You're welcome! Have a safe trip!

The sad part for foreign visitors in São Paulo is that it's the city where you'll benefit the least from favorable exchange rates, as it's the most expensive city in Brazil (maybe except for Brasília, but I'd guess it'smore expensive than there).

Pinheiros has good hotel and airbnb options too. It's not cheap, but has good access to public transit. Almost every neighborhood has good restaurants, even if the hyped ones tend to cluster around a few spots.

It depends on what are your plans. The general tips are to stay close to a metro station and to avoid Republica, Luz, and Sé. Uber works fine, but the traffic is insane. The easiest options are near Paulista Avenue (especially Jardins), but they also cost more.

Sailors timed how quickly knots slipped through their fingers on a rope tied to a log and jotted that speed into their "log book."

Soon people "logged" all sorts of important events into their little books.

Including early computer users, who would "log in" to their terminals to mark their use.

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

Wait what? I have to try this.

From what I've seen, people try to look for a line that can be indexed to the creative control of the artist (like selecting the area to be affected, tweaking the sliders etc.), and seem not to realize that defining creative control is quite hard.

When I was younger and more impressionable, I remember finding that tone so witty and sharp and cool. Now I just have no patience for it. I find it counterproductive and just a waste of time and energy, to be honest.

Rawdogging writing

The Global History Initiative at Queen's University is holding an upcoming online conference, "Critical Issues in Global Historiography" www.queensu.ca/ghi/critical....

ON HISTORICAL (ANTI‐)REALISM The problem of historical realism has gained some new momentum recently, with a fresh challenge to what is taken to be an anti-realist hegemony in the theory and philosophy of history. Unfortunately,...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: João Ohara's "On Historical (Anti-)Realism" "clarifies the conceptual space" surrounding historical realism by distinguishing "a metaphysical problem" (historical realism proper) and "an epistemological problem" (historical skepticism)

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History and Theory: Vol 65, No 1 Click on the title to browse this issue

Our March 2026 issue is out now! 🎉

This issue contains articles by Antoon De Baets, Alf Lüdtke & Alexandra Oeser, João Ohara, and F. R. Ankersmit; a review article by Martin Jay; and review essays by Serge Grigoriev and David A. Hollinger.

Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14682303...

Ah it's universally awful. Good luck!

A screenshot of the paper's page on the journal website. Paper title: On Historical (Anti-)Realism. Author: João Ohara. Abstract: The problem of historical realism has gained some new momentum recently, with a fresh challenge to what is taken to be an anti-realist hegemony in the theory and philosophy of history. Unfortunately, this has also provided the opportunity for the reheating of old polemics and lazy scholarship that characterized the 1990s reaction to “postmodernism.” Ill-defined questions distract us from more important issues. Here, I offer a map that aims to clarify the conceptual space. I distinguish between a metaphysical problem, which is the problem of historical realism proper, and an epistemological problem, which is sometimes treated under the same phrase but is more adequately called the problem of historical skepticism. I then consider what the targets of each of these discussions are and map the conceptual space of possibilities in them.

My paper on historical (anti-)realism is now available in EarlyView on @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social's website. It's my attempt at mapping the conceptual space in what I see as a deeply confused landscape, rife for unproductive polemics.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Elements in Historical Theory and Practice : The History of Contingency and Future-Oriented Thought The History of Contingency and Future-Oriented Thought The future is contingent. It can unfold differently, hinging on chance or choice within the present. This…

Coming Feb. 20 in @universitypress.cambridge.org Elements in Historical Theory and Practice series, Thomas Moynihan's "The History of Contingency and Future-Oriented Thought". Video abstract here: vimeo.com/1148027422?f...

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A screenshot of the paper's page on the journal website. Paper title: On Historical (Anti-)Realism. Author: João Ohara. Abstract: The problem of historical realism has gained some new momentum recently, with a fresh challenge to what is taken to be an anti-realist hegemony in the theory and philosophy of history. Unfortunately, this has also provided the opportunity for the reheating of old polemics and lazy scholarship that characterized the 1990s reaction to “postmodernism.” Ill-defined questions distract us from more important issues. Here, I offer a map that aims to clarify the conceptual space. I distinguish between a metaphysical problem, which is the problem of historical realism proper, and an epistemological problem, which is sometimes treated under the same phrase but is more adequately called the problem of historical skepticism. I then consider what the targets of each of these discussions are and map the conceptual space of possibilities in them.

My paper on historical (anti-)realism is now available in EarlyView on @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social's website. It's my attempt at mapping the conceptual space in what I see as a deeply confused landscape, rife for unproductive polemics.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🛎️ The second volume of the BiUP Bielefeld Theory Talks series is now out.
It features Lucian Hölscher’s reflections on virtual history, followed by commentaries by Britta Hochkirchen, Chris Lorenz, and @rutakazlauskaite.bsky.social 👇
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The difference between framed and framing enquiries by @celinehenne.bsky.social

Our December 2025 "Philology Now" theme issue, edited by Valeria López Fadul and Courtney Weiss Smith, is out!

Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14682303...

Congratulations!

I used this app a lot less this year - new job, still acclimatizing -, but I feel like almost every time I opened it up there was some cool new article by a colleague that I immediately downloaded and read with great pleasure. That's a cool perk of our times, even if it comes with a lot of downsides

Final update: our Special Issue on the past and present of peer review in the humanities has now been published in full as Minerva's December issue! Take a look and let us know what you think!

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Poster for the talk by Rebecca Sear, entitled "21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the role of academia in promoting political ideology". It will take place on Monday, 8 December 2025 at 4 pm (CET) via Zoom.

Next week, we welcome @rebeccasear.bsky.social in our Lecture Series. Rebecca will talk about 21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the role of academia in promoting political ideology. Just register here to participate 👉 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
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I go through some version of this every time I give students Danto's Narrative Sentences. I can understand why they're so puzzled by the idea.

The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites submissions to its 15th Conference at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 August 2026. More info here: enposs.eu

I'm so happy that our panel on Testimony, Trust, and Epistemic Dependence in Historiography has been accepted for the 2026 INTH Conference in Tallinn! I'll be joined by Jonas Ahlskog and Verónica Tozzi Thompson.