If you're at @cineredis.bsky.social don't forget to pick up Cinema Year Zero notes at your screening! CYZ are releasing an essay every day of the festival, today's brilliant piece on My Brother's Wedding pictured below www.cinemayearzero.com
Anna Devereux
@annadevs.bsky.social
PhD on Doris Lessing's archive: communism, decolonialism & literary practice, University of East Anglia & the Harry Ransom Center, CHASE-funded interested in postcolonialism and global anglophone literatures https://mountainsbound.substack.com/ she/her 🇵🇸
Had a gorgeous time at #WeirdModernisms! I think this appropriately weird accidental rainbow pic of Lessing says it all 🌈 Thank you @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social
Presenting my first conference paper wasn’t as scary as I had thought! Such a great time speaking about Mina Loy’s ‘Surreal Scene’ and her concerns over the use of women’s bodies in art. Thank you @annadevs.bsky.social and @david-strong.bsky.social for such a brilliant day all about Collective Forms
Big thanks to everyone who came to Leeds for the first @bacls.bsky.social graduate conference and helped to make it such a memorable experience! We loved having you there, and we're looking forward to seeing you at future BACLS events @smritiverma.bsky.social @annadevs.bsky.social
Max Shirley@maxrshirley.bsky.social · 3mo agoHad a fantastic time last week at the @bacls.bsky.social graduate conference, which I co-organised w/ @aandres.bsky.social and Liam. Really excellent selection of papers & conversations throughout the day!
I’m really looking forward to giving my first paper at the Collective Forms Symposium later this month!
Anna Devereux@annadevs.bsky.social · 2mo agoJoin us on 19th June at UEA for the Collective Forms symposium! A day of research focussed on collectivity with a keynote delivered by Prof. Benjamin Kohlman. Registration closes this Thursday, we'd love to see you there: www.chase.ac.uk/events-1/col...
Join us on 19th June at UEA for the Collective Forms symposium! A day of research focussed on collectivity with a keynote delivered by Prof. Benjamin Kohlman. Registration closes this Thursday, we'd love to see you there: www.chase.ac.uk/events-1/col...
Collective Forms — CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership
This 1-day symposium brings together researchers who deal with collectives of all kinds as well as creative practitioners whose work engages with and emerges from collectivity.
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enjoy my review of Maxim Gorky's Summerfolk @nationaltheatre.org.uk on this lovely early spring eve 🌼 open.substack.com/pub/mountain...
Maybe I'm biased but I can't help but think today's #ModWrite would be very well spent writing a proposal for the Collective Forms symposium - CFP deadline just one week away! www.chase.ac.uk/news-1/colle...
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CFP ALERT! Join us at UEA for Collective Forms, 19 June - a symposium to explore the goals, ideals, and promises of collectives, from the religious to the political, as both the subject and condition of art. Deadline 23 March: www.chase.ac.uk/news-1/colle...
Collective Forms - CFP — CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership
This one-day symposium seeks to reflect on collectives as both the subject and condition of art, examining the ways in which shared purpose is communicated, examined, and extended through cr...
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This is Amy Madigan and Ed Harris refusing to applaud Elia Kazan's honorary Oscar in 1999. During the Blacklist Era, Kazan named names. Good on Amy and Ed.
K8 Hagen 🦂@thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 5mo agoHELL YEAH AMY.
I wrote about derelict London and perpetual war in David Gladwell's MEMOIRS OF A SURVIVOR (1981), an accurate and disturbing take on the Doris Lessing apocalypse classic. A must see for Julie Christie heads. open.substack.com/pub/mountain...
When Everything Stopped
Watching Memoirs of a Survivor (1981, David Gladwell)
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Dedicated to the one I hate: Frank McNally on how a book inscription came back to haunt Patrick Kavanagh
Dedicated to the one I hate: Frank McNally on how a book inscription came back to haunt Patrick Kavanagh
Signed first American edition of Tarry Flynn is dedicated to ‘poet and painter’ Brendan Behan
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Seán Rocks was a lovely man and a great broadcaster. He brought arts programming to life. He'll be very missed.
Ellen Coyne@ellenmcoyne.bsky.social · last yr.A plan to evacuate 18 seriously ill children from Gaza to Ireland for potentially life-saving treatment has stalled because of Government concerns about granting special visas to the children’s siblings. Several children listed for treatment in Ireland have died. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
"If women ruled the world, there would be no wars. True or false? False, if all the women were Ursula von der Leyen. Because a hawk in sheep’s clothing is still a hawk." www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Justine McCarthy: What gives Ursula von der Leyen the right to egg Binyamin Netanyahu on with his killing crusades?
Von der Leyen is living proof against the foolish notion that women don’t tolerate warfare
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Had a lovely time talking Doris Lessing and distrusting the university at @ucddublin.bsky.social Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature conference last week. Lovely people, panels, and setting: more conferences within walking distance of the sea please 🙏
“Yippee ki-yay…” We are excited to tell everyone that Westminster Council decided on May 1st that the Prince Charles Cinema would be included in the list of Assets of Community Value maintained by the Council under section 87 of the Localism Act 2011.
Beautiful sunshine and scenes of solidarity on the first day of UEA UCU's next phase of industrial action. 🌞 #SaveUEA
delighted by this news! came across this absolute gem by chance in The Last Bookshop, Rathmines a few years ago and was totally bowled over, really one of the best memoirs around
Irish Examiner@irishexaminer.bsky.social · last yr.huge love to my UEA colleagues out in the picket today! wish I could be with you, sending solidarity from Texas #SaveUEA
UEA UCU says join a union@uea-ucu.bsky.social · last yr.A phenomenal turnout for the UEA UCU day of action. Staff and students are making their voice heard, striving for a future for Higher Ed that doesn't look as bleak as it does right now. #SaveUEA #UKHE #StopTheCuts @ucu.org.uk
"And Foy has written books, though none are published. She thinks she needs a mentor to help with that. She shows me a hardback self-made copy of a book she wrote all about rhubarb." 🩷 what a gorgeous saturday read www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Dr Lydia Foy: ‘I never got an apology actually. It would be nice to get one’
The trans activist who fought the State for years for the right to change her gender on her birth cert would prefer to ‘talk about me as a person rather than all the baloney with the courts’
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Thinking of Ann Lovett today, ##otd 1984, 15yrs old & pregnant, she went to the grotto in Granard where she gave birth to a still born baby boy, she was found sometime later but died shortly after of hypothermia & blood loss. Her story shocked the country #speirgorm www.thejournal.ie/readme/ann-l...
Dr Mary McAuliffe: The details of Ann Lovett's tragic death are still harrowing 40 years on
The historian looks back at the loss of the teenager who died after giving birth in a grotto in Granard, 40 years ago today.
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I have started the inevitable substack to log my time living in the USA. Please read along, like, subscribe, etc. First up, feeling like an alien in New Orleans... open.substack.com/pub/mountain...
Alien
New Orleans, the big American conference, and a list of all I've been reading/watching/eating
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an English colleague and I were ranting to each other yesterday in the corridor about devastating situation at Cardiff University, when an American colleague came up, asked us what was going on, and replied "Ha, our president is still worse!" 🤷♀️
UEA is trying to fire hundreds of my colleagues and insist that they "don't think that students and staff will notice... these are modest changes to our overall budget." I'm fighting with and for my colleagues at @uea-ucu.bsky.social to save those jobs and build a better future for HE
If you're hanging around #MLA25 I will be presenting Saturday 3.30pm on identity under colonial confinement in Doris Lessing’s archive - would love to see some friendly faces! In exchange I promise some saucy excerpts from Lessing's letters...
