Megan Kuster

ERC Postdoc on #SouthHem in @UCD_English with interests in the 19C literature, energy and community RE. she | her

[dr amy cutler @amycutler1985]

So beautiful to see the whole Empire & Ecologies website laid out, & if you scroll down you can see my commissioned film on re-mediatised plant lives, which you can screen online for free at the bottom of this page! @ucd_envhum @comyn_scomyn @megkuster https://t.co/b5sXj74RTY

[UCD Environmental Humanities @ucd_envhum]

It's a wrap! Thank you to all who made this wonderful Empire & Ecologies symposium possible: organisers @comyn_scomyn & @megkuster, all speakers, chairs, technicians, transcribers and attendees! There are a few follow-up plans, so stay tuned! Have a great weekend

[Megan Kuster @megkuster]

@comyn_scomyn Thank YOU, Sarah, you're a brilliant colleague and it's been such a pleasure to work with you on this!

[Megan Kuster @megkuster]

Can’t wait for this roundtable on extractivism, today at 3pm GMT+1. Livestream link to follow for those who want to tune in…

[Megan Kuster @megkuster]

Join us today for the second, and final, day of 'Empire and Ecologies'! There will be a roundtable on extractivism, and live panels on critical Indigenous studies and blue humanities. A livestream link will be posted here soon, in case you don't have a ticket but want to tune in.

[Megan Kuster @megkuster]

Day 1 of 'Empire and Ecologies' starts today! The program includes a film screening and panels on creative praxis, environmental disaster, and ecologies in antiquity. If you missed the chance to get a ticket, you can still tune in to the Live Stream: https://t.co/e2I9JpTOHI

[Megan Kuster @megkuster]

Looking forward to this film screening on Thursday! There are just a few tickets left, and you can still get yours here: https://t.co/y7OvBE2xRL

[dr amy cutler @amycutler1985]

I'm really excited about presenting my new film, on plant life & the politics of re-mediatisation in lockdown, this week. Here are a few stills from The Video Book of Orchids (2021), commissioned by the Empire and Ecology research group in Dublin. @ucd_envhum @comyn_scomyn

[Megan Kuster @megkuster]

Very excited for this panel on ‘biodiversity and Indigenous knowledges’, part of @ucd_envhum ‘Empire and Ecologies’, featuring Emma Powell, Miranda Johnson, Yunci Cai, Artemis Caine & Lachlan Fleetwood @lachlanfleet! Full programme & link to register: https://t.co/cOPYAfMHWt

[Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social @sharaerua]

A range of pre-recorded talks on blue humanities; environmental disaster; empire & built environments; extractivism; biodiversity, critical Indigenous studies; and ecologies in antiquity will be available online before the live event. Register for access:
https://t.co/Ip3BcA2xwb

[UCD Environmental Humanities @ucd_envhum]

Registration for our Empire and Ecologies conference is now open! Join us on 1-2 July for panels on topics including extractivism, blue humanities and creative praxis. https://t.co/uBpeTldBWh

[Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) @RS4VP]

There's still time to register for our Transimperial workshop on 10 May with @megkuster. Dr. Kuster will share her work on "Returning Citation: The Journal of the Polynesian Society, Natural Science and Indigenous Agents." Registration is free for all. https://t.co/IysglzwziN

[Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) @RS4VP]

This fall, the #RSVPDigitalSalon committee will host a series of workshops on Race & Transimperialism in Periodicals. We're so excited we're kicking things off early on 10 May with @megkuster and her work on the Journal of the Polynesian Society. Join us! https://t.co/8XPPlMq3aA

[Lars Atkin @LaraAtkin]

A Centre for Indigenous Studies in the UK: An Ethical Contradiction? – ⁦@DFStirrup⁩ reflects on the challenges of practicing Indigenous Studies at the heart of empire. ⁦⁦⁦@ciscstudies⁩ ⁦@KentUniPoCo⁩ ⁦@UniKentEnglish⁩. https://t.co/U96OLMMUh3

[Megan Kuster @megkuster]

Don’t miss @s_galletly ‘s excellent post on the #SouthHem site (https://t.co/sBoPzbTiRN) in which she blogs about the recent discussion hosted by @ciscstudies of @kfullagar’s new book, ‘The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist’
#CriticalIndigenousStudies #ImperialHistory

[Megan Kuster @megkuster]

@Cath_Dev Check out @billmckibben ‘s free Climate Change newsletter over @NewYorker

[Cambridge Postcolonial Literatures Seminar @CambridgePoco]

Announcing the hotly-awaited details of our follow-up graduate workshop(!): 'New Postcolonial Concerns 2: Combined, Uneven, & Critical Developments'. 19 June 2020. Keynote: Pablo Mukherjee (Warwick). CfP in reply. Please share widely! Travel bursaries available.

[Megan Kuster @megkuster]

First talk in SouthHem’s 2020 seminar series 6th Feb., 4pm @UCDHumanities. Prof Michelle Keown (Edinburgh) “‘Isles of Voices’: The Politics of Representation & Translation in Graphic Adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Stories” @ERC_Research @UCD_English All welcome!

[dr shelley angelie saggar @j4lebi]

The theme of restoring agency to those who have been erased from scientific narratives touched on by @rebeccalraven - motif that's come up throughout the day. #DecolonisingScienceNarratives

[Megan Kuster @megkuster]

Looking forward to some great conversations and papers today at the #DecolonisingScienceNarratives workshop hosted by @SmgResearch!

[The TLS @TheTLS]

'There are no strangers', according to Toni Morrison, who has just died at the age of eighty-eight. 'There are only versions of ourselves, many of which we have not embraced, most of which we wish to protect ourselves from.' https://t.co/AMEiGk5ILm