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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

I hate seeing folks i agree with using gAI to make propaganda-style posters for things I support.

Y’all.

You cannot use the enemy’s tools to fight them. ESPECIALLY if you are arguing against capitalist overreach or for environmental issues. Come ON.

Bourdieu's famous sociological concept but applied to round lil homebodies like me: Hobbitus

This entire Dino Thread

Hooray! We’re getting ready for two hives in early May!

Donate to Urgent Support for Michael Ium's Mom, organized by Suzanne Fernando We are extremely sad to announce that our friend, Michael Ium, suddenly passed a… Suzanne Fernando needs your support for Urgent Support for Michael Ium's Mom

Here’s the fund to support Michael Ium’s mom as she navigates bringing him (and his things) home. www.gofundme.com/f/michael-ium

The (US)Implicit Religion conference takes a more practical and holistic approach to academic conferences. It also provides a community setting aimed at educating presenters and participants about specific elements of scholarship, publishing, and articulating career growth. There is a sense of "agency" and collaboration that I have benefitted from tremendously and I wish I had found this group earlier. Octavio Carrasco The Implicit Religion-US

Implicit Religion US is designed to help students & ECRs develop their research& practice presenting that work.

IR US 2025 Theme: Extensive Effects

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In The Dawn of Detroit, Tiya Miles begins by teaching readers that long before the fort of Detroit & Sandwich (later Windsor) existed, the unceded Anishinaabe village of Waawiiya-a-ta-nong existed on both sides of our strait.

In the beginning, this was one village.

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Ha! Indeed.

What what what?? Amazing

Absolutely! We’ll be here if you (or AAR) needs to hear our voices backing you and this important work.

Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur Studies: Introduction and Review The Resources for Kanjur & Tanjur Studies (rKTs) is an open-access digital platform that is currently the largest database of Tibetan canonical literature. Developed by the Tibetan Manuscript P…

In today’s post 🗃️ Rachael Griffiths introduces the Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur studies 💻 the largest open-access database for #Tibetan canonical literature! #TibetanStudies #DigitalHumanities #history #buddhism
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This is awful and I’m sorry you have to deal with it! Can we help?

Sure thing!

Hi! Natasha Mikles and Joe Laycock have a helpful piece on this phenomenon. Their article is called “Tracking the Tulpa.”

This made me think of the best writing tip I've seen: keep a "vent file." Before you start writing "for real," open your vent file and freewrite for 10 mins about where you're frustrated, excited, mad, blocked etc. You have to honor, not hide, where your mind is. But not in your draft or article.

JOB: The Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina Wilmington invites applicants for an Assistant Professor in Religion position in the area of American Religions, Race, Social Justice, or Africana Studies.

Deadline: 2/27

Hiya! Welcome!

This for days

Chichele Professorship of Medieval History at University of Oxford An opportunity for an academic position as a Chichele Professorship of Medieval History is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

Chichele Professorship of Medieval History
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100 Years of Solitude, The Fellowship of the Ring, and Winnie the Pooh.

Microvolunteering opportunity!

On Douglass Day, February 14, join a transcribe-a-thon to be part of a group working together to transcribe items in the African American Perspectives Collection at the Library of Congress so that they can be more searchable and accessible. douglassday.org

A painting by Drugu Choegyal Rinpoche featuring this month's translation totals: 19 English, 8 French, 1 Chinese, 1 German and 1 Spanish.

🎉 Happy Lunar New Year! 🐍 📚 We published 30 new translations on the site in January. This included texts by Chögyal Pakpa Lodrö Gyaltsen (1235–1280), Longchen Rabjam (1308–1364), Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorje (1646–1714), Katok Rigdzin Tsewang Norbu (1698–1755)...

We’re hiring a medieval Irish historian!

Chichele Professorship of Medieval History at University of Oxford Discover an exciting academic career path as a Chichele Professorship of Medieval History at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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🚨 Full time permanent lecturer position in Japanese culture and language (literature, film, performing arts, art, visual/material culture) at ULB in Brussels.

Deadline: March 1, 2025.

Candidate must be able to teach in French within 3 years of hiring.

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YouTube video by Miles Davis - Topic E.S.P. (2022 Remaster)

Jazz OTD: Miles Davis's "second great quintet" (with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams) recorded the opening title track for their first album together, "E.S.P.," 60 years ago today, on January 20, 1965. Great beginning to a historic run. #jazzsky

More on Nüshu from Lisa Huang’s 2021 Letterform Lecture: letterformarchive.org/events/view/...

Embroidered cover

Close up of embroidered cover

Nüshu script

Nüshu script

Eason Lu passed around a souvenir example of Nüshu script / 3rd day letter (with some embroidery on the cover! #DHmakes #FaceInterface #MultilingualDH