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***Nikki Keddie Book Award Winner***

Congratulations to IEHS Executive Board member @sfahrenthold.bsky.social for receiving the Nikki Beddie Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association for her Unmentionables. Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class!

Promotional graphic announcing that Rajbir Singh Judge's PROPHETIC MAHARAJA is the Winner of the 2025 Best First Book in the History of Religions from the American Academy of Religion (AAR). It includes the book's cover and a 20% discount with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.

We are pleased to announce that Rajbir Singh Judge's PROPHETIC MAHARAJA is the winner of the 2025 Best First Book in the History of Religions from the American Academy of Religion (AAR). buff.ly/aTJkAo6 @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.socia @aarweb.bsky.social

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Promotional graphic thanking authors for stopping by AAR booth. It includes photo of authors posing with their book.

Promotional graphic thanking authors for stopping by AAR booth. It includes photo of authors posing with their book.

Thank you to all the authors, editors, and attendees who stopped by our booth at AAR. We loved connecting with you. If you didn’t make it—or want to keep browsing—check back Monday, Dec. 1 for our Cyber Monday deals! buff.ly/UBnFXR5 @aarweb.bsky.social #AARSBL #SBLAAR

Promotional graphic for highlighting award-winning titles in religion on display at the AAR annual meeting Nov. 15-25, 2025. It includes a 20% discount with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.

Want to add award-winning titles to your religion bookshelf? Stop by booth 821or visit us online to check out these books and more! buff.ly/ansTyW1 #AARSBL #SBLAAR @aarweb.bsky.social

Congratulations to UC Davis PhD Alum Dr. Rajbir Singh Judge, who won the Best First Book in the History of Religions Prize at the American Academy of Religion! Read more at this link
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hemmed and hawed with shobhana xavier about the book newbooksnetwork.com/the-dread-he...

Image of a poster, a mountain peak with a bright light at the top, expanding outwards in stained glass window rays. Text reads: SST Conference 2026. Theology: A Discipline of Failure? Keynote Speakers: Robert Beckford, The Queens Foundation, UK. Vincent Lloyd, Villanova University, USA. Marika Rose, Dublin City University, Ireland. 13-15 April, The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick. theologysociety.org.uk

Call for papers for the SST annual conference is out now! Come join us in April to talk about theology and failure (generous bursaries available, especially if you're a grad student): www.theologysociety.org.uk/information/

Designed for Everyone Accessibility is a fundamental part of community participation, and India's National Building Code gives us the imagination to build community spaces for everyone.

My mother-in-law is doing amazing work to promote accessibility:

“Latika, the organization for disabled children and adults…is building a campus that experts believe will be the first in India to be constructed entirely on universal-design principles.”

www.commonwealmagazine.org/designed-eve...

Appreciate these insights from @emollick.bsky.social.

But the "wizard problem" isn't that AI is too opaque. It's that we're designing systems that hide their processes. We could build AI that shows its work, explains, and lets us intervene. Instead we're choosing black boxes and calling it magic.

My book, The Future That Was, is about the extraordinary rise of global research on women.

It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women

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Is Academia.edu using your identity to sell its products? - SALAHI If so, you may be entitled to compensation. Our law firm represents a proposed class of academics and researchers who are challenging Academia.edu's alleged practice of using their identities to sell ...

My law firm is handling a proposed class action lawsuit against this company for allegedly using people's identities to sell subscriptions w/o consent. salahilaw.com/is-academia-.... This revision appears to be an end-run around the litigation process and we are looking into it. Thanks for flagging.

A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

A beautiful, moving essay on resistance from Joan Scott

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Such an important conversation featuring my colleague Carie Rael @crrael.bsky.social great for those working in race, class and labor in the US!

Disneyland Workers’ Struggle: From 1984 to Recent Victories The America’s Work Force Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. Carie Rael of California state University joined us on today’s show.

@crrael.bsky.social joined America's Work Force Union Podcast today and spoke to Flash Ferenc about the 1984 strike at Disneyland and it's ongoing legacy for workers in Anaheim. Check out the latest installment of Labor 131 below!
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Disneyland Workers’ Struggle: From 1984 to Recent Victories The America’s Work Force Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. Carie Rael of California state University joined us on today’s show.

Want to know more about Disneyland’s labor history and what it means for us today? Listen to this episode of America’s Work Force Union podcast featuring me

What 1990s Internet History Tells Us About the AI Boom In the 1990s, tech companies used utopian language to sell the internet. The AI industry is taking a different approach.

Check out this article in time magazine written by my colleague Kate Flach! She compares the rise of the internet in the 90s and the rise of AI today. Worth a read!

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"Instead of a history of Sikh loss, bounded and secured, PROPHETIC MAHARAJA opens onto the problematic of loss: where loss itself can be lost, along with the historical horizon."-Basit Kareem Iqbal, An Und Für Sich. buff.ly/UZ1rPKD @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social #India #SikhHistory #PoliticalTheory

Beatrice Marovich on Substack Exbodiment: I love that way of putting it. I agree that this is a practice that’s at risk right now. “Language is humanity’s superpower. Without it, culture, cultural evolution, global cooperation, ...

Exbodiment: I love that way of putting it. I agree that this is a difficult, and deeply intuitive, practice that’s at risk right now.

I responded to the generous and smart people who offered readings of my book, Prophetic Maharaja, in An und für sich: buff.ly/dJ9fyYh

"Judge is at his most brilliant and intellectually courageous during moments in [PROPHETIC MAHARAJA] when he meditates on the aporias of his own encounter with the conceptual constitution of his project."-SherAli Tareen, An und für sich. buff.ly/lCimtuN @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social #SikhHistory

Great stuff from Joan Scott. So disappointing to see so many full and emeritus folks defend an organization that has: (1) failed to advocate for young scholars entering a collapsing profession; and (2) refused to take its members’ grievances and demands seriously—esp. on the issue of scholasticide.🗃️