“Thick accumulations of Ukrainian consonants conspire against my tongue and my memory: airless crushes of them, like the compressed folds of a concertina.” Lovely piece on learning Ukrainian in wartime by Charlotte Higgins www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

‘The war leaked into every lesson’: learning Ukrainian in a country under siege

The long read: Soon after my first visit to Ukraine four years ago, I began language lessons. It taught me more than I ever expected

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The latest on my and @katiabowers.bsky.social's #DigitalDostoevsky text encoding project "Computational Dostoevsky" is here in a blogpost written by our postdoc, Braxton Boyer. digitaldostoevsky.com/2026/07/16/j...

July 2026 Update: Project re-organization, speech re-encoding, and literary musings

The first few months of working full-time on Computational Dostoevsky as a postdoc have been very busy, and we as a team have managed to get quite a lot done. Read on to see what we’ve been up to. …

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Three postdoctoral positions available on a fantastic-looking project (based in Lyon), looking at the history of the earth sciences in the Caucasus and central Asia, 1880 to 2000: larhra.fr/programmes-e...

ENVIROSHIFT - Shifting perspectives on environmental change: A History of the Earth Sciences in Central Asia and the Caucasus, 1880-2000 - LARHRA

ERC Strating Grant Funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme (Grant Agreement No. 101222577) RECRUITEMENT Applications are now open ENVIROSHIFT ...

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The deadline for our biennial #undergraduate and #graduate essay competitions has been extended! Send us your papers and nominations by July 6!

North American Dostoevsky Society@dostoevskysociety.bsky.social · 8mo ago

#CFP: The North American #Dostoevsky Society invites nominations for our biennial undergraduate and graduate essay competitions! Send us your papers/nominations! Submissions are welcome on a rolling basis until June 22, 2026. bloggerskaramazov.com/2025/12/02/c...

The great Hamid Ismailov wrote about the heyday of Uzbek football for @goldengoalmag.bsky.social! goldengoal.world/2026/06/17/u...

Uzbekistan: Nothing to Sneeze At - Golden Goal

An exiled novelist remembers the heyday of Uzbek football ahead of their World Cup debut against Colombia

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Kate Holland and Katherine Bowers - President and Vice President of the North American Dostoevsky Society - delivering their keynote paper at the XIX IDS Symposium. For more on their computational work, check out digitaldostoevsky.com!

For those interested in critical AI literacy, a hopeful thread: This past semester, for their final project, I asked my @uoe-llc.bsky.social Digital Humanities students to make "AI literacy objects" (AILOs): multimedia digital artefacts intended to foster critical literacy around generative AI +

A taste of what we'll be presenting in Buenos Aires next week: digitaldostoevsky.com/2026/06/10/d...

Demonic Networking in Buenos Aires

We’ve got a few updates to share from the last few months. Braxton has been working with Joey Takeda, a developer in the SFU Digital Humanities Innovation Lab, on standardizing and systematiz…

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While I was away, this beautiful, frosty book arrived! Congratulations to editors @profaks.bsky.social, @tricia-starks.bsky.social, and Matt Romaniello ❄️ The book is available here: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

The #DataSittersClub Little TL;DR is back with the short (under 1,500 words! And believe me, it was a struggle to get there!), practical guide you or your colleagues need to get started with building a corpus to "do digital humanities" with, thanks to @readywriting.bsky.social.

Forming Your Corpus

You need 'stuff' to do DH

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If you like data, or making things with textile crafts (sewing, knitting, crochet, weaving, etc.), I've finally written something up about data visualization with textiles. More words coming over the next few months! #DHmakes

Data Visualization with Textiles

This site is notes and drafts that may someday become a Handbook of Data Visualization with Textiles.

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CANADIANS Please consider signing Elizabeth May's petition to have the federal government recognize endometriosis and adenomyosis as part of the disability law in Canada. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

I am curious, not least because many non-professors with doctorates follow me, to know what your doctorate was in (broad field ok, narrow if you want to share) and what you do for a living now. TT professors, we'll save you for a different thread. Please share for curiosity's sake, not using data.

This is the next talk in our North American Dostoevsky Society virtual speaker series, with gratitude to Oberlin College for hosting! Register below for the Zoom link and join us to hear Michael's work on April 2!

North American Dostoevsky Society@dostoevskysociety.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join us for a talk by Michael Marsh -Soloway about The Mathematical Mind of F. M. #Dostoevsky on April 2 at 4:30pm Eastern! Registration is now open: calendar.oberlin.edu/event/michae...

Drawing upon their individual and collaborative research, Dr. Shneiderman and Dr. Baniya explore how European funding is flowing into Nepal, while young people are flowing out of the country through labour migration to global locations including Europe. Lunch will be served. RSVP on our website!

Excited for this talk coming up on Monday! All welcome

UBC Centre for European Studies@ces.ubc.ca · 5mo ago

Join CES in celebrating the recent publication of Shredding the Map: Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia, 1914-1922′, the latest book by Dr. Edith W. Clowes. #europeanstudies #ubc

Full respect to Pride and Prejudice but we are clearly in a Northanger Abbey historical moment.

No cheating; your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist (I wish!!)

Dr Tiffani Angus@tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 6mo ago

No cheating; your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist.

Good news! The TEI 2026 Call for Papers deadline has been extended to February 27th! tei2026.tei-c.org/CFP.html Looking forward to seeing your proposal!

“To link something together is to acknowledge that disparate parts are from the same source, that there is an undeniable connection between them.” How her experience with endometriosis has shaped Ysabelle Cheung’s fiction.

The Limits of Pain: On Writing Against Chronic Illness

At the start of Bora Chung’s short story “The Head,” a strange creature emerges from the toilet bowl. Resembling “a lump of carelessly slapped-together yellow and gray clay,” it rises from the wate…

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Call for (post-PhD) historians and cultural scholars for the pod! We have a specific wishlist of scholarship we’re looking to add to the lineup: - ancient & medieval history and/or - histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe Pitches to: podcast@thisguysucked.com 🤗🤗🤗

Very excited for this news item! And for Braxton's arrival at UBC! 🎉

UBC Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies@ubc-cenes.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This month Dr. Braxton Boyer joined CENES as a Postdoctoral Fellow on the “Computational Dostoevsky” project! Read more here: cenes.ubc.ca/news/dr-brax... @katiabowers.bsky.social @fyodor76.bsky.social

The unwritten Handbook of Digital Instability will have a chapter on the broken dream of the Google Books project.

Looking forward to this talk later today!

UBC Centre for European Studies@ces.ubc.ca · 7mo ago

Join us for "We are fighting for our very existence!" by Dr. Ellen Marie Jensen! This talk is co-sponsored by the UBC Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (CENES). This event will be held on February 2nd at 4PM both in-person in BuTo 225 and over Zoom.

From this, it is super clear who is running the show in Demons pt 3! We are excited to see how these graphs show the changes in Dostoevsky's novel's social structures over time. More adventures in network graphing with @fyodor76.bsky.social #digitaldostoevsky

This talk kicks off our 2026 thematic speaker series on “Infrastructure and Power” - join us tomorrow online to hear Kiran Klaus Patel share his research. All welcome! Registration link below

UBC Centre for European Studies@ces.ubc.ca · 7mo ago

Join us on Zoom January 27th at 10 AM for the first talk in our CES Spring 2026 Speaker Series! The Speaker Series features scholars from around the world who specialize in topics related to Europe and the languages spoken there. Register here: ubc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The North American Dostoevsky Society invites #applications for a special Deborah A. Martinsen Travel Award to support travel to the XIX International #Dostoevsky Symposium in Buenos Aires. More information can be found on Bloggers K: bloggerskaramazov.com/2026/01/21/c...

Call for Applications: 2026 Deborah A. Martinsen Symposium Travel Award

The North American Dostoevsky Society stands with all the people of Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world who condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See our statement here. The North Am…

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Our ASEEES panel in the spotlight! Featuring some stylometry work and visualizations from @fyodor76.bsky.social and myself (including this intense cloud of 19th-century author "neighbourhoods")

North American Dostoevsky Society@dostoevskysociety.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Today on the blog! Digital #Dostoevsky: Fiona Bell recaps the 2025 North American Dostoevsky Society @aseees.bsky.social panel: bloggerskaramazov.com/2026/01/16/a...

I finally received this Chekhov volume in the mail today! I have a translation in it, among a lot of others, ranging from prominent Chekhov scholars to undergrad students. Excited it's finally out in the world! www.academicstudiespress.com/9798887198095/

Anton Chekhov. Earliest Stories

This volume presents the first comprehensive annotated edition of Chekhov's earliest stories in English. Translated as part of a unique project involving 85...

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I keep forgetting to share! But @fyodor76.bsky.social and I published an article in the most recent issue of @jitp.bsky.social, a special issue on minimalist DH pedagogy. It's all about our wonderful undergrad TEI workshop from a few years ago! cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/a-dosto...

A Dostoevsky Laboratory: Creating a TEI Training Workshop for Undergraduate Students Using Minimal Computing | A Dostoevsky Laboratory: Creating a TEI Training Workshop for Undergraduate Students Usin...

by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland

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