U of T ranked 16th globally in U.S. News & World Report university rankings The University of Toronto has climbed one spot to 16th globally in the U.S. News & World Report ranking of universities.

UofT ranked 16th in US News & World Report global university rankings (and 5th in social sciences & public health) ….

So enthusiastic about today's class on comparison, in justice institutions in Europe, at Munk School @uoft.bsky.social Here are 2 quotes from readings -- compared and twinned ! One by Rossi in LRB on twin studies, and the other by Foucault on psyc expert reports from 1955 & 1974.

How to select two cases or events on justice institutions in Europe? What do we do when we compare ? This week in our course on justice institutions in Europe at Munk School @uoft.bsky.social ! And … two readings. One on twin pairs, and the other on two expert opinions in penal cases!

Après l’agression du rabbin d’Orléans, le choc et l’émotion : « Je continuerai à marcher avec fierté »
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And next week, in our course on justice institutions in Europe … Witnesses, Publics, Victims, Events ...! We are covering a lot of ground!

Today (20 March), at Lab for the Global Study of Antisemitism at UofT! Eitan D. Hersh, on “The Impact of the Israel-Hamas War on College Students.”

www.jewishstudies.utoronto.ca/events/eitan...

Just a few hours left to submit for social science history conference. Deadline is today! (Conference in Chicago, this November!)

very enthusiastic about class next week ! On measurement, in our course on justice institutions in Europe..!

פורים שמח !

Au collège et lycée, 16% des élèves ne veulent pas d’un juif pour ami : « L’école n’est plus un sanctuaire » Un sondage Ifop portant sur la haine antijuive, mené auprès de deux mille collégiens et lycéens, sera présenté ce jeudi soir au Sénat. Résul

Survey of 2000 students in French high school and middle school: 16% of students do not want a Jewish friend. 21% report seeing students hide their Jewish background or religion in school.

www.leparisien.fr/societe/au-c...

«Les juifs se trouvent, encore une fois, au cœur de la crise de la République et de ses valeurs universelles. Ils n’ont pas voulu occuper ce rôle, mais force est de constater qu’au travers de la question juive se joue à nouveau l’avenir moral et politique de notre société. »

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U of T ranked 21st in the world based on its reputation for teaching and research The University of Toronto is among the world’s top 25 universities for academic reputation and prestige, according to the latest Times Higher Education World Reputation Ranking 2025.  U of T placed fi...

U of T ranked 21st in the world based on its reputation for teaching and research @uoft.bsky.social

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#VendrediLecture
🏦💰 Plongez-vous dans le dernier numéro de la Revue d'histoire des sciences humaines @edisorbonne.bsky.social, dirigé par Antonin Cohen et Ron Levi sur le thème "Financements et agencements disciplinaires".
⬇️ Accessible en ligne ⬇️
www.ehess.fr/fr/revue/fin...

Hooray ! Thrilled to have this out in the world, w/ Revue d’histoire des sciences humaines! Coedited by Antonin Cohen & myself, on Funding & Disciplinary Arrangements. Brilliant papers, and we introduce with an essay on academic fields, funding, & turbulent times.

journals.openedition.org/rhsh/9627

Chad Alan Goldberg, Antisemitism and American Exceptionalism: Rethinking the Place of the Postwar Era in US History Chad Alan Goldberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Antisemitism and American Exceptionalism: Rethinking the Place of the Postwar Era in US History

Our next talk at the Lab for the Global Study of Antisemitism @uoft.bsky.social : Chad Alan Goldberg, on “Antisemitism and American Exceptionalism: Rethinking the Place of the Postwar Era in US History”. 4 March, information here!

www.jewishstudies.utoronto.ca/events/chad-...

In a recent book titled Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory, Bernard E. Harcourt outlines a vision of a cooperative society based on worker and consumer coops and mutual aid. The current political climate, the rise of extremist parties, and the developments on university campuses seem to be pushing society toward conflict and confrontation rather than cooperation. How can we think about cooperation in these conflictual times? Join us on March 14, 2025 from 5:00PM - 6:30PM in the Boardroom and Library of the Munk School at the University of Toronto, aT 315 Bloor St. West, Toronto, M5S 0A7

Bernard E. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and a chaired professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.

Politics nowadays are pushing society toward confrontation rather than cooperation. On March 14, @ronlevi.bsky.social & I are thrilled to host @bernardharcourt.bsky.social for a keynote lecture on working together in these conflictual times. Register & join us: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/cooper...

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John Lanchester · Get a rabbit: Don’t trust the numbers · LRB 21 September 2023 Data and statistics, all of them, are man-made. They are also central to modern politics and governance, and the ways we...

Just superb.

And you need to get to John Lanchester's sentence: "There’s what you can count, and what sense you can make of what you count, and the lessons to be learned from that are not always what they seem." Perfect.

and and … ?

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I should probably have a first post...so here's what I'm working on today

Revising/updating my working paper with @matthewakraft.bsky.social on the rise and fall of teaching profession: www.edworkingpapers.com/ai22-679

New teacher licenses still down (by ~100k relative to 2006) in Title II data

I’d like to be only here. I’m happier here. It’s better. But the other place has lots of news agencies & non-North Am commentators, including where I follow events & news closely. I’ve dabbled w/ being active there in other languages, & set my location to another place. Anyone else feeling this?

I add that we have worked on America First narratives which incited and leveraged a volatile exclusionary populism, & connected with criminal arrests.

Opinion | How MAGA Corrupts the Culture of the White Working Class Republican elites are delivering the worst kind of red meat to their working-class base.

“When Donald Trump said, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” he was cultivating not healthy loyalty but rather destructive defiance …”

Took some time out to read this today. A brilliant and timeless sociological reminder about sociology. Howie Becker, reflecting on a class taught by Everett Hughes (in What About Mozart? What About Murder?: Reasoning From Cases).

so you say. but you managed to do this while sticking with crime, with a 'felony' post.

removing headlines from news articles is the funniest thing elon has done so far. crafting an experience where the user is perpetually scrolling through 25 consecutive uncontextualized pictures of donald trump and timothee chalamet and then reading something vaguely antisemitic

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