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Ben Fried

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SSHRC and Killam Postdoc @DalhousieU | reading about writers and writing about readers | editing, migration, fiction | previously @IES_London and @Cornell

London, England Katılım Nisan 2015
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Ben Fried
Ben Fried@fried_ben·
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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Wasafiri
Wasafiri@WasafiriMag·
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. buff.ly/L3kdNSS
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Benedetta Carnaghi
Benedetta Carnaghi@BeneCarnaghi·
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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Wasafiri@WasafiriMag·
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 🕊️
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Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Mukoma Wa Ngugi@MukomaWaNgugi·
It tears my heart to say that my father, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o passed away earlier today. I am me because of him in so many ways, as his child, scholar and writer. I love him - I am not sure what tomorrow will bring without him here. I think that is all I have to say for now.
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Angelique Golding
Angelique Golding@WasafiriPhD·
🚨🌱 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/petitions/spen…
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Benedetta Carnaghi
Benedetta Carnaghi@BeneCarnaghi·
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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Benedetta Carnaghi@BeneCarnaghi·
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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USF English@joinusfenglish·
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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Benedetta Carnaghi
Benedetta Carnaghi@BeneCarnaghi·
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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Benedetta Carnaghi
Benedetta Carnaghi@BeneCarnaghi·
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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Benedetta Carnaghi
Benedetta Carnaghi@BeneCarnaghi·
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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