SSHRC and Killam Postdoc @DalhousieU | reading about writers and writing about readers | editing, migration, fiction | previously @IES_London and @Cornell
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10 Dec 2024
Yesterday's @IES_London symposium on "Migrant Institutions" was marvellous. Full of fascinating papers, keen conversations, fizzing ideas. Huge thanks to the Institute and @BritishAcademy_ for their support, to @BeneCarnaghi for running the tech, and to our generous presenters.
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18 Jun 2025
I’m thrilled to announce the UK edition of Dictionary of Fine Distinctions! Pre-orders are now available (link below) and are the best way, I'm told, to kickstart a book's success. Huge shoutout to @ProfileBooks for their support! #FineDistinctions #Books
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13 Jun 2025
Join us in London to celebrate the launch of Wasafiri 122: The UAE Issue!
Tuesday, 15 July, 2025, 7-11pm
Where: Reference Point, 2 Arundel St, London, WC2R 3DA
Tickets: Full price £12, with a Pay what you can option.
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10 Jun 2025
Huge thanks to Amanda Hsieh and Friedemann Pestel for inviting me to participate in a workshop that brings together historians and musicologists! We reflect on the recent global turn in fascism studies, and we do it in the most beautiful place! #Tübingen #twitterstorians
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28 May 2025
The PENGUIN BOOK of POEMS on the INDIAN CITY is out for pre-orders now!
Profoundly grateful to the poets, translators, estates and @PenguinIndia @Ram_Guha @ae_stallings @sorcerical @nathan_archana for helping make this mammoth book a reality!
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29 May 2025
We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.
A leading light of African and world literature, he was a distinguished Kenyan writer, scholar, and playwright, who served on Wasafiri's Advisory Board for several years.
Please join us in remembrance 🕊️
ALT White background. Black and white photo of a Black man in a patterned short sleeve shirt. Title reads: Remembering Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
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22 May 2025
🚨🌱 The Chancellor is currently reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @_CFTA petition to remind the UK Government: the arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. campaignforthearts.org/petit…
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Ben Fried retweeted
21 May 2025
I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be in conversation with Banu Mushtaq, winner of the 2025 International @TheBookerPrizes for HEART LAMP (@andothertweets), on 16 June @WstoneIslington
Get your ticket here:
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16 May 2025
Wonderful to speak about antifascist satire in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany & Vichy France, in conversation with Olga Galanova’s paper on political laughter in the GDR, contemporary Russia, Belarus & China. Humor makes the unbearable bearable @CentreMarcBloch #twitterstorians
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14 May 2025
What is close reading? @dan_sinykin in @booksandthearts on the history and future of close reading.
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15 May 2025
Delighted to present my research on ‘Persecuted Satirists: How Anti-Fascist Laughter Could Get You in Trouble, 1922-45’ at the ‘Power of Laughter. Laughing about Power’ conference at the @CentreMarcBloch. We even have a box of jokes that is going around! #twitterstorians
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25 Apr 2025
One last tempo session with the lovely #AdidasRunners bunch yesterday and… I am marathon ready!
I am so excited to run the @Marathon_Mcr for #TeamMND @mndassoc. Here is the link to my fundraiser: justgiving.com/page/benedett…
We’re at 82% of the goal. I truly appreciate your help! 🙏
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8 Apr 2025
My first book, Olympic Opening Ceremonies: Memory and Modernity, is now available for purchase!
Official release: April 25
routledge.com/.../Malanski/p…
Grateful to Research Ireland @Researchirel, mentors, and colleagues who made this possible
@routledgebooks @UnivLyon1 @UCDHistory
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31 Mar 2025
Happy Registration Day, Bulls! Our updated Course Offerings page contains links to the Department of English's Course Bulletins for Summer and Fall 2025. If needed, please don't hesitate to attend a drop-in appointment with our Advisor.
Check the link in our bio for more info.
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Ben Fried retweeted
31 Mar 2025
Thank you so much @BeneCarnaghi @Dr_Helen_Roche, and @fried_ben for such a wonderful conference! I’ve learned a lot and met amazing people.
29 Mar 2025
A wonderful conference comes to an end. We laughed, we learned, we ranged across media, languages, and periods. It was such a pleasure to listen to our participants and their groundbreaking research. Deep thanks to them, to our audience, to @durham_uni and @durham_history!
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Ben Fried retweeted
29 Mar 2025
A wonderful conference comes to an end. We laughed, we learned, we ranged across media, languages, and periods. It was such a pleasure to listen to our participants and their groundbreaking research. Deep thanks to them, to our audience, to @durham_uni and @durham_history!
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Ben Fried retweeted
29 Mar 2025
And the last speaker of our conference on “Laughter as a Political Coping Mechanism”: Aidan Jones! Aidan is presenting on “The Death Penalty, Humour, and the United States.”
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29 Mar 2025
A. Austin Garvey deepens our focus on Ukraine, comparing wartime Punch cartoons and contemporary Ukrainian memes in “Visual Humour in European Home Fronts: Britain and Ukraine.”
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Ben Fried retweeted
29 Mar 2025
Zlata Osipova speaks first, on “We Against Them: Humor as a Unifying Force in Ukraine’s Resistance.” How does humour build solidarity and a collective opposition?
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Ben Fried retweeted
29 Mar 2025
The final panel begins! “Humour in Extremis” will go from Ukraine to the United States, with presentations from A. Austin Garey, Zlata Osipova, and Aidan Jones.
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Ben Fried retweeted
29 Mar 2025
Such an engaging, illuminating panel! (And we’re all still laughing.)
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