Jake Blanc
@jacobblanc.bsky.social
Associate professor at McGill, joint appointment in history and international development studies. Latin America, social movements, human rights, memory, burritos.
Great essay from Ed Dunsworth on how scholars in the humanities should approach AI in the classroom.
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...
On Generative AI in the Classroom: Give Up, Give In, or Stand Up
Edward Dunsworth Two approaches dominate discussion about how professors should handle generative “artificial intelligence” in the classroom: give up or give in. Give up. Faced with a powerful new …
activehistory.ca
June 12, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Great essay from Ed Dunsworth on how scholars in the humanities should approach AI in the classroom.
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...
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Sebastián Carassai and I are delighted to announce the publication of our book:
Coups d'État in Cold War Latin America, 1964–1982.
shorturl.at/nSvUk
Thanks to B. Cowan, T. Field, P. Klarén, V. Markarian, C. Trumper, J. Gould, H. Vrana, V. Garrard, and B. Weinstein. @bw-historiadora.bsky.social
Coups d'État in Cold War Latin America, 1964–1982.
shorturl.at/nSvUk
Thanks to B. Cowan, T. Field, P. Klarén, V. Markarian, C. Trumper, J. Gould, H. Vrana, V. Garrard, and B. Weinstein. @bw-historiadora.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Sebastián Carassai and I are delighted to announce the publication of our book:
Coups d'État in Cold War Latin America, 1964–1982.
shorturl.at/nSvUk
Thanks to B. Cowan, T. Field, P. Klarén, V. Markarian, C. Trumper, J. Gould, H. Vrana, V. Garrard, and B. Weinstein. @bw-historiadora.bsky.social
Coups d'État in Cold War Latin America, 1964–1982.
shorturl.at/nSvUk
Thanks to B. Cowan, T. Field, P. Klarén, V. Markarian, C. Trumper, J. Gould, H. Vrana, V. Garrard, and B. Weinstein. @bw-historiadora.bsky.social
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"Bolsonaro will probably be convicted, Bolsonaro will probably be arrested – or he’ll go into exile, he’ll flee the country … From a judicial standpoint Bolsonaro’s cornered," says @bernardomf.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Bolsonaro must stand trial over alleged coup attempt, Brazil’s top court rules
Supreme court judges decide former president should face criminal prosecution alongside seven close allies
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"Bolsonaro will probably be convicted, Bolsonaro will probably be arrested – or he’ll go into exile, he’ll flee the country … From a judicial standpoint Bolsonaro’s cornered," says @bernardomf.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Advance copies starting to make their way out in the world. Fingers crossed the tariff shenanigans don't delay the shipment up to Canada...
@jacobblanc.bsky.social look what’s here!! @uncpress.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Advance copies starting to make their way out in the world. Fingers crossed the tariff shenanigans don't delay the shipment up to Canada...
In prep for the Oscars this weekend, everybody should read this excellent piece by my dear friend and colleague, @ffreff.bsky.social Frederico Freitas. It's about the film I'm Still Here, his family's search for answers, and Brazil's ongoing memory wars.
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Remembering Is Not Enough - Dissent Magazine
I'm Still Here defies the far right's attempts to redeem Brazil's military dictatorship. But it suggests a tidier closure to the regime's disappearances than many real families have experienced.
www.dissentmagazine.org
March 1, 2025 at 12:48 AM
In prep for the Oscars this weekend, everybody should read this excellent piece by my dear friend and colleague, @ffreff.bsky.social Frederico Freitas. It's about the film I'm Still Here, his family's search for answers, and Brazil's ongoing memory wars.
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
A wonderful, lengthy review of The Prestes Column by Caio Fernando Barbosa. @dukepress.bsky.social
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The Prestes Column: An Interior History of Modern Brazil (Review)
Through storytelling and analysis, Blanc’s book tells an interior history of Brazil by recounting the political initiatives and legacy of the Prestes Column.
nacla.org
February 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
A wonderful, lengthy review of The Prestes Column by Caio Fernando Barbosa. @dukepress.bsky.social
nacla.org/prestes-colu...
nacla.org/prestes-colu...
Feeling 🥳🙃😍 to have a blurb from novelist Yara Rodrigues Fowler.
Given how much I want Searching for Memory to be about the importance and complexities of narrative, a blurb from such a gifted storyteller like Yara means the world to me.
Given how much I want Searching for Memory to be about the importance and complexities of narrative, a blurb from such a gifted storyteller like Yara means the world to me.
February 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Feeling 🥳🙃😍 to have a blurb from novelist Yara Rodrigues Fowler.
Given how much I want Searching for Memory to be about the importance and complexities of narrative, a blurb from such a gifted storyteller like Yara means the world to me.
Given how much I want Searching for Memory to be about the importance and complexities of narrative, a blurb from such a gifted storyteller like Yara means the world to me.
welcome to Bluesky @joevarock.bsky.social . These skies are now a bit bluer because we'll all now have her intellect, humor, and great taste in all things.
February 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
welcome to Bluesky @joevarock.bsky.social . These skies are now a bit bluer because we'll all now have her intellect, humor, and great taste in all things.
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Just got a copy of the book I edited with @jacobblanc.bsky.social
#skystorians
#envhist
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#skystorians
#envhist
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January 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Just got a copy of the book I edited with @jacobblanc.bsky.social
#skystorians
#envhist
@utexaspress.bsky.social
#skystorians
#envhist
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Job Opportunity!
Full Professorship
Beit Professor of Global and Imperial History | University of Oxford - Faculty of History
careers.historians.org/jobs/2089262...
Full Professorship
Beit Professor of Global and Imperial History | University of Oxford - Faculty of History
careers.historians.org/jobs/2089262...
Beit Professor of Global and Imperial History in Oxford, for University of Oxford - Faculty of History
Exciting opportunity in Oxford, for University of Oxford - Faculty of History as a Beit Profes...
careers.historians.org
December 15, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Job Opportunity!
Full Professorship
Beit Professor of Global and Imperial History | University of Oxford - Faculty of History
careers.historians.org/jobs/2089262...
Full Professorship
Beit Professor of Global and Imperial History | University of Oxford - Faculty of History
careers.historians.org/jobs/2089262...
Pre-orders now available for Searching for Memory: Aluízio Palmar and the Shadow of Dictatorship in Brazil
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Use code 01SOCIAL30 for 30% discount. @uncpress.bsky.social
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Use code 01SOCIAL30 for 30% discount. @uncpress.bsky.social
Searching for Memory | Jacob Blanc | University of North Carolina Press
This biography of Brazilian journalist and activist Aluízio Ferreira Palmar (b. 1943) tells the remarkable story of a revolutionary who, after surviving tor...
www.uncpress.org
December 5, 2024 at 10:41 AM
Pre-orders now available for Searching for Memory: Aluízio Palmar and the Shadow of Dictatorship in Brazil
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Use code 01SOCIAL30 for 30% discount. @uncpress.bsky.social
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Use code 01SOCIAL30 for 30% discount. @uncpress.bsky.social
The ink is signed -- the Portuguese translation of my forthcoming book will be published in Brazil by Editora Garamond. Saindo no Brasil abril 2025:
O garimpeiro da memória: Aluízio Palmar e a sombra da ditadura
📚🎉
O garimpeiro da memória: Aluízio Palmar e a sombra da ditadura
📚🎉
November 25, 2024 at 3:37 PM
The ink is signed -- the Portuguese translation of my forthcoming book will be published in Brazil by Editora Garamond. Saindo no Brasil abril 2025:
O garimpeiro da memória: Aluízio Palmar e a sombra da ditadura
📚🎉
O garimpeiro da memória: Aluízio Palmar e a sombra da ditadura
📚🎉
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(been saying it to anyone who will listen) Watch this film. An extended musical riff around the story of the murder of Lumumba: on decolozination, neocolonialism, the UN, Third Worldism, CIA, jazz and so much more. Incredibly inventive formally and so powerful. Was left stunned at the end of it!
November 21, 2024 at 1:59 PM
(been saying it to anyone who will listen) Watch this film. An extended musical riff around the story of the murder of Lumumba: on decolozination, neocolonialism, the UN, Third Worldism, CIA, jazz and so much more. Incredibly inventive formally and so powerful. Was left stunned at the end of it!
For everyone in need to indexing (and also developmental editing) get in touch with @drbwerner.bsky.social 👇👇 best in the game.
*fires up indexing software*
Page proofs are here! Coming to bookshelves near you in April. @uncpress.bsky.social
And official news coming sometime next week, but it will be published in Brazil at the same, with Editora Garamond.
And official news coming sometime next week, but it will be published in Brazil at the same, with Editora Garamond.
November 22, 2024 at 2:44 PM
For everyone in need to indexing (and also developmental editing) get in touch with @drbwerner.bsky.social 👇👇 best in the game.
I'm an historian of Latin America, mostly social movements, memory, and development studies. My newest book (forthcoming this spring) is a biography of Aluízio Palmar, a former political prison in Brazil who became a human rights activist. It's about his life, but also how he has narrated his life.
November 22, 2024 at 2:41 PM
I'm an historian of Latin America, mostly social movements, memory, and development studies. My newest book (forthcoming this spring) is a biography of Aluízio Palmar, a former political prison in Brazil who became a human rights activist. It's about his life, but also how he has narrated his life.
Page proofs are here! Coming to bookshelves near you in April. @uncpress.bsky.social
And official news coming sometime next week, but it will be published in Brazil at the same, with Editora Garamond.
And official news coming sometime next week, but it will be published in Brazil at the same, with Editora Garamond.
November 22, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Page proofs are here! Coming to bookshelves near you in April. @uncpress.bsky.social
And official news coming sometime next week, but it will be published in Brazil at the same, with Editora Garamond.
And official news coming sometime next week, but it will be published in Brazil at the same, with Editora Garamond.
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Hey Bluesky, I am excited by all the energy coalescing on this platform. It seems like a place for strategic thinking, which we badly need.
A few initial thoughts:
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A few initial thoughts:
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November 19, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Hey Bluesky, I am excited by all the energy coalescing on this platform. It seems like a place for strategic thinking, which we badly need.
A few initial thoughts:
🧵
A few initial thoughts:
🧵
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My baby is here 🥰
Thank you @catehodorowicz.bsky.social and the amazing @uncpress.bsky.social team 💙
#LandscapingPatagonia #FirstBook #LatamHist #EnvHist #Chile #Argentina 🗃️🌿
Thank you @catehodorowicz.bsky.social and the amazing @uncpress.bsky.social team 💙
#LandscapingPatagonia #FirstBook #LatamHist #EnvHist #Chile #Argentina 🗃️🌿
November 19, 2024 at 10:19 PM
My baby is here 🥰
Thank you @catehodorowicz.bsky.social and the amazing @uncpress.bsky.social team 💙
#LandscapingPatagonia #FirstBook #LatamHist #EnvHist #Chile #Argentina 🗃️🌿
Thank you @catehodorowicz.bsky.social and the amazing @uncpress.bsky.social team 💙
#LandscapingPatagonia #FirstBook #LatamHist #EnvHist #Chile #Argentina 🗃️🌿
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To make it easier to find new and existing members of Bluesky, we're compiling a list of UNC Press authors for easy findability 🦋
Comment to let us know you're here ↙️📚
go.bsky.app/RKSF82c
Comment to let us know you're here ↙️📚
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November 18, 2024 at 7:13 PM
To make it easier to find new and existing members of Bluesky, we're compiling a list of UNC Press authors for easy findability 🦋
Comment to let us know you're here ↙️📚
go.bsky.app/RKSF82c
Comment to let us know you're here ↙️📚
go.bsky.app/RKSF82c
Check out UNC spring books, including my forthcoming Searching for Memory: Aluízio Palmar and the Shadow of Dictatorship in Brazil.
The 2025 Spring/Summer UNC Press frontlist catalog is here! —featuring new 📚, all available now for preorder from your favorite book retailer.
Spring/Summer 2025 Seasonal Catalog Listing - University of North Carolina Press
Welcome to the UNC Press Spring/Summer 2025 Seasonal Catalog. Here you’ll find a listing of our new books scheduled to be published between February 2025
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November 19, 2024 at 1:39 AM
Check out UNC spring books, including my forthcoming Searching for Memory: Aluízio Palmar and the Shadow of Dictatorship in Brazil.
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Starter packs for #skytorians! 🗃️
A thread of Historian Starter Packs to help find your communities.
First Pop Culture and Media:
bsky.app/profile/herm...
First Pop Culture and Media:
bsky.app/profile/herm...
As promised, the Popular Culture and Media Studies starter pack! If you work in this realm and would like to be added, just let me know. :) I wanted us all to be able to find each other here.
go.bsky.app/JtBHuwU
go.bsky.app/JtBHuwU
November 9, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Starter packs for #skytorians! 🗃️
To the small number of friends I already have on this site, I'll be moving here permanently soon!
I do think there was a golden age of Twitter, which was great for following politics and building academic networks. Sad that it ended a long time ago. Finally moving on.
I do think there was a golden age of Twitter, which was great for following politics and building academic networks. Sad that it ended a long time ago. Finally moving on.
November 9, 2024 at 11:11 AM
To the small number of friends I already have on this site, I'll be moving here permanently soon!
I do think there was a golden age of Twitter, which was great for following politics and building academic networks. Sad that it ended a long time ago. Finally moving on.
I do think there was a golden age of Twitter, which was great for following politics and building academic networks. Sad that it ended a long time ago. Finally moving on.
🚨 Job alert🚨 We're hiring at McGill -- a joint position in International Development Studies and Anthropology. Please circulate widely!
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October 6, 2023 at 4:07 PM
🚨 Job alert🚨 We're hiring at McGill -- a joint position in International Development Studies and Anthropology. Please circulate widely!
mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill...
mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill...