Teaches English. Research in Victorian literature, medical humanities, sensory studies, queer things, music 🎵 🏳️🌈 Leads the Affective Experience Lab, Durham.
Fraser Riddell
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Welcome to BlueSky Walter Pater!
@walterpatersociety.bsky.social
Fraser Riddell
Just over 2 weeks to go for this fully-funded PhD on long 19th-century France - projects welcome on history, literature, culture, music, medical humanities, clothing and more.
How is AI reshaping the way we think, create and understand ourselves?
Join us for a discussion with experts from philosophy, machine learning, digital humanities and the arts to explore AI & human meaning.
📅 12 June, 2-5.30pm
📍 Durham (Hybrid)
🎟️ Free
Book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interdisci...
Lecturer in English Literature
University of Oxford - Oxford Lifelong Learning
Location: Oxford. £39,424 to £47,779 per annum
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU210/d...
The @durhamimh.bsky.social are sponsoring a hybrid event on Interdisciplinary Approaches to AI, asking "What happens to language, thought, agency, and creativity when machines begin to (or appear to) speak, sort, and make for themselves?" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interdisci...
"It is absurd to imagine how these [greatest] problems could be tackled without the skills that the arts and humanities offer: rigorous critical reflection, creative problem solving, the capacity to dwell in complexity and ambiguity, and the historical long-view." www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
The author E.M. Forster died on this day 56 years ago, and his nameplate was stolen from the door of his college rooms at King’s College Cambridge soon afterwards. Here’s what I wrote about the author’s lifelong quest to find a permanent home.
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What happens to language, thought, agency, and creativity when machines begin to (or appear to) speak, sort, and make for themselves?
UK publishing generated £7.4 billion in revenue last year.
Compare that to:
Premier League football: £6.6 billion
Home entertainment: £5.6 billion
UK film industry: 2.8 billion
Now tell me again why authors don't deserve fair contracts and better pay.
