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Inside Issue 8.3: A Q&A on the relationship between historical scholarship and the energy humanities. @imreszeman.bsky.social and @calebwellum.bsky.social facilitated a conversation with Cara Daggett, Bob Johnson, and Jennifer Wenzel on the state of the field.

Link below!

As a historian of the American West, I winced to hear Trump blatantly ignored all our scholarship in his SOTU, prattling on about an "unforgiving wilderness" and "empty" landscapes-- without the slightest acknowledgment of the Indigenous and Mexican presence on these same lands.

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

aesthetics of an antiaesthetic age In collaboration with the new Chicago branch of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, InterCcECT welcomes you to a moderated discussion on immoderate SLOP. From the bulldozing of the White Ho…

chicago!

the Inter Chicago Circle for Experimental Critical Theory partners with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (chicago edition) for a special event this saturday:

Slop Machine: Anna Kornbluh and Kate Wagner on the Aesthetics of Contemporary Fascism

interccect.com/2026/02/16/a...

Tastes “like nothing but also bad” is a true motto for our times.

A box of “sunshine” flavor La Croix

“Sunshine” essenced sparkling water that takes like “wonder” is a recession indicator.

The Misuses of the University - Public Books Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?

“Everyone thinks universities have to do what donors want because they pay the bills. But that gets it backward. Giant donations, he’s come to realize, often increase the university’s bills, generating new operating expenses for projects that have only tenuous links to the university’s core mission”

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math nerds architecture nerds photography nerds lit nerds get it

This two-day workshop will explore several questions. How can environmental history complement or offer alternatives to existing historiographical narratives and periodisations in British history? What new actors, events, or phenomena might come to the fore? How should it foster engagements with places beyond its national borders or with other disciplines? Is environmental history different from longstanding traditions of ‘landscape’ or ‘urban’ histories of Britain? What contributions can historians make to environmental advocacy and policymaking? And how might a focus on the environment reshape teaching in British history? To take part, participants should submit a 300 word proposal for a short ‘position paper’ (approx. 2500 words) that will be pre-circulated at the workshop. These position papers will address the place of environmental approaches and themes within modern British history (1800 to the present) from the perspective of the participant’s own research. Participants will orally summarise their papers at the workshop. The event is free to attend and includes lunch and refreshments. Submissions are welcomed across a range of perspectives and topics, including but not limited to: energy, extraction, non-human actors, pollution, toxicity, rural and urban landscapes, everyday environmental histories (including how they are shaped by class, gender, and race), imperialism and decolonisation, ‘green’ policy, activism, and the political economy of the natural world. Please send proposals and a one-paragraph biography in a single PDF to andrew.seaton@manchester.ac.uk by 15 May 2026. Please also direct enquiries to this address. This event is organised by Dr. Max Long (Oxford) and Dr. Andrew Seaton (Manchester).

CALL FOR PAPERS - Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'.

A two-day workshop organised by @maxlong.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May.

Details in poster below, please share.

It looks as though you need to pay for it, but when you put the ebook in your cart and proceed to payment, it shows up as free.

Fairly sure that the Democratic Party as it stands now will do its part to save ICE from its rightful and overdue demise.

I was never actually brave enough to wear this color on a campus visit though ...

Should add that unlike basically everyone else at my Midwestern university I showed up to campus today because I consider -4 F/-17 C as grey area cold.

Two legs in pink red and blue socks and pink trousers on a floral carpet with the same color scheme

I color coordinated with the rug in my office. I’ve been wearing the suits I bought for campus visits to school because 1. they are wool, 2. an easy way to wear layers in the winter, and 3. they make me look ever so slightly put together.

Timeline cleanse with this recipe.

How big of a pan for the cake? 9x9?

My Mother Devoted her Life to Minneapolis' Korean Service Center--and now ICE and White Supremacists want to wreck it in their racist hatred for Somalis They probably don't even know this place is there but when they find it will probably try to wreck these poor elderly Koreans on the way to wrecking the Somali community

My better half (who is not on BlueSky) wrote this moving essay about the social service center for immigrants that her mom founded in MN--now at the epicenter of the MAGA attack on Minneapolis's Somali-American community.

mariemyungoklee.substack.com/p/my-mother-...

I wasn’t born yet either so solidarity!

Kerry James Marshall’s painting Better Homes Better Gardens

One of the best things I did over winter break was go to the Kerry James Marshall incredibly moving retrospective at the Royal Academy. Art history is for everyone. Art is for everyone.

A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country

Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators. ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.

Information on corporate collaborators with ICE.

LexisNexis is a target particularly vulnerable to those in academia (as students, teachers, researchers)

www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Theory At The Bargaining Table (Vandal Live at UIC) with Dominique Baker & Anna Kornbluh

So much love for the @jckessler.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, & the whole UIC Faculty United, who collectively programmed this event, & then had the generosity & gumption to say, let’s share it with the world, because we are @higheredlabor.bsky.social United.

+ @bakerdphd.bsky.social is 🔥

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Eagle Ed Martin & @EagleEdMartin X.com A confident America! •8 Jesse Kelly • @JesseKellyDC •4h Colonization is one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world and the only reason most don't know this is because they were educated by communists who hate Western civilization. x.com/billnehr/statu...

On X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇

One of my very favorite comfort foods!

There are a lotttt of people here for a frigid late notice protest. CPD bike cops hanging out across the street for now.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The End of Academia. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. A Roundtable of Scholars Fired or Suspended by their Universities for Opposing Genocide and Colonialism in Palestine

Scholars Fired/Suspended for Opposing Genocide in Palestine Featuring: Eric Cheyfitz (suspended, Cornell), Jodi Dean (reinstated, Hobart & William Smith), Maura Finkelstein (formerly, Muhlenberg), Sang Hea Kil (formerly, San Jose State), Ramsi Woodcock (suspended, U Kentucky)
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sliwa correctly understanding that mamdani ran a very traditional campaign and thus surpassing the analytical ability of 80% if people who comment on politics for a living