Karl Appuhn

Eh, whatever.

Mad Billionaire Prions gonna get you.

The idea that this guy has any claim to political legitimacy is laughable.

If this isn't evidence that we are living in a simulation, I don't know what is

Teff, but fair

Today would be a good day for it to happen.

I have the misfortune to be your constituent. I'm not seeing "oppose" "stop immediately" "impeach" or anything else that matters in this message. Do you really think they care about your desire to be consulted?

My mother had a miscarriage because she got mumps.

Off the top of my head I can't think of another field where a substantial number of people in the profession will look you in the eye and say "that's not real, that didn't happen." It's perhaps the oddest part about working on Renaissance, Italy.

Not sure I 100% agree, but he has a point. It's much more of a construction than, say, Civil War and Reconstruction in US history. There are lots of people who will tell you it's a complete fiction.

I was discussing this with someone at the RSA last week. His account was that Renaissance has run its course. That 100-120 years ago it wasn't a category at all (in History), then for some contingent reasons it suddenly became one, and now it is no longer a meaningful category again.

That's not a lament, to be clear. And I don't have a perfect account of why it's so. But it nevertheless is so.

There's a different conversation that one could have about whether Italian Renaissance is even a viable field any longer. I've had some great students in the history department who do excellent work and got jobs. Not a single one works on Italy. I don't think that's a coincidence.

To put it differently, this is an Italian Renaissance problem, not an early modern Europe problem.
I'd also say that your view of my field is a product of where you went to grad school. If you'd gone to one of those other departments, you'd likely see us differently.

At any rate, if you were applying to grad school in, say, 1994, you had at least four or five top departments where the Renaissance historian trained people in that style of scholarship. Today there's maybe one. There'd be two if the person at Hopkins hadn't moved into admin. That's a big change.

There were two other Renaissance historians in my Fulbright cohort in 96, both of whom worked on Neolatin texts. One was Jimmy's student. They both got jobs.
The writing was on the wall for those who cared to read it, but it was still a viable way to go.

The staffing of positions always is a trailing indicator of fashion. But in the 80s and 90s there were still many such people in tenured positions, including his own undergraduate advisor at Duke, Ron Witt. Ron, btw, was a lovely man and one of the nicest people in the profession.

For some reason I'm thinking of when Jack del Rio put an axe and a block of wood in the Jags locker room. That worked great, as I recall.

How long before we start doing die-ins again? Might as well go all in on the '80s nostalgia.

Are you sure you want to hear the details of his restraining order?

Larry
Moe
Curly
Shemp

Are you trying to kill someone?

Puck 'em if they did

The Johns Hopkins University

Yes. That's how we ended up with the world's dumbest reform to our core curriculum while the guy responsible headed on down to Tiger Town.

Most of the time I shrug my shoulders but this one got to me.

Did we ever stop?

That show was simultaneously terrible and awesome. I may or may not have had a lunchbox.

These are crimes against humanity. We're going to need bigger courtrooms.

The University did agree not to use Donald out of state. But it was basically a win, courtesy of an undergrad history major.