Brian Cowan

Detail of an early modern image of a person blowing a trumpet on a horse backgrounded by words and a sun

For those who missed it: The English Short Titles Catalogue (ESTC) has finally been relaunched with the help of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) following the cyber-attack on the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Find it here: datb.cerl.org/estc/

Shortlist: Wallace K. Ferguson Prize | Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada The CHA is proud to announce the books that are shortlisted for this year’s Wallace K. Ferguson prize. (In alphabetical order). Jacob Blanc, The Prestes Column: An Interior History of Modern Brazil. D...

The CHA is proud to announce the books that are shortlisted for this year’s Wallace K. Ferguson prize! #cdnhist #prize

@asecsoffice.bsky.social will be holding its annual meeting online this year. Looks like it was a good decision.

There is talk along these lines. Alberta is not excited about the idea. Ontario is considering an export ban on power altogether. Quebec can withhold maple syrup supplies!

Let's keep an eye on what the US military does in the next few months. If there's a real purge at the Pentagon, then we all need to seriously worry.

I'm not sure of anything anymore. It is a moment of great contingency, and the old order could collapse as quickly as it did c. 1917-22. Even so, it will take more than a few mad tweets and press conferences to bring it all down.

None of this will happen though.

The Canadian federation would have to be dissolved and incorporated as a new US territory on the Puerto Rico model. Quebec would not join willingly, and might be allowed limited independence. Montreal and the First Nations might opt out and end up as free states or American client states.

They did the mash... (Sorry I couldn't resist)

In case you missed it Cfp for the Defoe conference - as usual also accepting papers on topics related to Defoe and his times. #18thC www.defoesociety.org/conference/

It's very Quebec specific. If you don't hear 'calisse' and 'tabarnak' regularly, it won't hit the same way.

When teaching the English Reformation at a Quebec university, I show an image of the interior of a pre-reformation parish church. Then I say, every swear word in this province can be found in this picture. The joke lands every time.

We're gearing up for #GivingTuesday at @asecsoffice.bsky.social - tomorrow, Dec. 3, 2024. There are so many things that $18 can do in a month for the study of the 18th Century!

THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE IDEA OF THE UNIVERSITY CSECS | Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies The CSECS is pleased to invite you to the first session of its new Online Speakers Series. The focus of this series in 2024-25 will be to discuss equity, diversity, and inclusion, and explor...

I'll be participating in a panel discussion for CSECS on 'The Enlightenment and the Idea of the University' on Friday, 1 November. All are welcome to participate!
www.csecs.ca/en/news/the-...

The IOWC is thrilled that our journal, the JIOWS, is now at the Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social and indexed on Project Muse:

muse.jhu.edu/issue/52905

Check out our very own Philip Gooding's blogpost below, as well as a few recommendations from the journal.

Cross campus green at Yale tonight. Tents have gone up and the mood is peaceful. Police are not near the encampment but of course are not far away. The sign reads 'More afraid of students than bombs'.

Bienecke plaza a few minutes ago. A band was doing a decent cover of Lauryn Hill's Doo Wop (1998).

#18thc friends, are you missing the English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC)?

Nikolai Vogler built a stopgap ESTC when the British Library's went offline. As of 11 Jan this site has entirety of the catalogue (though only core info available for post-1700s records). #GLAM 🗃️ #bookhistory spread the word

What are the best things to read about the Central European University's move from Budapest to Vienna? If written as a how-to manual, all the better.

It's got a very original perspective on a well studied topic.

The latest book in our Cultures of Early Modern Europe series is Monika Barget's Uprisings in Eighteenth-Century Britain. She uses media history to rethink political protest in Georgian Britain. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/uprisings...

Here is an excellent introduction to social network analysis for historians.

Many years later, she could still animate a room full of another generation of graduate students when she came to speak at McGill.

She was one of the greatest. I'll always remember those early morning paleography sessions at Princeton with her (and Paul). She would bicycle in full of more energy than the room full of twenty-somethings combined.

cover proofs just in

So I just joined the blue sky and not less than 24 hours later I learned that Satan is following me. I thought he was too busy ruining X-Twitter.