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Michael Shannon To Star In THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI Remake Michael Shannon will star as the titular villain in a contemporary take on THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI from AS ABOVE, SO BELOW's John Erick Dowdle.

Michael Shannon will star as the titular villain in a contemporary take on THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI from AS ABOVE, SO BELOW's John Erick Dowdle.

How UVA’s presidential search missed what took us an hour to find Inside Higher Ed frames the controversy surrounding Scott C. Beardsley's appointment as the University of Virginia's president.

A blistering critique of UVA’s presidential search process that also raises some serious concerns about Beardsley’s resume. That guy has got to go.

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This is a perverse form of credentialing that universities provide to those that hate it the most

Kathleen Canning has a chapter in Gender History in Practice

Saw them racing up Preston at 3 on the dot

They did what they wanted to do.

Re recent news, is it "capitulation" or "appeasement" if two parties work together to achieve a set of shared goals? I believe there's another word for this

Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed From cabaret songs inspired by Buster Keaton to Mickey Mouse's diagnosis as a “melo-maniac,” Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed explores the extr…

Congratulations to our very own Paul Flaig on the publication of his book: Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed - out today with Bloomsbury, in the World Cinema series edited by Lúcia Nagib and Julian Ross

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/weimar-sl...

The Palmyra CVS? Oof. It did seem like their computer was slowing everything down, I guess got lucky having an early appointment.

At first couldn't get a prescription, then did. Had an appointment at Walgreens, but they had run out. Ended up going to CVS Minute Clinic in Palmyra, which did not require prescription. All told lost a good number of hours over the last 2 weeks trying to figure it out

Ridiculous. Anecdotally I heard Walgreens was administering without Rx, but if they don't have them...

Warning that Cville Walgreens is out of COVID vaccine. Their appointment system is disconnected from their inventory, so making an appointment does NOT mean they actually have it

Very honored and excited to be featured at this event next year 🙏

Thank you @mharrabin.bsky.social and @lawrencealexander.bsky.social

Update #2: RN at UVA Primary Care Pantops said they can now send COVID vaccine prescriptions to local pharmacies

My appointment at Employee Primary Care was cancelled. I was told they don't have the vaccine, and even if they did they wouldn't administer it because they are not my primary care location

Oh interesting, thanks for the tip!

Gotta find a weed doctor for a gd COVID vaccine. My god.

What are we supposed to do? Trying not to freak out here.

I explained my risk factors, my wife's life-changing impacts from two COVID infections. What are we supposed to do?

Screenshot of MyChart message: **Thank you for your message about the COVID-19 vaccine. At this time, we are awaiting guidance from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP/CDC) before we are able to plan how to address this for our patients this fall. As soon as we have more information, we will be sure to share it with you. We understand this uncertainty may be distressing, and please know we are working diligently to provide updates as soon as possible.** - UVA Primary Care

Message from UVA Primary Care. UVA will not give a prescription for COVID vax (which CVS and Walgreens seem to require in VA) and will not do so until Sept 18-19 ACIP meeting. After which RFK's stacked ACIP will likely make it significantly harder for anyone to get the vax. Am I understanding this?

UVA wouldn't give me a prescription today. Apparently haven't decided their policy yet.

They want to saturate society with violence and the threat of violence. The virus can reach places other agents can't. It will maim and kill, but it will also force many people out of society and everyone else will have to accept the increased risk of simply being with others

Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’ A close associate of the HHS secretary claims the U.S. government will soon pull COVID-19 mRNA jabs from the market.

This can be thought of alongside ICE, deployments in cities, etc. It's straightforwardly eugenic, obviously, but this move would essentially deputize the virus for social repression

www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

GOLDBLATT, LEVY, WILLIAMS: What does it mean for U.Va. to follow the advice of legal counsel? Our University does not have legal counsel independent from the state government nor, in this case, from the Trump administration.

www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

AGAINST AI

teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com

Me - Ray Müller - Leni Riefenstahl...

Congratulations, Molly!

This is a really vicious problem. In a normal world these things would cause BOV to rethink, but instead they are likely acceptable if not desired outcomes

Sage just published this interview I filmed with them last year about ongoing research

"Casualties Fight Back: Left Disability Activism and Film Production in Germany, 1929-1932"

sk.sagepub.com/video/skprom...