"All of this is a colossal and entirely avoidable act of self-harm on the part of a country whose higher education sector has until recently been one of the few things it had going for it." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

"The mantra, repeated ad nauseam in those years, was ‘competition drives up quality,’ an assertion that anyone looking at, say, the privatised water companies or privatised train companies might greet with a hollow laugh."

to paraphrase Homer Simpson, 38% *so far*

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

There are stories from all over about universities' dismantling of the humanities. I have a small but dismaying data point from my university to contribute to the discourse. Harvard University now has NO assistant professors of English. That's how long it has been since we were allowed to hire.

Hey Bluesky folks. If you’re in education or just follow for my thirst traps, would you please sign this if you can, and share far and wide? c.org/dCKk9vjqxY It’s much appreciated. My university is cancelling all UG humanities degrees. We need support and love right now x

Applications for the inaugural Annual Renaissance PhD Summer School, a collaboration b/w @RenWarwick, the Warburg Institute, & the CESR at L'Université de Tours, w/ support from @NewberryLibrary, close TOMORROW. Apply here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren...

Delighted to announce that Volume 15 of the Journal of Early Modern Studies is now available online! oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...

Peeking in to live vicariously through everyone who went to #shax2026 and to say how happy I am that Literary Form After Matter is out in the world! And open access! Dianne and Katherine have been fabulous to work with, and the whole book is a treat. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-literar...

Really pleased to share my (open access!) article on immigration control in early modern England, feat. rights-bearing subjects, rightsless migrants, and experiments in immigration control

Very pleased to share my review of @endeeekay.bsky.social, Subha Mukherji and Rowan Williams' collection, Crossings, an attempt to reorient migration studies through the lens of migrant knowledge(s) & migrant forms: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RXI2X...

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-literar... I see the book has a tentative page. Will be so worth reading, & hopefully very useful for teaching with

Apply! Astronomy! The Adler! At The Newberry! The Celestial Imagination in Indigenous and Early Modern Worlds: mailchi.mp/1222ede5b9c6...

One month left to apply to @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on early modern practical texts, featuring keynotes by the brilliant @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover! #CFP sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Brilliant Colleague's New Book Alert! Buy Chris Fletcher's latest, hot off the presses or read the OPEN ACCESS version online! www.arc-humanities.org/978180270096...

CROSSINGS: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms shows how the arts & the humanities can meet the ethical demands that the reality of mass displacement places on us, in a way that governments & institutions have failed to do. PUBLISHED #OpenAccess & FREE to download! tinyurl.com/2s3686hm

Loved the production of Troilus & Cressida at The Globe, and was pleased to have contributed an essay to the programme!

CROSSINGS: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms shows how the arts & the humanities can meet the ethical demands that the reality of mass displacement places on us, in a way that governments & institutions have failed to do. PUBLISHED #OpenAccess & FREE to download! tinyurl.com/2s3686hm

Applications for 2026-2027 entry to the Wheeler History of Travel Writing studentship at the University of Warwick are now open. I’m happy to speak to potential applicants working in my areas of interest! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU382/p...

EXCITED!!! For the very first session of the new Migration & Mobility seminar @ihr.bsky.social. @kabcommons.bsky.social is introducing.

Enjoyed first seminar of @ihr.bsky.social Migration + Mobility seminar series led by the fantastic @kabcommons.bsky.social, starring legend @profpanayi.bsky.social and great presentations by @endeeekay.bsky.social (see pic for book out soon w/ @punctumbooks.bsky.social) & @marcloureiro.bsky.social

oh EXTREMELY immanent! And #OpenAccess (though it looks so lush you'll want to get a neat physical copy) punctumbooks.com/titles/cross.... (@endeeekay.bsky.social, you're HERE! Sorry!) #MovingHistory

Oh! The fabulous Natalya Din-Kariuki speaking and announcing that the publication of Crossing @punctumbooks.bsky.social is immanent! Get your copy: punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...

reminder we’re kicking off tomorrow 5:30- 7:30pm Hybrid/IHR @profpanayi.bsky.social & @kabcommons.bsky.social will open, then I’ll will speak on history & social studies; @marcloureiro.bsky.social on history & law; and Natalya Din-Kariuki on history & literature. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The first term's programme for the IHR Migration and Mobility Seminar is now live! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/.... We're hybrid, so if you're interested in migration and mobility across space and time - but also in how we can write better histories of mobility - sign up from anywhere!

SYMPOSIUM with the brilliant team of the Early Modern Scholars of Colour Network. Join us for an afternoon of exciting research papers as well as discussion of academia beyond the academy. 11 September, 12:45-17:15, Liverpool John Moores Uni All info & programme: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/emsoc-...

Come one, come all to lovely Liverpool to hear some fabulous scholarship!

@emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are delighted to be running this conference on EM practical texts, generously supported by @themhra.bsky.social, and with fabulous keynotes by @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover. Abstracts due by 24th November!

V pleased to be involved with the exciting new @ihr.bsky.social seminar on Migration & Mobility History, led by the excellent @kabcommons.bsky.social

We have some really exciting plans coming up: a space to think more thoroughly about the intersection between migration studies and history: can migration studies help historians theorise migration history better? Can history help recover regimes of control and exclusion over the long (long) term?

Really pleased and proud to announce a new @ihr.bsky.social seminar - Migration and Mobility History. We want to cover migration across time and space and speak with colleagues across disciplines. If you're interested in attending/presenting, get in touch: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Honoured and a little bit terrified to have been elected Vice Chair of @srsrensoc.bsky.social and soooo looking forward to welcoming @norajw.bsky.social to council!

Feeling very lucky as always to work with these #SRSlyGood people 🐦‍🔥

Thank you, Bristol, for a terrific #RenSoc25 & for being amazing hosts! It was fabulous to hear such erudite papers & talk with a brilliant bunch of people. Looking forward to seeing y’all at #RenSoc27, where @warburginstitute.bsky.social will be our hosts in our DIAMOND anniversary year! #SRSlyGood

Working on ecology in premodernity? Come share your stuff with us! Proposals for 2025-2026 Premodern Studies Seminar at the Newberry Library are due July 7! newberry.slideroom.com?utm_source=C...

Registration open for symposium on *Migrant Forms: Creative Futures*: events.humanitix.com/migrant-form... All welcome!

Registration open for symposium on *Migrant Forms: Creative Futures*: events.humanitix.com/migrant-form... All welcome!

2) Symposium on “Migrant Forms: Creative Futures” at Magdalene College, Cambridge on June 16, culminating with the launch of *Crossings*. Info here and registration opening soon: www.english.cam.ac.uk/news/archive... All welcome to both events!

1) Speaking at “How The Light Gets In” on May 25 with Subha, Rowan, and Issam Kourbaj. Info here: howthelightgetsin.org/events/journ...

A couple of events coming up related to *Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms* (punctum books, 2025), edited by Subha Mukherji, Rowan Williams, and me (punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...):

My first visit to the Newberry Library to learn about Travel Studies was a great success. What a great place and such great staff. I know I will be back.

A couple of events coming up related to *Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms* (punctum books, 2025), edited by Subha Mukherji, Rowan Williams, and me (punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...):

Looking forward to speaking at #HowTheLightGetsIn next month; the conversation emerges from *Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms* eds. Mukherji, Williams, and myself:

New article out in 'Studies in Travel Writing', in a special issue on 'Decolonizing Travel Studies'. It is the 'twin' article to my earlier essay on the settlers as travellees, with the focus on the colonized, assessing their manyfold reactions to travellers. (1) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Pleased that the special issue on “Travel Studies and the Decolonial Turn”, which I edited with Guido van Meersbergen, is out now! Thanks to our contributors Vishvesh Kandolkar, @gaborgelleri.bsky.social, Janet Remmington, R. Benedito Ferrão & Joanne Lee. ✨ tandfonline.com/toc/rstw20/27/2

“Matter and impertinency mixed” - Rowan Williams does a good job of dismantling Jordan Peterson www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

Given the X-odus (see what we did there? A true fire bird): which other #earlymodern centres have arrived here already? We've got a starter pack for easy following, but keen to hear about more: go.bsky.app/LLzFj3b #skystorians

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