David Wacks

New job:

Assistant Professor in Medieval European Art and Architectural History in the World

Brown University

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Job: Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, Binghamton University Deadline: Review of applications will begin November 14, 2025. The Judaic Studies Department and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University invite applications for a tenu...

Job: Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, Binghamton University.
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NEW BOOK - Ross Brann, Moses Maimonides: A Very Short Introduction.
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The buried lede here is that Comegalletas can make maduros.

It's the lastest addition to the Crusade Texts in Translation series!

"The Swan Knight texts of the Old French Crusade cycle"

Translated by Carol Sweetenham
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Come share all your papers! about.hcommons.org Also, you only need an account to upload. If you just want to read and download PDFs, you don't need to register.

Follow @lucykpick.bsky.social and delete your academia not edu account

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
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@miriamposner.com ask Alonso Quijano

Jewish Quarterly Review to become Open Access in 2026 - University of Pennsylvania Press Penn Press and the Katz Center are delighted to announce a new chapter in the history of the Jewish Quarterly Review. Beginning with the winter 2026 issue

Penn Press and @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social are delighted to announce that @thejqr.bsky.social will become fully Open Access beginning with the winter 2026 issue (coming in January)!

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The Speculative Detective Agency A Curious Collection of Mysterious Cases

Consider backing this anthology of fiction on Kickstarter.

SPAN 341 OpenIberiaAmerica SPAN 341 Cultural history Students will work together to develop a shared idea of cultural history, develop criteria for the selection of works for inclusion on the syllabus (choosing from a bank of ...

Here's a sample syllabus for teaching this as an introduction to cultural history - students choose texts and pitch them to the class, choose themes, etc. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

@aljamiadonnie.bsky.social I'd have the students themselves select the texts and have them pitch the class for the text they would like to include as activities for week 1.

openiberiaamerica.hcommons.org has English and Spanish versions (both of which also include the original language of the text) of over 20 premodern Iberian and Latin American texts available to download, alter, and distribute free of charge under a @creativecommons.bsky.social license.

Mother Jones is looking for a fluent Hebrew/English speaker who can help us fact-check some translations -- ideally someone with research/fact check/journalism experience. It would be a few hours of paid work. DM me if interested!

Due 9/1 - Position (tenured) in ancient/late antique Jewish history, religion, and culture at Harvard academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14958

📝 Learn more about UO's finances, our goals for transparency and shared governance, and how to take action against cuts on our faculty website: strengthenuo.org/finance-faqs #WorkersStrengthenUO

Media Advisory – United Academics of the University of Oregon – 08/27/2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Wednesday, August 27, 2025   Contact: Kristy Hammond, UA Staff; Chris Sinclair, UA Communications VP Phone: (541) 636-4714 Email: info@uauoregon.org ; sinclair@uauoregon…

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Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

I'm not reflexively anti-technology. I was always that guy at my uni who was eager to try out some new thing that might be a cool new way for students to learn. But those new things were just tools we could choose to use, they weren't the entire ocean in which we had no choice but to swim.

Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Spanish (Colonial Studies Specialist) job with College of the Holy Cross, Spanish Department | 2000149 The Department of Spanish at the College of the Holy Cross invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in ...

Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Spanish (Colonial Studies Specialist) joblist.mla.org/job/2000149/...

Now that the academic purge is coming for Jewish Studies and Holocaust Studies, can we please stop pretending this has anything to do with "fighting antisemitism?"

The University of Oregon is threatening to lay off many faculty and close entire departments and programs in the humanities. Visit strengthenUO.org for more information, including how you can take action.

If you oppose faculty layoffs at the University of Oregon, you can also send emails to the president, Karl Scholz, and the provost, Christopher Long, as well as Oregon legislators. Just click on this link:

#Edusky
#WarOnEducation
#UniversityOfOregon

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Just sharing the “Xtreme endnotes” assignment @parisnoire.bsky.social mentions here in case anyone else finds it helpful as we begin a new academic year.

FWIW, it’s a purely analog exercise in an AI-freaky world & my students have never not had fun doing it.✌🏽

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Postdoc Opportunity!

The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies is pleased to announce a John W. Baldwin Post-Doctoral Fellowship for a recent Ph.D. whose work focuses on European medieval studies within the global comparative context.

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Black Knights A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature.   In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a different form of racial knowledge than their Europe...

I've been wanting to get @rachelschine.bsky.social 's book, Black Knights, for a while now and just realized it's from the University of Chicago Press and they're having a 75% off ebook sale ending 8/17. Discount code ebook75 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Fuck.