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CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

I'm co-hosting this event, titled "Values of Waste," with Alistair Cartwright at the University of Liverpool in two weeks! Please come if you happen to be in the area! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/values-of-...

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

Unfortunately only found in the finest supermarkets of Champaign, Illinois.

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

“Mr. Rowan, who is chief executive of Apollo Global Management, and Stephen A. Schwarzman, the chief executive of Blackstone — are helping shape seismic discussions related to the Trump administration’s campaign to upend American campuses.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

A package of Selena Gomez Oreos and a box of specialty pasta on the grocery store conveyor

I have reached peak adult.

Mohsen Mahdawi and Mahmoud Khalil outside Columbia’s (locked) gates on the eve of their possible deportation

If this is opposition, what would surrender look like? In a long line of inept, morally-compromised Democratic leaders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are peerless

"In a long line of inept, morally-compromised Democratic leaders, Schumer and Jeffries are among the weakest the party has yet produced. That both remain in their positions at all is itself a searing indictment of America’s would-be progressive alternative."
www.lukewsavage.com/p/if-this-is...

Trump says $500m deal reached with Harvard to settle dispute US president says ‘Linda is finishing up the details’ but not clear whether university ready to announce agreement

A sad day not only for Harvard, but all academia, if true-- especially since Trump's actions are illegal and American universities keep winning in court.

Trump says $500 million settlement with Harvard reached.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

When the overhead projector would come out …

This is what Blair’s team created together with BCG

Not a single one of our institutions has any intention of protecting its faculty or defending the integrity of intellectual inquiry at this moment. This is of the most disturbing versions of that story I’ve read: it keeps getting worse and worse as you go

I have fond memories of a class that was exactly that in undergrad.

One I teach to undergrads is Dell Upton's "White and Black Landscapes in 18th Century Virginia" from Places, but personally I think chapters of books like Hanchett's Sorting Out the New South City or Hurley's Environmental Inequalities are great for this.

p.s. My essay on the Wounded Knee massacre can be found here (open access!):

www.jstor.org/stable/10.25...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.

People who walk three (or more) in breadth together on an urban sidewalk and feel aggrieved that other people also need to be there.

That sounds absolutely amazing!

An older woman at a podium speaking with a slide of an engraving of Cahir Castle in Ireland from 1599 projected behind.

The great Catherine Hall at Illinois last night on private property and empire.

cover of Tokyo 1968 depicting two women in front of occupied Tokyo University

Occupation des universités, manifestations contre les bases militaires américaines d’où partaient les avions bombardant le Vietnam ; lutte contre la construction de l’aéroport de Narita sur une zone agricole ; naissance du mouvement de libération des femmes…

Columbia drops to No. 15 in U.S. News Best National Universities ranking, lowest of the Ivies Columbia fell two spots to No. 15 in the U.S. News & World Report 2026 Best National Universities ranking published Tuesday, the lowest of the Ivy League.

Proud alum moment: wheezing in my office at my Midwestern public university over this piece. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/09...

I fear that it will last until it's a pixelated blur.

TT job alert. My department is hiring an assistant professor in architectural history and urban studies in any geographical area, post-500 CE binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

An Asian woman flashing a peace sign with bangs covering her face on Waterloo Bridge in London.

Y/N: Should I be allowed to use this exceptionally flattering shot a few weeks ago from Waterloo Bridge as my faculty photo to replace the one taken when I was frantically finishing my dissertation in 2018?

An excellent line-up featuring two very lovely grad school classmates, including @elliotts.bsky.social!

Congratulations to Netta Cohen, whose monograph 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘶𝘯: 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘡𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦 is the winner of the 2025 Turku Book Award. Read the full motivation here: eseh.org/turku-book-a...

#EnvHist #EnvHum

The Problem of Green Capitalism A conversation with Thea Riofrancos about her new book Extraction and the hidden cost and obscured history of the capitalist push to monetize the energy transition.

It was a pleasure to interview Thea Riofrancos for The Nation about her important and very well written new book: “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements