Honored to deliver the 2026 Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies at UNC next Thursday March 5. If you’re in the triangle, join us! iah.unc.edu/reckford-ger...

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

Honored to take part in this symposium/art exhibition in Paris next week, "The Memorial for Those Who Did Not Fall in War," Reid Hall/Columia globalcenters.columbia.edu/.../memorial....

Mardi prochain, fin de notre cycle de rencontres avec Vinciane Despret: Le pouvoir de la fabulation: raconter pour résister. Avec Yala Kisukidi et Benoît Loiseau. Maison française de NYU, 18h30

NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.

Conversations avec Vinciane Despret 2: Nos morts, nos défuntes. Merc. 28 fév., 18h30, Maison française, NYU

Next Wed. Jan. 21: Vinciane Despret and others in conversation, « Cosmopoetic Ethologies », NYU Maison française, 6:30pm

So excited to welcome Vinciane Despret (U. Liege) as a visiting professor at NYU (IFS/French). We're starting things off with three roundtables about her work and ours: Cosmopoetic Ethologies (1/21), our relationships to the Dead (1/28), and Fabulation as resistance (2/3). Join us!

Foucault-Fassin-Stoller. Don’t miss the IFS’s next event: Eric Fassin and Ann Stoler in conversation about the new edition of Foucault’s manuscript, ‘Les Hermaphrodites’ (Gallimard, 2025). Wed. 11/19, NYU, 14A Washington Mews, 6:30pm

Truly insightful portrait of @juliangerson.bsky.social in the Guardian. Love the insider's view of writing for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's campaign www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tomorrow evening! "Gurs, Les Milles, Rivesaltes: New Perspectives on French Concentration Camps (1939-2007)", with Emily Marker and Terry Peterson (FIU), NYU, 53 Washington Square North, 6:30pm. More info: as.nyu.edu/.../-gurs--l....

Unpacking Mamdani’s Viral Victory Speech www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“Mamdani’s speech was reminiscent of Walt Whitman’s ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’ , with its passionate evocations of commuting New Yorkers, or even Woody Guthrie’s ‘This land is your land’

This is such an amazing lineup!

Join us next Tuesday: "Gurs, Les Milles, Rivesaltes: New Perspectives on French Concentration Camps (1939-2007)", with Emily Marker and Terry Peterson (FIU), NYU, 53 Washington Square North, 6:30pm. More info: as.nyu.edu/departments/...

Julian Gerson is Mamdani’s speech writer, and this is a barn burner.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future. Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

“Diversity can be a weakness if you have antipathy among groups, Jonathan,” Mr. Cuomo said, mistaking Mr. Daniels for his co-host Jonathan Capehart, both of whom are Black. 🤨

Il sera difficile, même pour “Le Point“, de faire beaucoup plus immonde que ça.

This is the third death that I'm aware of this year where a person died trying to flee from ICE.

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

This Sunday, we’re SHREDDING 🎸 Join me (or someone who looks a lot like me) at one of two locations to safely dispose of old bills, bank statements and documents you no longer need. + DJs, family portraits and frozen treats. 12-3pm in Harlem and the Bronx. Details in the video ⬇️

So unexpected that letting people keep their freedom, safety, and not be arbitrarily deported to foreign torture gulags might resonate with voters….

79. American citizen.

UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2 When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline. 109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation

On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city. This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.

If you know about Korea, you know that people will tell this story for generations. Given the scale, tech savvy, cultural sway, strategic importance, and national pride of ROK, this might be *the* most lastingly damaging, idiotic move team MAGA has made. Blessed by SecState Marco.

South Korean press speaking the obvious truths American papers are too afraid to publish

You’re think *you’re* depressed? Try being at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association right now with 5,000 political scientists presenting their work on the state of democracy, public opinion, and media. They are also drinking heavily.

"Even in a contest against men twice his age, Mamdani has begun to sound like the adult in the room on issues of public safety, offering detailed, thoughtful policy proposals." 🙏 @errollouis.bsky.social

New NYT/Siena poll of the NYC mayoral race has- *Mamdani: 46% *Cuomo: 24% *Sliwa: 15% *Adams: 9% www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/n...

😢 Rick Davies, Lead Singer of Supertramp, Dies at 81 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/w...

My god…

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border. This is how the police dealt with them. Literally beat the hell out of them. This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.

Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.

Paging Manchester

The hits keep coming. “The departments that won’t be accepting Ph.D. students now include art history, cinema and media studies, classics, comparative literature, East Asian languages and civilizations, English language and literature, Germanic studies, linguistics, Middle Eastern studies…”

My grandfather Jules in Knokke (Belgium, ca. 1978). He rocked it

Great team! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It's genuinely hard to be winning by this much in a 5 person race. Like really really hard. Also these numbers show the Club Billionaire was really, really shortsighted pouring money into Adams campaign. Cuomo is at least possible to be Mamdani. Adams is just no way. Needed to get behind Cuomo ...

“The more I learn about genocide, the more shocked and embarrassed I am by my own ignorance. Once I actively tried to be better informed about genocide, the picture in Gaza became terrifyingly clear” — powerful and brave personal essay by my NYU colleague Lihi Ben Shitrit for @forward.com