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Is it a bubble?
Is it "more profound than electricity or fire" as he had said a few years ago?
Is it Artificial General Intelligence bringing utopia (until he started seeing the bills and it was no longer the best marketing narrative)?
It remains to be seen π€
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
#ReadUp on Fiction in Translation. Includes the graphic for Translator Post: Breaking the Hinge How I Learned to Own My Role in Translation Liz Evans Weber. cupblog.org
#ReadUp on Fiction in Translation. Includes the graphic for Q&A: Darryl Sterk on Translating Syaman Raponganβs Eyes of the Ocean. cupblog.org
#ReadUp on Fiction in Translation. Includes the graphic for Q&A Christopher Peacock on Tsering DΓΆndrupβs The Red Wind Howls. cupblog.org
#ReadUp on Fiction in Translation. Includes the graphic for Author Interview: Illuminating The Running Flame Fang Fang in Conversation with Michael Berry. cupblog.org
Great books deserve a second chance to shine! These posts highlight how talented translators bring global literature to life for English readers. buff.ly/g35WlLS #ReadTheWorld #NationalTranslationMonth #TranslateMonth
I will present #NeoLatDraCor in the #IANLS25 poster session today. Feel free to come by.
You may also find the poster open access on Zenodo:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
@ianls.bsky.social @digneolatin.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @dracor.org
#DraCor #DH #Drama #Neo-Latin
Here is a starter pack of people working in the field of Neo-Latin Studies. You may write a comment if you would like to be added.
go.bsky.app/LYukbpC
@ianls.bsky.social @digneolatin.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy #Neo-Latin #NeoLatin #IANLS2025
This year's six Gifford Lectures by Dr. Alexandra Walsham on Religious Movements: Motion and Emotion in Early Modern Christian History were beautiful contributions to our understanding of early modern European religious culture. The RSE has posted the seminar session: www.youtube.com/live/J1TaJ3D...
Company hired Googleβs book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize βall the books in the world.ββ¦
Conference ongoing on Dispersed Libraries and the fates of book collections after times of war at the beautiful Ossolineum in WrocΕaw
Photos of the Hay sign at the Hay Festival at the Hay-on-Wye.
A photo of the River Wye at summertime with people canoeing.
Photo of panellists having a discussion during the Hay Festival.
Photo of three women at the Hay Festival.
Sharing some photos from such an inspiring stay last weekend at the Hay Festival. #literaryfestivals #hayonwye #fortheloveofbooks
Photo 1 (panel discussion): Diane Banks and Martin Redfern seated on stage in conversation during the Fleet Street Literary Festival. Behind them is an orange screen displaying the event title βFestival of Wordsβ and venue βWelcome to MYO.β
Photo 1 (event listing screenshot): Screenshot of the event listing for βInside Book Publishing: From Idea to Publication,β featuring speakers Diane Banks and Martin Redfern at the Fleet Street Literary Festival. Organised by Fleet Street Quarter.
My headβs still buzzing from Inside Book Publishing at #FleetStreetLitFest! Diane Banks & Martin Redfern gave brilliant insights into getting from idea to print. Big thanks to @FleetStQuarter β what an inspiring session!
#BookPublishing #WritersLife #FestivalOfWords
Really pleased to have managed to visit the last day of the #LondonBookFair2025 with lots of talks and conversations on the latest in #publishing, content production and #readership engagement.
Social media, brain rot and the slow death of reading on.ft.com/3W3WTKm
Amazing resource! #bookhistotians #libraries #bookculture
β Penelope Fitzgerald, born #OnThisDay in 1916, in a letter to her editor.
Tomorrow at the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar (17:30 GMT, live on Zoom) Colin Greenstreet will be talking about the AI assistants and agents he has built and asking if they represent a new skill set for historians. Full details here: ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/09/tues... #dhist
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Thanks so much for this!
A roundtable discussion to explore not only traditional themes and methodologies but also new ones that have developed in the humanities, social sciences, museum studies, heritage and art market in recent years. 10 September 2024.
Sharing this moving obituary of Peter Beal, an extraordinary scholar. #manuscript #paleography #historians
Photo of panellists taken during Day 1 of Sharp 2024 Conference at the University of Reading.
Photo of panellists and session 2 of Day 1 of Sharp 2024 Conference at the University of Reading.
A big thank you to my excellent co-panellists Gerard Kilroy, Victor Houliston, our superb moderator Magdalena Komorowska & to all who came to our session βEarly Modern Catholic Book Culturesβ during Day 1 of #SHARP2024. Thank you to @Sharp and @cbcp_UniRdg for making this happen! #bookhistory
Hey #earlymodern #skystorians! If you are not normally UK-based but are planning to be in the UK in the coming academic year: let us know!
UK-based people might like to invite you to give a paper, cover a lecture, grab coffee, meet with students, etc.
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Flyer for Ted Underwood's talk, ""How Digital Humanists Are Contending with Deep Learning"
I'm very excited that @tedunderwood.me will be giving a virtual talk, "How Digital Humanists Are Contending with Deep Learning," next Monday at 12:30pm Pacific! Hosted by @uwischool.bsky.social
Email me for the Zoom link if you'd like to join!
Question for any early modernists/historians of #astronomy in the audience: Would you be willing to help a grad student interpret this diagram from Christoph Scheiner's Rosa Ursina? What are we looking at here?
Source link: catalog.lindahall.org/discovery/de...
#histSTM #histsci #histastroποΈπ
Someone just made my day with this little #Easter weekend surprise! Thank you! #johndonne #englishliterature
Very eventful day 2 at the #LondonBookFair2024, lots of inspiring conversations from the most diverse people from across the #publishing industry.
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I appreciate the opportunity to speak with an actual journalist (Karan Mahadik) about my experience finding a fabricated quote attributed to me in what turned out to be a fully fabricated (using the Gemini system) "news" article --- and the broader implications of these practices:
