Priyam

Film: Homebound (2025) The tragedy of neoliberal India compounds caste violence

Broke my foot and instantly started a Substack to rant and write about films and all. The most recent one is about Homebound (2025). Give it a read and send a rant in return if you want.

(Anyone else writing a Substack for reading? Asking for myself)

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Thin Pink Glaze from @lrb.co.uk
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saw the brilliant @leilaessai.bsky.social speak at HU today. Timely talk and keeping up the tradition of seeing her speak whenever I can ❤️

Is there anything as soul-searing as LinkedIn? Curious because the reason why it used to be "lame" back in the day is also why people are publishing entire essays about their skill certificates, work anniversaries, and how-to uses of AI.

First session tomorrow, looking forward!
#Halberstam
#academicchatter
#queer #trans #anarchitecture #academicchatter #genderstudies

Photograph is from Aryan Nikhil's great trove of photos from the Himalayas, where I live mentally

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✨new summer who dis✨

no seriously; going to bring in new voices and new reads into our postcolonial environmental humanities working group.

interested? write to me
or send it to your dearest nerdy friend and ask them to join us

(g-a-p-s.net/reading-grou...)

(thanks to @gapsnet.bsky.social)

already stealing keywords for my talk from here 😍

Someone needs to write about the evolution of South Asian characters on American screen and how we have gone from Appu to the most bestest imagination of an Indian man ever—a literal white man in Mindy Kaling's A Nice Indian Boy

Very much looking forward to the conference!

bring back academic writing like this pls

Upcoming #conference @FU_Berlin / @EXC2020 in #Berlin.
#NeoHistorical Fiction at 2025. #PrizedTemporalities and Contested Progress.

Funding for travel/accommodation is available!
Apply for abstracts by late Jan 2025.

Hello Postcolonial Environmental Humanities peeps,

We are reading Allegories of the Anthropocene by Elizabeth DeLoughrey (muse.jhu.edu/book/89098)

When? 10 February 2025; 16:30-18:00 (CET)

Ping me for a Zoom link to the session.

What constitutes expertise in your opinion about *any* cultural commodity? Is it being tied to nationality in which case a great many writers in the US should not be writing about Squid Game and Hayao Miyazaki, or Han Kang... Very curious 🤔

Bridgerton has made/inspired (?) more undergrad papers about the 19th century, madness and George III than anything else...

(and it is both a gift and a curse)

If I had another lifetime's worth of time, I would simply become a radical library activist/archivist. I would spend all of my time asking for more funding for the only place in a city where you can read/learn/borrow art/books/things for free.

Or maybe I could still be this person 🤔

(1/27) STARTER PACK THREAD. The environmental humanities, broadly conceived, have been flourishing on BlueSky lately. To further promote this growth, we recommend the following starter packs in and beyond the #EnvHum, beginning with ICEHO's for environmental history. Let's connect!
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Taking film photographs have been my biggest investment the last few months. But sometimes, watching the early light of Galicia trickle into the grainy yellowness of a morning is really worth it.

Plants in my home.

(I am not a plant person at all due to the loads of bad memories related to a plant person in my life who I do not get along with. But embracing plants and their growth in my everyday life has made me see myself differently. I like this part of getting older)

summer vibes, berlin

Project alert: I've been working at an online/hybrid Reading Group project at @gapsnet.bsky.social for a while so that (ECR) academics can read, work, and collaborate with each other. Feel free to drop in or send the link to a friend who might want to join! Thank you :)
g-a-p-s.net/reading-grou...

My peak academic behaviour is that I track the passing of time by extending library loans and marvelling at the speed of time every month.

RIP my summer reading list

An Annual Update + Plans (sort of) I have wanted to updated this space for a while without coming to terms in terms of what this kind of thing means anymore. The more social media saturates spaces, the more it becomes difficult to c…

Does anyone write online anymore? I am trying to find ways of making myself commit to things by writing online. Most of all, I want to read other humanities scholars who are also documenting their work online, in a slow manner. Here's to starting over.

www.priyamgoswami.com/an-annual-up...

Ljubljanica, April 2024

Happy to report that I survived my Thesis Offence™ with loads of caffeine and good wishes. Colleagues from the department baked a cake (!) and got some Sekt that we drank before drinking more beer and talking about the mess that is academia and the revolutionary student politics at Jabalia Institute

It went well!!! I drank a lot of caffeine and then I talked about everything and gave very long detailed answers to the questions. So they let me keep a distinction for a grade even!!

Thank you, again, for being so kind and for checking in :D

Thank you Christina!!

Thank you!!

Will take a bottle of water to take my intentional sips of water 😀 Thank you!

Feeding myself and reading strange old philosophers, as I type this. Thank you so much, stranger on the internet!! 💐 Flowers for you