Alexandra Steinlight

insane story, this - a note was sent over the summer to the cleaners of the RATP (Parisian equivalent of TfL) asking them to remove all plastic water bottles from the bathrooms in case they were being used by Muslim staff to do ablutions before prayers???

Seems bad!

The ADL has decided to treat fascists as allies and progressives as enemies. For a group that is tasked with protecting American Jews, that is a world historic fuck up.

I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.

Kid at kindergarten drop-off this morning with monogrammed backpack with initials “WMD.” Tell me your political consciousness wasn’t formed in 2003 without telling me

One like, one Presses universitaires de France book cover from the 1990s

Thing I am an absolute complete total reactionary about: there has not actually been invented a better model of conveying information in a learning environment than the basic structure of a traditional lecture. A speaker standing in some sort of unique focal point for the attention of listeners...

As a historian, I have been curious (and appalled) by this choice of pseudo. The interpretation below is quite common, but not in fact correct. It was an 1865 law (sénatus-consulte) that made “Muslim Algerians” (a racial category divorced from actual faith) French nationals without citizenship 1/

AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums "This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”

'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'

The slippage from bagel to croissant is disturbing, dangerous even

found out tonight through some slightly random googling that Charlemagne is known as "Karl der Große" in German, a fact I find to be hateful and undignified

“The Left controls universities”

🗃️ Sad news of Pierre Nora’s passing away.

Watch out bosses, the 5 year old has turned his attention to labor organizing

The tragic landslide in Blatten gives me the excuse to tell you the story of how we found out Ice Ages existed. It's a cool story and the most important bit is rather similar to what's happening now.

very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

What is the Bumpsy Grind, you ask? Evidently it is “an old-timey dance”

A COMPLETE UNKNOWN was mediocre if entertaining, but it did afford me the opportunity to learn that @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social thought “threw the bums a dime in your prime” was “do the Bumpsy Grind”

Sasson thanks, excluding family, some 250 people for help in producing her book. It began life as a dissertation written at Berkeley under the supervision of Thomas Laqueur and James Vernon, whose students have done so much to document the way neoliberalism shaped every aspect of British life - financial markets, town plan-ning, culture, humanitarianism. (Sasson thanks Berkeley faculty and graduate stud- ents, and 52 'fellow travellers of the mind and the archives' for support and encouragement.) She then took up a Past&Present postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research and a research affiliation at Cambridge,and thanks a host of scholars, seminar conveners and journal editors on both sides of the Atlantic for feedback during these years. She 'really began writing this book', though, as an assistant professor at Emory University inAtlanta - and thanks some forty to fifty Emory faculty members, students and staff for providing everything from 'the time and resources to work on the book' to mentorship and camaraderie. She thanks senior scholars (including Vernon) for flying in for a workshop on the manuscript and colleagues at Virginia,Yale,Stanford,Princeton,Manchester and Harvard for comments on talks. She thanks the peer reviewers for PrincetonUniversity Press (among them Baughan) and the editors and indexers who saw it into print. Sasson has recently taken up a job at Oxford.We all need conversation, and exchange and support, but these acknowledgments gave me pause. Sasson has let too many people leave their sticky fingerprints on her book; it would be better if it were less critical of'non-profits' and more self-reflective about the academy and its disciplining work. Admittedly, nothing is harder than clearing your mind of the frameworks and paradigms of the moment, but it is crucial to try. We want to address issues relevant to our time, of course, but to what extent? If we can't think our way outside it, the hive mind just speaks through us

“has let too many people leave their sticky fingerprints on her book”

wtf?

i finally read pedersen’s review of sasson’s ‘the solidarity economy’ and i just think there’s just a fundamental disagreement about scholarship, community, and gratitude here

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Outrageous behavior from the chief of Harvard University Press and kudos to the Crimson for exposing this.

It was both enormous fun and a real privilege to get to work on this issue. We hope it is worthy of its subject!

Finally, French Studies and its Publics opens out from scholarship and mentoring and considers the stakes of public engagement and the migration of ideas and texts across the Atlantic. Intro by Sarah Griswold and essays that follow by Laura Frader, @artgoldhammer.bsky.social, and Eric Fassin.

The State and Expertise dossier features an intro by Ed Berenson and contributions from Evan Spritzer, Aro Velmet, Nicole Rudolph, and Phil Nord, all exploring the questions at the heart of Herrick's own scholarly work.

The issue comprises three thematic dossiers--on Herrick's mentoring, scholarship, and the role of the French Studies scholar. The first, The Politics of Mentorship, features an intro by @profmarylewis.bsky.social and essays by Elizabeth Campbell, Molly Nolan, Alice Conklin, and Emmanuelle Saada.

Thrilled to share this very special issue of French Politics, Culture & Society in honor of Herrick Chapman that I co-edited with Nicole Rudolph. The intro is open access: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

At least he kept the borders safe??

Help, my child is reading royalist propaganda

among other things, this is literally and explicitly an affirmative action program for conservatives - galling to announce this at a time when any efforts to support and encourage research by women and students of color is branded illegal DEI