Mehr als 900 antimuslimische Straftaten seit Jahresanfang: Von Januar bis September 2025 registrierte das Bundeskriminalamt insgesamt 930 islamfeindliche Straftaten, darunter Körperverletzungen, Beleidigungen, Propagandadelikte und Sachbeschädigungen: mediendienst-integration.de/desintegrati...

foreseeable crap aside, the first item on Trump’s plan for Ukraine’s reconstruction is investing in AI data centers. NOt rebuilding the electrical grid infrastructure and the damaged power plants without which people are freezing in the dark www.ft.com/content/6ea9...

Hugely looking forward to this!

Very much looking forward to the EUROPE AFTER DECOLONISATION conference in Konstanz this week! A fantastic line-up.

My book has a webpage! In case you want to pre-order a copy (or, more probably, request that your library does so). global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Had a great AI-free term discussing (in German) ruined Germany after Nazism with our advanced students. 100% recommend: 1) group research on Nazi-era provenance for the uni art museum (frustrating, lots of dead ends, but benefits the museum and teaches actual research and importance of contacts)

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

“If corruption and authoritarianism are tied together — if they are two acts in the same story — then the struggle against Trump’s authoritarian designs must also be a struggle against his personal corruption as well as the corruption of the political system.” A tally www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...

The LMU announces the cancellation of a seminar on the topic "the targeting of Palestinian academia". The cancellation announcement is titled "LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse". Couldn't make this up. www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...

Happy 5th birthday to my first monograph, The Last Ghetto! I am so grateful to all people who have read the book, cite it, assign to teach, but also those who read it because their relatives were imprisoned in Theresienstadt. I wrote it so that people like my brother or cousins could read it...

“Somebody said to me, ‘All of New York is talking about this book,’” Balle added, incredulously. “But in a way, it’s so far away that I don’t have to worry about it, because everything here is the same.” Bless this woman and her labors www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...

Some wrong-number messages are too good to delete

Ruin them! From @mollycrabapple.bsky.social: “Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim” secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Things like this can only happen a profoundly corrupt & immoral society. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

Universities across the world from the US to the UK to Australia and Canada, are now "led" by an interchangeable Global Admin class who swap places every couple of years. Their blandness, lack of local roots and commitments, and general third-tier-CEO vibes are their main feature, not a bug. 2/4

For those who say art history is an esoteric discipline, here's a painting that's looking very relevant if you're tracking the AI bubble right now: Jan Brueghel the Younger, "Allegory of Tulipomania," 1640s. Tag yourself on the right

The shift of combat to fiber optic drone warfare is as terrifying and big and unregulated as climate change or robotization. If this comes for you, it might be too late to do anything about it orf.at/stories/3411...

Our volume is finally out! Open access to boot! Personal thanks to Michal Frankl for his patience and trust ...and, of course, to our authors for powering through the long production process. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526189929/

"I don't know" is one of the most powerful intellectual positions imaginable. Where you plant your "I don't know" flag signals your research question, methodology, and even what *counts* as evidence. Current commercial manifestations of GenAI make it so you cannot even see the spot on the ground.

My biggest GenAI-related intellectual fear is about the future of “I don’t know”

Nuzzi discourse turns broad misogynist platform—must people do this?

20 years to citizenship is deranged

“"We haven't sold our soul to the devil,” we just brought him some Rolex and some gold and promised to invest in his, ahem, economy www.reuters.com/world/europe...

It's corruption only it comes from the Corruptian Mountains of Eastern Europe, otherwise it is just a sparkling gold bar.

New College of Florida, the school famously taken over by Chris Rufo & other conservative activists, just posted a CAA job listing for an art history open position. Will chosen candidate also advise on the college's proposed Charlie Kirk statue, I wonder? careercenter.collegeart.org/jobs/2183202...

Berlin’s CDU, which has refused calls to examine banning the partly openly neo-Nazi AfD, is now demanding that security services review Die Linke for “anti-Israel” positions

Multilingualism, Nationhood, and Cultural Identity. The Agency of Languages in Central Europe (1300-1900) and beyond. — 21 novembre 10h-13h, Centre LOURCINE Paris 1, 1 rue de la Glacière, salle 102 — avec : cem.hypotheses.org/4023

The clubby rich pedophile world they're so sad to see gone isn't even "lost" or "gone," it's alive and well in the White House. Part of how it got there was by the NYTimes running interference for Trump while sitting on the story of a pedophile telling one of its reporters he could ruin Trump.

‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.

Das Auktionshaus nimmt wie folgt Stellung zu dieser Aktion: "Unsere Aufgabe sehen wir darin, durch die Bewahrung und Dokumentation historischer Belege ein tieferes Verständnis für die Ereignisse jener Zeit zu ermöglichen. Die vollständige Entfernung dieser Materialien vom Markt würde bedeuten, 1/2

A German auction house planned to sell ghetto IDs, yellow stars, letters of Holocaust victims, along w/ perpetrator memorabilia, all of them from an archive of a Holocaust researcher. What researcher would let this happen? Or hold on to these objects, in the first place? www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/...

Leaves caught in anti-drone nets over the streets of Kherson. There’s no Rilke for this kind of autumn www.instagram.com/reel/DRAtAPu...

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

This week, I discussed whether the AI investment boom is an unsustainable bubble and how a potential crash could reshape policy and public sentiment with Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research's Ryan Cummings, AI Now Institute's Sarah West, and Blood in the Machine's Brian Merchant.

In Myrnohrad, which literally means “peace city,” “some residents returned to retrieve a few belongings from their ravaged apartments, despite the drones hunting them in the streets.” Year, after year, Russia gets to destroy and terrorize with impunity www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...

“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”

Floss-intimate with RFK, very creepy

Streets have been renamed, Ukrainian monuments removed, and murals painted over. Bellingcat investigates how apartment blocks in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol have been demolished to make way for a new Russian suburban utopia… www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...

An excellent PhD opportunity for someone to work on family separation during WW1 or WW2. I've done some research on Italian emigrant families separated when the father was serving in the Italian Army and it's a really fascinating area of study. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/phd...

Imagine Lysistrata, but in diaspora

Such a good story www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...

These cases are heartbreaking. But the new state censors are losing these battles in court. Consistently. We just have to do what we can to support and encourage those targeted to fight.

We are happy to announce the inaugural panel of our new event series on December 15, featuring Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Marci Shore, Tamara Hundorova, and Vitaly Chernetsky, moderated by Svitlana Biedarieva. www.eventbrite.com/e/postcoloni...

Vast sin-concealing chaos

Question for Germanists (and others)—can anyone recommend good scholarship on the discourse of "die soziale Frage" / "the social question" around 1900ish?

In Germany, the far-right AfD are trying to cut the state funding of one of the country's most prominent anti-extremism NGOs. This attack is another milestone in how bold they are. crm.amadeu-antonio-stiftung.de/civicrm/mail...

Are you an early career humanities scholar looking for next year's plans? Have you dreamed of having an office only a few doors down from mine? Great news - the Whitney Humanities Center is hiring a postdoc working within the broader theme of 'Rot: Politics, Aesthetics, Regeneration'

Provincial councillors in Limburg have called for a permanent memorial to black American servicemen to be erected next to the US war cemetery in Margraten to replace the one that was removed. www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/call...

Jason Stanley got yelled out of a liberal Frankfurt congregation for bringing up Gaza, taking a universalist stance, and advocating freedom of speech. Good analysis of how in Germany, the fear of antisemitism is now the very thing that fuels ressentiments www.fr.de/kultur/gesel...

No more excuses for not playing foreign films because they’ve got subtitles when USians read captions on English-language movies, and they films accessible www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...