UofT ranked 16th in US News & World Report global university rankings (and 5th in social sciences & public health) ….
23.06.2025 21:52 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0@ronlevi.bsky.social
Professor at University of Toronto. I study ideas, claims, and competitions over law and justice, often in turbulent, disrupted, violent & unsettled times. Direct labs on antisemitism and on justice systems under stress.
UofT ranked 16th in US News & World Report global university rankings (and 5th in social sciences & public health) ….
23.06.2025 21:52 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0So enthusiastic about today's class on comparison, in justice institutions in Europe, at Munk School @uoft.bsky.social Here are 2 quotes from readings -- compared and twinned ! One by Rossi in LRB on twin studies, and the other by Foucault on psyc expert reports from 1955 & 1974.
01.04.2025 15:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How to select two cases or events on justice institutions in Europe? What do we do when we compare ? This week in our course on justice institutions in Europe at Munk School @uoft.bsky.social ! And … two readings. One on twin pairs, and the other on two expert opinions in penal cases!
30.03.2025 23:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1Après l’agression du rabbin d’Orléans, le choc et l’émotion : « Je continuerai à marcher avec fierté »
➡️ https://l.leparisien.fr/ceoo
And next week, in our course on justice institutions in Europe … Witnesses, Publics, Victims, Events ...! We are covering a lot of ground!
23.03.2025 20:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today (20 March), at Lab for the Global Study of Antisemitism at UofT! Eitan D. Hersh, on “The Impact of the Israel-Hamas War on College Students.”
www.jewishstudies.utoronto.ca/events/eitan...
Just a few hours left to submit for social science history conference. Deadline is today! (Conference in Chicago, this November!)
16.03.2025 00:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0very enthusiastic about class next week ! On measurement, in our course on justice institutions in Europe..!
16.03.2025 00:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1פורים שמח !
14.03.2025 01:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Survey of 2000 students in French high school and middle school: 16% of students do not want a Jewish friend. 21% report seeing students hide their Jewish background or religion in school.
www.leparisien.fr/societe/au-c...
«Les juifs se trouvent, encore une fois, au cœur de la crise de la République et de ses valeurs universelles. Ils n’ont pas voulu occuper ce rôle, mais force est de constater qu’au travers de la question juive se joue à nouveau l’avenir moral et politique de notre société. »
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U of T ranked 21st in the world based on its reputation for teaching and research @uoft.bsky.social
www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-ran...
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🏦💰 Plongez-vous dans le dernier numéro de la Revue d'histoire des sciences humaines @edisorbonne.bsky.social, dirigé par Antonin Cohen et Ron Levi sur le thème "Financements et agencements disciplinaires".
⬇️ Accessible en ligne ⬇️
www.ehess.fr/fr/revue/fin...
Hooray ! Thrilled to have this out in the world, w/ Revue d’histoire des sciences humaines! Coedited by Antonin Cohen & myself, on Funding & Disciplinary Arrangements. Brilliant papers, and we introduce with an essay on academic fields, funding, & turbulent times.
journals.openedition.org/rhsh/9627
Our next talk at the Lab for the Global Study of Antisemitism @uoft.bsky.social : Chad Alan Goldberg, on “Antisemitism and American Exceptionalism: Rethinking the Place of the Postwar Era in US History”. 4 March, information here!
www.jewishstudies.utoronto.ca/events/chad-...
In a recent book titled Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory, Bernard E. Harcourt outlines a vision of a cooperative society based on worker and consumer coops and mutual aid. The current political climate, the rise of extremist parties, and the developments on university campuses seem to be pushing society toward conflict and confrontation rather than cooperation. How can we think about cooperation in these conflictual times? Join us on March 14, 2025 from 5:00PM - 6:30PM in the Boardroom and Library of the Munk School at the University of Toronto, aT 315 Bloor St. West, Toronto, M5S 0A7
Bernard E. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and a chaired professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.
Politics nowadays are pushing society toward confrontation rather than cooperation. On March 14, @ronlevi.bsky.social & I are thrilled to host @bernardharcourt.bsky.social for a keynote lecture on working together in these conflictual times. Register & join us: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/cooper...
06.02.2025 18:35 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1אסון
07.10.2023 13:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Just superb.
And you need to get to John Lanchester's sentence: "There’s what you can count, and what sense you can make of what you count, and the lessons to be learned from that are not always what they seem." Perfect.
and and … ?
06.10.2023 13:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0DA DA DA DA, DA DA DA DA DA
06.10.2023 13:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I should probably have a first post...so here's what I'm working on today
Revising/updating my working paper with @matthewakraft.bsky.social on the rise and fall of teaching profession: www.edworkingpapers.com/ai22-679
New teacher licenses still down (by ~100k relative to 2006) in Title II data
I’d like to be only here. I’m happier here. It’s better. But the other place has lots of news agencies & non-North Am commentators, including where I follow events & news closely. I’ve dabbled w/ being active there in other languages, & set my location to another place. Anyone else feeling this?
06.10.2023 13:08 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0I add that we have worked on America First narratives which incited and leveraged a volatile exclusionary populism, & connected with criminal arrests.
06.10.2023 02:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“When Donald Trump said, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” he was cultivating not healthy loyalty but rather destructive defiance …”
06.10.2023 02:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Took some time out to read this today. A brilliant and timeless sociological reminder about sociology. Howie Becker, reflecting on a class taught by Everett Hughes (in What About Mozart? What About Murder?: Reasoning From Cases).
05.10.2023 19:22 — 👍 27 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2so you say. but you managed to do this while sticking with crime, with a 'felony' post.
05.10.2023 15:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0removing headlines from news articles is the funniest thing elon has done so far. crafting an experience where the user is perpetually scrolling through 25 consecutive uncontextualized pictures of donald trump and timothee chalamet and then reading something vaguely antisemitic
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