Hannah Alpert-Abrams

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tennessee based | tsalagi and tsoyaha lands

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Thanks to support from the NEH, @ach.bsky.social & @rrchnm.bsky.social are giving out $2000 bursaries to support attendance at the DH 2024 conference (August 5-9 in Arlington, VA). Eligibility details in thread. Apply by July 1st! Please share widely! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

DH 2024 Bursariesdocs.google.com Deadline for Applications: July 1, 2024 Notification by July 10, 2024 With the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and...

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Today the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees, being led by the nose by President Eli Capilouto, finalized the dissolution of the University Senate, putting the final nail in the coffin of shared governance.

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Scholars of Religion Against Genocide and the Weaponization of Antisemitismdocs.google.com We, scholars and educators of Religion, Religious Studies, and adjacent fields, write to express our support and solidarity with students, faculty, and staff peacefully protesting the Israeli governme...

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Élika Ortega

We orchestrated a picture of the Élika fan club along with the poster!

moved to see the students in my city joining others across the country www.utdailybeacon.com/campus_news/...

UT students in support of Palestine gather outside of College of Lawwww.utdailybeacon.com A group of students and community members in support of Palestine has gathered outside of the UT College of Law with plans to stay in the area.

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@plussone.bsky.social has created an awesome Comms guide! "Tool for Activists: How to Write a Press Release." The guide covers, "Why talk to the media?" and includes examples that run the gamut from BLM Chicago to the Chicago Dyke March and # NoCopAcademy. link: drive.google.com/file/d/1Dixg...

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Faculty, like any other worker, can just work to contract and be really persnickety about what is actually required of them.

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The UT Austin Reddit has a large collection of student perspectives on the protests and administrative response. And it does not look good for the administration. www.reddit.com/r/UTAustin/

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Some people in my community have been thinking about what it means to be politically active while working at a university. Here's a resource that's been circulating locally, and that might be especially relevant as events unfold this weekend. archive.org/details/facu...

Faculty For Palestine : Anonymous : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivearchive.org A risk assessment guide for academic staff in the United States

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Great comments by my professor & attorney friend Amy Kristin Sanders, a UT faculty member, on the heavy-handed tactics by UT and police yesterday. www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-pa...

Did Texas Police Violate First Amendment Rights of Pro-Palestine Protesters?www.texasobserver.org A UT professor and expert on freedom of expression weighs in on the controversial arrests of 57 individuals, including a journalist, at a campus demonstration.

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Saddened by news of Helen Vendler's passing. An honor to be her colleague at the start of my career. Fierce scholarship, capacious intellect, dedicated pedagogy: a model for us all. And funny! I heard her once recite this A. R. Ammons poem: Their Sex Life One failure on Top of another

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Pleased to share this review of @lheltonian's new book in @LAReviewofBooks. This is wildly necessary book, spotlighting foundational figures in Black archives lareviewofbooks.org/article/blac...

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Looking for recommendations of readings on the development of transfer lithography. Everything I find is art uses or odd cases, I’m more interested in tracking its development in book printing. Any leads?

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The Association for Computers and the Humanities invites proposals for #ACH2024, our virtual annual conference being held Nov 6-8, 2024. Proposals are due May 20. Learn more at ach2024.ach.org.

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This is the first thing I have read defending "free speech" on campus which was not just a thinly veiled defense of the existing power order--mainly because it is written from and to people who actually have something to fear in being "cancelled." www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024...

Untenured faculty stand in solidarity with our studentswww.columbiaspectator.com Dear students,

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losing my mind over the constant shifting from evaluating causes to evaluating people fighting for them. If someone proved every single ceasefire protestor was an anti-Semite that cheats on their exams, romantic partners, and taxes, what would we learn about whether or not to support IDF bombs?

Faculty For Palestine : Anonymous : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivearchive.org A risk assessment guide for academic staff in the United States

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Illinois is now home to a federally recognized tribal nation for the first time after a decision from the U.S. Department of Interior placed portions of Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation's northern Illinois reservation land into trust www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/i...

Illinois now home to federally recognized tribal nation after landmark decision from Department of Interiorwww.nbcchicago.com Illinois is now home to a federally recognized tribal nation for the first time after a decision from the U.S. Department of Interior placed portions of Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation’s northern Illin...

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A few folks have reached out about academic job transitions around libraries, so I want to put out there: if you are considering changing into a library job without an MLS, let's talk. I'll help if I can, as I was helped. I also have more than a half-dozen sets of interview questions to share.

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This is UT Austin president Jay Hartzell explaining why he overcomplied with the new white supremacist Texas laws and purged dozens of mostly women and racial minorities before anyone even asked him to.

UT President: "The legislative climate toward higher education is moving"cbsaustin.com UT Austin laid off 49 faculty due to Texas' DEI ban; President Hartzell noted shifting legislative climate and aim to mitigate future risks.

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Some of my colleagues at Barnard and Columbia have been working long hours since December to accompany students to increasingly draconian disciplinary hearings for alleged involvement in campus protests. Here’s an anecdote from one colleague, shared with permission. Wrong place wrong time? Too bad

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Students on my campus are participating in the larger national walkout. They've occupied the admissions building and planned a whole day of activities on topics they want to explore. I was honor to be asked to lead a workshop, and @halperta.bsky.social's Finding Your Purpose was a HIT.

Got to attend the dissertation defense of Dr. Essah Díaz today. Essah is doing incredible work on Afro-feminist ways of knowing in Liberia and the Caribbean, including literary study, oral history, and digital collections. The defense was 🔥 www.essahcozett.com/publications

Publications — Essah Cozettwww.essahcozett.com

I agree with almost all of what is written here except for this. I do think there are better options for many people.

9) To circle back: Most of my students are in their early 20s. People do a lot of wild shit, work crap jobs, make terrible choices, and otherwise do young adult stuff. Grad school, if funded reasonably well, is not worse than most other options and is better than many. /fin /probably

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Ok let's discuss this. I have five to ten students a semester come talk to me about this, maybe more, and I have settled into this set of advice: /1

So one question I have as someone who was a history major and enjoyed undergrad, what would you say about grad school? I don’t want any debt but I do miss being a history major sometimes and I would consider it.

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I've seen this for my entire career. Dudes (always dudes) who would be the first to tell you how brilliant their scholarship is are also the dudes who, when confronted with the slightest chance they'd have to do service work, are all like "waaa I am just a smol bean who doesn't even do email good"

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I feel seen.

A very important thing that you have to read! written by Greg @soundslikecin.bsky.social in @takahemagazine.bsky.social www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-o...

Heat Death of the Internet - takahēwww.takahe.org.nz You want to order from a local restaurant, but you need to download a third-party delivery app, even though you plan to pick it up yourself. The prices and menu on the app are different to what you sa...

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Beyond excited to announce the CFP for a new volume in the Debates in Digital Humanities series: “Cultures of Scale: Disciplines, Data, and Labor” Co-edited by @jimccasey1.bsky.social @shsalter.bsky.social @jgob.bsky.social Submit abstracts by May 15, 2024 dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/culture...

Cultures of Scale: Disciplines, Data, and Labor | Debates in the Digital Humanitiesdhdebates.gc.cuny.edu Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works