Lale Can
@lalehjoon.bsky.social
Brooklynite, CUNY professor, trying to balance work on exile with some daily doses of beauty.
Author "Spiritual Subjects" (SUP, 2020) https://rb.gy/8likn
Author "Spiritual Subjects" (SUP, 2020) https://rb.gy/8likn
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this is the most powerful and cogent argument I’ve read on why not to rank Cuomo. simply: he hates NYC. Read this thread.
As we head to Election Day, for folks who voted early, thank you. I know some folks have not yet made up their minds. I am making an appeal to you.
Please do not rank Cuomo. I have worked with every single one of the candidates for mayor. I will tell you he does not like us.
Please do not rank Cuomo. I have worked with every single one of the candidates for mayor. I will tell you he does not like us.
June 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
this is the most powerful and cogent argument I’ve read on why not to rank Cuomo. simply: he hates NYC. Read this thread.
This looks so interesting! Cannot wait to read!
Bit of an impulse buy from @dukepress.bsky.social but how can anyone resist a book that is, in part, about “Ottoman debt and finance” — certainly not this guy! www.dukeupress.edu/on-the-semic...
June 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This looks so interesting! Cannot wait to read!
I can’t believe I could just walk to the Süleymaniye on bayram and then have this little creature come sit in my arms in one of the most beautiful places in the world.
June 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I can’t believe I could just walk to the Süleymaniye on bayram and then have this little creature come sit in my arms in one of the most beautiful places in the world.
Nice böyle tatlı anlarla dolu bayramlara
June 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Nice böyle tatlı anlarla dolu bayramlara
Can we please find a way to write articles so we don’t have to cite everything ever written on the topic, and struggle to find ways to nicely say why they’re wrong.
May 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Can we please find a way to write articles so we don’t have to cite everything ever written on the topic, and struggle to find ways to nicely say why they’re wrong.
Canceled all my plans to work on an article and I have one (excellent) introductory paragraph to show for it.
Am still doing life wrong.
Am still doing life wrong.
May 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Canceled all my plans to work on an article and I have one (excellent) introductory paragraph to show for it.
Am still doing life wrong.
Am still doing life wrong.
Levels of ridiculousness I can’t deal with. Now we need people to assign them so AI can make up “book reports” for students who don’t read and professors who don’t grade.
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Levels of ridiculousness I can’t deal with. Now we need people to assign them so AI can make up “book reports” for students who don’t read and professors who don’t grade.
Love to see my book reviewed in the company of great books by Will Smiley and Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky.
Thank you, @mcerovic.bsky.social for your engagement and framing in terms of transimperial history.
Thank you, @mcerovic.bsky.social for your engagement and framing in terms of transimperial history.
Dans le dernier numéro des #Annales
'Pluraliser la #modernité politique. Actualité de l’histoire #transimpériale russo-ottomane (note critique)'
par Masha Cerovic (@mcerovic.bsky.social)
Une note critique à propos de trois ouvrages récents
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
'Pluraliser la #modernité politique. Actualité de l’histoire #transimpériale russo-ottomane (note critique)'
par Masha Cerovic (@mcerovic.bsky.social)
Une note critique à propos de trois ouvrages récents
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
May 18, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Love to see my book reviewed in the company of great books by Will Smiley and Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky.
Thank you, @mcerovic.bsky.social for your engagement and framing in terms of transimperial history.
Thank you, @mcerovic.bsky.social for your engagement and framing in terms of transimperial history.
This man then got on the subway and made jokes involving knight puns for two stops. As a pun-averse person in academia, I don’t think I deserved any of this.
April 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
This man then got on the subway and made jokes involving knight puns for two stops. As a pun-averse person in academia, I don’t think I deserved any of this.
Turned a thousand years old today and walked 12k steps after throwing myself a dinner and can definitely say I feel my age.
April 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Turned a thousand years old today and walked 12k steps after throwing myself a dinner and can definitely say I feel my age.
Just googled “how do you know if your headache is an aneurysm.” Current stress level.
April 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Just googled “how do you know if your headache is an aneurysm.” Current stress level.
Have been screaming inside all day thinking about the kind of person who goes to talks and steals ideas. Then they write - and because no one writes critical book reviews - they get away with it again and again.
April 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Have been screaming inside all day thinking about the kind of person who goes to talks and steals ideas. Then they write - and because no one writes critical book reviews - they get away with it again and again.
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I see a lot of you are worried about your stocks so I’m glad I invested all my money in the one asset that will NEVER decline in value: tulips
April 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I see a lot of you are worried about your stocks so I’m glad I invested all my money in the one asset that will NEVER decline in value: tulips
100% this. I can’t imagine studying languages, doing research, or writing my book without FLAS, Fulbright-Hays, NEH, and the defunct SSRC humanities fellowships. It kills me that grad students and junior scholars don’t have these opportunities.
Pour one out tonight not only for the thousands of fantastic scholars whose NEH grants were wrongly terminated, but also for all of the junior scholars who have never—and now may never in their lifetimes—receive federal support for their research
April 5, 2025 at 7:16 AM
100% this. I can’t imagine studying languages, doing research, or writing my book without FLAS, Fulbright-Hays, NEH, and the defunct SSRC humanities fellowships. It kills me that grad students and junior scholars don’t have these opportunities.
Wondering if I should order a case of Campari — or let tariffs make me into a better Muslim.
April 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Wondering if I should order a case of Campari — or let tariffs make me into a better Muslim.
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Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
December 21, 2024 at 12:49 AM
Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
One of the most poignant, beautifully crafted and shot films I have watched this year.
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Watch Crossing (2024) on MUBI
Lia, a retired teacher from Georgia, learns from her young neighbor, Achi, that her long-lost transgender niece, Tekla, has crossed the border into Turkey. In search of Tekla, Lia travels to Istanbul ...
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December 9, 2024 at 2:10 AM
One of the most poignant, beautifully crafted and shot films I have watched this year.
mubi.com/en/us/films/...
mubi.com/en/us/films/...
Ayat in Ditmas Park is so good! Take your friends and go have amazing Palestinian food.
December 8, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Ayat in Ditmas Park is so good! Take your friends and go have amazing Palestinian food.
This is the most confusing thing I have seen on this site so far. I don’t know anymore what is parody but I’m pretty sure calling this shawarma should be illegal. Am I not being nice? Do I need to stop?
can a man get a “hell yeah” for his thanksgiving lamb shawarma or has the woke left made that illegal
November 30, 2024 at 3:23 AM
This is the most confusing thing I have seen on this site so far. I don’t know anymore what is parody but I’m pretty sure calling this shawarma should be illegal. Am I not being nice? Do I need to stop?
I love when ILL doesn’t allow renewals for a book that not a single other person is likely to use for a decade.
November 28, 2024 at 1:31 AM
I love when ILL doesn’t allow renewals for a book that not a single other person is likely to use for a decade.
Part of my little apartment garden, trying to give me some motivation on a Monday morning
November 25, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Part of my little apartment garden, trying to give me some motivation on a Monday morning
Why are there so many weird accounts on here with no names, descriptions, real photos?
November 24, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Why are there so many weird accounts on here with no names, descriptions, real photos?
Can’t wait to read. Congrats @zozanpehlivan.bsky.social!
November 23, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Can’t wait to read. Congrats @zozanpehlivan.bsky.social!
Have been really down lately but hate-reading something is cheering me up. Sometimes I think you need a nemesis to keep you going.
November 21, 2024 at 2:35 AM
Have been really down lately but hate-reading something is cheering me up. Sometimes I think you need a nemesis to keep you going.
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November 20, 2024 at 12:32 AM
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