Katie Harling-Lee
@katieosha.bsky.social
Literature academic & bookish person based around Edinburgh, Scotland, curiously crossing disciplinary boundaries in work and life 📚 Current in-progress project: researching Quaker Silence in the novels of neglected author Dorothy Canfield Fisher 🌸
Deadline looming! Please get in touch by December 1st if you're interested in taking part in the "Star Wars at 50" conference at Durham University, Friday May 7th 2027. starwarsat50.webspace.durham.ac.uk
Call for Papers - Star Wars at 50: Forces, Forms, Legacies
A one-day scholarly conference at Durham University scheduled for May 7th 2027.
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My review of Her Son's Wife is now available in @uk.theconversation.com in line with the new Persephone Books edition published today — a third Dorothy Canfield Fisher title is getting a fresh and beautiful printing!
The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · 3w agoDorothy Canfield Fisher was once one of America’s bestselling authors but sadly much of her work has fallen out of print.
Karine Polwart joins us on 6 November at 7:30pm to talk about ‘Windblown’, her tribute to a 200-year-old Sabal palm through storytelling and music. She’ll be interviewed by @rkrystalli.bsky.social and, with pianist Dave Milligan, will perform a couple of songs. Book now 🎟️👇 edin.ac/4B5rOsn
Join us for refreshments in our historic Rainy Hall at this year's New College Festival of Books and Belief 🍂📚 We're hosting two drinks receptions on 6 November at 6:30pm & 7 November at 6pm. Come along and browse our pop-up bookshop run by, Golden Hare Books! Book now 🎟️👇 edin.ac/4ziCcfC
This Sun 4 Oct I'm returning to Tills Bookshop, Edinburgh to host a guest session of the Bookless Bookclub! In anticipation of the newest Persephone book Her Son’s Wife (pub. 15 Oct), I'll introduced readers to 'domestic feminism' in the novels of Dorothy Canfield Fisher: events.tillsbookshop.co.uk
Keen for more? Join us for a pre-festival book club event on 22 October, 4:30pm led by @katieosha.bsky.social for Luke Kennard's 'The Book of Jonah' 📖🍂 No prior reading necessary! Register now 🎟️👇 edin.ac/4rCI8g6
School of Divinity@uoedivinity.bsky.social · last mo.We are delighted for our #NCFestival guest, Luke Kennard, who has had his recent novel ‘Black Bag’ shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2026! He will discuss the novel alongside ‘The Book of Jonah’, in conversation with Samuel Tongue. Get your tickets for 6 November, 2:30-3:30pm 🎟️👇 edin.ac/4xUT22j
We are delighted for our #NCFestival guest, Luke Kennard, who has had his recent novel ‘Black Bag’ shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2026! He will discuss the novel alongside ‘The Book of Jonah’, in conversation with Samuel Tongue. Get your tickets for 6 November, 2:30-3:30pm 🎟️👇 edin.ac/4xUT22j
We're having an online launch event for Beyond Modernism: noncanonicity in early-twentieth-century British literature, at 6pm UK on Monday 12 October. Speakers will include the editors, @nicholasbirns.bsky.social, @rsazzad.bsky.social, Chris Hopkins, +... Sign up: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Mjsn26ZMek
If you're in Edinburgh this afternoon and free at 4pm, consider coming along to "Much Ado About Climate" to see a group of talented young peolpe improv a Shakespearean play about climate change and hear @eoinprice.bsky.social and myself offer our thoughts! www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...
Babes in arms policy: Babies are not allowed in the venue, please refer to the age suitability for the show
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Bookings are live! We're delighted to announce that our sixth New College Festival of Books and Belief will be held from 6-7 November 2026 📚🍂 Don't miss your chance to join us and book your tickets now 🎟️👇 edin.ac/4ziCcfC
Out next year in February: ”Rethinking Epiphany”, ed Riikka Pirinen & Lieven Ameel. The book assesses the different research traditions that have looked at epiphany & brings together new approaches to the study of epiphany in literature, philosophical texts, media narratives, and contemporary music.
Final reminder, our Special Issue for the #WeirdModernisms conference invites speakers to publish a shortened version of their paper, an extract, or a summary. Expressions of interest are due tomorrow, 31 July! 🗓️ Email tmr@bams.ac.uk, submissions due 31 August 📨 @moderniststudies.bsky.social
Excited to see news of this forthcoming religion & literature related publication!
Michael H Whitworth@profmhwhitworth.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf, Modernism and Religion will be published in November 2026. I contributed a chapter on Woolf, Science, and Religion. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...
Back from my first @modernistudies.bsky.social & @moderniststudies.bsky.social conference in Loughborough – what a busy yet generative four days on the topic of #WeirdModernisms ! Highlights included the seminar discussions and the physical objects presenters handed round in the sessions:
BREAKING NEWS: Councillors 'unconvinced' of developer's sustainability claims
'Green' data centre for Edinburgh rejected by councillors
<p>Edinburgh councillors have thrown out plans for a 140MW ‘green’ data centre at South Gyle. There was cross-party agreement in refusing the plan, with concerns about ‘how it affects the climate emergency’ and ‘how emissions could be minimised’.</p><p>After an almost-four hour meeting, including a presentation from the applicant, not a single councillor from any political party voted in favour of the scheme. </p><p>More details in tomorrow morning's newsletter. </p>
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My contribution to the #NationalYearOfReading this month is a photograph of the stack of books (minus ebooks & audiobooks) I read in January (and some I'm still reading) because apparently I decided (unconsciously) that January was the month to see how many books I could read at once (topping 15)?!
We have two new book events coming up from @religionlit.bsky.social! 📚 In February, we'll take a look at 'Such Fragile Futures: An Artist and a Poet Reflect in a Garden', and in March we'll look at 'Theological Libraries in the UK & Ireland'. Check out our Eventbrite for tickets 👇 edin.ac/3QGHz2Z
Calling fantasy literature enthusiasts — whether you're a fan of Tolkien, earlier fantasy like Morris, MacDonald, or prefer contemporary fantasy writing: recordings from the @oxfordfantasylit.bsky.social 2025 Summer School are now available online! fantasyliteratureschool.web.ox.ac.uk/lectures-talks
Lectures & Talks
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A delightful day spent attending the online @modernistudies.bsky.social #NWiMS15 conference. Many thanks to the organisers and speakers!
Final call! 🔔 Register to attend New Work in Modernist Studies 15 by 5pm this evening - we have an exciting array of papers covering identities, ecologies, readerships, travel, gossip and silence. Sign up here: forms.gle/BjALZ5Ukapzu... Full programme here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Intrigued and excited for this forthcoming publication!
Andrew Frayn@afrayn.bsky.social · 11mo agoThis volume, a long time in the works, now lives on the Bloomsbury website. Thanks to my co-editor Katie, associate editors Lauren Faro and Petar Penda, and to @bendoyle.bsky.social and the Bloomsbury team. Look out for the excellent cover, coming very soon... www.bloomsbury.com/uk/beyond-mo...
Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
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🔊 CfP: New Work in Modernist Studies 15 🗓️ Friday 9 January, online ⏰ Apply by 5pm (GMT) Friday 12 December bams.ac.uk/new-work-in-... A great opportunity for postgraduates & early career researchers to share work on modernist cultures in a supportive environment. See link above for full details.
On Saturday 8 Nov at 4pm we celebrate the new ‘Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre’ with editors Greg Walker and Randall Stevenson and literary legends Linda McLean and Donald Smith. Don't miss out and book your tickets now 🎟️👇 edin.ac/4oNJpOQ
On 7 November at 2:30pm we welcome Abi Millar to talk about ‘The Spirituality Gap: Searching for Meaning in a Secular Age’ (Duckworth Books). From ayahuasca to astrology, reiki to raves, Millar explores a desire for meaning in the modern world. Chaired by Suzanna Millar. Book now 🎟️👇 edin.ac/3Wq2pqu
‘Quiet as a whisper’: German firm launches campaign after lift was used in Louvre heist
‘Quiet as a whisper’: German firm launches campaign after lift was used in Louvre heist
After watching the news about the Paris robbery, managers at Böcker decided to make the most of the publicity A family run German business unwittingly became wrapped up in the crown jewel heist at the Louvre museum in Paris and is turning the use of one of its furniture lifts into a publicity coup. “When you need to move fast” is the new tongue-in-cheek advertising tagline for the company Böcker, which is based in the town of Werne near Dortmund, in a campaign on Facebook and Instagram mounted within a day of the brazen thefts. Continue reading...
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We’re excited to launch Liz MacWhirter’s moving prose poem ‘Blue: A Lament for the Sea’, along with an underwater film by Jonathan Kearney, on 8 November, 2:30pm. MacWhirter will be joined by creative writing teacher Jane McKie. Book now 🎟️👇 edin.ac/3WNlZwV @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social
