Uma Kumar
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Uma Kumar
@umakumar.bsky.social
· Sep 25
UBC
cenes.ubc.ca
Please join us today, 12:30 pm for our first online Ziegler Lecture 2025-26, focusing on the theme of ‘networks’. Dr. Jeremy Bryant will talk on “From fin de siècle Vienna to the ends of the earth: the legacy of secular Jewish social networks (a case study)”.
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Please join us on Jan 22 for a talk by Dr. Matache on Anti-Roma Racism in European and Global Studies
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UBC
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December 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Please join us on Jan 22 for a talk by Dr. Matache on Anti-Roma Racism in European and Global Studies
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
Such an amazing idea!
Philosophizing and essay-writing with the UBC Ballpoint Society via @ubyssey.ca ubyssey.ca/culture/phil...
Philosophizing and essay-writing with the UBC Ballpoint Society
What might seem to a post-class loiterer to be the nervous energy of an evening midterm was, in fact, the first student-run essay competition hosted by the UBC Ballpoint Society.
ubyssey.ca
November 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Such an amazing idea!
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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
Please join us today, 12:30 pm for our first online Ziegler Lecture 2025-26, focusing on the theme of ‘networks’. Dr. Jeremy Bryant will talk on “From fin de siècle Vienna to the ends of the earth: the legacy of secular Jewish social networks (a case study)”.
cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...
cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...
UBC
cenes.ubc.ca
September 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Please join us today, 12:30 pm for our first online Ziegler Lecture 2025-26, focusing on the theme of ‘networks’. Dr. Jeremy Bryant will talk on “From fin de siècle Vienna to the ends of the earth: the legacy of secular Jewish social networks (a case study)”.
cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...
cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...
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An amazing story.
“I knew nothing about my family history until then...Nobody ever spoke about it.” But that day, she explains, she knew she wanted to find the truth, no matter how dark and shameful.
📰Our latest exhibition was featured in this weekend's @telegraphnews.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/8752340...
📰Our latest exhibition was featured in this weekend's @telegraphnews.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/8752340...
‘I tracked down the family of the estate my Nazi great grandparents looted. Here’s what I told them’
After discovering a hidden family history – and some stolen furniture – one woman was determined to make amends
www.telegraph.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
An amazing story.
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Reminder this event for #pridemonth is in five days, online, in English. You need to register via email to Nora Hogrefe.
On 29 July at 6m CEST I participate in an online English language event on Gad Beck. Hani Portner will speak about their work in getting Beck an honorary grave, I will speak about my new research into Beck's queerness, sexual barter, and testimony. You can register via an email to Nora Hogrefe.
July 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Reminder this event for #pridemonth is in five days, online, in English. You need to register via email to Nora Hogrefe.
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how different would academia be if we valued community impact more than perceived global impact. What if the distinguished professors were distinguished first by making their region / state / students' lives directly better rather than the acceptance quality of an Elsevier journal article.
July 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
how different would academia be if we valued community impact more than perceived global impact. What if the distinguished professors were distinguished first by making their region / state / students' lives directly better rather than the acceptance quality of an Elsevier journal article.
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The thing about this article: there are *plenty* of migrants who want to move to these areas (eg in places like Brandenburg and Saxony in Germany) but too many of the locals have fascist sympathies and hound them out. That is a major problem, unaddressed in this piece.
The fight to revive Europe’s shrinking rural areas
The fight to revive Europe’s shrinking rural areas
Across the continent, remote villages are fading amid declining births and residents departing for greater opportunity in urban centres
www.ft.com
July 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The thing about this article: there are *plenty* of migrants who want to move to these areas (eg in places like Brandenburg and Saxony in Germany) but too many of the locals have fascist sympathies and hound them out. That is a major problem, unaddressed in this piece.
... policy matters. Through long-term commitment to social housing and limited privatisation, housing can be made better and more affordable. Takeaway for cities like #Vancouver
Vienna has been declared a renters’ utopia – and it’s easy to see why | Justin Kadi
Vienna has been declared a renters’ utopia – and it’s easy to see why | Justin Kadi
Social housing makes up almost half of the city’s 1m homes. The system isn’t perfect, but it gets a lot of things right, says housing expert Justin Kadi
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
... policy matters. Through long-term commitment to social housing and limited privatisation, housing can be made better and more affordable. Takeaway for cities like #Vancouver
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Vienna has been declared a renters’ utopia – and it’s easy to see why | Justin Kadi
Vienna has been declared a renters’ utopia – and it’s easy to see why | Justin Kadi
Social housing makes up almost half of the city’s 1m homes. The system isn’t perfect, but it gets a lot of things right, says housing expert Justin Kadi
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Vienna has been declared a renters’ utopia – and it’s easy to see why | Justin Kadi
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Perhaps a good time to re up the New Fascism Syllabus, an online repository of resources on neofascism, populism, and authoritarianism, including a research repository and relevant secondary literature.
newfascismsyllabus.com
newfascismsyllabus.com
July 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Perhaps a good time to re up the New Fascism Syllabus, an online repository of resources on neofascism, populism, and authoritarianism, including a research repository and relevant secondary literature.
newfascismsyllabus.com
newfascismsyllabus.com
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Let us just collectively stop reading the NYT. Journalism is dead there.
July 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Let us just collectively stop reading the NYT. Journalism is dead there.
"Among the 87 sammelans so far, only four have been chaired by women writers. Now, Banu Mushtaq becomes the fifth to receive this honour," www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...
June 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
"Among the 87 sammelans so far, only four have been chaired by women writers. Now, Banu Mushtaq becomes the fifth to receive this honour," www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...
Children from rural areas should not feel embarrassed. They should focus on gaining knowledge and speak confidently in their own language.” Bhanu Mushtaq, #Booker prize winner
Read more at: www.deccanherald.com/india/karnat....
Read more at: www.deccanherald.com/india/karnat....
Language Confidence: Banu Mushtaq Urges Youth Not to Feel Inferior Without English Fluency
Cultural Voices: Booker winner Banu Mushtaq encourages Kannada-medium students to value knowledge and language pride over English fluency.
www.deccanherald.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Children from rural areas should not feel embarrassed. They should focus on gaining knowledge and speak confidently in their own language.” Bhanu Mushtaq, #Booker prize winner
Read more at: www.deccanherald.com/india/karnat....
Read more at: www.deccanherald.com/india/karnat....
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A message from the Toronto Public Library
June 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A message from the Toronto Public Library
I recommend Heart Lamp: Selected Stories to everyone, but especially those working on #multilingualism. This is a collection of short stories by Indian writer Banu Mushtaq, originally written in Kannada between 1990 & 2023. Now an International Booker winner. english.metrovaartha.com/life/people/...
Banu Mushtaq: lawyer, Kannada writer, feminist and now International Booker winner
New Delhi | She's a lawyer, an activist, a feminist. And a writer in Kannada who distils it all in her stories that are deeply reflective of the lives of women
english.metrovaartha.com
June 29, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I recommend Heart Lamp: Selected Stories to everyone, but especially those working on #multilingualism. This is a collection of short stories by Indian writer Banu Mushtaq, originally written in Kannada between 1990 & 2023. Now an International Booker winner. english.metrovaartha.com/life/people/...
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Good interview with the two directors from A Land for All
archive.is/9DLcx
archive.is/9DLcx
June 25, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Good interview with the two directors from A Land for All
archive.is/9DLcx
archive.is/9DLcx
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I think it would be good to get some women in charge of the countries that have nuclear weapons. Women talk to each other. Women can be reasonable. Enough with the macho men and swinging dicks.
June 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I think it would be good to get some women in charge of the countries that have nuclear weapons. Women talk to each other. Women can be reasonable. Enough with the macho men and swinging dicks.
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I am so sick of seeing people respond to anti-war posts with "so you want Iran to have nuclear weapons?"
Believe it or not, there are lots of ways to prevent nuclear proliferation that don't include starting wars. The choices are not limited to "bomb residential buildings" or "nuclear armageddon."
Believe it or not, there are lots of ways to prevent nuclear proliferation that don't include starting wars. The choices are not limited to "bomb residential buildings" or "nuclear armageddon."
June 14, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I am so sick of seeing people respond to anti-war posts with "so you want Iran to have nuclear weapons?"
Believe it or not, there are lots of ways to prevent nuclear proliferation that don't include starting wars. The choices are not limited to "bomb residential buildings" or "nuclear armageddon."
Believe it or not, there are lots of ways to prevent nuclear proliferation that don't include starting wars. The choices are not limited to "bomb residential buildings" or "nuclear armageddon."
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hey a small request:
don't use fucking LLMs or generative "A.i." for anything. they destroy your brain. they're wide open to manipulation by right wing billionaires. they're full of lies. they're based on theft.
just say no.
don't use fucking LLMs or generative "A.i." for anything. they destroy your brain. they're wide open to manipulation by right wing billionaires. they're full of lies. they're based on theft.
just say no.
May 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
hey a small request:
don't use fucking LLMs or generative "A.i." for anything. they destroy your brain. they're wide open to manipulation by right wing billionaires. they're full of lies. they're based on theft.
just say no.
don't use fucking LLMs or generative "A.i." for anything. they destroy your brain. they're wide open to manipulation by right wing billionaires. they're full of lies. they're based on theft.
just say no.
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