Please help spread the word: Davidson College’s Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor. The specialization is open, but we are hoping for candidates who add to, rather than replicate, existing strengths in teaching and research among our GSS faculty.
Please help spread the word: Davidson College’s Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor. The specialization is open, but we are hoping for candidates who add to, rather than replicate, existing strengths in teaching and research among our GSS faculty.
Hey all, I wrote a review of Elisa Camiscioli's wonderful new book _Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking, and Global Migrations_ in the latest issue of the Journal of Modern History. The book is a fascinating read. www-journals-uchicago-edu.proxy048.nclive.org/doi/10.1086/...
Wish I could see this exhibit on the Terror, and thanks to Paul Werner for bringing us this report with fabulous images. Especially the David poster in which he blames his imprisonment on jealous painters! theorangepress.substack.com/p/the-revolu...
Aww, thanks, Holly!
Image of the cover page of a journal article by Patricia Tilburg in the latest issue of French Politics, Culture & Society titled, “Feathered Foes: Bird Preservation, National Identity, and Fashion in Belle Époque France.” the image includes the abstract: "When turn-of-the-century environmentalists in the U.S. and Europe began to promote legislative action against the use of exotic bird feathers in women’s fashion, French naturalists stood apart from their Anglo-American colleagues in offering an ecological program that emphasized the needs of the French feather trade. This article explores the particular French cultural investment in fashion not only by feather tradesmen but also by conservationists from the 1890s through the 1920s."
Excited that my article "Feathered Foes: Bird Preservation, National Identity, & Fashion in Belle Époque France," is in the latest issue of French Politics, Culture & Society. Find out how ladies' hats became a matter of environmental policy! 🗃️ nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Ted Chiang:
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."
The Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies at Davidson College is hiring a 2-year Visiting Professor, specialization open! Deadline to apply is Feb. 1, 2025. www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
Let’s talk about the architecture of Wicked.
🚨 Spoilers ahead:
At first, I was intrigued by the shift of the depiction of Oz from Art Deco (in The Wizard of Oz, 1939) to Art Nouveau.
But after seeing the movie, I can’t stress how absolutely brilliant production designer Nathan Crowley is.
Marc #Bloch va entrer au #Panthéon. Un professeur d'histoire, un résistant, un penseur décisif et visionnaire du dialogue entre l'histoire et les sciences sociales.
www.liberation.fr/sciences/his...
What about Schorske’s Fin de Siècle Vienna? You get to talk about psychoanalysis, politics, art, architecture, urban planning, nationalism, antisemitism. I’ve taught it in upper-level courses. Not sure for all first years but having a whole semester would be really cool.
extremely interesting that no one with money is to blame for the state of things!
Announcing: the Bridges Project brought to you by the Western Society for French History! Connect with "alt-ac" history PhDs! Learn how to support grad students on non-TT paths! Find out how other unis successfully support doctoral students! And more! A must-read for faculty www.wsfh.org/bridges
Texas OB-Gyns Release Letter After News of the Deaths of Josseli Barnica and Nevaeh Crain as a Result of Texas Abortion Ban
#WeWontGoBack
Phonebanking right now and heartened by all the folks on this zoom training from across the country helping my home NC county GOTV. 🥹
A Texas Woman Died After the Hospital Said It Would be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage
Josseli is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat stopped.
Every day I check on @archive.org to see how it's doing. It's been strange, upsetting to lose it for so long. I can feel its loss whenever I think of following an idea. So much of what makes me think, I find in it's library. For me, outside paywalls and such privileged access, it is everything.
What? No. God, no.
There is no ethical use of generative AI.
Can it code as well as a human? Well, no. But can it increase implementation speed? Also no. But does it reduce overtime? Not as much as NOT using it does. But does it write less buggy code? Quite the opposite, actually! But does it save money? In the long run, almost certainly not. But is it more e
"It’s conspicuous, then, that the present anti-feminist backlash coincides with calls to abandon the technological tools that freed women’s hands and schedules." www.momleft.com/p/return-dow...
Department of Transportation electronic sign, reading "ALL ROADS CLOSED IN WESTERN NC" and then "DO NOT TRAVEL IN WESTERN NC"
I don't feel like the national media is conveying right now what a catastrophe is unfolding in western North Carolina.
It is not good in Asheville & western NC right now. There’s no power and no water and all roads out are blocked. There is an extensive list of places to donate to here: www.wfmynews2.com/article/weat... thank you all
We absolutely should not be subject to any system that makes us powerless to save a life and empowers politicians to take life away as they please.
