Emily Stevenson

📣Call for Papers 📣

I am delighted to announce that 'Speech/less in the Early Modern World' will be held 23 April 2026 at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.

Please share far and wide and do consider submitting a proposal! 🙊

Link to PDF version: bit.ly/4lZz80R

AI proving once again that there's still undiscovered knowledge for us to mine.

Screenshot of a certificate from AdvanceHE confirming Fellowship

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Interested in travel writing? Want to learn more about editing historical travel writing? Come to the FREE Hakluyt Society editorial workshop!!

4 July, 9:30-18:00, Royal Asiatic Society, London

FREE but must register:

#travelwriting #travel #skystorians 🗃️

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No, it's down as part time though the percentage of FTE isn't specified - but with the teaching load and responsibilities of a full time Lecturer.

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The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.

That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.

Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

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So basically just sort of banning people who enjoy a sport for fun really?

Recently I found myself on Antipope Instagram, where there are endless reels of the current Antipope of the Palmarian Catholic Church.

This is, of course, extremely my jam, and I started reading up on them hoping to find some wild theology, but instead I found something WAY better...

Support resources for our trans friends and allies | Good Law Project At a time when anti-trans discrimination is rife and hate crime has reached record levels, it’s important to know what support is out there for trans, non-binary or gender-questioning individuals and ...

On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies.

Solidarity 💜
goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...

Early Modern War Narratives - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog Join CEMS for our annual colloquium. This year's theme is early modern war narratives. CfP deadline: 11th April.

What ethical responsibilities do we bear when we write about war? This is one of the questions we’re posing in our June colloquium on early modern war narratives. CFP here and the deadline is 11th April! Please share widely and consider submitting an abstract!
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The thing that is so frustrating about this is that this exact argument — these very same words — could be used to criticise Kathleen Stock and support the people who oppose her. But they never are.

I can! Pics below

Abortion = health care.

Staging Jerusalem: Westminster School and Sapientia Solomonis | MEMOs In choosing Jerusalem as a setting and spending considerable sums of money on staging it, the school hoped to create a spectacular and multi-sensory experience

Today's MEMOries post from MEMOs team member Dr Emily Stevenson takes a look at a 1565/6 Westminster School play set in Jerusalem.

memorients.com/articles/sta...

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

I’m glad Labour is supporting these workers, who are at risk of losing 400 jobs. Would be nice if they were also supporting university workers, where 10,000 jobs are at risk. In the first week of February alone 1,000 job cuts were announced. Nothing from Labour at all in response.

Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says

This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?

I didn't know this wasn't well known! Here are some resources:

DHQ article on eebo and fingerprints specifically: www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/1...

Discussing how similar early modern character names are in seminars this week and one of my students goes ‘oh it’s really confusing, for realio’, prompting me to freeze at the thought I’d forgotten who Forealio was and which play he was in

I am! And yes I have written a bit about it - it’s in a chapter for a Brepols edited collection which is coming out I think soon?

There’s a letter to John Saris from the directors of the EIC in 1611 I cited for this, where they said they’d sent the factors copies of various texts including Hakluyt and told them to read them on Sundays especially - I’m unconvinced anyone actually did though

Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff Leading university accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms

This is actually full of good reporting on casualization of UKHE at even the most prestigious institutions. And the fact that the Observer pressed Christ Church directly on ad wording, and then reported on the college's sidestepping is nothing short of astonishing.

Hello all: It is with a heavy heart that I remove my Starter Pack of "Trustworthy Mesopotamian Copper Ingot Merchants Within the City-State of Ur."

I have been informed about some pretty unfortunate oversights on my part and ultimately platformed some creators who should not have been platformed.

Thank you! Could I be added too please?

Pierre Victoire for French, Edamame for Japanese if it’s open (though you might/will have to queue), White Rabbit for pizza and pints, and if you’re willing to go a bit further out down Cowley Road then Antep Kitchen for Turkish (though it might be worth booking!)

In honour of returning to Bluesky, here is my greatest achievement of reading-week-teaching-prep