#WalterBenjamin flüchtete vor Krieg und Diktatur, besaß ein Visum für die USA und hatte sich bis zum spanischen Grenzort Portbou durchgeschlagen. Doch dort verweigerte man ihm die Einreise. #AnDiesemTag 🧵

Argumentos como panes en este artículo de Mario Aguiriano contra la columna de Reyes Mate en El País, que enfurece y entristece a partes iguales. Excelente artículo también para ayudarnos a pensar (mejor) históricamente

Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!

Preparing for a therapeutic rewatch of The Shining: Jameson, Fisher, and Crary

This is a nice podcast if you're interested in questions of internationalism, anti-imperialism, and decolonization, the Bandung spirit revisited and put into practice. www.returntobandung.com

Eyewitnesses say Israel carried out a “double-tap” strike on the Nasser Hospital in Gaza Monday, killing at least 20 people including five Palestinian journalists. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/25/gaza_journalists

The University of Oregon is threatening to lay off many faculty and close entire departments and programs in the humanities. Visit strengthenUO.org for more information, including how you can take action.

Tech boosters like to use a set of terms to thwart any kind of pushback against their proposals to insert "AI" into any and every organization. Here's a dictionary of their language and what these terms mean. sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2025/...

Apparently, it's #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay! Here is my favourite #owl, depicted on a #Roman mosaic found in Uzès southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC. 📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap

Penn Libraries is hiring a Director of Academic Engagement wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...

NEW: I was happy to have a small role in preparing this just-dropped AAUP report on “Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions.” It includes a smart overview of the threats, analysis of collected survey data, and action items. www.aaup.org/reports-publ...

Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years. “There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”

A 21-year-old Florida man was beaten to death by Israeli settlers while visiting family in the West Bank.

It’s July 2, 2025 (11:10 P.M.): ISRAEL MURDERED TODAY 111 PEOPLE IN GAZA.

So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...

¿Es la ola reaccionaria fruto del pánico a los avances sociales conquistados en la última década? El miércoles 25 llega "Un país entre dos tiempos", de @vrupu.bsky.social: un análisis político de los últimos años como aún no se había hecho. Coeditado con @cbamadrid.es.

La corónica Vol. 52.1, a special volume on "Black Timescapes” assembled by guest editor Nicholas R. Jones, Yale Univ., is open access on Project Muse at muse.jhu.edu/issue/54962. @projectmuse.bsky.social. TOC available at lcclacoronica.org/journal/volu...

A historical reconstruction of a 15th century recipe of Menjar blanc de carabasses from Mestre Robert's Libre del Coch. Great stuff from the Esculent Podcast team! esculent.podbean.com/e/libredelco...

Watched this a few nights ago. Loved the debate scenes and the ones where the workers setting up the exhibition casually lounge among the pieces during idle moments. I wasn't so sure about the narration. But still a very powerful film.

El divendres 13 de juny parlarem de «La lluita pel domini de la Mediterrània», i de l'edat mitjana mediterrània, a la Llibreria Isop d'Olot. Amb Montserrat Piera, @mourelle.bsky.social, Núria Silleras i @rafolsoriol.bsky.social, en el marc de la Faberllull. Veniu, que xalarem! 🐙

Capital's factions clashes in the Trump2 era. "The ambitions of the new Silicon Valley elite is not only to incapacitate the federal bureaucracy, but also to dethrone Wall Street." with @benbraun.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...

Dumbarton Oaks Series has recently issued editions of the Iberian Apollonius of Tyre and the Laberinto de Fortuna. Published by Harvard UP, books in the series are designed to be both modern and timeless. For information and details, see lcclacoronica.org/announcement...

"Hunger steals the simplest human abilities: concentration, patience, sensation, the desire to say something. Thinking becomes a luxury. Words become weights that cannot be lifted." -Hussam Marouf, Gaza, 2025 arablit.org/2025/05/30/h...

Escrevi sobre Guerra - I, primeiro volume da trilogia de Beatriz Bracher sobre a Guerra do Paraguai, e minhas frustrações com esse projeto que parecia promissor. apartedoscriticos.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/g...

As Israel destroys Gaza, Israelis and Palestinians gathered in Beit Jala not only to mark the catastrophe of 1948, but to elevate living Palestinian testimonies. Read more, by Dikla Taylor-Sheinman www.972mag.com/joint-nakba-...

The Israelis have killed at least 140 ppl in Gaza in 24h www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Very rarely I get worked up about anything, but this is record is a stone cold 10/10. There's no debate about it. Frankly, giving it a 9.5/10 is completely absurd.

Máis e valiosa información sobre escravistas galegos: A trata galega de escravizados (II). Aprendendo o oficio, 1815-1820 @praza.gal praza.gal/opinion/a-tr...

Demà a Chicago!

So happy to be a part of this!!!

2025 ICMS is fast approaching. La corónica is sponsoring several events of interest. #Kzoo2025 Please join us!

It's all because of you, girl

Charlé un rato con @diegodiaz1981.bsky.social sobre los comuneros para @elsaltodiario.com. Feliz Villalar a todo el mundo! ⚡🌱🟪 www.elsaltodiario.com/historia/izq...

#cfp I have received some fabulous news about an upcoming conference on the history of publishing, organised by the Universitat de Barcelona. The deadline for paper abstracts is 30 May 2025. Do consider submitting one! #publishinghistory #internationalnetworks

Pleased to share my contribution to Polyglot Texts and Translations in Early Modern Europe, an excellent volume edited by Adrián M. Izquierdo. My chapter explores polyglot mediations and untranslatability in Juan de Tovar’s codex (c. 1586). DM me if you’d like to read it. brill.com/display/titl...

Feliz de compartir mi última publicación: ¿Qué papel juegan Toussaint Louverture y la Revolución Haitiana en la obra de Martín Morúa Delgado? ¿Cómo aborda la violencia masculina en su novela Sofía? En L’Âge d’or. Images dans le monde ibérique et ibéro-américain. journals.openedition.org/agedor/8306

Speaking to the Medieval and Early Modern Studies crowd at UC Davis next week!

Tras 5 años de duro trabajo, ¡por fin!, sale a la luz el volumen de poesía morisca y aljamiada, editado por Ana Méndez-Oliver y una servidora, en @caliopesrbhp.bsky.social. Incluye artículos de Luis Bernabé Pons, Andrea Pauw y María Luisa Lugo. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/caliope...

Realized I should mention this here—the collection of Lise Vogel’s essays I’ve been working on for the past two years. Lots of hard to find & out of print stuff, it tells the story of 50 years of Marxism & Feminism. “The Contested Domain” out this November w/ Pluto! www.amazon.com/Contested-Do...

In his final letter to Scholem (Jan 11, 1940), Walter Benjamin cryptically and prophetically called the Hitler-Stalin pact a historical sign: "I am not thinking of us when I say this, but of the arrangements made by the Zeitgeist, which has set up markers in the desert landscape of the present>

Best movie I have seen in a long time. Dense, smart, beautiful, impressionistic. They really don't make them like this anymore.

“The US of AI,” public draft of a talk given yesterday at Princeton. drive.google.com/file/d/1O2qk...

Amplifying this event tomorrow at UChicago! Join us if you can

John Banville on TJ Clark as a leftist heretic

Se están pensando en ir ao MLA de Toronto 2026, aquí os 2 paneis que organiza o Foro De Estudos Galegos: 1. The Visible Combustion: mapping ‘the end of everything’ in Galician/Iberian Culture(s). 2. Galicia Externalized. Proposals accepted in English, Galician and Spanish.

Call for Papers: (Be)laboring Medieval Iberian Texts and Cultural Production LLC Medieval Iberian Forum Session Abstracts due March 20, 2025 #cfp #MLA #medieval #medievalIberia #labor #medievaltexts #academicconference

Tomorrow is the 177th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto, and the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research celebrates the "joy of collective reading"—reminding us that a book is not just a commodity, but an artifact that helps forge collective life. thetricontinental.org/newsletteris...