Florian Stadtler 🦀
@flostadt.bsky.social
Associate Prof at Bristol Uni, researching British South Asian history, film, literature and Indian popular cinema; world lit and postcolonial studies | trustee Wasafiri magazine | love all things theatre 🎭 |black cat magnet 🐈⬛
@gwr.com seriously!???!!! What kind of an upgrade is this to your website and app!!! Cant display tix booked before 23 Feb; requests to use PDfs of tix; unable to amend tix before that booking date. Extra inconvenience to your customers; frankly this sucks!
Splendid evening @southbankcentre.bsky.social celebrating @wasafirimag.bsky.social Nee Writing Prize. Beautiful readings, Great Panel on Literary Translation and moving speeches from the winners! The panel of judges was chaired this year by Romesh Gunesekera - Congratulations, team!!!!
'I want to remove the fingers of accusation that are always directed at others, and instead hold up a mirror. Because at some point the other becomes the self.' Stella Gaitano’s #PENPinterPrize Writer of Courage 2025 speech is now in #PENTransmissions. pentransmissions.com/2025/10/17/s...
Stella Gaitano’s PEN Pinter Prize Writer of Courage 2025 Speech
Stella Gaitano, PEN Pinter Prize Writer of Courage 2025.
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Leila Aboulela, winner of the #PENPinterPrize 2025, has announced writer, journalist and human rights activist, Stella Gaitano, as this year’s Writer of Courage. www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
Leila Aboulela shares PEN Pinter Prize 2025 with Stella Gaitano - News & Events - English PEN
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What a wonderful resource.
Florian Stadtler 🦀@flostadt.bsky.social · last yr.And southasianbritain.org is live - 33 months in the making - partnership by @uobrishistory.bsky.social @bristolunienglish.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social & @britishlibrary.bsky.social, funded by @ukri.org/ahrc - 750+ entries, 30+oral histories, newly digitised archival docs & more; spread the word
We were able to make a few last minute tickets for our @remakingbritain.bsky.social event at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social tonight. They’ve been flying out of the box office… events.bl.uk/events/south...
South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories | British Library
Join us for an evening of captivating readings, thought-provoking conversations, and a uniquely immersive oral history ‘sound bath’ that brings to life the
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To mark the centenary of the 1925 Special Restriction (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order, a wrote a blog for @britishlibrary.bsky.social Untold Lives: blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/... find out more on the digital resource South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories @remakingbritain.bsky.social
The 1925 Special Restrictions (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order
2025 marks the centenary of the passing of the ‘Special Restriction (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order, requiring maritime workers of colour to register with the police and forcing them to bear a Certifica...
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We were able to make a few last minute tickets for our @remakingbritain.bsky.social event at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social tonight. They’ve been flying out of the box office… events.bl.uk/events/south...
South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories | British Library
Join us for an evening of captivating readings, thought-provoking conversations, and a uniquely immersive oral history ‘sound bath’ that brings to life the
events.bl.uk
Wasafiri is a magazine that thrives and survives from the support of our community. Deputy Chair of Trustees, @flostadt.bsky.social, speaks about Wasafiri as an extraordinary forum for writing and ideas from across the globe. Please consider subscribing to support our work: buff.ly/fKcSUXL
And southasianbritain.org is live - 33 months in the making - partnership by @uobrishistory.bsky.social @bristolunienglish.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social & @britishlibrary.bsky.social, funded by @ukri.org/ahrc - 750+ entries, 30+oral histories, newly digitised archival docs & more; spread the word
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Arts Matter Bristol@uobartsmatter.bsky.social · last yr.🎉 The @remakingbritain.bsky.social team are excited to launch a new resource which explores how South Asians have shaped British life since the 1830s To celebrate, the team have handpicked 5 entries to spotlight 🔦 Find out more this #SouthAsianHeritageMonth 👉 bit.ly/3GAAujr
Come join us for our first @remakingbritain.bsky.social project event to launch the South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories digital resource, a partnership of @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social @bristolunienglish.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks@remakingbritain.bsky.social · last yr.One more week to go: Here's a taster from our sound bath. Book your place via Eventbrite: tinyurl.com/AsianBritain #SouthAsianHeritageMonth #SAHM2025 #RootsToRoutes #SouthAsianBritain #BritishAsian #SouthAsianVoices #CardiffEvents #CardiffCulture #WalesHeritage #SouthAsianHeritage #DiscoverCardiff
Join us for our first event in Cardiff on 22 July at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff in collaboration with South Asian Heritage Trust for South Asian Heritage Month. More details and how to book via this link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/south-asia... #RootsToRoutes #SouthAsianHeritageMonth
South Asian Britain: A sound bath & discussion
Join us for a sound bath, followed by a discussion, to launch the new South Asian Britain digital resource, with South Asian Heritage Month.
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In tribute to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938-2025), Wasafiri has lifted the paywall on a range of his articles, stories, and interviews from our 41-year-old archive, each introduced by @flostadt.bsky.social, Deputy Chair and Trustee of Wasafiri. Read & access here:
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – A Tribute through the Wasafiri Archive
In tribute to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938-2025), Wasafiri has lifted the paywall on a range of articles, stories, and interviews from our 41-year-old archive.
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A brilliant winner for a most spellbinding book in a glorious translation that sets a new benchmark- many congratulations 🥳
The Booker Prizes@thebookerprizes.com · last yr.‘This was the book the judges really loved, right from our first reading’ We're delighted to announce that the winner of the #InternationalBooker2025 is Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi. Here's everything you need to know about the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Fabulous Event coming up at @wasafirimag.bsky.social loved this novel so much!
Wasafiri Magazine@wasafirimag.bsky.social · last yr.In partnership with Dialogue Books and The Polis Project, join Wasafiri for a special evening marking the London launch of Devika Rege’s acclaimed debut novel, QUARTERLIFE, with Rege in conversation with Pankaj Mishra. BOOK NOW: buff.ly/hLH7nJi
If you're an early-career researcher (incl. PhD students) in contemporary literature, submit your unpublished work to the 2025 Wasafiri Essay Prize by 30 June for a chance to win publication, cash, academic mentoring, and a Wasafiri subscription. buff.ly/eBXbXTz
Watch @noreenmasud.bsky.social – Life Writing judge for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize – talk about her own unconventional journey to becoming a memoirist, and what she's hoping to find in entries this year. Prize deadline is 30 June. buff.ly/QYxxQTa
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Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks@remakingbritain.bsky.social · last yr.On the 80th commemoration of the liberation of Bergen Belsen concentration camp, it's little known that one of the first reporters to enter the camp was D. F. Karaka, but his editor at the Bombay Chronicle rejected his report.... 1/3
Fredric Jameson produced some of the most important Marxist cultural criticism of the twentieth century. To celebrate what would have been his 91st birthday, we're offering up to 40% off his titles.
Fredric Jameson was born April 14, 1934
Fredric Jameson produced some of the most important Marxist cultural criticism of the twentieth century. To celebrate what would have been his 91st birthday, we're offering up to 40% off his titles. F...
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This was such an important doc but also one that highlighted the fact how unwilling some are in the UK to confront the fact that colonialism was a violent system of oppression that continues to reverberate…
Great to hear Amitav Ghosh introduce his new book, Wild Fiction in a wide ranging conversation with Pankaj Mishra #books
There's still time to apply for an IES Fellowship! We will consider all topics within the field of English Studies, the history of the book, manuscript studies & palaeography, bibliography, textual scholarship & scholarly editing. Deadline: 10 April More info here: ies.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/...
Fellowship Applications and Renewals
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As Abdulrazak Gurnah‘s latest, Theft, has just been published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, I’m resharing this excellent in conversation, This Cultural Life from 2022 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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The Curriculum and Assessment Review in England released interim findings this week - and sparked debate about the future of EBacc at GCSE. Dr Lynton Lees sets out why EBacc matters and the dangers of pitting subjects against each other:
Curriculum Review: The case for broadening - not abolishing - EBacc
Would removing EBacc increase access to arts and other SHAPE subjects? It’s not clear that it would.
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Weekend Reading - excited to start Abdulrazak Gurnah’s latest - Theft
Retrograde at the Apollo theatre 🎭 is a must see- a stunning play about Sidney Poitier, moral choices, Hollywood and principles. A play that I loved at the Kiln theatre that has now even more urgency. Powerful central performances and exquisite direction by Amit Sharma
While it might now be well known that the International Women's Day was instituted at the International Socialist Congress in Copenhagen in 1910, it is little known that the Paris-based Indian revolutionary Madame Cama also attended the congress. As one Danish newspaper reported:
