Thank you to all the authors, editors, and attendees who stopped by our booth at AAR. We loved connecting with you. If you didn’t make it—or want to keep browsing—check back Monday, Dec. 1 for our Cyber Monday deals! buff.ly/UBnFXR5 @aarweb.bsky.social #AARSBL #SBLAAR

Want to add award-winning titles to your religion bookshelf? Stop by booth 821or visit us online to check out these books and more! buff.ly/ansTyW1 #AARSBL #SBLAAR @aarweb.bsky.social

Happening this Monday at the annual meeting of @aarweb.bsky.social : a discussion of Professor Basit K. Iqbal's book, _The Dread Heights: Tribulation and Refuge after the Syrian Revolution_ (published by @fordhampress.bsky.social) Monday, 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM Sheraton, Boston Common (Fifth Floor)

Congratulations to UC Davis PhD Alum Dr. Rajbir Singh Judge, who won the Best First Book in the History of Religions Prize at the American Academy of Religion! Read more at this link aarweb.org/news/2025-aa...

hemmed and hawed with shobhana xavier about the book newbooksnetwork.com/the-dread-he...

Call for papers for the SST annual conference is out now! Come join us in April to talk about theology and failure (generous bursaries available, especially if you're a grad student): www.theologysociety.org.uk/information/

My mother-in-law is doing amazing work to promote accessibility: “Latika, the organization for disabled children and adults…is building a campus that experts believe will be the first in India to be constructed entirely on universal-design principles.” www.commonwealmagazine.org/designed-eve...

RIP Walter Benjamin, today marking 85 years since his death Sami Khatib, "Melancholia and Destruction: Brushing Walter Benjamin’s 'Angel of History' Against the Grain." www.crisiscritique.org/storage/app/...

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Appreciate these insights from @emollick.bsky.social. But the "wizard problem" isn't that AI is too opaque. It's that we're designing systems that hide their processes. We could build AI that shows its work, explains, and lets us intervene. Instead we're choosing black boxes and calling it magic.

My book, The Future That Was, is about the extraordinary rise of global research on women. It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

My law firm is handling a proposed class action lawsuit against this company for allegedly using people's identities to sell subscriptions w/o consent. salahilaw.com/is-academia-.... This revision appears to be an end-run around the litigation process and we are looking into it. Thanks for flagging.

A beautiful, moving essay on resistance from Joan Scott www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

Such an important conversation featuring my colleague Carie Rael @crrael.bsky.social great for those working in race, class and labor in the US!

@crrael.bsky.social joined America's Work Force Union Podcast today and spoke to Flash Ferenc about the 1984 strike at Disneyland and it's ongoing legacy for workers in Anaheim. Check out the latest installment of Labor 131 below! awf.labortools.com/listen/disne...

Want to know more about Disneyland’s labor history and what it means for us today? Listen to this episode of America’s Work Force Union podcast featuring me

you can order Basit Kareem Iqbal's phenomenal and profound book at 25% discount and free shipping with the promo code SUN25 (valid until 08/31/2025)

Check out this article in time magazine written by my colleague Kate Flach! She compares the rise of the internet in the 90s and the rise of AI today. Worth a read! time.com/7302216/inte...

this, from _the dread heights_, is just 🔥 and what an excellent use of tajnīs with “hear” here

_ @biqbal.bsky.social’s deeply impressive book arrived friday. i’ve been learning from it. each sentence opens up a space to revise thinking, to revive the imagination, and to sense our ethical & political responsibility to each other, figured here as community, the planetary, and the divine

"Instead of a history of Sikh loss, bounded and secured, PROPHETIC MAHARAJA opens onto the problematic of loss: where loss itself can be lost, along with the historical horizon."-Basit Kareem Iqbal, An Und Für Sich. buff.ly/UZ1rPKD @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social #India #SikhHistory #PoliticalTheory

Exbodiment: I love that way of putting it. I agree that this is a difficult, and deeply intuitive, practice that’s at risk right now.

I responded to the generous and smart people who offered readings of my book, Prophetic Maharaja, in An und für sich: buff.ly/dJ9fyYh

"Judge is at his most brilliant and intellectually courageous during moments in [PROPHETIC MAHARAJA] when he meditates on the aporias of his own encounter with the conceptual constitution of his project."-SherAli Tareen, An und für sich. buff.ly/lCimtuN @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social #SikhHistory

Great stuff from Joan Scott. So disappointing to see so many full and emeritus folks defend an organization that has: (1) failed to advocate for young scholars entering a collapsing profession; and (2) refused to take its members’ grievances and demands seriously—esp. on the issue of scholasticide.🗃️

On the Electoral Tactics of the American Historical Association academeblog.org/2025/07/04/o...

Grateful to @biqbal.bsky.social for his reading of my book: "Instead of a history of Sikh loss, bounded and secured, Prophetic Maharaja opens onto the problematic of loss: where loss itself can be lost, along with the historical horizon." itself.blog/2025/05/31/n...

i risk to read @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social's erudite response w/ dufourmantelle: "anxiety reminds us that being alive does not come without a price. that the price is exorbitant—beyond all measure...we will always have to remain an other’s debtor" (_in praise of risk_) itself.blog/2025/06/13/a...

The final post in our event on @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social's book is up now, by Rajbir himself: 'Accurate, Current, and Relevant': itself.blog/2025/06/13/a...

The penultimate post in our event on @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social's book is now up: @biqbal.bsky.social on "Non-Redemptive Narration": itself.blog/2025/05/31/n...

wrote some notes on @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social's wonderful book for the AUFS book event itself.blog/2025/05/31/n...

Just out--I wrote a piece for the New Yorker explaining how the effects of Trump's anti-trans attacks go far beyond trans communities. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

"my book attempts to grapple with this uncanny space in which the very question of a speaking or unspeaking subaltern is rendered insignificant, since analysis hinges on an internal alienness in the subject itself" @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social [aka reading lacan w/asad for the work of learning]

“Perhaps, in contrast to our desire for these controlled connections and transactions, a restricted & bounded economy, we also need room of the irrelevant, the waste, the obscure, the noise" @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social read rajbir's learned response contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

In his response post, @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social writes, "Why do we always need more voices, traces, and archives? What does such inclusion, connection, and assimilation promise?" contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

Sometimes I think about how it sucks to be an academic while academia is dying, and then that the fact I’m allowed to be an academic at all is partly why academia is being killed

I have a short essay, on trees and shade, out in this special issue of SubStance, which is full of other short essays on trees!

Next up in our event on @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social's book is Satbir Singh, 'Dandy (de)livery': "Judge’s work expands the lexicon around loss and abusive psychic injury by challenging us to conceive ways of becoming that exceed the psychoanalytic canon’s parameters." itself.blog/2025/05/20/d...

Randeep Singh Hothi: "The lesson is an orientation to life with loss amidst the play of presence and absence and for that matter loss and recuperation, but also unmoored from any preoccupation with them."

On @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social's _Prophetic Maharaja_, Randeep Singh Hothi writes "The caution against fixation radicalizes the possibility of learning, because neither method nor object can be guaranteed by the recuperation of what is lost." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

Next in our series on @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social's _Prophetic Maharaja_, Nirvikar Singh reflects on the lessons that Judge's book holds for the present, especially in addressing the material problems facing Sikhs in Punjab. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

The next review of Prophetic Maharaja is from Samaah Jaffer, who asks about mourning and melancholia in relation to Israel's genocidal campaign against Palestinians. itself.blog/2025/05/07/t...

In the next post in our series on @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social's _Prophetic Maharaja_, manmit singh writes, "The insistence that queerness and transness are everywhere is an insistence that the Divine is everywhere." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

Rajbir is being too kind here, but it was a challenge and a pleasure to be asked to engage with his work. It’s a beautiful book.