VTDigger is hosting a community conversation with its new editor-in-chief, Geeta Anand, tonight, Tuesday, Nov. 11, from 5-7 p.m. at the Manchester Community Library.

Happening this Wednesday at Bates College. My lecture, tilted “The Underground Railroad, Quilts, and the Power of Desire,” will take place at 4:30 in the Benjamin Mays Center. If you’re in the area, please come!

The Scott Opler Fellowship in Architectural History for the Period 2026-2028 University of Oxford - Worcester College HR - Research Fellows www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH476/t... #skystorians 🗃️

CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

1st Circuit in Stand with Us v. MIT: "[O]ur Constitution bars the government from forcing a private university to prohibit students from voicing vehement support for, or opposition to, the policies and conduct of the United States and its allies." www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...

New in #Academe: Judith A. Wilde and James H. Finkelstein examine how executive search firms have played a significant, often underexamined, role in the erosion of shared governance and the corporatization of American higher education.

Save 50% on #NewBook "Rwanda's Genocide Heritage," by Delia Duong Ba Wendel, which contends with the forms of justice and sovereignty enacted through sites of violent memory such as those that followed the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. #AfricanStudies buff.ly/ofrhNdL

Anyone else have this curious scheduling in their Outlook calendar?

For the journalists who have been asking me to comment, it's all in this book, which you can get for 70% off until Oct 31: @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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70% this book until October 31, just saying... press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... @princetonupress.bsky.social

📢CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 📢 Doctoral and Postdoctoral Positions (M/F/D) The Minerva Fast Track Group “Architectures of Finance,” headed by Dr. Eva Schreiner, seeks to appoint one Doctoral and one Postdoctoral Position (M/F/D). 🚨Deadline: 27 November 2025, 6.00pm ➡️ t1p.de/igavx

Excited that “New Research in Arctic Pasts,” the series I’m co-editing with @issygapp.bsky.social, has just launched on @nichecanada.bsky.social, showcasing the work of 10 Arctic researchers across disciplines over the next 6 weeks niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Carbon County ranch owner Fred Eshelman's appeal of a lower-court ruling that he can't block the public from corner crossing to reach public land. The decision affects 2.44 million acres of public land in Wyoming and more beyond ➡️ wyofile.com/corner-cross...

Tuesday, Oct. 28. 4:00 p.m. Mabel O. Wilson (Columbia): "Hints on Public Whiteness: Building the Smithsonian Castle." Pembroke Hall 305. A Pembroke Seminar “The Civic Work of Monuments” Lecture. Learn more: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @juliethooker.bsky.social

Vanderbilt has arrived, late to the chat, with this shambles of a response. While technically true, this is a clear abdication of any moral responsibility. They even work in a mention of their commitment to "institutional neutrality" later in the email.

UVA rejects the compact. www.vpm.org/news/2025-10...

BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.

The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University seeks applicants at the rank of Assistant Professor (tenure-track) whose scholarship focuses on histories of medieval (ca. 500s-1400s) European art and architecture in the world. apply.interfolio.com/174923

wrote briefly about architecture and the situation at u Chicago www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Good news! Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment buff.ly/2PpOPL3 University of Penn follows in the footsteps in MIT & Brown to reject pernicious "compact."

If you're participating in Open House New York this weekend, check out BWAF's new Built by Women High Line audio tour guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-US/guide/... You may hear a familiar voice ...

Boston has always been the home of revolution & innovation. To this day, we’re home to the world’s leading minds working to solve our biggest challenges. Boston stands with our scientists & engineers (& the Boston students already hard at work alongside them!) shaping the future of science & tech.

I thought this analysis of the many unconstitutional aspects of these demands on universities was particularly insightful. Once again, hooray to Brown U and MIT for leading the way in fighting these abrogations of the rights of those in higher education: knightcolumbia.org/blog/a-brief...

I am proud to say that MIT has rejected Trump's poison compact. MIT President Sally Kornbluth: "Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education." @aaup.org @aft.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @uaw.org links.mit.edu/nl3/N5Jy2cKq...

MIT is rejecting the "Compact."

MIT is rejecting the "Compact."

📢We have a whole range of thematic calls on highlight topics - please have a look here 💥https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/rjar-thematic-calls/

The history of Reconstruction is suddenly too sensitive for this game developer. I wonder how the historical consultants feel about it.

David Graeber on Giant Puppets davidgraeber.org/articles/on-...

And now @acls1919.bsky.social speaks out. Just. Say. No. To Trump's compact on higher ed. It's extortion plain and simple. www.acls.org/news/acls-st...

I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Come hang with us! I am going to show pictures of "Live, Laugh, Love" art and explain how Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poetry impacts your own personal and specific life.

Happy World Architecture Day 2025, in my characteristically pesssimistic & sceptical style. #Architecture #WorldArchitectureDay2025 klaustoon.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/h...

The Anthropic settlement list is up. Authors, check here to see if your books are included: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Any college that signs this 'compact' is going to have put a big asterisk on the diplomas it confers--just like sports do for stats and records that are compromised by doping. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

www.insidehighered.com/news/governa... "Both graduation and retention rates have fallen since the takeover in 2023.... even as New College spends more than 10 times per student what the other 11 members of the State University System... a head count under 900 and a $118.5 million budget"

Call for applications! 📣 The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝 1/3

We are not living through another run-up to the American Civil War. Secession and violence are, therefore, not the answer. We are actually living through another Gilded Age. So the answer is a third-party fight against corruption, monopolies, and imperialism: a working-class-based progressivism.

TT job alert. My department is hiring an assistant professor in architectural history and urban studies in any geographical area, post-500 CE binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

Syracuse University has "paused" admissions to its undergrad History of Architecture major: dailyorange.com/2025/09/coll...

I don’t pretend to understand what’s going on, but the members of Junior’s radically reconfigured Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices don’t seem to understand either. www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...

Folks, get off of Academia[.]edu. Delete your accounts. Put your work on a faculty webpage, on hcommons, on your own webpage. But not on Academia[.]edu. www.academia.edu/terms

Climbing advocates are urging the public to oppose the proposed rollback of the Roadless Rule, which could open up prized Wyoming climbing zones such as the Wind River Range and Tensleep Canyon to activities like roadbuilding and timber harvesting.

If you haven’t, there are only three days remaining to submit a comment on the planned rescission of the roadless rule in the National Forests. Losing this means a loss of biodiversity, wilderness areas, and recreation.