I’m mid cleaning this up again after a small technical glitch and close to 2000 signatures from just UK academics! Would be great to get over that line before it’s published…

““No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,”

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

#handsoff2025

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

@coopnytimes.bsky.social Read this book and tell LEAH too - she will love it!! @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social motifri.com/book-review-...

CFP for MLA 2026: Health Humanities and the Maternal Imagination. We welcome 300-word proposals that explore narratives about the maternal imagination in relation to health humanities. mla.confex.com/mla/2026/web...
Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 20 March 2025
@shnidhi.bsky.social

❤️#shakira

Thrilled to be offering Untitling Shakespeare Workshop (69) at the Shakespeare Association of America on Saturday, March 22 4:30-6:30 PM. Keith Hamilton Cobb, Jessica Burr and participants will be looking at the beginning of 12th Night. Auditors Welcome! shakespeareassociation.org/annual-meeti...

Dogs of December

Whoa.

“But when the college committees were evaluating faculty with lower h-indices, evidence of bias against Black and Hispanic scholars surfaced—especially for women. In those situations, “underrepresented minorities, particularly women of color, are held to a different standard,” Madera says.”

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Public disappointment with universities has reached epidemic proportions. Christopher Newfield suggests the answer lies in redefining #HigherEducation around intellectual and social benefits, not monetary ones.
Join us Mon, 11/18, @ 4pm EST on Zoom - register:
websites.umass.edu/feinberg/nov... 🗃️

spread the word / vertel het rond:

Looking for 2 enthusiastic book- and/or art historians to come join the team of the NWO OC Research Project "Images on the Move. Early Modern Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks (1550-1700)

www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

Hello, lovely new followers. I write novels, often historical. THE CONTINUITY GIRL was published by Unbound in 2018. It is set to be released again by @breakthroughbook.bsky.social in 2025. Meanwhile, I’m working on a follow up in which the plot revolves around the creation of this indelible image.

I feel like this article is late to the game. And I wish that more news outlets had been highlighting this inevitability all along. Every single proposal mentioned is harmful to education and human beings. 🥲 www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/u...

"On Citational Justice"

Essential reading for all scholars of health and medical humanities, by @travisclau.bsky.social for Synapsis Journal

This article has already stimulated such great discussion at IMH, I recommend it without hesitation!

medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/02/08/o...

It’s important to push back on the entire framework wherein individual academic programs are evaluated based on cash flow. Universities are *nonprofits* and the goal is to provide excellence in an educational and research ecosystem. This means some subunits *should* subsidize others.

Friends in England - David Sterling Brown has a series of events on his fabulous new book, Shakespeare’s White Others

15 Feb, Cambridge UP Bookshop Author Event: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/author-eve...

Just finished this powerful book. Every page is brilliant! I loved listening to Patty Krawec’s voice while walking and thinking about the land.