"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
Well done!
Come listen online to four Palestinian scholars discuss the Nakba in light of ongoing war and destruction. Tomorrow. Registration link here: www.ghscn.org/events
There was a free watch party at Pauley! Assume it'll happen Sunday too.
The Nakba after Genocide—a panel organized by the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network. Tuesday, April 7.
The Nakba after Genocide—a panel organized by the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network. Tuesday, April 7.
Thrilled that my Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture on German memory wars and the extraordinary memory work of Pınar Öğrenci’s Aşît was just published as a booklet and a free download (see below).
uvhw.de/files/downlo...
However, as Rothberg argues, in weaving together multiple histories of exile, trauma, and catastrophe, Aşît offers a mode of relational remembrance that suggests alternative possibilities for coming to terms with the past in contemporary Germany—and beyond.
This film, which concerns the tangled histories of violence directed against Armenians and Kurds in a remote town in eastern Turkey, does not address the terms of the German debate directly.
This lecture reviews the recent memory wars in Germany and then turns to a work that was displayed at documenta fifteen but was not part of the controversy swirling around the exhibit: Pınar Öğrenci's film Aşît [The Avalanche].
Abstract:
Over the last five years, a series of acrimonious debates has taken place in Germany about Holocaust memory, antisemitism, and Israel/Palestine. In one of the most visible of those disputes, an enormous scandal rocked the 2022 documenta fifteen international art exhibit in Kassel.
The Amo series honors the first African German philosopher, Anton Wilhelm Amo, who studied and worked in Wittenberg, Halle, and Jena in the 18th century. The list of previous lecturers is extraordinary and includes Achille Mbembe, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Ayalet Shachar, and Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni.
Thrilled that my Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture on German memory wars and the extraordinary memory work of Pınar Öğrenci’s Aşît was just published as a booklet and a free download (see below).
uvhw.de/files/downlo...
Glad to see Jewish affiliates at Harvard following what we at UCLA also did--denouncing the DOJ's cynical attempts to weaponize charges of antisemitism to attack higher education.
sites.google.com/view/ucla-je...
I also wondered about the last sentence... Would love to hear more what you are thinking, JZ.
Glad to see Jewish affiliates at Harvard following what we at UCLA also did--denouncing the DOJ's cynical attempts to weaponize charges of antisemitism to attack higher education.
sites.google.com/view/ucla-je...
Join!
I don't know about you but I, for one, am greatly relieved that a party of antisemites and Neo-n*zis stationed at all levels of government has made the decision to attack higher education in the name of protecting me and my fellow jews. this will go swimmingly thanks for the support
“For Orbán in Hungary, it took about four years, for Vučić in Serbia, it took eight years, and for Erdoğan in Turkey and Modi in India, it took about 10 years to accomplish the suppression of democratic institutions that Trump has achieved in only one year,” Lindberg says.
Excited to read this book!
For more on implication as opposed to innocence see @mrothberg.bsky.social book
www.sup.org/books/litera...
Amazing effort from our friends at UCLA!
Recently the DOJ sued UCLA, arguing that we are such a "hotbed of campus antisemitism"—primarily because of pro-Palestinian student protests—that it's a hostile work environment for Jewish faculty and staff.
Well, many actual Jewish faculty and staff vehemently disagree and we wrote this letter:
This letter from 131 (and counting) Jewish faculty and staff tells the Trump Administration we oppose efforts to attack UCLA in our name. Text linked in comments.
Jewish faculty, staff, & students at UCLA respond to the DoJ lawsuit: "The DOJ’s claim that Jews as a group face a hostile work environment at UCLA because of our religion or ethnicity is false. The DOJ takes advantage of Jewish concerns about antisemitism to attack free speech & academic freedom."
@arielagross.bsky.social @fishkin.bsky.social
Jewish faculty, staff, & students at UCLA respond to the DoJ lawsuit: "The DOJ’s claim that Jews as a group face a hostile work environment at UCLA because of our religion or ethnicity is false. The DOJ takes advantage of Jewish concerns about antisemitism to attack free speech & academic freedom."
www.zeit.de/news/2026-03...
Mehr als 1.100 Unterzeichner, darunter internationale Spitzenwissenschaftler und renommierte Künstler, solidarisieren sich in einem heute veröffentlichten offenen Brief mit Donatella Fioretti, der Rektorin der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
See also: Gaza