'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
Photograph of MRC exhibition space, with four cases containing original archives relating to the 1926 General Strike.
Photograph of the University of Warwick Library lobby, showing some of the display boards about the 1926 General Strike.
Photograph of the MRC exhibition space, looking towards a back wall covered with images of archives from the General Strike. A couple of the display cases (containing original archives) can also be seen.
Photograph of MRC exhibition space. It's taken at an angle that looks a little as though the photographer is in the process of falling over, but shows some of the contents of a display case on the 'Coalfield Roots' of the 1926 General Strike.
Cases filled and exhibition ready!
'Nine Days in May: Remembering the 1926 General Strike' will run until 5 June - featuring archives on the strike, its causes and consequences
Want MORE General Strike content? Our digitised sources and resources are free online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
When you hear "Coachella," you probably think of a music festival. I think of an important agricultural region in SoCal with many Essential Workers who work hard every day to feed us!
Photograph of archive boxes on shelves in one of our strongrooms.
Photograph of archive boxes at our external store.
What's not to love? #ArchiveStorage #Archive30
I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories.
Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories.
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Adding courses/programs is an *opportunity* to add FT/TT faculty. If you're not treating it that way first and foremost -- especially if you have an elevated role in a wealthy institution that trains PhDs who will one day seek jobs at *less* wealthy institutions -- you are furthering casualization.
I have started blocking people who refer to *choosing not to use AI in academic or pedagogical contexts* as denying or fearing “progress”
my ability to find things out, think about them, and write about them hasn’t suffered one bit
if someday there’s a global text shortage, I’ll rethink my policy
And also because evidence does not simply find itself.
I do feel Dr Letitia Fairfield (Rebecca West's big sister) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letitia..., public health doctor, Catholic convert and a feminist who took issue with clerical sexism, would have had him for breakfast.
Had a great chat with André Dao about his research on IBM in the Global South. Check it out here or wherever you find your podcasts!
As usual Tommy Tubesteak gets it wrong. Trump had 77
Million votes. He must be thinking of Biden’s 81 million in 2020.
Full-funded (home or international) collaborative PhD studentship (Kew and Royal Holloway, University of London) available. Deadline 8 May.
Topic: ‘Just acquisitions? Law and ethics over time in Kew’s overseas plant collecting history’ #Skystorians
So excited to see this chapter out in the world. Huge thanks to @essaka.bsky.social for letting me write it.
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Orbán concedes according to the Guardian.
That was my thought too
4 Billy bookcases of US history books chronologically ordered, with personal cruft on either side: Lego cap shield and crew stuff. (We did win a national championship and I'm quite proud of that, but here we are litigating in the alt text.
My friends, my friends, do not pursue a history PhD, unless you want a wall like this somewhere in your house forever.
Few things amuse me as much as seeing UT fans and A&M fans in a pissing match. Yall are the same guy just with different hat colors.
Capitol Hill books
Open for business. Can I get a witness?
🚨#History Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in the History of Capitalism.
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Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
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📢New article in JBS!
📗"Arguing with Catholic Women: Devotion, Polemic, and Female Agency in the Theological Crisis of the 1620s," by Kathryn Marshalek
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
One of the things I love most about conferences is being able to see in real time the collective wisdom of scholars—finding so many new primary sources, secondary sources, and new theoretical approaches that I hadn’t come across before. We really do lift and depend upon each other.
In the 20th century the United States made a depressing number of Faustian alliances with right-wing dictators it viewed as a bulwark against an equally authoritarian Soviet empire. We’re recapitulating that ugly history with Orban, apparently as a bulwark against… liberal democracy.
Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon.
Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.”
After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.
"Eighty-five countries have sought a roadmap to phasing out fossil fuels. A conference this month offers hope they could unite," write Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope of @coveringclimatenow.org
Houston has grown supply but affordable housing for those below median income remains in short supply.
In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.
Digital antenna gets you local TV and a lot of game for free.
Same story in Texas
I don’t know what saving either the profession or the discipline means, if it doesn’t involve preserving pathways to full careers.
If the institutions best placed to do so, however troubled, are not willing to make that commitment, then it is delusional to think those less well placed will step up.
