Chris Warren

Third Person Limited

Here's another fun announcement. You can now access the first three episodes of Third Person Limited, a podcast on books and culture that I have been working on with my friend, Mason. thirdpersonlimited.com

A schematic of an explanation of a rainbow from Descartes' "A Discourse on Method" showing a man looking out on an arc of light standing visibly in front of him.

Here's a nice announcement. I just turned in the final draft for my first academic book, 'Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds: Finding Descartes on the Early Modern Stage' to be published with Edinburgh University Press next year.

screenshot of an e-book with PROOFS across the background. The title of the chapter is "Catherine Sanger, Publisher in Bartholomew Close (1687 - c.1731) by Kate Ozment. Opening lines are "Catherine Sanger (active 1713–1717) was a publisher in London who sold literary and religious texts with her husband, Egbert Sanger. Catherine has, until this article, been rendered invisible by a combination of limited traces of her labour, assumptions of masculinity, and scholarly disinterest. This profile details Sanger’s life and contributions to English print history and the methods through which her contributions were recovered as a model for future work."

it's proofs day 😍 Introducing Catherine Sanger. This is another woman publisher that I found after an editor assumed traces of her labor in the English Short Title Catalogue were a typo. A [sic] was put next to her initial, and I spent weeks combing through Ancestry to figure out who she is.

oh hey this looks cool ;)

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I'm so excited for the Pittsburgh Review of Books!

thanks for thinking of me - seems like he's found what he needed

🚨 Discourse alert!!! What should you teach engineers who have never read a critique of modernity before? 😰😳

I’d be tempted to throw them right in the deep end with Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History

Carnegie Mellon’s Department of English is thrilled to announce an exciting new PhD program in Computational Cultural Studies. We will begin to accept applications this Fall with an inaugural cohort to begin in 2026.
www.cmu.edu/dietrich/eng...

Carnegie Mellon’s Department of English is thrilled to announce an exciting new PhD program in Computational Cultural Studies. We will begin to accept applications this Fall with an inaugural cohort to begin in 2026.
www.cmu.edu/dietrich/eng...

To save UK higher education, start talking about knowledge - Research Professional News Until debate on universities foregrounds their core purposes, their woes will deepen, says Margot Finn

Now emancipated from its paywall.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Thanks, Sarah! Hope we can cook some cool stuff up together!!👨🏻‍🍳👩‍🍳

some personal news www.cmu.edu/dietrich/new...

What SHAPE graduates do The British Academy has released analysis of what social sciences, humanities, and arts graduates do after graduation. Pablo Roblero and Alfie Denness introduce the findings

As the debate continues about the value of humanities, arts and social sciences degrees, we have published a new toolkit that captures the vital contributions of SHAPE graduates to society, culture and the economy.

It's covered here on WonkHE: buff.ly/pB45bCX

Dive in here: buff.ly/WU6xBzT

PL, Areopagitica, Tenure of Kings and Magistrates

cc @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social

Europe Makes a Pitch to Attract Scientists Shunned by the U.S.

““Nobody could imagine a few years ago that one of the great democracies of the world would eliminate research programs on the pretext that the word ‘diversity’ appeared in its program,” President Emmanuel Macron of France said on Monday.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/w...

For anyone in and around Oxford today, you can find me speaking about @print-and-prob.bsky.social at this Digital Humanities showcase at Jesus College at 5pm www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/digital-hub-...

Keep your brain busy over the summer with this lecture series, available in-person or over Zoom! Professor @chrisvvarren.bsky.social speaks on July 30.

A vertically oriented white graphic has red and black text on it. At the top it reads “Rare Book School at the University of Virginia 2025 Summer Lecture Series”. Below this, a vertical black bar on the left has vertical white text in caps reading, “JUNE” and “JULY”. To the right of this in black and red are the names and talk titles of the summer lectures. At the bottom, a dark red bar has a QR code and a URL leading to rarebookschool/programs/lectures.

Rare Book School is thrilled to announce this summer’s lecture series at the University of Virginia. All talks are free and open to the public.

For the first time, RBS also will offer an option to attend virtually via Zoom livestream. Details at rarebookschool.org/lectures.

Um, I was told using fire emojis meant I didn’t have to try to parse ambiguous pronouns?

🔥 🔥 "The Executive may succeed for a time in weakening the courts, but over time history will script the tragic gap between what was and all that might have been, and law in time will sign its epitaph." 🔥 🔥

great scoop @johnismay.bsky.social

Carnegie Mellon student with one semester left learns his visa was revoked with no explanation Local universities and colleges across the country continue to report international student visas being revoked.

This international student is incredibly brave for going on the record about his visa suddenly being revoked, including how he has one semester left and his mom has terminal cancer: www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

I see folks saying NEH ODH is “dissolved” but I don’t think the screenshot circulating exactly warrants that inference. It may be cold comfort, but it seems to me there’s still daylight between grants being cancelled and the full scale “dissolution” of the office?

yes that episode did change my view of the current debates. thanks for treating it with such nuance @pjvogt.bsky.social

what an absolute disgrace

If anyone wants a horrible python program that will write integers in cuneiform sexegesimal (base sixty) using unicode so you can paste it all over the place in emails, documents and text messages I have just the thing. Use with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plimpton_322

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Heartbreaking to see this. Programs like DH Advancement Grants, Dangers & Opportunities, and Institutes (IATDH) have been essential for expanding computational knowledge to humanities fields & enriching computational fields with humanities knowledge.