“It’s O.K. I think / I did what I could. ” — Jane Mead, from I Wonder If I Will Miss the Moss

The 2023 CIVICA The European University of Social Sciences Summer School has just started! 🎉🌐 💭 From 4-7 September, the EUI is happy to host early-stage researchers at the beautiful Villa Salviati ☀️ for an interdisciplinary debate on transnational democracy.

Manimugdha Sharma theweek.in/theweek/cover/…

I don’t know if this is a good or bad thing to read as I edit my thesis but its fantastic and so I’m going to share it anyway: “Spend all of your love and inspiration all the time, every day, every chance you get. Just maybe not all of your money.” open.substack.com/pub/chriswalla…

“Notwithstanding all the critiques, most liberals and leftists still believe they have reason and truth on their side, which they don’t, and that democracy lines up with reason and truth, which it doesn’t. What we have is a set of commitments” thenation.com/article/cultur…

“If we can make, from tenderness, a revolution—” — Carl Phillips, from Fixed Shadow, Moving Water

Many of us (myself included) may want to engage with aspects of law & lit as ECRs but aren't sure where to begin. This spring, Tanmay Misra and I are convening a three-part online seminar series with scholars in the field: Gerry Simpson, Lisa Siraganian and Joseph Slaughter.

Very excited to finally get my hands on the latest from @LyndseyStonebri! What an apt title for what promises to be a fantastic read!

Superbly put by ⁦N S⁩ : “There are three issues at stake here: the conception of history that is being enshrined in the courts through such cases; the question of faith; and the question of who is entitled to judicial redress and how.” thewire.in/rights/why-the…

What a day! Thank you Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College Roger Berkowitz Nick Dunn (and Emma and Neil) for facilitating two days of brilliant conversations!

Just got done with a chat with the lovely students NYU London and can’t help but be envious of how exciting it is, as a student, to discover (and dismiss or pursue) new ideas and disciplines and methodologies.

This is the only thing worth reading about the Kate Middleton saga.

From Sophie Smith’s piece for the London Review of Books: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…