@atasoyemrah
IASH Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Associate Fellow at the University of Warwick. Assoc Prof of Anglophone Literature and Culture. Former researcher at Harvard, Oxford, and Penn State Universities. RTs/likes not endorsements.
From today’s “ADecade of Dangerous Women” hosted by @iashedinburgh.bsky.social at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social I had the opportunity to be introduced to ‘dangerous’ women from different cultures.
We’re now sold out, but you can still register to watch online! Link for webinar in Eventbrite below.
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It was a pleasure to deliver a talk on the narratives of the future at Istanbul’s Galatasaray University, Turkey @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @iaswarwick.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social
It's new episode day! Episode 20 is here featuring Taylor Cavallo and Mark Gatto. We discuss links between business and organisational studies, parents at work, gender, and dystopia, particularly in relation to The Handmaid's Tale, Severance, and Children of Men.
open.spotify.com/episode/2JU5...
My latest, on Kafka in China (cameos by Yu Hua, Xue Yiwei, Kundera, Murakami & others, including an extended one by Orwell) engelsbergideas.com/essays/kafka... cc @parisreview.bsky.social
gsu.edu.tr/tr/guncel/et... Tomorrow at İstanbul’a Galatasaray University
I am looking forward to talking about utopian & dystopian narratives and interdisciplinarity at Istanbul’s Galatasaray University next Monday! @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @eehnetwork.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
Edinburgh and The Universityof Edinburgh @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social
Webinar: "Towards gender equality: transforming leadership and career development in industry and politics"
Monday 23 February, 9am-11:30am GMT
Register free at events.teams.microsoft.com/event/10d0ce...
Our @theconversation.com article: 60,022 reads since 19th January! theconversation.com/how-george-o... @jwassers.bsky.social @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @eutopiauni.bsky.social @eehnetwork.bsky.social @theconversationnz.bsky.social
Epistemological Warfare and Hope in Critical Dystopia by Emrah Atasoy: muse.jhu.edu/article/8779... and www.routledge.com/The-Postworl...
My PhD was partly on the novel!
The Children of Men is a powerful novel, which has been overshadowed by the film, but great to see the novel has been mentioned here!
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/dr-emra... @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social @eehnetwork.bsky.social @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social @jwassers.bsky.social
Our @the @theconversation.com article @jwassers.bsky.social!
@jwassers.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @iaswarwick.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @eutopiauni.bsky.social by Susan D’Agostino, a mathematician and science writer, an associate editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Our @theconversation.com article has been mentioned by @insidehighered.com, owned by @timeshighered.bsky.social Times Higher Education (THE), “the world’s most authoritative source of data, analysis and information on higher education, with five decades’ experience dedicated to the field.”
Polish translation: srebrnykompas.pl/ksiazka-1984...
Portuguese translation: zap.aeiou.pt/1984-orwell-... @us.theconversation.com @theconversation.com @iashedinburgh.bsky.social
Great to see our @theconversation.com article has been translated into Italian in addition to French and Portuguese! It has been published by independent Indian platform as well! 58,588 reads since 19th January! @jwassers.bsky.social @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
It has been a pleasure to attend Professor Charlotte Bosseaux's book launch A Voice of Their Own. Encouraging Caring and Ethical Practices in Trauma Screen Translation (Palgrave Pivot, 2025) at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social‘s @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @iashedinburgh.bsky.social
@determann.bsky.social @matthewleggatt.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @eehnetwork.bsky.social @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @eutopiauni.bsky.social @harvard.edu @ox.ac.uk @upf.edu @sfrareview.bsky.social
How George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four predicted the global power shifts happening now, January 19, 2026
Emrah Atasoy, Uni of Warwick & Uni of Edinburgh, @jwassers.bsky.social Jeffrey Wasserstrom, University of California, Irvine
theconversation.com/how-george-o... @iashedinburgh.bsky.social
Thank you! Matthew has been doing amazing work with the podcast and publications @matthewleggatt.bsky.social
"Censoring A Nation: from free speech to sedition and obscenity"
Tue 24 Feb, 4pm-5pm (hybrid)
How can art oppose oppression and disenfranchisement? Amid increasing geopolitical tension and rising authoritarianism, can we forge collective resistance?
Register free: censoringanation.eventbrite.co.uk
@us.theconversation.com @englishassociation.bsky.social @theconversationuk.bsky.social @theconversationnz.bsky.social @eehnetwork.bsky.social @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social @iaswarwick.bsky.social @orwellprize.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @eutopiauni.bsky.social @upf.edu @pennstateuniv.bsky.social
Our @theconversation.com piece discusses how Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four predicted the global power shifts happening in the world today. theconversation.com/how-george-o... @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @jwassers.bsky.social @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @harvard.edu
Last few free tickets remaining for tomorrow's roundtable on nationhood and citizenship, through the lens of key governance areas such as energy, faith and welfare.
4pm on Tuesday at IASH and online!
