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Three Pages of Don Quixote Here was a woman who had lived through a dictatorship, been through three marriages, and built a brilliant career in a relentlessly male-dominated field. And she was happy.

A year ago, my friend Alexandra Bellow died: a Romanian mathematician, former wife of Saul Bellow, and an extraordinary woman who was in love with Don Quixote until her very last day. I wrote this small tribute in the days just after her death.

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Aquesta setmana / this week!

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Join AAUP for these two discussions of the future of our university this week and next

RIP James Gadson, drummer.

Working with everyone from Marvin Gaye to Norah Jones, Aretha Franklin to Justin Timberlake, his career spanned 6 decades. He played on over 500 gold records, including Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On," the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and Herbie Hancock's "Manchild"

$50 million gift to advance UChicago research and support faculty in AI Gift from Rika and Joe Mansueto launches a nearly $200 million initiative to recruit and retain leading scholars across disciplines

They could have bailed out the Division of the Humanities. But no. news.uchicago.edu/story/50-mil...

Putting together a panel for LASA Africa 2026 (Dakar, 4–7 November) on colonial legacies from a transatlantic perspective — slavery, capitalism, memory, museums, and literature. Deadline: May 7.

If relevant to your work, feel free to send me a DM 👇

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Poster for talk by Llúcia Martín abut Isabel de Villena at UMass Amherst.

Yo soy muy fan de Cate. La vi hace años en NY cuando presentó Mug Museum y desde entonces es una música a la que sigo con mucha fidelidad. Hay algo Sylvian por ahí. Algo Enoesco, también. Tengo que confesar que es una de las pocas guitarristas in this day and age que me parece que hace algo nuevo.

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Jürgen Habermas gestorben: Der Mann einer ganzen Epoche Er hoffte auf die aufklärerische Kraft der öffentlichen Vernunft, wandte sich aber zum Lebensende wieder dunkleren Aussichten zu – ein Nachruf auf den Soziologen und Philosophen Jürgen Habermas.

My wife just saw me reading the FAZ Habermas obituary and said: "a veces Habermás y a veces Habermenos." It feels like the kind of even keeled statement he would have approved of. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

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Saiu no Journal of Lusophone Studies meu artigo sobre a criação de Parceiros do Rio Bonito e a dívida do Candido com a aristocracia rural paulista.

"et stellae de caelo ceciderunt super terram, sicut ficus emittit grossos suos cum a vento magno movetur" (Beatus of Saint-Sever, Paris, BNF, MS lat. 8878, f. 116r.)

Something to consider also is the regularization of 500k migrants a month ago that was partially construed before the intl community & press as a counter to Trump's crackdown in immigration. That shows imo how Sanchez's team was positioning him as the opposite to Trump actually before Iran.

Expectación en La Moncloa ante el ascenso de Rubio, un académico con visión estratégica El joven historiador implica un giro frente a un político veterano como López

There is not a lot on Diego in media bc he is a guy with an academic profile and I believe Spanish press doesn't know quite how to deal with him. Even though paywalled, there is this, but it doesn't say anything his wikipedia doesn't elpais.com/espana/2024-...

3. If you haven't looked into Sanchez's chief of staff, Diego Rubio, you should. Rubio is a remarkable man and a great strategic thinker. He is Richelieu to Sanchez's Louis XIII.

the dictatorship is still so vivid. 2. Also Sanchez is a political survivor left for dead many times by his enemies. Right now everyone considers him a political corpse, but suddenly he is reactivating his base (for sure to his left) thanks to leading the intl opposition to war in the Middle East.>

1. Sanchez faces one of the scariest and best funded right-far right electoral alliances in Europe. Placing himself against war in Iran creates a wedge in his enemy and helps him square the circle of left-wing patriotism, a tricky sentiment to get right in a country where the memory of>

Delighted to announce this new book series, "Perspectives on Cultural History," with CEU for Amsterdam University Press. For more information, see here. Proposals should be sent to the commissioning editor.

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Vol. 52.2 is now available on Project Muse. Featuring articles by Giles, Talavera Pagán, Udaondo Alegre, Cárdenas-Rotunno, and a special forum on Henry Berlin's "Alone Together: Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia." For TOC see lcclacoronica.org/journal/volu... #projectmuse

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

“Don’t start from the good old things but the bad new ones.”

Walter Benjamin, “Understanding Brecht.”

If you're in Chicago and want to understand what it's all about, don’t miss my brilliant colleagues discussing all things Benito!

Scored by Alex G and (my idol) Paul Buchanan!

A ver se si, neno.

Really exciting!

This looks amazing!

from juggling everything that’s suddenly on their plate. That workload creep can in turn lead to cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making. The productivity surge enjoyed at the beginning can give way to lower quality work, turnover, and other problems."