David Houston Jones

What a time to be alive....

The Journal of Beckett Studies 34.1 is now out on Beckett and Contemporary Aesthetic Form. Also has my review of the Haymarket Godot last Autumn if you missed it. There are still some brilliant learning resources on Godot and on design processes here: waitingforgodotplay.com
#stagingbeckett

Intermède www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - jobs: Vol 34, No 1

Out now! 'A kind of scanner’: Tracking the
Work of the Forensic in John Gerrard’s Bone Work, in @journalofbeckettstudies 34 no.1 www.euppublishing.com/toc/jobs/34/1 special issue on ‘Beckett and Contemporary Aesthetic Form’ thanks Pim Verhulst & Conor Carville

Titus Andronicus - Exeter Observer Lightbear Lane hosts a reading of Shakespeare’s bloody revenge tale.

exeterobserver.org/2025/03/04/t...

A reminder that there's a month left before applications for this year's Simon Gaunt Postgraduate Travel Grant close: 🔔👇

The South West Design + Digital Student Awards | Proctor + Stevenson Discover The South West Design + Digital Student Awards, celebrating the best graduate talent in Graphic Design, Digital Design, Motion, and AR in the South West of England.

South West Design + Digital Student Awards: give third year university students in the Southwest the opportunity to enter their projects in graphic design, digital design and/or motion and 3D, for a chance to win up to 2k cash and a paid placement in creative marketing agency.
www.swddsawards.co.uk

This Friday - still time to register for this great event: Irresistible Decay
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc...

Sign the Petition Save MLANG at Cardiff University!

Deeply worrying slew of threats to Humanities departments. Save Modern Languages at Cardiff: chng.it/rsxz7LLpBv

Please share news of upcoming Beckett or Beckett-related performances @frederickhaynes.bsky.social we are relying on you!

Jimmy Carter and Homebrewing - Brew Your Own A Georgia homebrewer offers up some insight into former President Jimmy Carter's personal experiences and views on the hobby he made legal.

Jimmy Carter: one great thing was that he legalised homebrewing in the US. Well done, that man. Cheers. byo.com/article/jimm...

Er, am I spending too long on bluesky? I've detected some small changes in the writing style of posts by someone I follow. I am absolutely not slacking.

Poster for the exhibition, details the exhibition opens today and finishes on the 4th of Jan. With availability to the public every saturday 1pm-6pm.

For those of you who have watched Bellingfest (our 10 year anniversary celebrations) on our YouTube you may have heard us refer to an art exhibition covering Bellingcat's work within the venue. Now part of that exhibition is opening up to the public tonight...

intrigued!

Forensic rhetoric: COVID-19, the forum and the boundaries of healthcare evidence The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the shifting role of healthcare evidence in public health presentations. This article investigates the rhetoric of those presentations as a phenomeno...

A year ago! This came out with #medicalhumanities, issue ed Monika Pietrzak-Franger & Anna Elsner @bschillace.brandyschillace.com 'Forensic rhetoric: COVID-19, the forum and the boundaries of healthcare evidence', on the elaborate rhetorical constructions around COVID: mh.bmj.com/content/49/4...

Hums / soc sci academics - can anyone help with theories of trust?! Thanks

We Can Make an Impact. Save our Banks's Mild

chng.it/rLh8jWwqPS

post-holder will also contribute to UG & specialist teaching in Art History and Visual Culture. Direct experience art curation & ability to build networks. Demonstrate a strong background in both art history& visual culture & feel comfortable moving between these interlocking realms of UG programme.

Thorny issue. This hasn't come my way yet but know colleagues who are in the frame. Have nasty feeling presses have already paved the way to do this and are exercising diff degrees of consent... V interested to hear thoughts and outcome...

Job! #arthistory #universityofexeter Lecturer in Contemporary Art & Curation (Education and Research): teach on both UG andthe MA Curation: Contemporary Art & Cultural Management. Focus on any aspect of contemporary art and curation. Deadline 9th Jan: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr.... Roll up!

Glyn's fundraiser for St Petrock's (Exeter) Ltd Help Glyn Jones raise money to support St Petrock's (Exeter) Ltd

Final push on this: who's supporting a half-marathon in the dark along the South West Coast Path by a group of 18-year-old boys in aid of the homeless charity St Petrock's in Exeter? Running tomorrow.

Shocking numbers of homeless people in Exeter this winter.

www.justgiving.com/page/glyn-jo...

Assisted dying: MPs back bill to give some terminally ill people right to end lives in England and Wales – live Terminally ill adults with less than six months to live will be given right to die under proposed legislation

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... hugely important decision will bring benefits to those who need it. An important step forward, which will bring hope

‘I’m emotionally ruined’: MPs bitterly divided over assisted dying, with Starmer appalled by ministers’ comments Unlikely alliances and concerns over vulnerable people’s rights have led to fierce debate and ethical uncertainty

Crucially important vote tomorrow on #assisteddying to give those in final stages the right to die at a time of their choosing: www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

My experience so far of #AssistedDying prospect of loved one is that it makes final months upbeat rather than anxiety ridden. Terribly sad, of course, and I am scared of what lies ahead, but so relieved that suffering won't be unbearable and grateful for the quality of the time we still have.

R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize The Society for French Studies is the UK's premier scholarly organisation for encouraging and supporting intellectual enquiry in French studies at all levels.

A reminder that the closing date for submissions for the R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize is this Saturday 30 November 2024.

For more information see the link below:

www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gap...

Can take ages if it's long and therefore a v big file. I had a cold sweat about this once!

What Does It Mean To Have A Diverse Curriculum 2: Schools and Higher Education in Collaboration in English Studies and Modern Foreign Languages

📢 'Decolonising the Discipline'

Join us on 6 December in our round table discussion on decolonising the discipline in Modern Foreign Languages and English Studies!

3:30-5pm online via Zoom, all welcome. Registration below 👇

#MFLBluesky @ies-sas.bsky.social

ies.sas.ac.uk/events/what-...

This looks extremely important. Reservations about offsetting for a long time, but this brings them sharply into focus and requires a new approach

We have officially advised our university to ditch carbon offsets – and focus on cutting emissions Your organisation should probably ditch offsets too.

The @uniofexeter.bsky.social convened a panel to advise the university on how to use carbon offsets in its ambitious net zero target. Our conclusion is that all offsets should be ditched. We very much hope other universities will do likewise.
theconversation.com/we-have-offi...

Risk of compulsory redundancies as 170 staff face axe at UEA Announcement follows the departure of 400 staff members last year as efforts to close budget black hole continue

University crisis latest... Redundancy news in the last few weeks at:
Cardiff
Cumbria
De Montfort
Dundee
Edinburgh
Northampton
Reading (Chemistry, likely)
Robert Gordon
Sheffield
Sunderland
Queens Belfast
UEA
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/deeply-...