Wow, this is an amazing deal: more than 50% off the registration price for the @medievalacademy.bsky.social meeting sponsored by the Five College Consortium in Massachusetts in March. maa2026.wordpress.amherst.edu. And if you're a K-12 educator, registration is only $25! #MedievalSky

It's publication day! 🎉 My chapter, "Marginalia on Militant Democracy, (Un)Civil Disobedience, and the Right to Resistance," explores Jan-Werner Müller's neglected theory of civil disobedience. www.bloomsbury.com/us/philosoph...

A great listen!

Ao praticamente endossar as ações de Trump (“tomamos nota das garantias do Presidente Trump e constatamos o papel dos EUA na promoção de uma transição…”) Montenegro arrasta sem debate o estado português para uma lamentável posição seguidista em que duvido que o país se orgulhe ou reveja.

Compre meia dúzia de cerejas, um copo de creme de leite (...) cem gramas de nozes já descascadas, um cálice de Cointreau (...) Ponha todos os ingredientes no liquidificador, acondicione corretamente nessas pequenas geladeirinhas portáveis e viaje para a Grécia. Tá na hora.

We're going to need a bigger Hague.

The first 50 readers can access my new short article in SPECULUM via this link (which allows a free PDF download). The piece argues that medieval Anglo-Jewish studies ought to be in conversation with critical archival studies: www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/H8GG4...

A kaleidoscopic and original new history of #urbanization—from Lisbon to New York, Paris to Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires to Lagos. The Invention of the Future by Bruno Carvalho arrives January 13 (17 Feb UK pub). Preorder yours today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Humanities programs have ceded scholarship of the premodern to bad actors on the right. This is a serious problem, not only because it represents a loss of current and future knowledge, but also because it enables white supremacists and Christian nationalists to twist history to their own ends.

(...) Porque para mim todo mundo é gente, o rato também é gente, ele tem medo frio fome, e também se alegra e fica triste como a gente. Um rato não tem muito mistério não, as pessoas não entendem que ser rato é tão simples e tão complicado como ser gente.

"elsewheres" a trio of motion pictures by [carrozo] 27 january 2026 sign up for updates at: elsewheres.movie

A neat little nugget of medieval coal history as we come to the end of a year where the UK has just finished it first 15 months freed from coal power, but the US has slid backward on so many energy fronts. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #Speculations #MedievalSky

Para quienes tengan tiempo estas vacaciones navideñas y ganas de escapar del ruido del presente, este archivo de cine olvidado es una excelente opción de fuga. rarefilmm.com

Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.

Na parte de nem sempre perceber o consentimento sexual? De ser condenado em tribunal por fraude fiscal? Ou de lavar mais branco a imagem de ditadores que desmembram opositores políticos? Deixem o Luís explicar.

Today, I went to Gracia Nasi/Mendes/Benvenist(e)/Miques/De Luna’s parents purported neighbourhood, and its current state is fucking depressing – almost as bad as my hometown.

Really cool - and what a beautiful cover. É lerem!

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

Proust's proofs for "In Search of the Lost Time"

Ribagorzan Aragonese keeps that pʎ < pl, e.g. in ‘pllan(o)’: Port. ‘chão’, Spa. ‘llano’, but Arag. ‘plan(o)’, Cat. ‘pla’…

One-year Visiting Assistant Professor position in Latin American History at Oberlin, starting Fall 2026. Thanks for spreading the word. jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/17088

New job: 3-year postdoc position in medieval studies University of Southern Denmark jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69652

My next in-person Manuscript Kufi course (early Arabic calligraphy) has already been announced for April over at the Arab British Centre, London: details at www.arabbritishcentre.org.uk/courses/joum...

Publication day! I am delighted to say that my newest article - "On “Post-ness”: Colonialism, Periodization, and Old Norse-Icelandic Studies" - has been published by Exemplaria, one of my absolute favourite journals! Read it illicitly here: tinyurl.com/POSTNESS-BAP

Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it

As we prepare for the festival of lights we ask you to consider your spelling style guide

Enormous gratitude to our colleagues on the selection committee at the MLA for their fine taste! Seriously tho, I never in a million years expected my translation to receive a mention or a prize. Feeling grateful 😊

Our special issue of differences is out! Claire and I were asked to suggest one article that would be open access, and (although it was VERY hard to choose) we picked Whitney’s, which is about Claudia Rankine’s “American lyric” in Ibero-American translation: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

"Black Knights compellingly re-frames Arabic epic within a broader global history of race, thus prompting medievalists [...] to reconsider how racial formations, heroic imaginaries, and epic narrative structures intersect across time and space." Sah-weet. www.middleeastmedievalists.com/book-prize/

En esta obra magna, desplegó toda la potencia de la buena filología para recuperar lo que cantaba el pueblo en los siglos XV-XVII, desde cantos de amor a canciones de trabajo. Casi 3000 canciones populares antes prácticamente invisibles. Toda una tradición lírica

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

Our fabulous Environmental Humanities Summer School is open for applications for 2026! Together, we examine human relationships with nature on a Global scale, and with the city of Bristol. According to 2025 cohort student Choon Woi “Bristol itself became part of the classroom…

Un impulso similar gobernaba esta otra obra fundamental. Margit no descubrió las jarchas pero fue de las primeras en escribir sobre ellas. Su tesis sería consistente con el resto de su trayectoria: el origen de la lírica románica no está en los trovadores sino en el canto popular de mujeres amantes

El viernes pasado falleció a sus 100 años Margit Frenk, maestra absoluta de literatura del Siglo de Oro y de cultura popular. No sé por dónde empezar, pero quiero hablar de ella. Pocas obras de investigación humanística tienen la trascendencia de su legado

Translate drunk, edit sober.

UMass-Amherst is hiring “a specialist in the visual arts, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world” ! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾 Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Interested in doing a Ph.D. in Hispanic literatures, cultures, and linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst? We are holding an information session next week, on Friday. Please share widely!

Highly recommend this brilliant, super-original and thought-provoking novel by @braislamela.bsky.social translated from Galician by Jacob Rogers @bullaunpress.bsky.social

The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html

I miss translating literature so much. last week I read a chapter from henry berlin’s “alone together” for @albertlloret.bsky.social’s class and couldn’t resist trying to translate the ausiàs march excerpts into portuguese. here’s one example (lines 9-12) from poem XIII.

Six days left and a whole lotta doors to knock. Let's get it: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

And João César Monteiro's God's Comedy, from 1995, at @moma.bsky.social at 4, with more explicit carnality and a sense of form in an era in which the concept had become fused (or confused) with formality—here, for clear and specific reasons: www.newyorker.com/goings-on-ab...

So wonderful to see a multilingual tenure-line on Medieval Iberia!

Olhem, gostei

Happy to be presenting my talk “Imperial Ecologies and Anticolonial Ways of Seeing in Caribbean Plantation Modernities” at the UCD School of Languages this Monday at 3 pm (Irish time) in Newman Building, D301. If you’d like to join via Zoom, feel free to contact me for the link!

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“The indirect nature of our knowledge about oceans means that imagination and media and aesthetics, things like that, loom large in shaping our understanding of the oceans’’ @oceanhistories.bsky.social www.une.edu/node/121269