Paul Barrett

YouTube video by ShakyShorty Cindy Lee - Dreams of You, Lamb of God & Wild One (Toronto 2025)

Cindy Lee was a magical, hallucinatory, overwhelming experience.
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The Heavenly Office of Legal Counsel would like to remind the public that the official term for what Dick Cheney is currently experiencing is “enhanced repentance.”

The Forgotten Captives: Israel Still Imprisoning 9,000 Palestinians Even After Hostage Deal “Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians, in what it calls security prisoners or detainees,” says Sari Bashi, an Israel...

“Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians,” says Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi. “Only about a thousand of them have actually been convicted of any crime."

CFP (please share!): Our digital literary heritage is rapidly being lost, from 1990s hypertext sites to 2010s digital humanities projects. _A Field Guide to Modernisms_ seeks to spread awareness, document at-risk projects, and brainstorm solutions.

Abstracts by February 2:
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Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, set the stage for a historic confrontation that …

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Trump's "peace" plan is continued denigration and humiliation of the Palestinian people. No one should accept this horrific proposal from American fascists and Israeli war criminals.

Political violence is awful. Charlie Kirk was a grifting scumbag. Remember his "amazing patriot" comments? These fascists don't care about freedom of speech -- they care about silencing people, quashing dissent and destroying democracy.

Six murdered Israelis was the headline on The Guardian today. Six Palestinians were murdered, without comment, in the time it took you to read this. Humanism.

Is "This is not normal" American for "Fuck fascism!" Such muted and measured response from Americans to their new king. When will they actually, you know... do something to stand up for their republic!?!?

Sure!

But only one planet? 🤔

Research Chairs - All Disciplines Award 261265-CA Research Chairs - General and interdisciplinary COMPETITION OPENS FEBRUARY 2025 Awards to be taken up in the  2026-2027...

US colleagues! Join us in 2026/27 to advance your work in #DigitalHumanities for a semester at the THINC Lab at the University of Guelph via the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities! Applications until Sept. 15! #DH www.fulbright.ca/programs/ame... www.uoguelph.ca/arts/dhguelp...

Can AIs suffer? 🤔
Are Palestinians suffering? 🫢

"If I Must Die" by Refaat Alareer, written just before he was murdered by Israel along with his brother, nephew, sister, and three children:

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Yes, that was the case the last time I was there. I was really impressed with the vegan sausage roll.

Wishing you all the best, Kiera!!!

Greggs is a must

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Friends, I'm currently writing up a methodology chapter and would love your help. Are there any recent projects that use AI or large language models (LLMs) as a direct entry point into Latin American literary texts? I'd be delighted to spotlight innovative work I may have missed. Feel free to share!

Call for Papers – Suburb Nation

Deadline: August 15, 2025

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We're hiring a Rare Book Librarian! Maybe it's you?
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YouTube video by Black Sabbath - Topic Children of the Grave (2009 Remaster)

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Thanks! It was a pleasure to share the panel with you and your collaborator. Your work looks excellent!!

CFP: Suburb Nation. Canadian Literature. Submissions due August 15!
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Governments like mine have a duty to stand up to Israel. Far too many have failed | Gustavo Petro Without decisive action, we risk stripping the global legal order of its remaining protections for less-privileged nations, says Gustavo Petro, president of Colombia

Urge the Canadian government to stand up for Palestine and be counted among those nations that challenge Israel's criminal war.
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For the @puddingviz.bsky.social, I explored which animals we gender, and why.

Come for the extremely cute interactive viz of animals, stay for the extremely nerdy etymology of the ladybug.

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We wrote a book! Sarah Roger and I! It comes out today! CanLit and DH! 🎉🎉🎉

Exactly correct from The Guardian's Owen Jones: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One way to celebrate Canada is to cancel your accounts with US companies that pay no taxes here. Amazon, Uber, if you're a dinosaur still on FB, ...