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Laura Mason
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History & critical film studies (France). Author of The Last Revolutionaries; editor of Imaginaries. Flaneuse. Speaking only for myself.
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Breaking: a judge in GA ordered that the fed'l gov't CANNOT pull the visas of foreign students. The order applies ONLY to students who are part of the lawsuit. If you want to join the lawsuit, reach out to: ckuck@immigration.net and dclaffey@immigration.net youtu.be/FS6B8CM8uf4
April 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
File under: no good comes of corporatizing universities.
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
April 22, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Is anyone following arrests and suspensions at Columbia and Barnard? Shafik is usually the focus but worth noting that Barnard Pres Rosenbury is responsible for the majority of student suspensions. As of now, roughly 2% of the Barnard student body has been suspended without investigation or hearing.
April 22, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Read and remember these names. These are the people whose electoral opponents we should support through the summer and fall.

www.jezebel.com/145-gop-memb...
March 1, 2024 at 4:38 AM
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NEW: Nearly 150 Republicans in Congress asked the Supreme Court to slash access to the abortion pill by ending telehealth prescriptions—even in states w/ legal abortion. They cite the Comstock Act of 1873 which bans mailing abortifacients. Full list of lawmakers here:
www.jezebel.com/145-gop-memb...
145 GOP Members of Congress Ask Supreme Court to Slash Access to the Abortion Pill - Jezebel
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
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February 29, 2024 at 9:22 PM
The assault on academe moves north. As part of its "restructuring," Manhattan College is eliminating tenured positions and pressuring faculty to leave.

www.chronicle.com/article/as-m...

Sign the petition of concern: chng.it/tv4RJk5bjc
January 17, 2024 at 2:10 PM
I am pleased to announce a new issue of Imaginaries. "Ethical Scholarship: An Imaginaries Reading List for the Israel-Palestine Conflict" includes links to past reviews of fictions and memoirs about relations between Jews and Muslims in the French-speaking world.
h-france.net/imaginaries/
January 13, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Pleased to announce a new issue of Imaginaries, devoted to film adaptations of classic novels. Two by Balzac-- Lost Illusions and Eugénie Grandet-- and one by Joseph Zobel-- La Rue Cases-Nègres
h-france.net/imaginaries/
November 5, 2023 at 10:16 PM
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Graduate advisors have a responsibility to support doctoral students who increasingly pursue non-professorial careers.
Join us for "More than a Safety Net--A Bridge," a
@WestFrenchHist
event on 11/9 at 10am EST. Link to registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/more-than-...
More than a Safety Net--A Bridge: Mentoring Beyond Academia
A flipped conversation with current PhD students moderating a panel of faculty on supporting those with non-professorial careers.
www.eventbrite.com
November 3, 2023 at 3:23 PM
We were so fortunate to have this dazzling woman before our eyes for so long. What an inspiration she was, and will continue to be.
Deeply sorry to learn of the death of Natalie Zemon Davis, the most brilliant early modern historian of our time, influence on every one of us, and my teacher and mentor for my whole life as a historian. She was extraordinary.
October 23, 2023 at 8:47 PM