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Martin Kavka
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Religion prof, fan (and sometimes hatereader) of fashion and wedding journalism. Nothing I write here represents my employer.

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · 6h
It may just reflect the time I entered the field, but Wilken’s address in my mind publicly marked the field as riven by conflict in a way that had not been the case earlier. But I don’t recall the finer details of Wiebe’s histories of AAR presidential addresses at this moment.

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · 7h
The president does some visionary planning (e.g. picking a theme, splitting the AAR and SBL meetings, bringing them back together), but not day-to-day admin, iirc.

The presidential address ends up in JAAR; the other plenaries do not, and so I’d always thought the prez address was more prestigious.

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · 10h
Also, I’m curious about (a) the presidential address being at the bottom of this list, when one might expect it to be at the top, (b) whether there were internal politics that led to the creation of this new welcoming address by someone whom the President targeted in his address.

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · 10h
Wilken’s presidential address is an important moment in the political history of the field. It was eventually published in JAAR 57:4.

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · 11d
For those seeking a bit of glamor, there is the possibility of spelling one's name with L-with-stroke (borrowed from Polish), and a corresponding change in pronunciation?

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · 12d
You will leave it be, yes?

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Sep 8
Man Is Denied A Loan

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Sep 8
God’s Presence in History Departments

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Sep 4
Time to republish this book in a second edition that contains the line “My slutty pajamas not temptin' him in the least”????

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 31
Very little deciphering skills on my part! On the hunch that the owner might have cited the volume in a publication, I googled “‘patrum apostolicorum’ ‘a. a.’”

Reposted by Annette Yoshiko Reed

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 31
I think it’s A. A. Hobson, who seems to have written a dissertation at Chicago in 1904 on the synoptic problem.

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 28
“Might improvement also be possible?,” he asked as he began work on _Critique of Tom Clancy’s Judgment_.

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 28
Tom Clancy’s Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism.

(OTOH, I heartily look forward to Tom Clancy’s Star of Redemption.)

Reposted by Jacob Montgomery, Rebecca Tushnet, Martin Kavka

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 27
There is nothing outside the score to keep it — Derrida

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 25
Somewhere in my brain is a short short story about Schl, maker of eggs.

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 21
Perhaps. But he *is* only an assistant.

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 21
"managing editor for trust"??!!??!!

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 19
I'd associate Mendelssohn with The Ramones and Cohen with Hüsker Dü, but I respect this list immensely.

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 19
My colleagues and I received an email reminder today about our institution's "resilience tools." There were no emoji in that email, though.

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 13
Frankie Goes To Rancho Cucamonga

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 10
Were you wearing dungarees in a dungeon when this happened?

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 7
Please continue these jokes; otherwise, I will sing to myself "Adam, I'm empty since you left me / Trying to find a way to carry on."

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Jul 30
Can I now start referring to helicopters as pterohelices?

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Jul 30
<Beulah Bondi waves frantically>

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Jul 25
Sometimes, when a boy and a synthesizer love each other very much…

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Jul 23
Thanks for sharing. (I was not expecting the Hegel reference in this essay!)

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Jul 14
Someone has read five books while
snuggling by both Alice Walker *and* Marilynn Robinson!

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Jul 12
I also noted that Joseph Bottum is this fall’s visiting scholar. It’s a possibly gutsy choice. The story of his leaving _First Things_ is still largely untold; I had the (fallible!) sense at that time that the Board of Directors wished to sweep things under the rug.

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Jul 12
Sure. But the well-paidness is not necessarily as obscene as your original post made it seem — some humanists at publics make over 185k — although I believe this salary range to be somewhat obscene within this institution’s ecosystem.