An all-star lineup plus me talking about decolonization at Harvard next Thursday history.fas.harvard.edu/event/decolo...

Grateful to the Guggenheim Foundation and looking forward to to the year ahead #guggfellows2026 www.gf.org/stories/anno...

Something of mine forthcoming in Histoire mondiale des impérialismes, ed. Nicolas Beaupré and Florian Louis

Right, I think it's fairly different in the US.

I don’t know. Of course there are accommodations in particular cases and it’s good to have a backup. But once you relax the expectation of in-person attendance and engagement, things can unravel quickly. Not to mention that universities would love to replace us all with videos.

Is there some requirement to record lectures and make them available online? That is inviting students not to show up

inquiring minds want to know more about this "Nuremberg 2.0"

This is a great start, Senator. Thank you. I hope you will also refuse to vote for a single dime of funding for this reckless, illegal, and unconstitutional war.

the kind of thing that gets played at a war crimes trial

Erik Linstrum - Gilded Rage Erik Linstrum: Gilded Rage - The African Kingdom of Gold: Britain and the Asante Treasure by Barnaby Phillips

For Literary Review, I wrote about Asante gold, Victorian-era colonial war, and complications with the restitution of loot literaryreview.co.uk/gilded-rage

Can’t believe a professional, apolitical, and unhurried search process didn’t catch this

The president's doctorate doesn't match the institution's mission Scott Beardsley became the 10th president at the University of Virginia in January. He is, by all accounts, a man of accomplishment.

Upon further review by experts, it turns out Scott Beardsley’s doctorate is basically a drive through diploma, which isn’t the sort of thing that gives a top tier university credibility or stability.

augustafreepress.com/news/james-f...

screenshot of a tv user guide, showing two channels under Tue 8PM: MSNOW - State of the union TCM East- Gaslight

Masterful Troll, TCM.

The timeless elegance of a CUP proof

Last month, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin approved a proposal to establish a College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence funded by private corporations and philanthropy. Mnookin said the move was a response to the inevitable creep of artificial intelligence into all disciplines of academia. Rather than reject AI, she envisioned a university that capitalized on this change by making artificial intelligence a "hub" connecting the humanities to computer science.

On the first day of my economics elective this spring, my professor said we would be expected to use NotebookLM to pass his class. He had lengthened the coding assignments so that they would be doable only with the help of AI. The reading assignments were longer, too: ten 40-page papers per week, which he asked us to feed into AI for a summary rather than read ourselves. When it came to lectures, he told us to simply upload the slides to AI and ask it to teach us whatever he failed to explain properly in class.

BLEAK. Bleak. I’d been paying attention to Columbia selling out its governance to the Trump admin, not so much its stance on AI.
www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...

Source: Cignetti's salary now averages $13.2M through 2033 After leading Indiana to the national title, coach Curt Cignetti has finalized a contract with the school that will pay him an average of $13.2 million through the 2033 season, a source confirmed to E...

Something is awry in higher education. Indiana University agrees to pay the football coach more than $100 million, shortly after cutting hundreds of academic programs. www.espn.com/college-foot...

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Opinion | Where’s the Outrage? Universities Need to Speak Up. The lack of response to the killing of Renee Nicole Good is shameful.

"We seem to be entering an age of state control armed only with the delusional hope that if universities hide and say nothing about all of the obvious ways in which the nation is slouching toward the demise of democracy, they will avoid political retribution."

I love teaching this course

The AHA rightly condemned the Iraq war in 2007 and the Ukraine invasion in 2022. Blocking a resolution, overwhelmingly supported by members, to express solidarity with Gaza is cowardly at best and special pleading at worst.

How UVA’s presidential search missed what took us an hour to find Inside Higher Ed frames the controversy surrounding Scott C. Beardsley's appointment as the University of Virginia's president.

Can’t believe the deliberative and professional search for a new president at UVA didn’t catch a CV loaded with misrepresentations augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

How UVA’s presidential search missed what took us an hour to find Inside Higher Ed frames the controversy surrounding Scott C. Beardsley's appointment as the University of Virginia's president.

Can’t believe the deliberative and professional search for a new president at UVA didn’t catch a CV loaded with misrepresentations augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

How UVA’s presidential search missed what took us an hour to find Inside Higher Ed frames the controversy surrounding Scott C. Beardsley's appointment as the University of Virginia's president.

This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

I've written a chapter, "Hearts of Darkness: The Varieties of Imperial Violence," for a volume on modern imperialism edited by Nicolas Beaupré and Florian Louis. French publication forthcoming. I'm sharing the English version here in the meantime papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I've written a chapter, "Hearts of Darkness: The Varieties of Imperial Violence," for a volume on modern imperialism edited by Nicolas Beaupré and Florian Louis. French publication forthcoming. I'm sharing the English version here in the meantime papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Has it been that long? Now that I have noticed I am *extremely* unhappy about it

Indirectly related: why is the gap between semesters so short this year? It’s brutal and leaves very little time for prep

I have not experienced that level of insanity, but got a university laptop over the summer and have repeatedly wondered if wouldn’t be better off just going out of pocket. The logins, the updates, enough already

This is aside from the (important) issue of uncredited labor.