@lievenameel
Professor in literary studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. City in literature, civic community, narrative futures, energy, utopia, literary form and rising waters. blog: https://lievenameel.hypotheses.org/
Return to the University of Helsinki! On March 1, I took up a new position as professor in literary studies at the University of Helsinki. Looking forward to getting to know students and new colleagues, to renewing old collaborations and planning future ones! lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2901
Matthew Leggatt, Senior Lecturer in English & American Literature @uniwinchester.bsky.social, has launched a new season of his Utopian & Dystopian Fictions podcast with guest Amy Brookes, an architect who discusses intersections between architecture and speculative fiction. Listen at bit.ly/45zeuyz
CFP: Negations and Interruptions As World-Building, University College Dublin, 21-22 May 2026
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Live! Tonight! Sold Out: "The Future of Helsinki" at the Night of Science. My brief talk will discuss the future of Helsinki as seen through literature of the early 2000s. Climate novels, YA novels, poetry & graphic novels. Here scenes from Ville Ranta's Rain/ Sade. lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2844
Always nice to remind students that in the "Quarrel of Ancients and Moderns" the moderns were on the side of absolute monarchism and a public role for the Catholic Church, while the ancients had an interest in republican models and more pluralist religious forms (as found in classical literature).
Today: back to teaching the "Quarrel of Ancients and Moderns"; I'll ask students to re-enact the quarrel for the 2020s. What is the role of classical literature for the present? Why have normative positions re literature's role? Dan Edelstein's "The enlightenment: a genealogy" provided a good intro
Hey! I'm looking for a CS/DH post-doc to work on building a large corpus of news broadcasts in Finnish, Finland Swedish, Sámi & Finnish Sign Language: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
#multimodality #digitalhumanities
The first talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @rikjaz.bsky.social (@uclgeography.bsky.social)
Tuesday 27th January, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
Park Abbey at night
De navond komt zoo stil, zoo stil,
zoo traagzaam aangetreden,
dat geen en weet, wanneer de dag
of waar hij is geleden.
't Is avond, stille... en, mij omtrent,
is iets, of iemand, onbekend,
die, zachtjes mij beroerend, zegt:
‘'t Is avond en 't is rustens recht.’
1st stanza of a poem by Guido Gezelle
In Vienna for the Early Petropoetics conference, where I presented a paper on “‘Flickering’ Reading of Early Petro-Modernity”, w/ examples from English literature & interwar Finnish literature. Thanks to Anna Seidel, Clemens Günther & everyone at the Uni of Vienna lievenameel.hypotheses.org/2820
Deadline Sunday 18th January.
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I got to chat with @alixbeeston.bsky.social about Here Is a Figure for her @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! Alix asks such great questions, and it was really a joy to talk to her about where the book came from and what it’s about!
If you’d like to listen:
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Goeie soundbite! Ik ”citeer” je laatste opmerking msschn wel eens tegen mijn studenten als het gaat over gebruik van llm
Les 1001 nuances de la #neige à admirer au Petit Palais avec le peintre finlandais Pekka Halonen. #Exposition
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New book going to press: *Character Networks in Contemporary U.S. Fiction.* It’s about social networks as context for—and formal element of—the novel. For contemporary lit, novel/narrative theory, DH, lit and sociology, network analysis crowds. Here’s what it’s about: (1/n)
There is a great exhibit of Kawase Hasui’s work on at the Japanmuseum Sieboldhuis in Leiden on thru March 2026. His evolving techniques for showing rain & snow were cool to see, as was his printing of the same blocks with different color schemes to evoke different seasons.
The British Museum image shows a Minoan gold ornament in the form of bee viewed from above against a black background. The bee is symmetrical in shape. It has a round head with two large circular eyes. The body is elongated tapering to a point. An almond-shaped wing extends diagonally downward on each side of the body. The body is decorated with rows of tiny raised granules (gold balls) and thin bands, creating a striped abdomen. The wings are outlined with granules and the inner wing is smooth. Length 1.9 centimetres. From Minoan Crete circa 1700-1600 BC.
Bee-autifully crafted gold ornament in the form of a little bee 🐝 ❤️
Length 1.90 cm. From Minoan Crete, circa 1700-1600 BC.
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#Archaeology
Tenuretrack professor in Cultural and Societal Storytelling (Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven)
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Many thanks @mschulman.bsky.social ! And by all means, do self-promote! This sounds exactly like what I had been looking for re note-taking. I just ordered your book to our uni library. Looking forward to delve into the annotation section!
Just finished my ”methods in literary studies” course. Still looking for material on annotation as part of reading strategies.
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social
's recent book has some material but most teaching materials tend to be on writing. Any suggestions re note-taking?
JOB:
Assistant Professor in Modern German Studies @ the University of Cambridge
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Tambling’s book on Allegory? Has all the basics and key references + is a quick read
when working on my PhD in literary urban studies, Rotella’s book October Cities was a huge inspiration – especially struck at the time by the distinct academic voice & the ’s original approach to the literary city. Good to have an opportunity to catch up (belatedly) w/ Rotella’s more recent thinking
insightful article in NYT by Carlo Rotella about humanities classrooms in times of AI. Empowering thoughts on how this can be a space to rethink how we engage w/ students and how we can enable students to engage. Thanks to @minsong.bsky.social for the link!
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.
Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
Teaching @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & @johannawinant.bsky.social five-steps for writing out a close reading, today in my literary methods class. Also referencing Vanderburg on the "method wars" for a bit of context (although only partly applicable to the Nordics) www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/rev...
Cover of 'Stories of the East' by Leonard Woolf. A red design on orange paper, showing a woodcut of a tiger between two palm trees.
Cover of 'Twelve original woodcuts' by Roger Fry. It is a red marbled paper with a white label showing the title.
Opening today in the Hendrik Conscience Library in #Antwerp: Letter by Letter (By the Woolf’s Hands).
This exhibition showcases the editions of the #Hogarth Press, printed and bound by Virginia and Leonard #Woolf.
It's the first time all 34 editions are brought together in an exhibition.
New publication on active life of lit-> "How does the study of literature, language, and humanities help build critical capacities? How do we address the current state of the humanities in the age of AI? What are examples of applied humanities programs and careers?"
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Publishing soon in our flagship 'Environmental Cultures' series, 'Postcolonial Poetry and the Environment' by Pramod Nayar, which studies the work of over 50 poets: www.bloomsbury.com/postcolonial...
Still a few weeks left to apply to this delightful conference!