news!

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Our first thanks must be to Eoin Price for organising such a important British Shakespeare (BSA) conference on "Shakespeare, Race, and Nation" at Swansea University in 2019, and to all the speakers and auditors at that event. We are especially grateful to all the speakers who took part in that conference's "Shakespeare and Translation" seminar, whose papers and discussion points helped shape the inaugural idea for [this book]: Luis J. Conejero-Magro, Carolina Conte, Coen Heijes, Marina Kitzma, Maureen McDonnell, Paulo da Silva Gregorio, Michael Slater, Kathryn Vomero Santos and Roberta Zanoni. We are very appreciative of the time Preti Taneja spent talking to us about translation via Teams during the global pandemic, as this conversation helped to inspire new ideas and to consolidate others that have benefitted the collection well beyond the interludes themselves. Thank you to Varsha Panjwani and Brandi Adams for their input during the essay collection's formation, and to Sijing Lu for taking the time to share her translation expertise as the volume neared completion. Thanks also to Jessica Chiba and Tetsu Motoyama for their roles on the organising committee of the "Found in Translation: Understanding Shakespeare through Intercultural Dialogue" conference held at Waseda University in 2022, which included helping the delereach Tokyo at a time when the logistics were still rather challenging! The ideas discussed

at this conference led directly to the creation of an additional chapter, as well as adding further impetus to the collection as a whole. Finally our biggest thanks must be to our contributors for working so closely and supportively throughout.

Whike I was on social media sabbatical, the hard copies of "Translating Shakespeare: Access and Mediation" arrived. | SpringerLink share.google/hkBEzs2r770c...

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