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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways in a 20 minute presentation with powerpoint slides followed by a robust Q&A session in Strabane in June...

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The O’Brien and Huxley symposium was such a joy - full of such excellent papers and wonderful conversation. I look forward to all the cross-pollination to come!

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Trump’s pulling of funding will hurt the Pacific, but there’s still vital work being undertaken by international & Indigenous researchers. Check out the Levuka Project, a longitudinal study in Fiji measuring well-being alongside social and religious change: www.tomwhite-research.com/research-pro...

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I just finished a fabulous period in Melbourne conducing research through the O’Donnell fellowship in Irish Studies. If your projects have connections to Irish-Australia I wholly recommend applying for next year’s fellowship when it opens. www.snac.unimelb.edu.au/odonnell-fel...

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Submissions are now open for the Irish Historical Studies First Book Prize 2024 - for an academic book on an Irish / Irish Diasporic historical subject published by an Irish resident in 2024 as their first scholarly book #IrishHistory. Closes 1 March. usihs36.com/2025/02/03/i...

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Great postgraduate work on any aspect of Irish Studies? Submit it to the ISAANZ Irish Studies Postgraduate Essay prize before 31 March. Prizes include publication in the interdisciplinary Australasian Journal of Irish Studies (AJIS), AUD300 and a year’s membership of ISAANZ. Details in link below

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Irina Dumitrescu on the deep need for the work of the humanities in hard times, and the blending of the critical & creative: Romanian political prisoners in the 1950s and 1960s kept themselves sane by tapping out poems in Morse code, or sewing them in white string onto medical gauze.

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Come to Otago in November for the 27th Conference of the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand. Call for Papers now open!

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Anne Salmond’s excellent piece on the difference between a democracy and a company shines important light on the issues facing many countries right now, not just New Zealand.

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David Lynch’s "dreams have become everyone’s dreams. In the right hands, even the most ridiculous of images – a bicycle, say, reimagined as a sinister, metaphysical instrument – can become radiant and infectious" (image @derek.bike) (quote: headstuff.org/culture/lite...)

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Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

submitted 46 days ago • 7 comments

I’m so sad to hear that the great David Lynch has left us. Breathe free, David, wherever you are

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I’ve published with BMJ Medical Humanities in the past - this is an important thread to read

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💥We’ve extended the deadline for An Fód Dúchais: Home, Heritage and Origins, the 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference💥 Get your proposals in by 14 February 2025. Join us and amazing keynote speakers Dr Tobias W. Harris (Birkbeck), Dr Michael Pierse (QUB), Dr Emily Ridge (Galway)

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I’m so looking forward to Paul’s talk on apocalyptic time!

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🤯 I'm overwhelmed with excitement to announce the session title of our opening keynote on 7 February in Zürich for Brave New Worlds: Maebh Long presents: 💉 ‘my patent Valetudinarian’s Vademecum’: Medical Anxieties in Brian O’Nolan and Aldous Huxley💥 #aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents

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The Flann O'Brien article also brought to mind this animated film of An Béal Bocht/The Poor Mouth. In Irish with (fortunately for me) English subtitles, as otherwise my limited abilities would have made it very absurd indeed...

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Very cool to learn the Keynotes for this year's IFOBS Conference in Strabane! Tobias Harris (host of Radio Myles & author of Flann O'Brien & the European Avant-Garde) Michael Pierse (who's written perceptively on class in O'Brien) Emily Ridge (author of fascinating work on portability in modernism)

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💥Deadline Extension for An Fód Dúchais: Home, Heritage and Origins, the 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference💥 Get your proposals in by 14 February 2025. Join us and amazing keynote speakers Dr Tobias W. Harris (Birkbeck), Dr Michael Pierse (QUB), Dr Emily Ridge (Galway)

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Thomas Dilworth considers the connections between The Third Policeman and Martin McDonagh’s film In Bruges. Out now with the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies!

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The always-excellent Zan Cammack reviews Radio Myles - check out the podcast if you haven't already!

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Such a delight at the @austmodernist.bsky.social in Hobart last week. Thanks to the excellent organisers @drmilthorpe.bsky.social, @robbiemoore.bsky.social and @fergusedwards.bsky.social for a wonderful event.

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Driving home for Christmas? Pause Chris Rea and listen to the most recent episode of Radio Myles, the podcast on Flann O’Brien by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social, featuring @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social speaking brilliantly on the nonhuman, the politics of comedy and hoaxes

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The Greens strongly oppose the decision to change funding: “If we are to counter the rise of misinformation and disinformation, and concerning trends such as the lurch towards authoritarianism and ‘alternative facts’, then we need to have a well-resourced social science and humanities sector"

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I'm pretty appalled by the news about Marsden funding for humanities and social sciences being cut. www.labour.org.nz/news-release...

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The notion that fundamentally better understanding people and how and why they act doesn't matter in achieving social or economic outcomes is, well, interesting. "Humanities and social sciences panels disbanded and no longer supported."

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This is so backward 1. Science is more than just commercialisable widgetry 2. Making progress on our biggest problems (climate change, infectious diseases, misinfo to name a few) will need more collaboration between STEM and hum/social sci not less.

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First thing written. Need to walk it off and then will write the longer follow up 🤷‍♀️ #MarsdenSchmarsden

submitted 90 days ago • 14 comments

It’s a dark day for research in Aotearoa New Zealand and the ramifications for the country are huge. Minister Judith Collins has just announced our blue-skies funder will no longer fund humanities & social science research and that 50% of what is funded must have economic benefit.

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This decision on the Marsden is exceptionally dangerous: “the Fund will shift to core science, with the humanities and social sciences panels disbanded and no longer supported. Real impact on our economy will come from areas such as physics, chemistry, maths, engineering and biomedical sciences"

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I’m hugely looking forward to speaking at this event, alongside such brilliant people as @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social. Come join us!

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It’s going to be an excellent time at the Flann O’Brien conference in Strabane in June 2025. Get your abstracts in!

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This blog post reflects on our research on risk perception in Twitter users in Aotearoa New Zealand August to November 2021, a period of major change in the country’s pandemic response (and before Musk ruined Twitter). There much to learn from our pandemic mappings of threat - check it out!

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