Shahira Hathout, Ph.D.

Roundup: television, theater, theology - Announcements - e-flux This month’s e-flux Notes brings a focus on new books and radical cinema, with interventions on the multiplicity of Buddhist philosophy, trance-inflected shamanic materialism, the discreet cruelty of ...

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Christine Daigle and Terrance H. McDonald (eds), From Deleuze and Guattari to Posthumanism Review of Christine Daigle and Terrance H. McDonald (eds.) (2022). From Deleuze and Guattari to Posthumanism: Philosophies of Immanence

My review of: Christine Daigle and Terrance H. McDonald (eds.), From Deleuze and Guattari to Posthumanism is published in Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge: Issue 41 (2026).
doi:10.20415/rhiz/041.r01, and can be accessed through this link:
rhizomes.net/issue41/revi...

Cover of Matterphorics: On the Laws of Theory by Daniela Gandorfer. It features a dense, colorful abstract design made of pixel‑like dots in bright green, blue, pink, orange, and black. Below the artwork, the title appears in large yellow text, with the subtitle in smaller pink text. At the bottom, the author’s name is printed in yellow on a dark background.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Matterphorics" by Daniela Gandorfer, which presents a legal theory of “matterphorics”—a method for creating legal concepts more attuned to matter and the sensible in order to respond to planetary and technological transformation. buff.ly/qNczJlh

My review of On the Threshold: On Hospitality in Shakespeare’s Drama by Sophie E. Battell is published @aignejournal.bsky.social

doi.org/10.33178/aig...

#CFP: "Human–Animal Relations in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture"
Victorian Popular Fictions Journal (VPFJ)

Deadline: May 10, 2026

Info: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/...

#envhum #envhist #culturalstudies #culturalhist #victorianstudies #ecocriticism #ecopoetics

✨Grateful my article "Unsettling the Boundaries between the Real and Mystical, Science and Imagination: Diffraction and Posthuman Ethics of Becoming Anew in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1817)" is forthcoming in Philosophy and Literature (journal) @hopkinspress.bsky.social ✨

2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥

👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN

💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.

#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation

'Weird Mysticism' identifies and evaluates a new category of theoretical inquiry by showing the influence of speculative writing on three intersecting critical categories: horror fiction, apophatic mysticism, and philosophical pessimism. lupress.lehigh.edu/publication/...

Portrait of Jane Austen in lace cap, blue dress, with birthday balloons.

"Jane Austen 250th Anniversary Panel discussion." Toronto Public Library with photos of speakers and info' about venue and time : Toronto Reference Library, Beeton Hall, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday Dec. 16th, 2025

Defy the icy weather, Torontonians, and come to the Toronto Reference Library to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th with me and some very smart & funny Austenians: Alex Hernandez, Tom Keymer, Karen Vallihora. This coming Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in Beeton Hall at the Reference Library.

Out now & #openaccess:
Grimm, Oliver (Ed.): Beast and Human: Case Studies for Northern Europe from Prehistoric to Early Modern Times, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2025 (LEIZA Publications, Volume 8).
doi.org/10.11588/pro...

#LEIZArchaeology #Archaeology #HumanAnimalStudies

At once symbolic and immediate, grounded and searching, capturing not just what is seen, but what is felt beyond the edge of perception, Bentsman's photographs invite the viewer to discern where one sense gives way to the other—or whether the distinction even holds at all.

M𝐎N𝐎C𝐇R𝐎M𝐄 𝐂I𝐍E𝐌A𝐓I𝐂

#Photography by 𝗝𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗻 @jasonbentsman.bsky.social in the Fall issue

bit.ly/AmsterdamReview

Holbein: Renaissance Master by Elizabeth Goldring review – a magnificent portrait of the artist The first scholarly biography in more than 100 years of the man who immortalised the Tudor court does not disappoint

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

How to distinguish the semantic and metaphysical components of scientific realism? Is there a distinction at all? Here are some short reflections that are only indirectly related to the main theme of this blog: about the traditional way of framing the t...

New (short) blog post on why I think the distinction between a metaphysical and semantic component of scientific realism is kind of confused (and how to classify the varieties of non-realist positions).

pragmatictheories.blogspot.com/2025/12/how-...

#philsci #philsky #philosophyofscience

#Newbook: Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel by @katalves18c.bsky.social examines the intersections of British 18C comic fiction and medical discourse, adding "a vital chapter to the study of medicine, literature, and gender in the period."

To order: tinyurl.com/3vpz7crk

A propos of nothing, highly recommended!

Melissa Ganz, Exploring Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century, cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/expl...

Black-and-white printed image of crowd of people overlaid with CFP announcement that says "Movements and Migrations Trinity College, Dublin, 23-25 July 2026 New proposal deadline 21 November 2025"

📣BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...

🚨 New Publication alert! 🚨

Our team member @emunozgonzalez.bsky.social explores T.J. Klune’s In the Lives of Puppets (2023) through posthumanism, affect theory & Gothic fiction.

🔗 Check it out here: doi.org/10.5209/cjes...

Cover of The Rest is Silence. Scraps of a portrait of Madame du Deffand.

I travelled to NYC to help launch (last night) Joanna Stalnaker's astonishing new book _The Rest is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death_. The book is a treasure, humane and moving: a vindication both of the #18thc philosophes and of what literary studies scholarship can do with them.

A human hand holding a copy of the book Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination, edited by Juan Meneses, against a backdrop of blue and purple hydrangeas

Publication day! Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination, shepherded by the inimitable @lpennywark.bsky.social, is officially out in the world with @uminnpress.bsky.social! Also, the press has a $10 deal on paperbacks using CODE MN93820 you don't want to miss! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791918...

Congratulations to Linda Zionkowski, Mimi Hart, and all contributors to "Women and Music in the Age of Austen," winner of the American Musicological Society's Ruth A. Solie Award for an outstanding essay collection of exceptional scholarly merit.

For more: lnkd.in/dNa_gmK9
#ReadUP #TeamUP #UPWeek

Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto.
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person

CFP: “Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World”
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026

How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?

#earlymodern #C18L

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📚BLAR’S (44:4) BOOK REVIEWS📚

1⃣ Alex Latta (Wilfrid Laurier University) reviews Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State (University of Arizona Press 2004) by Andrew Canessa and Manuela L. Picq.

READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

UNESCO launches the World’s First Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Three years after its announcement at MONDIACULT 2022, UNESCO is launching an innovative initiative: the Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects. This global platform harnesses cutting-edge digital

Fascinating - Unesco has launched a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects, presented in a futuristic, dreamlike virtual exhibition. Worth exploring (although they don't tell much about how/where things were stolen, and its a very curious juxtaposition of items): museum.unesco.org

CfP📢Conference of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies : "Reframing the Enlightenment. Intellectual and political disputes today"
📆10-12 June 2026 |🌍Paris
⏰Application deadline: 26 October 2025
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@isecs-sieds.bsky.social

If you're near Limerick, Dr. Harald E. Braun (University of Liverpool) will speak in the Hunt Museum on 5 November, 6-8pm, on:
‘War Crimes: Seventeenth-Century Perspectives from the Bolton Library.’ Organised by @cemslimerick.bsky.social

A date for your diary: Please join the ASLE-UKI Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT. Convened by Brycchan Carey (Northumbria) and Tess Somervell (Oxford). Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...

Join us on 12 November for a @bars.bsky.social Digital Event to celebrate the publication of Volume IV of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (gen. eds. @fraistat.bsky.social & Nora Crook, pub. by @hopkinspress.bsky.social) 🍂 Free tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...