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COME ON Edinburgh International Book Festival

A morning of being reminded, once again, of what a privilege it is to write in dialogue with Simone Chess, Sawyrrr, Colby Gordon, and Abdulhamit Arvas 💕

This week’s #CookbookCorner features Bethlehem: A Celebration of Palestinian Food by Fadi Kattan. Read more about it and get his recipe for Mafghoussa here:
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Throughlines launches on Aug 1, but between now and then we'll be sharing sneak peek content with our mailing list. Join now and download Ruben Espinosa's Revising the Shakespeare Survey syllabus, where he shares his assigned readings and PCRS approaches. splash.throughlines.org

We condemn Oxford vice chancellor Irene Tracey in the strongest possible terms for bringing in police to violently arrest her own students, engaged in peaceful protest against genocide.

Universities UK must make clear to university leaders that this repression is unacceptable.

Unconscionable.

If only you would

OK, British students, start researching how to get a postal vote NOW, and figure out where best to use it. You are PERFECTLY ENTITLED to be registered at both a term-time and permanent address, and to vote from whichever suits you, as long as you only cast one vote!

Return of the king

“In a paper due to be published later this year, Ren’s team estimates ChatGPT gulps up 500 milliliters of water (close to what’s in a 16-ounce water bottle) every time you ask it a series of between 5 to 50 prompts or questions.”

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This week in Cambridge Shakespeare: read David Kathman's 'John Rice and the Boys of the Jacobean King's Men' for free: cup.org/3QLGxmO

This is quite simply the best news. Congratulations, Farah Karim-Cooper - you're one in a billion. folger.edu/about-us/press…

More right-wing newspapers came out blaming Dr. MRO for every other scholar's decision to stop using 'Anglo-Saxon,' despite the....century or more of scholars arguing against the term as appropriate for the early medieval English. Here's a few of them! 🧵

Signposting University of Exeter's Renaissance MA once more. We are part of the dynamic CEMS Exeter research centre and have one of the biggest concentration of early modern and Shakespeare specialists in the UK teaching on this research-led intensive course.

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📣 Funding Opportunity 📣

The Society for Renaissance Studies (Renaissance SRS) are inviting applications for their Scholars of Colour MA Scholarship. In 2024, SRS plans to offer two awards of £4,000 each, towards the costs of postgraduate studies.

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The funding model for higher education is broken & needs radical change to put the sector on a firm financial footing

All political parties must to commit to a new funding settlement for higher education

Our response the OfS report 👇

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#ReclaimHigherEd

English Association is making common cause with Modern Languages. I am honoured to have been invited to speak to the APPG on Modern Languages about HEI closures. englishassociation.ac.uk/ea-to-support-…

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“If you were in Palestine you’d be thrown off a roof”