Laura Mason

Yes! Tell them you'll break for pizza halfway through. They won't think about Bollywood, cricket, or colonial tax collection in the same way again. (To say nothing of encouraging them to think in many interesting ways about how to "write" imperial lives)

Apparently AI will also save us from proper syntax. Shouldn't that last sentence be: "Because when everyone does, no one does"?

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

Columbia Boycott

docs.google.com/document/d/1....
Addresses the sacking, if not the police funding

File under: no good comes of corporatizing universities.
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

Marking Passover by creating new plagues.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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

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/

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/

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.

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-...

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.

I would argue that women of color are bearing a disproportionate burden. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/30/h...
The Times has run a number of stories over the past year about declining resources & maternal mortality among Black mothers.

Sounds like the makings of a great assignment-- what would a not-depressing (happy? hopeful? uplifting?)-- history look like? Can the student write one? It's a great way to investigate the relationship between evidence and opinion.