Jacqueline Messing

I'm excited to teach #UMDLangIDRacism for the first time with readings from the new volume and companion site.

#UMDLangIDRacism

📣Happy to announce I'm teaching my Language & Racism course again 💻online later this Summer @univofmaryland.bsky.social. Content is shaped by former students (undergrad/grad) & input from folks over on the other platform in past. @umd-arhu.bsky.social ✅ exst.umd.edu/current-inco... Please share 📣

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Bad Bunny (the College Course) Heads to the Ivy League

Good article w/link to Prof. Vanessa Diaz' Bad Bunny Syllabus for those interested in race, discourse, music, Puerto Rico, pop culture #UMDLangIDRacism2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/s...

Add to summer course ✅
#UMDLangIDRacism2025

(HT @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social)

This!

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT.

sincerely,

a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

And for some good news from Candace Kaleimamoowahinekapu Galla over on LinkedIn and @amyfou.bsky.social

Hiring Soon flyer for the Annenberg Institute at Brown University for senior research associates positions. More information will be shared on the institute's website soon.

Amidst all the chaos and upheaval in the education policy world, @annenberginstitute.bsky.social will be hiring several senior research associates in the coming months. Hopefully this helps some of the stellar education policy people find their footing again!

Check out SLA's brand-new Starter Pack and join the conversation!

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Excellent!

Well it's too late for this timely workshop but back over on the other platform I had found these posts by @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social‬ to be inspirational.

Glad to see that this classic has been updated -- will have to check it out!

#AWP IS COMING SOON and I’m thrilled to be joining this panel called Beyond Tiger Moms and Model Minorities: Imagining the Asian American Family w/ @salesses.bsky.social @kirstinchen.bsky.social @kimlet.bsky.social @jiminhanwriter.bsky.social!! Come see us on Thursday afternoon, 3/27!😎

Today's news. This new edition. Connect the dots.
www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Ev...

So I've been (continually) reading the news, the country & world are a %&*+ mess with more suffering than ever. I'm going to hide out, grateful for work & other sustenance, drink my petit café & read, write, and edit, edit, edit from this little corner of my sociolinguistics/anthropology universe🕊️

Several scholars of color and marginalized academics have said this several times on Twitter and here, but many people remain there because that’s where their communities reside and there are huge exit costs. Not everyone has the PRIVILEGE to leave a community behind.

In the face of these assaults on education & civil rights, students & faculty nationwide are organizing in their communities. Join us. The way to confront those intent on dismantling our democracy is to join together in mass action.

Full statement here:

www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...

12/12

National Science Foundation fires roughly 10% of its workforce NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.

NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.

I’m not sure the rest of the country fully grasps the panic and anger building in DC, MD, and VA.

The entire economy of this area is about to collapse. Paychecks are stopping. Careers are ruined. Taxes are about to plummet. Yet no one seems able to stop this madness.

The app deadline for the Assistant Teaching Professor opening in my department (Media Studies, U of CO Boulder) is less than 2 weeks away! This is a contracted/renewable, non-tenure-track faculty line. Read on for additional information about the position:
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

“Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality” Call-for-Papers: The Fourth ReDICo (Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively) Conference Online, 23-24 June 2025 In this conference we would like to bring together scholars who engage with internet histories, digital futures and digital interculturality so as to initiate a discussion regarding the reimagining of digitality, not least its relationship to interculturality. We are, thus, interested in wide and interdisciplinary approaches that go beyond the presentism that often marks media and communication studies, while also engaging with alternative visions of how digitality can be construed, not least from an intercultural perspective. For more details see: https://hub.redico.eu/call-for-papers/111/digital-pasts-and-futures-internet-histories-digital-interculturality-and-reimagining-digitality-conference-online-23-24-june-2025 Please send an abstract (250 words) of your intended paper to: redico@uni-jena.de by 28 February 2025. It is intended that a selection of the papers presented will be published following a peer review process in book form, funding pending, with the transcript Publishing House in the Series “Studies in Digital Interculturality”. The conference is without fees, completely online and is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). Keynote speakers that have already been confirmed include Prof. Valérie Schafer (University of Luxembourg), Associate Prof. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (Aarhus University), Prof. Ethan Zuckerman (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Prof. Ramesh Srinivasan (University of California, Los Angeles). apl. Prof. Dr. Fergal Lenehan and PD Dr. Luisa Conti (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena)

📢 #CfP "Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality" - Online Conference

Join us 23-24 June 2025
Submit by 28 Feb 2025

Keynotes: Valérie Schafer, @sesamescholar.bsky.social, @ethanz.bsky.social, Ramesh Srinivasan

hub.redico.eu/call-for-pap...

Hi! NVIVO can also do this but I haven’t tried it for this task yet.

The first issue of the Journal of Language and Pop Culture is now live, and available open access at www.benjamins.com/catalog/jlpop. See below for the contents, which cover pop music, film, video games, and social media discourse

New article "Constructing cancel culture: Strategic scaling in stories of 'cancellation'" by @elisekramer.bsky.social will be great in a class. In a special issue of Discourse Studies ed. by @mkoven66.bsky.social @sabyperri.bsky.social

Penn to introduce changes to University discrimination policies, remove term ‘diversity’ The changes include the renaming of several statements, offices, and policies, and the elimination of terms including “diversity.”

It’s official. My university who told me for all of the years I have been a faculty person they it valued diversity all of a sudden decided it no longer does without even attempting to resist a legally questionable executive order.

www.thedp.com/article/2025...

The University of Virginia has created a website of archived government websites—bookmark it—you’re going to need it later.

guides.lib.virginia.edu/c.php?g=1451...