Local folks-please support the wonderful Iowa City Public Library! Come to the "Bright Future" party Sat, Apr 11: bit.ly/BrightFutureTickets. Or bid on great online auction items:
bit.ly/BrightFutureAuction (closes 9PM, Sat, April 11).
Questions? Email Katie-Roche@icpl.org
Historian Mary Rizzo and her collaborators launch their new U of Iowa Humanities and Public Life Series book, *Baltimore's Black Arts Then and Now.* You're invited! 4/30 at 7 ET-- 1966-1983, Chicory published poetry, conversations, and w-c communities.
Register: rutgers.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Thrilled to share the latest book in the U of Iowa Press Humanities and Public Life series Annie Valk and I co-edit!
The journal Public Humanities has created a wonderful resource that lists over 50,000 links to articles, blogs, podcasts, and more related to public scholarship. You can add your work, too. publicscholarship.org/explore
Extraordinary new public humanities resource that curates in near real-time over 50,0000 items from sources/channels of humanities-related scholars who create pubic-facing essays, podcasts, videos, blogs, etc.: publicscholarship.org
Just popping in to rec the Columbia, MO annual True/False Doc Film Festival. Provocative, moving films; energetic audiences; great conversations with directors; and costume parade! Tell your local indy theater to get "First They Came for My College" (about New College takeover) asap.
This Women's History Month we are highlighting the long history of female involvement in Parliament and politics.
Below, Dr Kathryn Rix overviews the political involvement of women in the years leading up to some women gaining the right to vote in 1918.
#WomensHistoryMonth #WHM
Researching national awards for humanities scholarship for a book series I co-edit, I found this list. Anybody recommend other lists, especially for more specialized or sometimes overlooked prizes? I'm especially interested in awards for publicly engaged scholarship and teaching. Thanks!
Finally, a note to the many professors in my networks: One other specific, small thing you can do from outside of Minneapolis is reach out to colleagues who are heavily affected (because of their own or their family's risk, or because they're very busy protecting neighbors) and offer a guest lecture
IC Friends--On Saturday, May 10 from 2-4, a host of great local bands are holding what promises to be a super fun Day of Dylan--playing many of Bob Dylan's hits. The proceeds will support this summer's Iowa City Summer of the Arts events. Please share! See you there!
This was a great session; recording coming soon @modernlanguage.bsky.social
@katinalynn.bsky.social interviewed over 40 recipients about the devastating impact on communities and scholars when NEH grants were cancelled. The scariest part? The cancellations came from a NON-governmental email address. Crucial reading. slate.com/news-and-pol...
I just finished teaching TTC too (subbing for a colleague), and the grad students were also stunned by how painfully timely it felt. Timely in all the worst ways.
While the world burns...grappling with Dickens' Old Curiosity Shop. Has anyone taught it lately? How? What on earth did students make of it? Reading it now, I'm convinced we're all getting Quilped on a daily basis.
COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back
Image of a map with states marked in three different colors: red those who won’t sign (WA, OR, CO, MN, WI, IL, PA, NY, MA), light blue still reviewing & dark blue will sign (including VT).
NINE STATES are now refusing to sign the public ed order from the federal government.
I’m so so SO done with the ridiculous narrative that Vermont is giving nothing away by signing.
THIS IS WHY we asked for someone with experience & integrity to lead the department 💔
Wonderful Hands Off gathering in Iowa City. And now back to making phone calls.
Adding a link to the data I shared earlier, for historical context. The Black Lives Matter uprising of 2020 (which postdates the chart below) remains the largest protest mobilization in U.S. history by every measure.
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The former judges say President Donald Trump’s executive order against Perkins Coie “undermines the rule of law by threatening the independence of lawyers and litigants to petition courts to redress their grievances.”
Some judges are telling the fElon #HandsOff too.
Almost 350 of them.
They’ve signed an amicus brief backing the Perkins Coie law firm in its suit against the Trump regime.
Another brief signed by more than 300 law firms is expected.
#HandsOff the rule of law!
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Cedar Rapids: Location provided after registration 12-2
Des Moines: 400 Locust 12-2
Iowa City: Clinton St & Iowa Ave, 11:30-2
Lisbon: Main St 12-2
Maquoketa: Glovik Park 12-1:30
Mount Vernon: First Street Community Center 12-1:30
Red Oak: Legion Park 2-3
Looking forward to seeing lots of hopeful, determined friends tomorrow at the Hands Off rally in Iowa City (right after the great Darwin Day events)!
I'm going to post some of my fav humanities scholarship, in appreciation for the work that smart people do.
The @ccp-org.bsky.social is one of my fav projects. It focuses on Black organizing in 19th century U.S. The websites and #DigBlk scholars are worth looking into.
coloredconventions.org
I absolutely love seeing that little old Lisbon and Red Oak, Iowa are planning Hands Off! events this Saturday. I also love I'll be with so many of you in spirit all across the country when I head to our local Iowa City protest. ❤️ mobilize.us/handsoff/
Call Congress for our libraries. Show up for our libraries. American library association.
ALA is deeply concerned by reports that IMLS is sending notices to libraries claiming to cancel grants that are required by law. This harmful action will disrupt libraries' ability to serve their communities.
Tell Congress to protect library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
#ForOurLibraries
Your State Humanities Council has probably hosted scholars at your public lib, public history projects, hard community conversations, and far more. NEH fellowships won't be far behind. Call your legislators with good stories of NEH impact asap! www.statehumanities.org/action-alert...
Watching NEH shut down grants and IPR / NPR threatened, I try to resist hopelessness. Mariame Kaba has a creative list of suggestions in case you're struggling, too. H/T @katinalynn.bsky.social for the reminder.
That’s the quote from the SS agreement I just got via email that I’m not comfortable signing.
I agree that the Social Security Administration is not responsible for the improper disclosure of any information that the Social Security Administration has provided to me or any information that is on or from my computer or other device, whether due to my negligence or the wrongful acts of others.
1) Those of you getting SS—did you get a message today from SS asking you to sign an updated security statement? And was this final item on the usual checklist on there before? I’m calling a senator’s office before I agree to this—seen next message for the quote.
