Dr. Danielle Sands

New Open Access Article: Interrogating “Feeling Politics”: Animal and Vegetal Empathy in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian, published in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I'm looking for KS3 History teachers in London schools to be part of an exciting pilot in Sep or Nov. We, Mapping Black London, have worked with educators & policy-makers to create a 6-week scheme of work on early Black Londoners & digital mapping. Pls share/Msg if interested 😊

@phoebe_chetwynd @RuthCruickshank This is so richly deserved, Phoebe! It has been such a pleasure to work with you 😊

I’m very happy to say that I passed my viva with no corrections on Friday 🐮 I’m so grateful to my examiners Adam Roberts & John Miller for a thoughtful and challenging conversation about my work and to my supervisors @RuthCruickshank & @DanielleCSands for all their support 🥂

Peachy PhD!! #PLANTS & their PRODUCTS: #BIOCULTURAL #COLLECTIONS @ #KEW_GARDENS & #SOUTH_KENSINGTON #MUSEUM in 19TH CENTURY Fully funded studentship, supervised by Felix Driver @Valeriani_S & @CarolineCornis1 More: royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-here/… @V_and_A @Kew_LAA @musgalhistgroup

@EdwinRose3 @AraderGalleries What a beautiful cover! Will ask our library to order a copy.

Looking forward to presenting on my book Reading the World on 2 April @AraderGalleries New York City. Do sign up if you are around: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

#GARDENS & #EMPIRES: conference organised by @KewScience @EnglishHeritage & @britishlibrary 27-28 June 2025. Call for papers: gardensandempires.tiiny.site @Kew_LAA @RHULHistory @RHGeoHumanities @musgalhistgroup @IHR_HistofGDLS @thegardenstrust @bgci @nationaltrust @EnvAndEmpire

Would anyone like to review Patrick Armstrong's Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction: Micro-Modernism from Hardy to Beckett (bloomsbury.com/uk/microscopy-…)? Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.

Plant Humanities Summer Program (Jun 30-Jul 25, 2025 in person at @DumbartonOaks, Washington, DC). For grad students & advanced undergrads. Includes 2 additional weeks of virtual work (Jul 28-Aug 8). Travel expenses, + are covered. Apply by Feb 15, 2025. doaks.org/research/fello…

Welcoming proposed contributions for a second volume of Posthumanism in Practice for @BloomsburyAcad Deadline in January. Drop me an email if you'd like to chat about an idea.

NEW #funded AHRC studentship opportunity from @RHULHistory & @kewgardens: ECONOMIC BOTANY & the CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS SERVICE Info: royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-here/… Deadline 17-Jan-25 @TECHNEDTP @ahrcpress @RHGeoHumanities @RoyalHolloway @Kew_LAA @JaneHamlett

@Nay_Landell Wow! Such exciting news! Warmest congratulations!

😭😭💍 Oroyo means "words of joy" and Renée, "reborn". Together, we've learnt the language of joy, through the tender strains of our rebirth. And with each growing pain of life, our love remains. ~ ~ Proposal and engagement announcement pics ❤️

Imagining Environmental Futures: A Symposium Keynote speakers: Ursula Heise (UCLA) and Mathias Thaler (University of Edinburgh) Monday 9 December 2024, 13:00-20:30 Zaal Nick Ervinck, Zebrastraat 32, 9000 Ghent Further information and registration: #ClosingSymposium:ImaginingEnvironmentalFutures" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ugent.be/lw/en/about-us…

Excited to be at the @TECHNEDTP student-led conference ‘Creative Tensions: Overcoming Academic Divisions through Artistic Practice’ this morning.

A reminder that we are inviting Expressions of Interest from potential applicants to the @LeverhulmeTrust Early Career Fellowships scheme, to start in 2025. Deadline: 13 December 2024. Full details can be found here: royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-t…

Final push for the 'Animal Products' symposium Thursday at V&A and online - now with the full programme! Registration ends at 2pm Wednesday vam.ac.uk/event/ON1bqVYn…

CFP: #EAST #ASIA & #ECONOMIC #BOTANY, 1800-1950, in-person symposium @KewGardens in collaboration with @RoyalHolloway @RHULHistory, 9-10 June 2025. Abstracts to Weipin.Tsai@rhul.ac.uk & c.cornish@kew.org by 30/12/2024 @RHGeoHumanities @Kew_LAA @KewScience @bacs_china @BPCS_China

CALL FOR PAPERS The editors for The Palgrave Handbook on Frantz Fanon are welcoming proposal submissions for the volume. Full details in the photo:

Excited to be involved in this new intercollegiate MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders.

Exciting work from trailblazing @LLC_RHUL and @TECHNEDTP alumna @Nay_Landell

This is the final year of PhD recruitment for the Techne Doctoral Training Partnership. Each year, we fund 55-60 arts and humanities studentships (including home fees and maintenance grant) at universities in London and the SE. Find out how to apply here @TECHNEDTP