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Dr Eleanor Lowe

@loweee.bsky.social

Associate professor; early modern drama, material culture; music, theatre, cats, the outdoors; twin mum. Views my own. She/her. #BLM #lgbtq+ 🌈 #MHmatters

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD@greenleejw.bsky.social · last wk.

London was a great market for eels from the 15th C. onward. Many were imported by the Dutch, but not all. In the late 19th C. fishermen from the Norfolk Broads sold their eels in Billingsgate each fall, & the profits were enough to carry them through rest of the year if need be. 🗃️🧪

Meme. B&W photograph of a man fishing eels from a small boat. He is in the middle of the fens, and you can see the tall grasses at the edge of the water. Behind him is another boat and a small shack. The man, who is wearing suspenders and a hat, is holding a net and looking into the water. You can see his reflection in the water...a blurry fisherman with a net looking skywards through the floating algae on the surface. He is perhaps in the middle of an existential quandary. For he himself is but a reflection of light that lets us see him, and so allows his image to be captured on film. Is he, then, any more real than his image in the water? What is reality, after all, but a trick of light? The man is stuck; paralyzed by worry about his own being. The eels swimming under his boat are free of this kind of dread. Natural neo-platonists, they live in the liminal space between Being and Becoming, and that is that. Meme text reads: "Fishing the Broads: An Eelustrious Career"
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...

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Think Human@thinkhumanfest.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨Due to popular demand, a few more tickets have been added to this previously sold out event! Sign up now to save your place👇 🎬 bit.ly/3YiK67P

Think Human@thinkhumanfest.bsky.social · last yr.

🎬Dive into the magical world of film music! 🎵 Why do films have music? How has film music changed over time and what happens when we change or remove music? Join us at the Old Fire Station as we explore these questions and more! Book your free space here👇 🔗 bit.ly/3YiK67P

Katharine Craik@kcraik1.bsky.social · last yr.

The Gibbs building on campus isn’t spectacular. But the woman it’s named after was. She left a wonderful legacy for Oxford, and for Oxford Brookes. Join us to uncover the story. It’s free and everyone is warmly welcome. 👇

Think Human@thinkhumanfest.bsky.social · last yr.

Discover the legacy of Olive Gibbs - peace campaigner, politician and education advocate - through a film screening of ‘Olive Gibbs: A Remarkable Woman’ followed by a panel discussion on her enduring legacy 📍Headington Campus 🗓️ Thursday 8 May ⏰6pm Register here👇 bit.ly/4iSvx2Z @gary1234.bsky.social

Sam Brown@samuscript.bsky.social · last yr.

We’re having a symposium at @livesandletters.bsky.social! Come and geek out with us over early modern libraries and the books that filled them. Abstracts due May 16th, full details here www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... #bookhistory #earlymodern

Call for Papers: ‘Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library’

This 2-day symposium will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies to open up existing narratives and bodies of evidence...

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UCL Early Modern Exchanges@uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · last yr.

Call for Papers: ‘Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library’ Deadline 16th May 2025 9 –10 September 2025 at UCL, London

Kate Armstrong@brainchain.ca · last yr.

My favourite library quote is from newsman Walter Cronkite: ‘Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation’

Think Human@thinkhumanfest.bsky.social · last yr.

@ThinkHumanFest is coming to Oxford Brookes University, 7-10 May! 🎉 Highlights include explorations of War & Peace in Ukraine, New Labour in Power, Navigating Hybrid Work & more! brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke... #ThinkHumanFestival #OxfordBrookes #FreeEvents

Think Human Festival 2025: A celebration of ideas, creativity, and community - Oxford Brookes University

Oxford Brookes University will host the Think Human Festival 2025 from Wednesday 7 to Saturday 10 May, offering a four-day programme of free public events exploring contemporary social issues, creativ...

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Katharine Craik@kcraik1.bsky.social · last yr.

Are you in Oxford on 7 May? Join us for this important event @oxfordbrookes #humanities 👇👇👇 Free, all warmly welcome!

Think Human@thinkhumanfest.bsky.social · last yr.

War and Peace in Ukraine 🗓️Weds 7 May, 3pm-5pm Join us for a discussion on possible peace deals & plans for post-war reconstruction in Ukraine, featuring exhibit posters from Yurko Gutsulyak’s ‘Blue-Yellow Series’ 🇺🇦 Tea/coffee & Ukrainian snacks provided! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1259287907...