The international conference "Deciphering Censorship: From regulation to the production of invisibilities, from the archive to the Internet" begins tomorrow, 7 September.

If you can't make it to the National Library of Portugal, you can follow the sessions via MS Teams. The access link is available on our website.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/deciphering-censorship/

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This week will be marked by the international conference "Deciphering Censorship: From regulation to the production of invisibilities, from the archive to the Internet", which will take place at the National Library of Portugal on the 7th and 8th.

Nicole Moore (UNSW), Robert Darnton (Harvard University) and Richard Burt (University of Florida) are the keynote speakers.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/deciphering-censorship/

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#JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress is having a labor day #book sale now until 9.6. The 30% discount code is HLAB23 and purchases over $50 qualify for free shipping. I am most familiar with their #litstudies and #health and #wellness lists. Please consider supporting this excellent #universitypress.

Don't you just love it when you're reading a #book and you learn new #words? Today, thanks to #AngelaCarter, I learned the words, "ogive" and "gorse."

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Cynthia Ozick’s “A French Doll,” in the 24 July New Yorker, has made me understand the aura in Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” more fully and deeply. Maybe it will do the same for your students as for me. “A French Doll” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/31/a-french-doll-fiction-cynthia-ozick and Cynthia Ozick on Artistic Theft https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/cynthia-ozick-07-31-23 #litstudies

“There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands.”
― James Salter
#literature #LitStudies

This wig store in my neighbourhood is gone now and I miss it. #syntax #realism #poetics #litstudies

“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”
#JamesJoyce #LitStudies #literature

Picked the films for this semester’s Intro to Cinema (#sciencefiction focus) class: 2001, Interstellar, Nope, Brazil, The Matrix, both Blade Runners, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Children of Men, and Dune.
For group projects: Solaris, Alphaville, The Host, and Neptune Frost.
#film #filmstudies #LitStudies

Also for #followfriday I recommend @carrideen for those seeking an absolutely searing and spot on critique of #academia that Emerson himself would envy along with some extraordinary scholarship of global 18th century literature.
#ff #LitStudies #academicmastodon

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.” -- #Thoreau, #Walden, published on this day in 1854.

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https://slate.com/culture/2023/08/james-mcbride-great-american-novel-heaven-earth-grocery-store.html

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The latest issue of #Planet: The Welsh Internationalist quarterly magazine is out and the lovely editors gave me a spot in the #review section. So here's my thoughts in Rebecca F. John's #HistoricalNovel Vulcana, just published this spring by #honno

And if you haven't yet got a subscription for this wonderful indie #magazine from Wales, what's keeping you?

#Fiction #HistoricalFiction #WelshWritingInEnglish #LitStudies @litstudies

https://www.planetmagazine.org.uk/planet-online/251/review/rita-singer

and so the Atlantic Slavery economy first surfaced at the heart of Austen’s first and only suburban novel, to return when Augusta Hawkins Elton uneasily declares that her brother-in-law Me Suckling was “rather a friend to the abolition.” A world of dramatic irony rests in that “rather.” That’s where the body count is. #litstudies #Austen

From: @pureausten
https://mastodon.art/@pureausten/110818079797799841

Just got a nibble from a second press. Have a meeting with them next week.
#professorlife #academia #academicmastodon #LitStudies

when I joined Masto in November, folk were discussing ways to refer to the massive migration away from the site formerly known as T*****r. I linked an article I wrote c 2000 (published in Giltrow and Stein, Genres in the Internet [2009]) about the earliest social networks (especially Net.Goth communities) and their genre conventions of formation. Reposting to new account in case it's useful/interesting to anyone. Are we (the bird migration) a genre? https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t4xy06b00evhuy2rrmnlj/nation-book-medium.pdf?rlkey=zigx8lgxesrx4uczc3o6osn1m&dl=0 #litstudies #histodons

people on C18 and other instances: did you know that the "opt-out" function in Mastodon doesn't always work? Even if you say on Mastodon only what you'd say in other public places, maybe you don't want everything you say aggregated in one place and indexed by search engines under your name? I didn't! And there it was! https://privacy.thenexus.today/mastodon-privacy-remember-that-public-and-unlisted-posts-can-be-indexed-by-search-engines/ #privacy #litstudies #histodons #academicmastodon

@academicchatter Help needed, probably from academics based in #Australia! Is anyone out there able to get institutional access to the below article on AustLit? Payments are in eternal gratitude and offer of reciprocal help with institutional access to digital content on this end of the globe.

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https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C27769

On this day, #EmmettTill was born. If you haven't read #PercivalEverett's The Trees, a brilliant, haunting, devastating novel about his murder in Mississippi at the age of 14, run to your local# bookstore and buy it and read it.

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#CfP for the fully virtual #conference "Literature and Popular Culture – Northeast Popular & American Culture Association" (#NEPCA), which will take place on October 12-14, 2023.

🗓️Deadline for Abstracts: August 1, 2023

📌Further Information:
https://avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/literature-and-popular-culture-northeast-popular-american-culture-association-fully-virtual-con/ #AVL #fidavlnews #PopularCulture #litstudies