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yoooooooo go get books from @bookshop.org
the ebook of mine & @lollardfish.bsky.social's THE BRIGHT AGES is $1.99!!!!!!
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Not sure how we decided to end the first day with this panel, but boy did we do great here #Farbindungen25 @farbindungen.bsky.social
#Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish kicks off this weekend! From Sunday February 2nd - Monday February 3rd come and hear some of most exciting new research in the world of Yiddish Studies! Register at the link in our bio, and we can't wait to see you all there!
Day 1 of the best conference there is, the Farbindungen Yiddish Studies Conference @farbindungen.bsky.social is rounding out in the most *us* way possible - extremely *not* casual presentation, and readings, of Yiddish lesbian erotic poetry.
Graphic of schedule for Farbindungen 2025, day 1. A text-only schedule is included in the post above, which includes one line of Yiddish text in Panel 1, but is otherwise written in Roman characters.
Graphic of schedule for Farbindungen 2025, day 2.
#Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish is in just two weeks!
Take a look at the full schedule below to learn more about this year's panels, workshops, and keynote. The conference runs February 2-3.
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Why’s the traditional one so FAST??
A copy of Oathbreakers by Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry with a post-it note that reads “Charles the bald = not bald??? (Nobody knows??)”
k I just read a like 45pg article about Merovingian & Carolingian hair politics just to learn, finally, that Charles the Bald got his nickname…
“somehow, dunno, 🤷🏽♀️” (paraphrasing)
Just in case anyone else asks the big questions after reading @profgabriele.com and @lollardfish.bsky.social new book
More post-its = more good. Great book, highly recommend!!
Sometimes it’s even nice stuff — and few feelings are better than getting to introduce a friend to some weird part of the world/internet they didn’t know before.
The only possible challenger for the top spot would be Nicole Krauss’ utterly sublime “Zusya on the Roof”
If anyone sees this I’d love to hear lit or pop culture things that were surprise successes in your classes ( or surprise flops that you’re still committed to bringing back!)
Joyfully reminded today of probably the least accessible text I’ve ever tried to share with my students (based on their responses). Adore it though
“The Last Day of Betty Nkomo” — Young
-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
Thank you!!
New coffee?? 👀
Sitting in a cafe overhearing *another* older white dude arguing for making a Great Books curriculum mandatory.
Not uncommon but it feels increasingly ominous at this moment.
FYI, Indiana University Press is currently offering 40% off through 12/20 with code UGIFT24. Which means it's a perfect opportunity to #BuyMyBook. A perfect gift for any religion nerds, sex nerds, or people who appreciate #LostGirl shoutouts!
This is a bad decision. The time I’ve spent writing, talking about, and helping others with diversity statements. theirs has done more to improve my teaching, relationship to teaching, and care for students than any formal pedagogy training I ever had.
holy fuck
"Sorry about that complication in your by-pass surgery. That last hour of anesthesia is on you."
writing is reading one book and three articles to achieve one subordinate clause
🧵I want to engage with Snyder's On Tyranny but first want to express my admiration. It's an extraordinary distillation of a century of lessons that remain largely unlearned about democracy & fascism into a rigorous & actionable primer on recognizing & confronting American tyranny. Please read it.
In the summer of 2011, a New Yorker told me off because I called a subway train “a train”.
“That’s not a train, it’s the subway,” they said, as if that was an ok thing to say out loud.
It IS really good!
Saul is a scholar and person I have admired for years. His research is engaged and nuanced; it speaks to the biggest questions in literary studies, Yiddish Studies, Jewish Studies, translation studies, Comparative Literature, and many other fields. Harvard absolutely failed him and themselves.
“take language from the assembly line”… like… “we should unionize”??
Oh this looks so cool!
Highly recommend, if only for a few hours a day
