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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat
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Assoc Prof, adaptation, Agnès Varda, amateur video essayist. Not necessarily in that order. Trying my best to pay attention.
🇺🇸 born, studied 🇫🇷, teaching in 🇹🇷 Bilkent COMD

Co-host @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social
Co-chair @adaptstudies.bsky.social
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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · Dec 16
⚠️ DEADLINE EXTENDED to 15 January 2026!
Spread the word! 📣
adaptstudies.bsky.social Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · Oct 30
👉 👉 The call is HERE for AAS 2026: Adaptation and Aurality, hosted by Burman University in beautiful Alberta, Canada!

✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026

Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
Introduction to the Call for Papers for the Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference 2026: Adaptation and Aurality. The conference will be hosted at Burman University in Alberta, Canada. A list of suggested topics on the theme of Adaptation and Aurality A short bio and photo of the keynote speaker for AAS 2026, poet/musician/scholar Dr. Sonnet L'Abbé (Vancouver Island University). Submission guidelines and contact information. For further inquiries please write to aas2026@burmanu.ca
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"It’s been accelerating in crazy ways under Trump because Trump has basically issued a blanket permission structure to use executive and corporate power this way. ... the deeper reason they’re coming under attack is that free thought and rigorous, free inquiry is dangerous to executive power.”
‘Just not monetizable’: humanities programs face existential crisis at US universities
Fears over the future of humanities spread amid layoffs and restructurings at scores of public and private universities
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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menysnoweballes.bsky.social
CFP: Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present (15-16 June, @uninorthampton.bsky.social) 🗃️We are interested in how nostalgia – which has often been associated with conservatism – is utilised by individuals, groups and movements that may be characterised as politically radical.
Call For Papers: Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present | UON
Centre for Historical Studies, University of Northampton, UK Monday 15 – Tuesday 16 June 2026 Nostalgia, defined most simply as a wistful or...
www.northampton.ac.uk
January 20, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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theoscargoff.bsky.social
Explaining to future generations that Steven Lockjaw was not conceived as a parody of Greg Bovino will be like convincing them that MTV did not exist when “Video Killed the Radio Star” was recorded.
January 20, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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six18sfoundry.bsky.social
Star felines in early Varda
Tabby Cat and plant outside window. Girl behind slats & cat look to their right B&w La pointe Courte Open empty shed w wood door swing open. Star black cat lounges in sun small to back
January 20, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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nathankhensley.bsky.social
ah well at least we restructured the entire contemporary university, the product of many centuries of slowly accumulating human ingenuity, to boost this
tyleraking.com Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d
“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”
AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst
AI may or may not excel at a lot of things, but from an economic standpoint, it's definitely not making us more productive.
futurism.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:24 AM
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bendavies.bsky.social
Deadline 1 March 2026.
January 19, 2026 at 5:56 AM
cbkenkar.bsky.social
this essay is WELL worth a full read 🔥
kringelberg.bsky.social K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · 5d
"All things considered, Teaching with AI is not without value; it is a case study in how even well-meaning educators operating in good faith can become inadvertent agents of a pedagogical de-skilling and institutional dehumanization."
A Pedagogy of the Inevitable | Critical AI | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
January 18, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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thetattooedprof.bsky.social
This is a great review essay; it thoroughly critiques that Teaching With AI book much more eloquently than I've been doing
kringelberg.bsky.social K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · 5d
"All things considered, Teaching with AI is not without value; it is a case study in how even well-meaning educators operating in good faith can become inadvertent agents of a pedagogical de-skilling and institutional dehumanization."
A Pedagogy of the Inevitable | Critical AI | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
January 16, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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adaptstudies.bsky.social
Congratulations to @kylemeikle.bsky.social for his new publication! 🎉
January 18, 2026 at 6:47 AM
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marcwatkins.bsky.social
Does your uni have guidelines or policy about using AI to grade student work? I think they should. Over the coming days, I'm sharing 10 provocative scenarios to spark conversation and hopefully convince folks in education that we need to start taking this seriously. open.substack.com/pub/marcwatk...
What We Give Up When We Let AI Decide
Automation Is Easy. Judgment Is Not.
open.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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brianfauteux.bsky.social
Yesterday my students were like, yeah the only people excited about using new AI features are my grandparents
January 9, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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theblochian.bsky.social
Applications now open! Please do consider applying if you work in #openaccess & could use some seed funds for an event or project relating to the #humanities!
openlibhums.org Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 5d
The Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2026. Applications for OLH funding of up to £500 are welcomed from individuals or organisations and may be used to help fund events, projects or activities on #OA or with an #openaccess component.

📅 Deadline 30/06: www.openlibhums.org/news/882/
The OLH Open Access Award 2026: call for applications
The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is proud to continue its work towards its open access mission across the globe with the OLH Open Access Award 2026, a fund dedicated …
www.openlibhums.org
January 15, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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openbookcollective.bsky.social
There are 3 more weeks to submit an optional scope check for this year's Collective Development Fund Call! Scope check closes February 7; Call closes March 7. Read and apply in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese:
obc.copim.pub/obc-collecti...
OBC Collective Development Fund Grant Programme: 2026 Call & Guidance - Open Book Collective
The Open Book Collective is pleased to launch the third call for applications for funding from our Collective Development Fund. This document outlines the det…
obc.copim.pub
January 15, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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adaptstudies.bsky.social
Get those abstracts in TODAY! 🗓️
adaptstudies.bsky.social Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 8d
LAST CHANCE! Extended submission deadline expires 15 January. Get your abstracts in this week for AAS 2026 & please spread the word!

Online participation is an option 💻
adaptstudies.bsky.social Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · Oct 30
👉 👉 The call is HERE for AAS 2026: Adaptation and Aurality, hosted by Burman University in beautiful Alberta, Canada!

✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026

Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
January 15, 2026 at 8:21 AM
cbkenkar.bsky.social
further reading for this month's project ("subscription required") 🐋 📖
Abstract Much like Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) has had a prolific posthumous career, especially when it comes to online slash fiction. That so many queer communities “ship” Moby-Dick promises new insight into what Melville studies might offer to fan studies (and vice versa). To “ship” is to explore romantic or sexual relations that may be latent, repressed, or otherwise only insinuated in a text. But despite writers’ and audiences’ indefatigable energy, most Moby-Dick fanfiction survives in partial or unfinished versions—in abandoned blogs, incomplete works-in-progress, and otherwise jettisoned projects. I argue that it is precisely the transience of these texts that lends them their significance. Focusing on three fragmented collections (the Tumblrblog, The Queequeg Diaries, and slash fiction from AdultFanFiction.org and FanFiction.net ), I consider sexual and textual subcultures not intended to endure. These ephemeral queer counterpublics mark the limits of what I call “ship theory,” or a mode of participatory consumption that flourishes in fleeting contact. To “ship” what happens aboard Melville’s queer ship gestures toward the fragile ephemerality of queer counterpublics. These ribald archives of desire reveal the radical experiments in gender and sexuality that only short-lived shipping can produce.
January 14, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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theessaylibrary.com
🚨 THE VIDEO JAM IS BACK! 🚨

📅 January 16–18, 2026

To celebrate five years of The Essay Library, we'll be coming together once again to create video essays in 48 hours.

Learn more + join: theessaylibrary.com#jam
Illustration of jam on toast and a traffic jam in the background. Text reads: Join the second annual Video Jam hosted by The Essay Library, January 16-18, 2026. Participants will have 48 hours to create a video essay inspired by a given prompt. Learn more and join at theessaylibrary.com.
January 10, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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jasontebbe.bsky.social
Dow is up today so at least six more weeks of fascism.
jasontebbe.bsky.social Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 8d
Market reactions will tell the tale this morning for our political future like a financial groundhog. No big reaction from markets means many, many more weeks of political winter.
January 12, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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joshshepperd.bsky.social
I curate the history series at public media's trade journal Current. We're looking for pieces on the history of NPR, PBS and its affiliates, with some space to imagine public media's future. We accept academic articles repurposed for wide readership. Plus, we pay. Please circulate!
Rewind: The Roots of Public Media
This series features scholars of media history looking back at both familiar and lesser-known chapters in public broadcasting’s evolution. “Rewind” is presented in partnership with the Radio Preservat...
current.org
January 11, 2026 at 9:42 PM
cbkenkar.bsky.social
It is the hard part BUT ALSO the fun part! Why pass it up?
raulpachecovega.bsky.social Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 8d
Academics’ enthusiastic (and often uncritical) embrace of LLMs and generative artificial intelligence will be a factor in the junkification of research.

You can’t outsource thinking nor the cognitive task of gradually absorbing knowledge. Nor discernment and creativity.
January 12, 2026 at 3:13 PM
cbkenkar.bsky.social
said Special Guest is Eric Sandberg, scholar extraordinaire and my co-editor for a volume in the Adaptation in Visual Culture series (Palgrave) about awards culture & adaptations, a topic I suspect will be especially relevant this year... @adaptstudies.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
January 12, 2026 at 8:21 AM
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adaptstudies.bsky.social
Happy new year! 🥳 🥂 📖 the ECR Prize winning essay is available full OA in the journal Adaptation for a limited time: doi.org/10.1093/adap...
January 12, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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adaptstudies.bsky.social
LAST CHANCE! Extended submission deadline expires 15 January. Get your abstracts in this week for AAS 2026 & please spread the word!

Online participation is an option 💻
adaptstudies.bsky.social Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · Oct 30
👉 👉 The call is HERE for AAS 2026: Adaptation and Aurality, hosted by Burman University in beautiful Alberta, Canada!

✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026

Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
Introduction to the Call for Papers for the Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference 2026: Adaptation and Aurality. The conference will be hosted at Burman University in Alberta, Canada. A list of suggested topics on the theme of Adaptation and Aurality A short bio and photo of the keynote speaker for AAS 2026, poet/musician/scholar Dr. Sonnet L'Abbé (Vancouver Island University). Submission guidelines and contact information. For further inquiries please write to aas2026@burmanu.ca
January 12, 2026 at 8:13 AM
cbkenkar.bsky.social
Reposting since I finally got around to catching up! 🐋
cbkenkar.bsky.social Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 17d
🐋 I am looking up references to clothing I can't picture in my head, and posting them in this 🧵
January 11, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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normalisland.co.uk
BREAKING: Staggering scenes as brave Iranians stand up to their illegitimate government in Tehran... um, hang on, I'm being told this is actually Minneapolis. Forget I said anything...
January 11, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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guygrossman.bsky.social
January 11, 2026 at 6:17 PM