Antonija Primorac

Neighbourhood watch

Quiet afternoon.

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Erika Kirk’s Memorial Glam (Or, A Definitive Guide To MAGA Aesthetics) Interview unlocked.

Jessica DeFino on the weaponisation of beauty by the right: '“Mar-a-Lago Face” and “Republican makeup” are sort of ahistorical reimaginings of the “classic” 1950s beauty ideal through the lens of 1980s excess, brought to life with 2025’s modern cosmetic technology.' open.substack.com/pub/jessicad...

Gulp

RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or…

✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.

Naoise Dolan: I've protested Israel's actions every way I can. Now, I'm joining the flotilla sailing for Gaza Author Naoise Dolan explains why she’s joining a flotilla mission to Gaza – and why it’s long past time for Western leaders to take action.

Naoise Dolan: I've protested Israel's actions every way I can. Now, I'm joining the flotilla sailing for Gaza

Author Naoise Dolan explains why she’s joining a flotilla mission to Gaza – and why it’s long past time for Western leaders to take action.

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Small brass butterfly.

The underside of the butterfly, which has little pockets to store sewing needle packets. The underside of the wings are decorated with two plates. One carries an inscription of the drapers company: "Copestake, Moore, Crampton & Co. - London." The other has a gilded head of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, art, trade, and war.

The butterfly can be folded up, like how a butterfly flaps its wings.

A close-up of the butterfly's wings.

Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum.

IG tatterbluelibrary

Fuck yeah

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Will spend the rest of my life considering how we were rushed into "going paperless" for the good of the environment only for the next generation of digital tools to become far worse for the environment.

The Curran Fellowships – RSVP The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...

📣 Curran Fellowships are now OPEN! Per our most recent newsletter, we've moved up our Curran awards to allow recipients time to plan summer travel. Applications due Oct. 15. As always, guidelines and more info are on our website!
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I did it the other way

The Curran Fellowships – RSVP The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...

The Curran Fellowship covering research and travel expenses for research on British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century may be of interest to #DH and #VictorianStudies folks on here ☺️
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The current pressure to impose surveillance on everyone and everything brilliantly explained by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy : pluralistic.net/2025/08/20/b...

CFP: Journal of Postcolonial Writing Special Issue, Telling the Story of Oceans and Archives: Rethinking the Novel Form (Abstract Deadline: 11/15/25) bit.ly/4miqNpa

#BookSky

ChatGPT identified something I wrote last year as being by John Milton: gave work, line numbers and several subsequent (but entirely hallucinated) lines.
Today, putting those hallucinated lines into Google’s AI, it confidently identifies them as by John Milton.

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One of the most surprising teaching experiences I've had recently was students dismissing a story because "they didn't see themselves in it", or because "it didn't speak to them". The stakes of persuading them that imagining what it's like being somebody else mattered felt really, really high.

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Dickens Day 2025 - ‘Dickens and Art’

Wondering what to do this weekend? How about submitting a proposal on Dickens and Art for this year's Dickens Day? Deadline's on Monday and we have about 90% of the required papers submitted, so do your thing academics and submit at the eleventh hour! ies.sas.ac.uk/events/dicke...

CFP from my @ucc.ie colleague @georginanugent.bsky.social and Ronan Crowley @goetheuni.bsky.social-an invitation to address feminist, queer, intersectional and transnational approaches to the question of Joyce and his women contemporaries for a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies #modernism

For those who remember working at the Round Reading Room of the British Museum under the great rotunda, a recording from the BBC of what it sounded like -- the echoing voices, the footfalls, the trolley. Scroll down to 'British Library - British Library reading room...' tinyurl.com/4mpj3ctk

Shocking news. What a loss for our academic community.

The secrets are out! Great to see this years-long labour of love out in the world. The official publication date is June 28; available for pre-order on the OUP website now! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Tip for PhD applicants reaching out to prospective advisors: Don’t use an LLM to write these emails. It’s not a great first impression to express your admiration for a recent paper the faculty member published if that paper does not exist.

Worldwide Doyle 2025 - Burt Wolder As Conan Doyle’s health began to fail, he looked back upon a life rich with accomplishment. In 1930 he drew a cartoon depicting himself as “The Old Horse,” pulling a wagon loaded with memories. This t...

Don't forget to attend online! This year's first Worldwide Doyle Lecture from Portsmouth Library -- Burt Wolder on "Conan Doyle: Adventurous Life, Enduring Memories" -- is in a few hours (Thursday, June 5, at 2pm US Eastern Time). Register for free here:
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Read Karen Hao. Read her now.

The first balcony lily of the season. #bloomscrolling #gardening #flowers

Peony Boule de Niege, grown in a pot #gardening ##bloomscrolling

My experiment with growing a cottage garden on my balcony seems to be working out #gardening #bloomscrolling #flowerreport #gardenphotography #photography #flowers