Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Western expands PhD and postdoc funding - Western News Western is boosting funding for postdoctoral fellows and PhD candidates from the U.S. and other countries with expanded and new award programs.

Know a student who had their offer from a top US PhD program rescinded - or a student from a top US school who is looking globally for their PhD?
Check out this fantastic new program at Western University, where I work. Amazing funding packages available.

news.westernu.ca/2025/07/phd-...

Cantando la guerra civil salvadoreña - Revista Elementos Con el río Lempa fluyendo pacíficamente a sus espaldas, dos mujeres, acompañadas por un hombre tocando guitarra, cantan una canción de conmemoración, «El 17 de Marzo». Esta canción fue escrita por un ...

Spanish readers: here’s a short, accessible piece about mine and Giada Ferrucci’s research in El Salvador: revistaelementos.net/palestra/can...

Are academic conferences in the US a thing of the past?

Elbows up, Canada: Musical responses to Trump’s Canada threats Pro-Canada songs spreading across social media, including some by Canadian celebrities, reveal a range of reactions to Donald Trump’s tariffs and annexation threats.

Hey Jim! I wrote a piece about this lovely song and others like it for The Conversation. Thought you might enjoy reading it. theconversation.com/elbows-up-ca...

Elbows up, Canada: Musical responses to Trump’s Canada threats Pro-Canada songs spreading across social media, including some by Canadian celebrities, reveal a range of reactions to Donald Trump’s tariffs and annexation threats.

I wrote a piece about all those patriotic anti-Trump songs that us Canadians keep seeing on our socials. theconversation.com/elbows-up-ca...

It seems the Ontario government has saved up all their spending announcements (new schools, new homelessness hubs) to announce the day before they call for an election. How about some money for the most under-funded universities in Canada, Mr. Ford, while you're at it?

Apologies to JSAM subscribers who just received 3 issues at once. It turns out CUP only just now received our 2023 members list so only just shipped these issues. 17/4 is also now out online-my last issue as EIC. Handing the reins to Jacky Avila. It’s been fun, JSAM!

to work in the humanities in a university now is to live a constant dissonance between:

-the quotidian JOY, excitement, new ideas of researchers and students

-but in context of absolute abject cultural vandalism from 40+ years of rightwing ideological assaults on learning+corporate capture of HE

Start digging into something new that really excites you.

And read her amazing book.