Une cérémonie de panthéonisation de l'historien et résistant Marc Bloch aura lieu le 16 juin 2026, quatre-vingt-deux ans jour pour jour après son exécution par la Gestapo. Rappel au sujet du fondateur des Annales. radiofrance.fr/franceculture/…

Ernst Kantorowicz - Radiances Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State À paraître en juillet aux Cornell UP

Just tons of fun to introduce and discuss A Nice Jewish Boy (Le Dernier des juifs) tonight Toronto Jewish Film Foundation festival! A stunningly smart, fun, and poignant film by Noé Debré. Thanks to Toronto Jewish Film Foundation for inviting me to be part of it , and to the great audience tjff.com/films/a-nice-j…

Thanks to Toronto Jewish Film Foundation for inviting me to moderate this panel on Telling Israeli Stories on Film, with Danae Elon, Yotam Shazar & Dani Rosenberg! Thrilled to have been part of this conversation on film, the role of filmmakers, & the field of filmmaking. tjff.com/films/telling-…

UofT ranked 16th in US News & World Report global university rankings (and 5th in social sciences & public health) …. ⁦ utoronto.ca/news/u-t-ranke…

A lesson for social science too: Not every paper needs to create a new “concept.”

Plainte, accusations d’antisémitisme… ce que l’on sait de l’expulsion d’ados de confession juive d’un vol vers Paris - Le Parisien leparisien.fr/societe/mauvai…

New year, new course! This one in U of T Sociology , on Law, Culture and the Social Imagination ... Thankful to be able to teach it! And ... the course will have a playlist! In the first week, we started the term by listening to David Bowie, Life on Mars ....

Here was material for Week 1 (intro) of Law, Culture, and the Social Imagination ...

And here is what we covered in Week 2 of Law, Culture, and the Social Imagination (along with two more songs for the course playlist)!