Dr. Sanjana Rajagopal

A black and white photo shwoing two men in old-fashioned mountaineering clothing and oxygen aparatus standing in front of a row of tents on a snowy mountainside. Camp equipment is strewn on the floor around them.

More than 100 years on from the disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine, our new film, EVEREST REVISITED, uses their loss as the jumping off point for a wider look at the hidden histories of #Everest and what it means to visitors and Nepalis today.

Watch it now ➡ youtu.be/iSPUPr6OeTY?...

Fidelity Say the facts: Someone decided not to choose you. Someone decided not to fight for you, turning from the wild colts of your broken heart. Someone left your one life on its knees. What will you do with those ruins? When Christ knelt before his judges, he didn't say a word to them, a syllable. He tried, he is still trying to tell you: Your life is the miracle you think it is. Give it to the ones who do believe. —Joseph Fasano

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Thank you for featuring my book review in this!

Sanjana Rajagopal on David D. Kim’s *Arendt’s Solidarity: Anti-Semitism and Racism in the Atlantic World* | Society for US Intellectual History In the last pages of Arendt’s Solidarity: Anti-Semitism and Racism in the Atlantic World, David D. Kim distills the concept of solidarity down to its most important aim: the widening of the horizon of...

“though she was able to pick out what she thought were the key features of solidarity… [Arendt] applied these criteria selectively when assessing different political situations” - @astrangecharm.bsky.social @susih.bsky.social #USIH s-usih.org/2025/06/sanj...

Really? I much preferred the version we got! I love how understated it is. Best of the theme songs, IMO!

growing list of scholars I’ve dragged to Hard Rock at academic conferences 🫶🏼 @astrangecharm.bsky.social

someone at #aha2025 had better buy this cape in the hotel lobby boutique and present in it

two hardcover copies on the @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social table, which I stumbled across trying to say hi to @astrangecharm.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social #aha25

Odyssey movie coming in 2026? From Christopher Nolan?

New reason to live unlocked.

It's "his" thoughts that really gets me. This is eerie

Another massacre by the Israelis in Khan Younis. I saw the videos and I think of the survey of Gazan children, the one that says that most of them expect death. Some of them just did, as the day before, as tomorrow. Israel continues its genocide, now in its 14th month, live-streamed for all to see.

My latest fixation is Oppenheimer and the history of quantum physics in the 20th c.

And true to my bio, this is definitely a dense tome coming in at over 700 pages

Finally got my copy!
#HannahArendt

As described in post

Loïe Fuller dancing at Folies-Bergère in 1890s as sculpted by Francois-Rupert Carabin. Carabin did another study of her serpentine dance in "Six Sculptures."

So sad to have missed this book launch! Had another event tonight. But can't wait to dive into Arendt's poems!

A few short ones are sampled in Elizabeth Young Bruehl's bio but nothing comprehensive!

Got my ticket to see Kieran's Broadway play this March! Wish I could see Snook in Dorian Gray a second time but tickets are so expensive.

My mini pink tree is up!

What a cool theme!!

Can’t believe I was here a couple days ago and now I’m back in Jersey and still sick

I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired.
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.

Signed,
a physicist

Wrapped this, wrapped that. What about spending some time building rapport?

I thank Nicholas in my dissertation acknowledgements for the Succession score being the backdrop to all my writing sessions!

3 of my 4 moods made my #Wrapped. Second year in a row of Nicholas Britell being my top artist.

"What is most difficult is to love the world as it is, with all the evil and suffering in it."

— Hannah Arendt

Yay! Have been anticipating this collection for a while. I’m going to try and make it!

Poland trip has come to an end. Flying back to the US today. One day I really want to live in Europe.

A critique of the role of appearance and the attitude towards emotions in EIJ, OR and LOTM!

Stunning sunrise here in Gdansk en route to the train station in Warsaw.

Found myself thinking today that it’s odd Arendt never wrote about the Polish Solidarity movement only to quickly remember she tragically passed before getting to see it unfold! No doubt it would have fascinated her as much as the Hungarian uprising of 1956.