Ben Fried

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

[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.

[Eli Burnstein @eliburnstein]

I’m thrilled to announce the UK edition of Dictionary of Fine Distinctions! Pre-orders are now available (link below) and are the best way, I'm told, to kickstart a book's success. Huge shoutout to @ProfileBooks for their support! #FineDistinctions #Books
https://t.co/6QfGGFLyzy

[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.

https://t.co/iu0LAlHUQV

[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

[Bilal Moin @TheBilalMoin]

The PENGUIN BOOK of POEMS on the INDIAN CITY is out for pre-orders now!

Profoundly grateful to the poets, translators, estates and @PenguinIndia @Ram_Guha @ae_stallings @sorcerical @nathan_archana for helping make this mammoth book a reality!
https://t.co/Q4ukkxBwO3

[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 🕊️

[Ben Fried @fried_ben]

@MukomaWaNgugi Thinking of you, dear Mukoma

[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. https://t.co/8WrYsd2lbh

[Sana Goyal Kotecha @SansyG]

I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be in conversation with Banu Mushtaq, winner of the 2025 International @TheBookerPrizes for HEART LAMP (@andothertweets), on 16 June @WstoneIslington

Get your ticket here:
https://t.co/djkZ7vnNVd

[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

[The Nation @thenation]

What is close reading? @dan_sinykin in @booksandthearts on the history and future of close reading.
https://t.co/LJDOGSAfj5

[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

[Benedetta Carnaghi @BeneCarnaghi]

One last tempo session with the lovely #AdidasRunners bunch yesterday and… I am marathon ready!
I am so excited to run the @Marathon_Mcr for #TeamMND @mndassoc. Here is the link to my fundraiser: https://t.co/GTQAH35HCi
We’re at 82% of the goal. I truly appreciate your help! 🙏

[Ben Fried @fried_ben]

@danielmalanski @Researchirel @routledgebooks @UnivLyon1 @UCDHistory Congrats, Daniel!

[Daniel Malanski @danielmalanski]

My first book, Olympic Opening Ceremonies: Memory and Modernity, is now available for purchase!

Official release: April 25
https://t.co/o24cogHYZ0

Grateful to Research Ireland @Researchirel, mentors, and colleagues who made this possible
@routledgebooks @UnivLyon1 @UCDHistory

[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.

[Ben Fried @fried_ben]

@serevandi @BeneCarnaghi @Dr_Helen_Roche Thank you, Serena! It was just terrific to meet you and listen to your paper. I'm looking up Gadda in the library catalogue right now

[Serena Vandi @serevandi]

Thank you so much @BeneCarnaghi @Dr_Helen_Roche, and @fried_ben for such a wonderful conference! I’ve learned a lot and met amazing people.

[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!

[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.”

[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.”