the conceit of truthful treachery in works by Pindar, Robert Browning, and Paul Cézanne 😵‍💫

my healthcare premium more than doubles as of July. anyone else in this goodforsaken (sic) country dealing with this or did it hit for y'all last year when we had a temporary break from increases

A photo of the Porta Nigra, a massive Roman city gate in Trier. Constructed of sandstone blocks, featuring two large cylindrical towers with multiple arched windows and passageways. The weathered structure stands prominently in a modern urban setting, surrounded by buildings. Sunlight casts shadows on the stone facade, highlighting its intricate details and imposing presence.

The Porta Nigra in Trier is the best preserved Roman city gate North of the Alps. It was built around 170 AD and converted into a church in the Middle Ages.
The Porta Nigra was restored to its original state in 1804 at Napoleon's behest.

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[berlin] konvulsismo n. 5 // 24.04

entry on donnation

@ rote insel / s+ubahn yorkstraße

FINAL LINE-UP FOR FRIDAY:

m. takara + morgan sully - percussive breakbeats
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The only innovation sectors in the United States that I can think of since the invention of the smart phone are those of surveillance & capture. Oh and of course strides have been made in areas of disinformation, gambling & forms of unregulated currency.

Oh. We made a bunch of vaccines too but… heh

yeah, it's been interesting to watch culture communities fall back on rhetorics loosely associated with genius & property instead of rhetorics of, you know, community & relationality. that said, I do think a lot of backlash is integrated with ecocriticism and thus belies the "restorative"

yeah, it's been interesting to watch culture communities fall back on rhetorics loosely associated with genius & property instead of rhetorics of, you know, community & relationality. that said, I do think a lot of backlash is integrated with ecocriticism and thus belies the "restorative"

the last time I taught it to an intro class it was 2019 and almost exclusively to first year students, and all my efforts to encourage critical thought failed. the 9-year-old gives me hope. but I'm also doing Orientalism this week so maybe that'll get 'em going in advance

thanks, was gonna miss this but now making time to go Thursday

Noah Davis

“Noah Davis” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (or whatever they’re calling it now—they’re the HBO Max of museums) is essential viewing. It’s also really troubling. My take here:

4columns.org/d-souza-arun...

intro to art history, 1300 - now

Hit a small snag in my research. Some of the records I need haven’t been digitized by the London Archives as far as I can tell. Anyone know of where I can find digitized lists of prisoners from the Tower of London from 1500 to 1700? #medievalsky #earlymodern

Finding a New Approach to Displaying a Museum Collection

"... they felt 📦ed in by two traditional ways to arrange galleries: chronologically or thematically." They chose "a hub+spoke approach. 'The Chazen will be anchoring each gallery with a single, deeply rsched focus object, around which we’re drawing out certain themes thru a constellation of other 🎨"

love this nine year old and can only hope my students bring this much to the game when we screen it in my class next week

I loved @viajoshhunt.bsky.social's essay in the March issue of @harpers.bsky.social! It’s a dual-ish timeline essay interleaving observing sumo-wrestling scene in Japanese last year in the run-up to the elections, and a cultural history of the sport since the Middle Ages.
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Setting aside all the privacy violations it is perfect that the thought patterns and mannerisms of a bunch of failed and useless ventures are being fed into the slop machine to be regurgitated. What, it’s not working? Let’s double down.

For the cost of one Harvard Professor of the Constitution Only Applies to White People, you could endow 10 professorships of any less commonly taught language at any university in the USA

post-Vatican II expert sought

haven't gotten any emails about it for a year so I misunderstood your post! perhaps it is.

ooh what happened to this?

Laleh and the Language of the Birds Winner of the A Orr Fantasy Award, Laleh and the Language of the Birds is an eco-fantasy feminist retelling of Sufi legend, in which the studious Iranian-American teen Laleh must join forces with her ...

wonderful middle-grade book with an Iranian American heroine in a tale of present-day ornithology and Sufi tradition. can't recommend this enough, and it won some prizes from other folks too: www.wildlingpress.com/laleh-and-th...

officially out today

Authoritarianism 101 - AHA Authoritarianism 101 A Global History About Authoritarianism 101: A Global History is a set of 30 primary source-driven teaching modules designed to offer teachers and students a broad perspective on ...

Holy heck if you haven't taken a look at this just launched project and resources from the @historians.org _American Historical Review_, it's incredible. Of course I went to the 1665 Mass Bay petition about royal authoritarianism. Excellent!
www.historians.org/news-publica...

Laleh and the Language of the Birds Winner of the A Orr Fantasy Award, Laleh and the Language of the Birds is an eco-fantasy feminist retelling of Sufi legend, in which the studious Iranian-American teen Laleh must join forces with her ...

wonderful middle-grade book with an Iranian American heroine in a tale of present-day ornithology and Sufi tradition. can't recommend this enough, and it won some prizes from other folks too: www.wildlingpress.com/laleh-and-th...

officially out today

Oh please sign! The East Asia museum is one of the world's greatest.

Phot of me smiling like a kid and throwing a peace sign while standing over the book, open to a page with an image of the crucifixion.

Today I got to live the dream and handle a Jacquard silk book! This is a 19th-century prayer book made on looms that used punch cards and I’ve long wanted to feel its pages. More info on the copy that’s in the Walters (not the one I saw today) here. thewalters.org/exhibitions/...

I really want to attend this and can't, eager to hear about it from someone who can.

thanks to @commiedharma.bsky.social for making me aware of it

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.

Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities

www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

imo the single biggest cause of collapsing institutional trust is not just elite impunity, but impunitive *regularity* where horrors & misdeeds are communicated to the non-elite as a sort of lightly esoteric normal outcome everyone in the know is aware of & apathetic about

If you are a colonial Latin Americanist and don’t know what to do with your digital docs from old projects, please consider donating them to the Iberian Colonial Repository, where MA or PhD student can give these docs a second life in their own research projects! DM me for questions.

Here's something good for early career scholars in history and area studies! Submissions close in a week! Tell your frens!
#academicsky 🗃 #histsci #earlymodern #ancient #medieval