The 2026 Festival programme is now available and tickets are going FAST!
Browse our inspiring (mostly free) events and book your tickets today. Don’t miss world-class speakers, performances, guided tours, family-friendly activities and more.
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Award-winning translator Lara Vergnaud offers a tongue-in-cheek guide for translators in search of a publisher. Read “A Primer on Pitching Translation (or Why We Should Throw Books at the Evil Machines)" on WWB:
Starting the year in kindness and uttermost Britishness
#booksky
The story of US intervention is a story of suffering, misery and chaos. How many more catastrophic failures will it take before we learn the lesson?
My piece for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social on the illegal invasion of Venezuela.
tribunemag.co.uk/2026/01/star...
One never forgets one's first loves
📚 Albert Camus's L'Étranger from an archival perspective
📑 Newly out in the latest issue of the Journal of Camus Studies
Three days to go to our #York Festival of Ideas event in collaboration with @commapress.bsky.social!
📕Voices of Resistance: Diaries from Gaza - Readings with the author Sondos Sabra
🕔Saturday 6th June 11am-12pm #UoY
🎟️Book your ticket: yorkfestivalofideas.com/2026/calenda...
#YorkIdeas #UniofYork
🎧This week the euterpeproject.eu has launched its #Podcast Library!
Listen to my conversation with Prof. Kimberly Campanello #UniOfLeeds on transnational belongings, #translation and writing here: euterpeproject.eu/podcast-library-1/kimberly-campanello
#academicsky #booksky #writingcommunity
🔍 It's always useful to refect on the notion of "discovery" - by whom, and in which context, "discoveries" or "new findings" take place?
Did Science Finally Find the Meridians?
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🎧 With La breve vita di Lukas Santana (La Nave di Teseo, 2023) now in German and Vergine Giurata (Feltrinelli, 2007) in Spanish, Italo-Albanian #author Elvira Dones reflects on her craft and on our times.
📖 #booksky #literature #LetteraturaItaliana #Albania
Award-winning translator Lara Vergnaud offers a tongue-in-cheek guide for translators in search of a publisher.
Keir Starmer’s evasiveness towards Donald Trump’s assault on Venezuela is a clarifying example of Britain’s ‘special relationship’ of unthinking submission to the White House’s interests.
Hear readings from Voices of Resistance, a powerful collection of diaries from four Gazan women, and join in the discussion with one of the writers, the editor and local Palestinian figures.
This year's PGR prize for the Arts and Humanities goes to @aliceflinta.bsky.social, Centre for Women's Studies and @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social 🏆
Alice’s PhD research on transnational women’s literature in Europe has fostered interdisciplinary academic collaborations and creative public engagement 📖
Jeremy Corbyn
Open Research at York
Very pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Open Research Awards, celebrating innovation, advocacy and good practice in open research across all disciplines at York! 🎉🏆
We will post about each our 9 awardees over the course of the week. You can read a summary of their projects on the wiki 👇
