Borders and Crossings

Next Liverpool Travel Seminar – at Bluecoat, on 14 September 2024 – will be an opportunity to mark the foundational & ongoing contribution of Professor Tim Youngs to the field of studies in travel writing. Further details here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/liverpool-tr…

This Thursday in Cambridge. 3.30pm. Alison Richard Building, S2. Hear Nic Watts & Sakina Karimjee on their recent graphic novel TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History. @CambridgeFames @CamEdFac @MMLL_Cambridge mmll.cam.ac.uk/news/events-se…

Coming fall 2024!

Indochine, histoire d'une colonie française : un podcast à écouter en ligne | France Culture radiofrance.fr/franceculture/…

Fridge magnets can be cool aid to holiday memory recall, study finds | Memory | The Guardian theguardian.com/science/2024/m…

@MOzarska We are afraid there will be no Borders in 2024, although the conference has often been biennial in the past. We are still open for offers for hosting in 2025 and subsequent years.

@CrossingsAnd Where's Borders going to be in 2024?

The excellent @CrossingsAnd conference 2023 in Łódź ended with a trip to Łowicz Skansen. Many thanks to organisers & presenters for ensuring another fascinating series of exchanges around travel & mobility. We’ll share news of subsequent conferences in due course. #bcul2023

Student immigration restrictions will damage UK economy, universities say | International students | The Guardian theguardian.com/education/2024…

University of Kent proposes cuts to courses and jobs - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

English still rules the world, but that’s not necessarily OK. Is it time to curb its power? theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This was a lovely surprise at the end of a long day - #TheGraniteKingdom in excellent company on the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Award shortlist. Thank you!

‘The four centuries of slave trade shaped the spectre of racism and are woven into the fabric of global development’ theguardian.com/global-develop…

Lloyd’s of London slavery review fails to settle heated question of reparations | Lloyd's | The Guardian theguardian.com/business/2023/…

I’m a university professor who’s fluent in English. My kids achieve top marks at school including in English. So is this MP saying that if he hears me in the street talking to my own kids in a language other than English, then we’re not integrated? We’re proud to be multilingual.

The woman who walked alone across the desert: what Robyn Davidson learned by risking everything theguardian.com/books/2023/oct…

My article on the promotion of Bosnia-Herzegovina as a tourist destination in pre-1914 Britain is out now in Journal of Tourism History - thanks to the editors and reviewers for the encouraging comments and to @sgsah for making this research possible! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Nice to finish the working week by signing a book contract - next project confirmed! I'll be spending the weekend looking at maps old and new, making a new shelf space and dreaming of dusting off my walking boots and backpack sometime next spring...

Hugely enjoyed @parfitt_tom's High Caucasus - a proper travel book about a grand journey, full of encounters, voices and stories. Highly recommended.

Walter Rodney and the Question of Power – Verso versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne…

Very sorry to learn about the death of Kenneth White. Colleagues at @UofGSMLC still remembered his time in French dept when I taught there in 1990s. I first discovered his work when I was writing my PhD on Victor Segalen, of whom Kenneth was such an insightful reader.

Africa-UK research partnerships must aspire to more than “equity” | Wonkhe wonkhe.com/blogs/africa-u…