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Delighted to say I've passed my viva (with 'the minorest of minor corrections')!

Had the best viva experience with Stephen Gencarella and Gerard McKeever - not sure how many people say after their viva 'I wish it had gone on longer', but I truly do. A wonderful conversation with open, thoughtful, insightful, generous and absolutely inspiring colleagues.

Thesis: Gramsci, Critical Folklore Studies and the Scottish Folk Revival.

#Gramsci #Folklore #CulturalStudies #PhDLife #academicchatter #Folk

A photo of me holding my thesis and smiling. My thesis has a tonne of yellow, orange and pink tabs coming out of it. I am wearing a long purple cardigan, which I handknit. I am standing next to an artwork linocut of Gramsci.

Looook what I just put on the wall! Clifford Harper's linocut of Gramsci over Britain, printed with Stuart Hall's 1987 Marxism Today essay on 'Gramsci and Us'. I love it!

(I actually wrote a wee thread about that article ages ago so I will link it here just cos: https://mastodon.scot/@RuthSalter/112843678273589438 )

#Gramsci #Marxism #StuartHall #Linocut #CulturalStudies

A photo of the page of a magazine hanging in a frame on a wall. The page has a big black-and-white linocut artwork of Antonio Gramsci, standing fist raised, with the length of Britain behind him; his other hand rests over some of Northern Ireland and Ireland. Besides this is one column of text from the article, which the photo is too zoomed out to read. The magazine page is surrounded by a white mount in a mid-brown wood-effect frame.

13 is your lucky number?

Become part of KWI’s 13th International Fellowship cohort and apply by 28 Feb 2026!

We invite #Postdoc scholars in the #humanities, #socialsciences, or #culturalstudies to join us at KWI from 1 Oct 26 until 31 Mar 27.

📢 Call: https://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/call-international-fellowships-october-26.pdf

Thanks for sharing: @cryocultures @histodons @ruhr-uni-bochum.de @sciencenews @socialsciences

International Conference

THE ARCHIVAL TURN IN MUSIC SOCIOLOGY
5–7 February 2026
mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Fanny Hensel-Hall
& online

Conference Programme & Info:
👉 https://www.mdw.ac.at/ims/events/the-archival-turn-in-music-sociology

Keynote Speakers:
› Kate Eichhorn (The New School, USA)
› Uchenna Ngwe (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance & Royal Academy of Music, UK)
› Nick Prior (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Organisers:
Tianyu Jiang, Rainer Prokop, Rosa Reitsamer
Department of Music Sociology
mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

#musicsociology #culturalsociology #sociology #popularmusicstudies #culturalstudies #genderstudies #socialsciences #humanities #music #archives #archivalturn #socialinequalities #inequality #class #race #ethnicity #gender #feminist #queer #antiracist #migrant #postmigrant #histories #culturalmemory #culturalheritage #culturalidentity #identity #mdw #Vienna

This picture provides information on the international conference THE ARCHIVAL TURN IN MUSIC SOCIOLOGY which will take place from 5 to 7 February 2026 at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria, and online. Moreover, it includes the link musiksoziologie.at, the website of the Department of Music Sociology at the mdw, a QR code in order to reach the conference site directly, and the note "60 YEARS Music Sociology @ mdw".

"Radical Play" by Rob Goldberg traces the revolution in the 1960s and 70s toystore, a time in #AmericanHistory when social movements (#CivilRights M. & #BlackPanther #feminism & anti-Vietnam war movement) were mirrored in #toys

#MaterialCulture #CulturalStudies #AmericanStudies #ChildhoodStudies

Holding the book "Radical Play" in front of a row of wooden lockers

At #BritCult2025 #conference in Bamberg: impressive 🌈🏳️‍🌈 -coloured signs guided us to the university rooms, where the Postgraduate Forum took place.
#BritCult25 #GenderStudies #QueerStudies #CulturalStudies

A rainbow coloured arrow reads BritCult 25

A rainbow coloured square guiding us to the entrance to, as it reads, BritCult 25

Green with envy 🌵, because our collection now houses this new 2025 "Cambridge Handbook of Literature & Plants"? No reason! Order the book, ed. by Bonnie Lander Johnson today from our library and explore the essays on #LiteraryStudies & #Ecocriticism & #EnvironmentalHumanities & #CulturalStudies

Holding the Cambridge Handbook of Literature and Plants in front of a wall overgrown with large green leaves

100+ shadow work questions to ignite self-discovery https://innermasteryhub.com/shadow-work-questions/ #selfdiscovery #midlifecrisis #selfgrowth #emotionalhealing #spiritualhealing

#meditation #mindfulness #stress #wellbeing #fitness #yoga #pilates #mind #psicologia #psychoanalysis #psychoanalytic #PTSD #anxiety #anxietyrecovery #emotionalhealth #brainscience #mentalhealth #MentalHealthAwareness #saludmental #archaeology #linguistics #digitalhumanities #DH #humanities #literature #philosopy #languages #culturalstudies #museums

#Fediverse #Blocklists: #Moderation in Noncapitalist #SocialMedia

> the paper explores how fediverse blocklist developers attempt to mitigate the problems of lists while also generating knowledge about content moderation

@rwg York University

2025-09-20: https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1556

#SciComm #WissKomm #FediModeration #CulturalStudies #SocialScience #SocialMedia #ContentModeration

🤖 “Being alive” isn’t just biological.

Dr. David Gunkel discusses how different cultures — like Japan’s concept of inochi — see life as a continuum that even includes robots.
What happens when AI starts to fit that definition?

🎧 https://youtu.be/MnxiXruwmC8

#AI #Philosophy #TechPodcast #TheInternetIsCrack #CulturalStudies

#savethedate

International Symposium "OLFAC. Sensing Across the Humanities, Sciences and Arts"

3-5 December 2025
International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK), Vienna

👉 Further information: https://www.performing-arts.eu/de/news/newsstream/save-the-date-symposium-sensing-across-the-humanities-sciences-and-arts-olfac/

#ercproject #olfac #culturalstudies #humanities #dancestudies #performancestudies #mediastudies #arthistory #vienna

“It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!” The team at @editionspixnlove.bsky.social have launched their 2nd entry in their new Savoirs Vidéoludix series. "Archéologie du Glitch" ✊ @hmontembeault.bsky.social #GameStudies #Booksky #Gaming #Technology #CulturalStudies #Politics #VideoGame

The Video Game Library Newslet...

If a landscape ‘speaks’, can we hear it?
10 Nov, Edinburgh, & online. Tickets £6/£2

From the medieval West Highlands & Gaelic society, Prof Aonghus MacKechnie’s talk ranges through Early Modern Scotland, the exploitation of history & the ‘signage’ used by the Stewart monarchy, through to post-1660s classicism, Romanticism, “Improvement”, & militarism

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/if-a-landscape-speaks-can-we-hear-it-with-aonghus-mackechnie-tickets-1733332637579?aff=oddtdtcreator

#Scottish #history #culture #culturalstudies #placenames #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #EarlyModern #Romanticism #militarism

Oidhche Shamhna – a South Uist Halloween

Ethnomusicologist, photographer, folklorist, & scholar Margaret Fay Shaw (1903–2004) recorded a traditional Hebridean Halloween on South Uist in the 1930s, in photographs & on film – via the National Trust for Scotland

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/oidhche-shamhna-a-south-uist-halloween

#Scottish #Halloween #Hebrides #folklore #tradition #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #Samhain #culturalstudies #ethnology #photography

A black and white image of two children dressed for Halloween, standing on a flat patch of scrubby ground with a rocky hillside rising behind them. The children are wearing multiple layers of outsized clothes, bundled and knotted around them. Their hands are hidden within their sleeves, and they have huge adult work-boots on their feet. The figure on the left is wearing a crude mask with tiny eyeholes and a mouth hole; tufts of dried grass have been added to create a beard and moustache. The figure on the right doesn't seem to have a mask – just a large clump of heather for a head, protruding from a jacket collar swathed in scarves.

New BOOK REVIEW 📚 "African American Males and Video Games" 👉 thevideogamelibrary.substack.com/p/book-revie... @myersedpress.bsky.social #GameStudies #Games4Ed #Teaching #Race #CulturalStudies #Gaming #EdTech #GBL #GamesBasedLearning #Edusky

BOOK REVIEW - African American...

Job Alert

PROFESSUR (FH) FÜR Kulturmanagement (W/M/D)

Deadline: 2025-11-16
Location: Austria, Kufstein

https://www.academiceurope.com/ads/professur-fh-kulturmanagement-w-m-d/

#hiring #culturalresearch #CulturalStudies #Economics #Professor #SocialScience #leadershipskills #professur

Public Lecture | Master MUSIC IN SOCIETY Lecture

CREATIVE WORK: FROM CRITIQUES OF ‘DIVERSITY’ TO ATTACKS ON DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION
Rosalind Gill (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
Correspondent: Christina Scharff (King’s College London, UK)

20 November 2025 | 18:00
mdw Campus
Banquet Haal

More info: 👉 https://www.mdw.ac.at/ims/events/lecture-creative-work

#creativework #culturalwork #diversity #equity #inclusion #musicsociology #musicinsociety #culturalsociology #culturaltheory #socialtheory #sociology #culturalstudies #genderstudies #socialsciences #humanities #inequality #inequalities #class #race #ethnicity #gender #feminist #queer #antiracist #music #art #film #television #fashion #architecture #design #mdw

The picture shows the visual sujet for the Public Lecture | Master MUSIC IN SOCIETY Lecture "Creative Work: From Critiques of 'Diversity' to Attacks on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion", given by Rosalind Gill | Correspondent: Christina Scharff on 20 November 2025 at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. It contains the image of a sound speaker framed by rainbow colors.

"Billy Waters Is Dancing", a #biography by Mary L. Shannon retraces the forgotten story of Black Regency sailor, who became London's most celebrated street performer & finds him & other figures of Black Regency Britain in the era's #popularculture

#BlackHistory #CulturalStudies #BlackHistoryMonth

Holding the book "Billy Waters is dancing" in front of a wall overgrown with autumnal leaves and vines

"#Culturalstudies — even music and arts journalism more broadly — had an unfortunate tendency to treat cultural artefacts like the capitalist elite, perhaps not consciously but certainly as a result of their pervasive influence. In this sense, #ChildrenOfMen becomes a hyperbolic rendering of the present, and so #Fisher puts it back to work on us, presenting "#capitalistrealism" — the belief that the end of the world is easier to imagine than the end of capitalism — immediately as a #symptomatology of the late capitalist condition, excavated from its own cultural offerings."

https://thequietus.com/culture/books/matt-colquhoun-egress-mark-fisher-hauntology-essay/

✨ New publication! ✨

Happy to share that “Fanfiction in Esperanto – Esperanto in Fanfiction” is now published in Esperantologio / Esperanto Studies! 💚

Huge thanks to the editors for their trust and encouragement. 🙏
🔗 https://www.academia.edu/144442225/Fanfiction_in_Esperanto_Esperanto_in_Fanfiction .

#Fanfiction #Esperanto #Linguistics #ParticipatoryCulture #AcademicPublishing #FandomStudies #LanguageAndCulture #ConstructedLanguages #Conlangs #Mermaids #KingAlfred #MediaStudies #DigitalHumanities #CulturalStudies #PeaceThroughLanguage #Esperantologio

#CulturalStudies

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