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Celtic AntiRacist ANTifascist Egalitarian Society. Fighting fascism and fostering inclusivity in Celtic Studies. Newsletter at caranteswg@proton.me Logo by Forfeda
So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Did you 🫵 forget to read our April newsletter? 🤨 If so, fret not! 😮 Here it is, hand delivered to your feed to break up the ceaseless scrolling! Read on for details of our latest recommended reading and upcoming public meeting this Fri 15 May, including how to attend! carantes.org/2026/04/21/a...
April 2026
Dear friends, With the arrival of green spring in the northern hemisphere, we hope you all have found time to enjoy nature’s awakening or, if you’re in the southern hemisphere, the dist…
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no MOM i didn't *forget* to post about our jan newsletter, it was a *strategic* choice to remind people of it 6 days later so those on the mailing list and bluesky would get 2 reminders! gosh! Read our latest newsletter here with info on our next public meeting 6 Feb! carantes.org/2026/01/28/j...
January 2026
Dear friends, Happy new year! We hope you all have been able to spend time with loved ones over the holiday, resting in the fallow days that closed out 2025, and are returning energized to your var…
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🌬️ Brrr! The chill of a November wind brings our final newsletter of the year! Click below (1) to learn about an event this Friday (28 Nov) in person and online where two of our members will present about the group and (2) to read the minutes from our Samain talk. carantes.org/2025/11/20/n...
November 2025 Newsletter
Dear friends, We hope this newsletter finds you well wherever you may be, as academic terms begin to wrap up and the weather changes. As usual, following a public meeting, the newsletter consists m…
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A million thanks to @menysnoweballes.bsky.social, @siobhanhyland.bsky.social, and all of our wonderful attendees last night for our annual Sam(h)ain lecture! If you missed it (or attended and want a reminder for posterity), the meeting minutes will be in our next newsletter (out hopefully soon!).
🚗BEEP BEEP🚗 Reminder that next Tuesday (18 Nov) Dr Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social will be giving the annual Carantes Samain talk online, this time on the extreme right and medievalism! See the link below about how to RSVP. All are welcome! Fáilte roimh chách! carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
October 2025 Newsletter
Dear friends, We hope this 25th newsletter finds you well as Fall settles over the northern hemisphere, and Spring greets the southern. We continue to watch with heartbreak and anger as viole…
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Need a late-night read? Or maybe late-afternoon… or mid-morning… Ya know what, time zones are annoying! The latest Carantes newsletter is out on our website! We look forward to Dr Rachel Moss's (@menysnoweballes.bsky.social) talk next month, details in the newsletter! carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
October 2025 Newsletter
Dear friends, We hope this 25th newsletter finds you well as Fall settles over the northern hemisphere, and Spring greets the southern. We continue to watch with heartbreak and anger as viole…
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In solidarity with the Irish Healthcare Union and Teachers' Union, there is a call for a National Walk Out this Thursday, 16 October, across Ireland in support of Gaza. Your school or work may have something organised! Please participate if you are able! #freepalestine #StandOutforGaza1610 #freegaza
Comrades from across unions and orgs came together this past Saturday for the Feck Fascism Carnival in Dublin. It was great to see so many marching and gathering together to visibly and vocally oppose racism, fascism, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, and all systems of oppression!
🔔☎️ RING RING ☎️🔔 Hello? … Slow down, what's that? … Oh, a new Carantes newsletter has been posted and sent out? … And you can access it on our website linked below? Well now that's a reason to be excited! … Bye, love you too! carantes.org/2025/09/22/s...
September 2025 newsletter
Dear friends, We hope this finds you well. September is always an exciting month for us, not only because it marks the beginning of a new academic term, but because Carantes was founded in Septembe…
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It's the 3 year anniversary of Carantes! 'But Cassandra', you say, 'you're so smart and so pretty and so funny, but what IS Carantes??' Well, dear reader, firstly, thank you I really needed that, and secondly, allow me to explain: #celtic #antiracist #antifascist #medieval #academia
With @carantes.bsky.social I've organised a panel at the @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social 40th Anniversary conference, on Celtic Studies and the Contemporary Far-Right. Papers on discourse analysis of far-right Celticism, reading transphobia in medieval Welsh poetry, and Celtic-American fascism.
Our current obsession: Umberto Eco's 'Ur-Fascism'. In 1995, 50 years after the liberation of his native Italy, Eco—medievalist, philosopher, and a fascinating man—published this tract which presents 14 ways to spot a fascist. Now, 30 years later, we will discuss his points in the coming days: (1/)
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Also! The next Reading Group Meeting will be this next Tuesday 2nd September from 4–6pm Welsh time. Under discussion is @nahir.bsky.social's The Other Faces of Arthur: Chivalric Whiteness in the Global North Atlantic. More details here: carantes.org/2025/08/27/s...
September 2025 reading group
The next session of the Carantes reading group is meeting on Tuesday September 2nd (i.e. next week) at 4 – 6 pm Welsh time (GMT +1). Please RSVP to receive the Zoom link on the day. In recent sess…
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ICYMI: Our August Newsletter went out last week with the notes from our fruitful Lughnasadh meeting and is now up on our website! Check it out here: carantes.org/2025/08/19/a...
August 2025 newsletter
Dear friends, We hope this august newsletter finds you well and resting up in this month of August. The news this summer has been really bleak, and though it feels counter-intuitive at times …
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UPCOMING: Lughnasadh public meeting on Sunday, August 3rd from 4:00pm to 6:00pm UTC+1 (British summer time). We will be discussing two articles relative to celticity and constructions of whiteness used for fascist purposes. Email us: caranteswg@proton.me if you'd like to attend.
Upcoming: Carantes reading group, Friday June 27th, 6pm GMT+1. We will be discussing: Matthew H. Hammond, "Ethnicity and the Writing of Medieval Scottish History" (2006) eprints.gla.ac.uk/2916/ and Coral Lumbley, "Geoffrey of Monmouth and Race" (2020) www.jstor.org/stable/10.11... Email us to RSVP
Ethnicity and the Writing of Medieval Scottish history
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UPCOMING: Public Beltane Meeting, May 9th 2025 at 6pm UTC+1. We will be discussing Walter Benjamin's seminal essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," but you are welcome even if you've only done part or none of the reading. Email us to RSVP
UPCOMING: Reading group meeting, April 25th at 4pm UK time (GMT+1). Readings are Patrick R. O’Malley’s The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century (2023) and the article ‘Irish Whiteness and the 19th Century Construction of Race’. Email toRSVP
I'm organising a panel at this September 2025 conference in Aberystwyth under the @carantes.bsky.social banner - papers to address egalitarian anti-fascist approaches to Celtic Studies (broadly defined), non-traditional ideas welcome, happy to chat details over DM
Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd / CAWCS@yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social · 2y ago📢Call for Papers! GORWELION: International Conference to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies 📍 @NLWales, 17-19 September 2025. 📅Submission deadline: 1 April 2025 🔗Further information: www.wales.ac.uk/cawcs/cawcs-...
UPCOMING: Reading Group meeting, Feb 27th, 7-9pm UTC. We will be discussing Hazel Carby's "What is this 'black' in Irish popular culture" (2001) and Charlotte Williams' "Can we live together? Wales and the multicultural question" (2004). Email (@in bio) for links and to RSVP.
UPCOMING: Imbolc public meeting, Feb 7th 7pm UTC. We'll be discussing Kathleen Belew's "Crunchy to Alt-Right Pipeline" (2022) and Cynthia Eller's "Matriarchy and the Volk" (2012). Email (@in bio) for article links and to RSVP
