“Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World” 15 – 16 June 2026 Co-sponsored by the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies and the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies. Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen • Tita Chico • Zoe Copeman • Valentine Delrue • Feike Dietz • Jess Dunmore • Leonie Hannan • Marieke Hendriksen • Heather Keenleyside • Alejandro Mylonas-Leegstra • Ruth Mack • Mona Narain • Vivian Zuluaga Papp • Ros Powell • Beth Stewart • James Wood Organized by Dr Ros Powell (University of Amsterdam) and Prof Tita Chico (University of Maryland and Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies)

JUNE in AMSTERDAM

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.

Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities

www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

one might be forgiven for thinking that you wrote this! 😂

Shoptalk: Overheard at ASA 2025 or MLA 2026? - Public Books This edition of Shoptalk asks: Can you guess which of the following was overheard at ASA 2025 and which was overheard at MLA 2026?

13/10

“I’m basically a badge queen.”

Person 1: “The keynote conflicted with my sleep politics.”
Person 2: “Just say it was past your bedtime.”*

(*revised: "before you wake up")

@publicbooks.bsky.social bravo

www.publicbooks.org/shoptalk-ove...

#ASECS26 folks: don't forget to print 2 accessibility copies of your papers! @asecsoffice.bsky.social Travis Chi Wing Lau and Jason Farr have written this helpful guide: profession.mla.org/toward-a-mor...

Mooi interview van @merlijnolnon.bsky.social met @titachico.bsky.social over verwondering, wetenschap en apparaten uit de Verlichting, waaronder de ‘Allesschreibende Wundermaschine’ als voorloper van ChatGPT

dankjewel!

Now available online!

"Community as ideal and practice: an interview with Tita Chico" at the Dutch Review of Books

Very tickled and grateful.

www.nederlandseboekengids.com/20260402-tit...

As a black person who was working in a newsroom, I will forever nurse my rage about watching white coworkers chuckle at Trump’s birther press conferences. From the jump, he was “asking” for President Obama’s walking papers. A direct line current police and violence. It was never a joke or gimmick.

The Dickens character for these modern times: Pericles Lewis at Yale!

Cover page of THE DUTCH REVIEW OF BOOKS

Table of Contents for the Dutch Review of Books

Photograph of Interview, page 1

Photograph of interview page 2

I was interviewed for The Dutch Review of Books!

"Community as ideal and practice: an interview with Tita Chico"

Such a delight.

And in Dutch, of course. (translated from English, rest assured)

my mother may be wheelchair bound, but she stands up for democracy.

#NoKings

MN State Capitol. #NoKings

This is the official account of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory). HASTAC was an early participant in a National Science Foundation initiative to create “collaboratories,” online research clusters without walls, spanning many institutions and disciplines.

I am writing this spring in an office just a few steps away.

I am utterly inspired by the deep reimagining that has gone to create the Kartini room, formerly the VOC room at the UvA Bushuis.

Bro bragging alert

Bro bragging altert.

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters,” Karp said in a CNBC interview Thursday.

newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Belonging to Academia | NIAS Explore how belonging works in academia, and what can - and can’t - belong. Join us for the third and final episode of the NIAS Studies of Belonging series

I have the great pleasure and honor of participating, presenting new work on "subjunctive archives."

Keeping busy here in Amsterdam!

nias.knaw.nl/events/belon...

Queer British History – 1714 to 1785 YouTube video by HistoricalAssocUK

Really pleased that my video lecture on queer British history, 1714-1785 is now on YouTube: youtu.be/nTrxX28_dKw?... #HistoricalAssociation #LGBTHistoryMonth #QueerHistory #18thcentury

bravo!

My review of Paule Marshall: A Writer’s Life by Mary Helen Washington! Thank you @Yale University Press for the gifted copy! #bookreview #paulemarshall #maryhelenwashington #bookish TikTok video by Nico

Great review of the Great Prof Mary Helen Washington's new book, *Paule Marshall: A Writer's Life*, @yalepress.bsky.social

13/10 recommend!

www.tiktok.com/@overgrindni...

in honor of beauty in the world with thanks to @liederfollower.bsky.social

oh, oh, oh! you have brightened my day! thank you

yes on everything you say, including chef's kiss! 🔥

BREAKING and GOOD news.

It can still be 2025, or 2024, if needed. I promise! (good luck!)

😂

please appreciate the strategic adjective modifying "deadline." 😱