(TL;DR - write a chapter for our edited volume! Abstracts due by 1 Feb 2025. Full draft due 1 Sept 2025.)

We are editing a volume, The Relationships of Description: Experiencing the Power & Politics of Language, under contract with Routledge.
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Today is publication day for the new book - Critical Data Studies. But since my copies are stuck in Holyhead parcel pileup & open access version not yet available on publisher website I'm saving marketing stuff to new year. As a launch day it's a bit of an anti-climax! But it's no longer 'in press'

Private Schools Group Apologizes After Claims of Antisemitism at Event After criticism from Jewish groups over speeches at a conference, the president of the National Association of Independent Schools said future addresses would be vetted.

My response below to Qs for this article on “Private Schools Group Apologizes After Claims of Antisemitism at Event” in which my talk was one that made four Jewish students feel threatened bc I used the word genocide. Let’s unpack since they gave ADL the last word. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/n...

I think a pretty strong case could be made that CUNY is in fact the preeminent and most important American university system.

It was fun to discuss the tensions between research and practice in the archival field with Mike Jones, Rachel Tropea, Rose Barrowcliffe, Annie Cameron, Elliot Freeman, Duncan Loxton and Eva Samaras for Archives and Manuscripts publications.archivists.org.au/index.php/as...

Hey folks- it’s my first time posting. Just dropping my new article on the intersections of trauma and archival studies discourse on here. Hope it’s useful to some rdcu.be/d1TZr

The book cover of Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. The cover is divided between an artwork by Chitra Ganesh above, titled Event Horizon, which is made up of a female cyborg-like super-hero figure appearing to fly through a net or geographic division of space, while another female-presenting figure looks up at her in wonder. The cover is black and white, with a yellowish color used in place of the white. Below the artwork, you see the names of the editors, Ben Baer and Smaran Dayal, listed, as well as the artist Chitra Ganesh.

Since we're all reconvening here, I thought I'd reshare some good news here: A project I’ve been working on all year was published this month: Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (Warbler Press, 2024). 1/4

Information Science Public Lectures

Today: 11:30am EST Co-sponsored by the Archival Technologies Lab at CUNY: Transatlantic Roundtable on Archives, Reparations and Black Liberation: Perspectives from Haiti, Kenya, Jamaica and Ghana, w Rose Miyonga, Sony Prosper, Edwina Ashie-Nikoi, and Stanley Griffin www.dal.ca/faculty/mana...

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