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I knew Fatima's work, I respect her last wishes. 😞 "If I die, I want a resounding death. I don't want to be in breaking news, nor as a number in a group. I want a death that the world will hear about, an impact that will last forever, and immortal images that will not be buried by time or space."

If you're watching what's happening at US universities, it's on our doorstep here. Pollievre is promising to end federal funding for research deemed to be "woke" www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/...

York University is suspending admissions to 18 programs—including Indigenous Studies, Gender & Women’s Studies, and Environmental Biology. Are we seeing another Laurentian-style crisis? Today in Perspectives, Honor Brabazon weighs in on what’s at stake. perspectivesjournal.ca/program-cuts...

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

"We don't like to point fingers, but the History Department's drop in enrollment is totally the faculty's fault."

“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.

This one for printing to go on walls of certain offices

(1/11) URGENT: York University @YorkUniversity has suspended admissions to Religious Studies. This is a backdoor tactic to shut down the program without due process. This will ultimately be bad for York and everyone. #YUGOOD --we aren't.

The administration at York University has suspended admissions to the Religious Studies program. We are devastated by this decision. The faculty have written this statement. We ask you to will distribute it widely and write to York's administration to protest this decision.

ask why stop, my dear colleagues, imaginging that the humanities are a bad ROI (they aren’t; they’re actually quite excellent; also this isn’t the argument if you want to preserve the university at all—coming for one form of knowledge is a gateway to them all) ask who benefits & to what end

A critical point.

"I just want to be clear about what's going on here." - @warren.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...

Ouch. But so, so very true.

From October 17-19, 2024, Canadian PhD students and Southeast Asia scholars joined a fully-funded CSEASI workshop in Toronto. They built networks, gained feedback, and improved their research. Stay tuned for more events!