Europe’s Long Twelfth Century by John D. Cotts integrates social, economic, and religious perspectives to illuminate how Europeans renegotiated their place in a rapidly changing medieval world.
Second edition publishing tomorrow! 📆 https://bit.ly/4t6CBPp
Publication Day!
Europe's Long Twelfth Century: Order, Anxiety, and Adaptation 1095-1229, Second Edition.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/europes-l...
It's worth clicking through for the comments... #AcademicSky
The Trump Administration wants us to think of Trump's racism as a character flaw grandpa sometimes sadly lets express itself too aggressively, when the reality is that the white nationalism is the governing, organizing logic of his administration that all Republicans are complicit with.
Huge points to CBS for playing Bob Weir’s “Saint of Circumstance” as commercial break transition music.
Well, okay. Second edition still 3 months out, but available for pre-order. www.bloomsbury.com/us/europes-l...
Agreed.
it's weird how several decades of organized assault on higher education has led to a cratering of American public opinion on higher education
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I always wanted to teach From King Saul to the Fall of the Wall . . .
When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
There will be many casualties from UChicago ending ('pausing') PhD admissions in Humantities, but one which I am keenly aware of: this is close to a death sentence for teaching cuneiform in the United States (esp. Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite, Eblaite, Luwian) and it will affect the whole world.
SAY THIS FUCKING LOUDER
It's my experience (from 25 yrs of teaching) that "learning management" tools like Canvas do nothing to facilitate student learning & make my job MORE, not less, time consuming. That additional time I put in contributes zero to improving the student experience. But Canvas gets our money regardless.
Now that was an odd thing (I did not pick the title)! I have a bunch of hard copies of the issue if you would like one (DM me).
And there were proofs . . .
I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.
A ritual of a lost age that should absolutely continue--it's always cool (and helpful) to read them. Keep 'em comin', Berkeley.
My experience over 25 years of teaching college is that, for the most part, 18 year olds have not changed all that much. Most are curious, hungry for knowledge, anxious about what their future might hold, & desirous of figuring out what it looks like to be a good person in a fucked up world.
The American right isn't going after universities because of woke courses in woke majors, it just completely falls apart considering that the US right is also destroying STEM research. They hate *all* research and *all* universities and *all* professors because they're against expertise per se
Life rules:
It is never ok to yell “FREEBIRD!” at the band.
It is always okay to yell “IT’S ENRICO PALZZO!” when the home plate umpire takes off his mask.
WXRT Chicago with the Brian Wilson medley for the absolute gut punch . . .
Yes, you did vote to deport moms.
Late Roman historian here. Please stop perpetuating the narrative of a fall of Rome triggering Dark Ages. That’s not what happened at all.
An amazing thread.
I had an inkling about AI being used badly, so I did a quick check and good Lord. It really does make stuff up.
Yeah, I went there . . .
My inner Gen-Xer is somewhat annoyed that the Bears signed a guy named “Major Burns” and half the folks in the ESPN comments don’t get the joke.
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WXRT just played George Harrison's "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" in honor of Pope Francis, who was apparently a Beatles fan. Nice.
Reclaiming the Narrative About Critical Race Theory
Aja Martinez and Robert Smith say in a new book that the roots of CRT show that the academic discipline is uniquely American and an extension of the civil rights movement. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/43RMcPM
