Just published, the new issue of Revista Latinoamericana de Trabajo y Trabajadores, edited by REVLATT with support of IISG and @DependencyBonn. In open access, as always! All articles are available here: revista.redlatt.org/revlatt

The Netherlands anno 2024. “The university acknowledged in a statement that plainclothes security guards patrol the buildings and that it employs student assistants who provide security briefings” advalvas.vu.nl/student-maatsc…

De troonrede, die mede mogelijk is gemaakt door een halve indonesiër, een halve Ierse boerin, een hele Turk en een overspannen Nederlander, wordt voorgelezen door n half Duitse Koning met een Argentijnse vrouw. Hun conclusie is: er zijn hier te veel buitenlanders.  #prinsjesdag

Het is pijnlijk om te zien. Extreemrechts zet de toon met racisme en nativisme. Links denkt stemmen te winnen door nativisme te omarmen. Spoiler: het zal niet werken. Om rechts te bestrijden, moet je nativisme en racisme bestrijden, niet je eraan aanpassen.

Just published in open access in International Labor and Working-Class History, my article about the “comeback” of Kautsky in leftist debates. It was presented in a workshop organised last year by Don Kalb and Marcel van der Linden. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Hobsbawm was second to none in casually dropping gems like these:

Y a mí

For those who were wondering how it's going with the ultra-right government in Argentina. The official account of Milei's office posts a video celebrating 12 October 1492, when the arrival of Columbus set “a milestone which marked the beginning of civilisation in the Americas”.

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Today I gave a public talk with Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social at Plaza de Mayo, as part of a teach-in organized by the teachers' union AGD-UBA. It’s essential that we defeat Javier Milei’s attacks on Argentine universities.

NOS interviewde me over het overlijden van een leider van de Argentijnse Dwaze Moeders (Madres de Plaza de Mayo) en de blijvende impact van hun strijd onder de rechtse regering van Javier Milei. nos.nl/artikel/254297…

Next week I'll be presenting my current book project in our very own lunch seminar series at VU Amsterdam.

Maybe not a PhD dissertation, but certainly a Research Master thesis. Not so weird if you think at an undergraduate programme in Latin America lasts 5-6 years, while in Anglo systems the Bachelor lasts 3 years and a (Research) Master takes 1 or 2.

Just published! My article about working-class newspapers for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. It includes references for further reading and links to primary sources. [If you want to read and don't have access, drop me a DM] oxfordre.com/latinamericanh…}

My book on the origins of the Argentine working class (in Spanish, published in 2014 and reprinted in 2015) has been out of print for a while. It's now accessible for free here: archive.org/details/lucas-…

Are we framing the AI discussion wrong in history departments? I think we're too focused on student “cheating” while missing the bigger picture. I've been thinking about this for a while and decided to write it down. lucaspoy.substack.com/p/historians-w…

Some more thoughts about generative AI and our work as historians (in particular about using NotebookLM for secondary sources) lucaspoy.substack.com/p/notebooklm-t…

New post on Substack: how I’ve been testing NotebookLM with digitised newspapers. In short: great for discovery (much better than keyword searching), but weak and risky for analysis. lucaspoy.substack.com/p/using-notebo…

My take on why the take-home essay is dying and what we can do about it. lucaspoy.substack.com/p/the-last-day…