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More bad news regarding Russell group universities with massive cuts to staff at Newcastle and possibly Northampton

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Beloved prof teaching Ethical Leadership at UBC gets fired for showing…ethical leadership. 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻 Anti-Palestinian racism is surging on campuses. Its victims are many, its harms are real.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Could you all share? We're advertising a 2 yr postdoc position for someone who works in #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEarlyAmericas to help coordinate the @jcblibrary.bsky.social projects and programs around 2026. Fuller info here: apply.interfolio.com/159279 and v happy to answer questions!

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

"One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'"

submitted 85 days ago • 80 comments

NB Also an issue at TNA: 'the AHA issued a statement urging reconsideration of a policy change by the Secrétariat général de la défense et de la sécurité nationale that renders “some well-known sources, and many others yet to be analyzed, practically inaccessible, even to professional researchers.”

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Statement from UCLA Classics on the University's failure to protect student protestors classics.ucla.edu/uncategorize...

submitted 302 days ago • 1 comment

#BonfireOfTheHumanities News Courses including Anthropology English, Music and Audio Technology, Philosophy and Art History under threat at the University of Kent Canterbury and Medway. Health and Health Care also threatened. The University blames, among other factors, the impact of #Brexit.

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Horrendous news from the University of Kent.

submitted 390 days ago • 0 comments

My UBC colleague Avi Lewis speaking on South Africa’s case against Israel youtu.be/yuJJ0rO5gVk?...

submitted 405 days ago • 0 comments

Back to the Middle Ages. Blood libel conspiracies are vogue again apparently.

submitted 416 days ago • 1 comment

This is such a good piece by Alvin Tillery, especially in putting Gay's academic record in context. Two points. Black students at Harvard, including Gay, were told that hate speech was protected. No problem with white students flying confederate flags on campus. medium.com/@atillery2/p...

submitted 419 days ago • 7 comments

To commemorate the 120th anniversary of her death, a statue of Louise Michel will be erected facing Sacré-Coeur, “monument any-communard qu’elle pourra défir du regard.” A lovely act of justice. 🗃️

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Horrifying proposal by the British government to destroy paper records of wills and other probate documents. Sharing my message in case it helps others formulate their response 🗃️

submitted 439 days ago • 2 comments

We filed our appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive yesterday. If we are unsuccessful in our fight, libraries won’t be allowed to own and lend digital books, only license them from big media corporations. Why is that bad for YOU? 🧵in comments blog.archive.org/2023/12/15/i...

submitted 440 days ago • 16 comments

Especially after this past week or so, people should be ready to fight.

submitted 440 days ago • 0 comments

Fascinating that there is so much data about these remains - since so often collections of human remains focused on typology of skulls, etc rather than the individuals from whom they came. This will be an important research tool- thank you for your work on this inventory.

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Not clear why we are not hearing more about this cyberattack that continues to make much of the British Library unusable…and this also affects interlibrary loans across the UK…are they going to rejig REF requirements as a consequence? Read More: www.publicbooks.org/how-to-lose-...

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JOB: the University of Northern British Columbia is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in #envhist, period and place open! www2.unbc.ca/79306/assist...

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I wonder whether the tens of thousands of digital-only copyright deposit books will ever be recovered. www.bbc.co.uk/news/enterta...

submitted 465 days ago • 3 comments

My department is hiring an Assistant Professor in the art or architecture of the Middle East, North Africa, and Iberia, from 600–1500 CE! We're so excited to have authorization for this long-hoped-for position.

submitted 512 days ago • 3 comments

These stories never tell you what is actually happening, which is emphatically NOT that humanities are disappearing from higher ed, but rather that public ed is being converted into vocational training for a working class while elite private universities for the rich will remain universities.

submitted 484 days ago • 32 comments

“When I see people watching the horrible tragedy that is happening here as if it were a Super Bowl of victimhood, in which you support one team and really don’t care about the other, empathy becomes very, very selective. You see only some pain. You don’t want to see other pain.”

submitted 490 days ago • 11 comments

Alert - motion to eliminate funding for the NEH. US folks please contact your rep right away this will be voted tonight. 😳⬇️🗃️

submitted 484 days ago • 5 comments

The Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) invites applications for a two-year Assistant Professor position in Anthropological Archaeology starting 1 July 2024. anth.ubc.ca/about/job-op...

submitted 487 days ago • 0 comments

Half a million people in London right now. Jewish activists in New York last night. Polls in both countries overwhelmingly support a ceasefire in Gaza. Cannot imagine this level of support even five years ago. Whatever happens, the Palestinians are no longer alone.

submitted 489 days ago • 71 comments

Reminder: the deadline for submissions for the FCHS annual meeting is on Nov 1!

submitted 494 days ago • 0 comments

#BSkyHistorians! Emily Marker won the George Louis Beer Prize from @ahahistorians.bsky.social for her #CornellPress book "Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era" - www.historians.org/research-and... Check out more here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

submitted 493 days ago • 0 comments

The AHA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2023 prizes, which honor exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects. Congratulations to the 2023 awardees! 🗃️

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