Daniel Leonhard Purdy

So I am giving up on teaching Baudelaire's The Painter of Modern Life. My grad students all just see him as a creepy, sexist guy lurking on the street. As a student of Susan Buck -Morss, I am taken aback. No longer is he the source of an aesthetics of dandyism, flaneurs, maquilage, modernity etc

Amos Goldberg on Hunger Strike The Israeli Holocaust historian speaks in Jaffa

Amos Goldberg: We come from Jewish history, and Jewish history commands us – "Do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbor." .We cannot read the testimonies from Gaza without recalling the testimonies from the Warsaw Ghetto about hunger...

La memoria collettiva è sempre a breve termine

Men carrying babies, resumed

BREAKING: ICE deported a Burmese man who doesn’t speak English to South Sudan—a country he’s not from and on the brink of civil war. He refused to sign English-only papers.

They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.

Uppsala universitet i brev till regeringen: ”Förhindra folkmord i Gaza” Både rektor och ordförande vill se fördömande av Israels krigsbrott

– Konsistoriet är till stor del direkt utsedda av regeringen. Så när de uppmanar regeringen att agera, smäller det högt.

Artikeln har uppdaterats med en färsk intervju med @nphellstrom.bsky.social, en av initiativtagarna till Uppsaladeklarationen.

NZZ has been populist, pro-Trump for a some years now, as you surely well know. A great disappointment. They once had a fascinating feuilleton page.

Was just teaching the Deutscher Herbst 1977 in English. We marveled at how many of the government tactics and eyewitness concerns about the tyrannical overreach of West German police laws resonate now.

The latest volume in the Penn State University book series: Germans Beyond Europe

In a vast American supermarket, you ask your German sweetheart timidly if she might pick out some bread.
She returns with the statement:

"There is no bread."

Justifications for the Declaration of Independence, include:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences.

Hands Off--2000 strong in State College, PA

1. The account reproduced by John of Winterthur was evidently composed by a Franciscan from Tana who had an antipathy towards the Genoese and tried to make them the main culprits of the subsequent Tatar repressions in 1343.

#mongolsky
#tengri

Apply to the Warnsinck and Crone Fellowships The National Maritime Museum - Register for the Warnsinck and Crone Fellowships 2024

The Amsterdam Maritime Museum has just announced a round of fellowships for PhD holders, PhD candidates, and Master students to conduct research in their collections. It's a fantastic museum with very rich collections, and also Amsterdam...
www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.com/collection/r...

Book promotion is a vital function of social media. I have come to Bluesky in large part to keep up with my scholarly colleagues. In the old Twitter days I learned a great deal about what was happening in the Republic of Digital Letters and am eager to revive that older tradition from five years ago

Finally finished a novel I had started in grad school circa 1986

reminds me of Nirvana's "Come as you are"

Happy to learn that "evolution" derives from the Classical Latin action of unrolling a scroll.

Turn Gaza into Atlantic City, complete with boardwalk and casinos? Real estate development as a crime against humanity.

Sometimes you really can't read another racial theorist. Tonight's tired summary:German racial thinkers: in the first half of the 19th century they are crack-pot gentleman scholars, in the second half they are dangerous nationalists.

Ooh! Ooh! Another opportunity to share the Albert Einstein Institute's offering on this! If you find something that interests you, research that thing . . . www.aeinstein.org/198-methods-...

This is why you don't design curricula around "jobs of the future".

We can't predict the future but we do know what general skills and knowledge will be valuable whatever job you do.

Crushing Contrasts. Teaching the layout of a Carolingian church from 815 while the old Penn State Architecture Building next door gets demolished.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Amongst our weaponry....

The strange loophole that transformed Berlin from tenant’s paradise to landlord’s playground | Tim White Germany’s capital was known for its affordable rents. Now ‘furnished temporary’ flats risk destroying the heart of the city, says researcher and writer Tim White

An explanation for Berlin's high rents
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

YouTube video by Bruce Cockburn - Topic The Coldest Night Of The Year

The coldest night of the year, it would seem-- deserves an old sweet song: Bruce Cockburn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oThO...

Remarkable transcript from 1691 Baltic werewolf trial; also fascinating: how Carlo Ginzburg keeps returning to the same topic.

First day of instruction in the new semester--where's that meme about the teacher hiding under the bed?

Me in a blue dress and a large wooden chain necklace looking at two rare books

Some Rare Bookish News!

Man and dog find 16th c. German books on the Chicago sidewalk; I (eventually) find their rightful owner! www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/22/c...