No psychologically healthy person would earnestly accuse someone of empowering *a genocide*, then pose for an adoring photo like this just 2 days later.

But of course AOC means nothing earnestly. She uses 'genocide' to keep left-wing voters in line, then steer them to Biden.

I've never seen an anti-Jewish program before that features everyone sitting in circles to celebrate and sing along with Jewish students as they lead the group in Jewish prayers.

That major parts of these protests are composed of Jewish students is ignored for obvious reasons.

No one has fallen harder for the fantasy of trickle-down liberation than Ivy Leaguers. Placing people of certain backgrounds in elite positions (here an Arab and Muslim woman as Columbia president) is a liberal way of legitimating the status quo, not changing it.

The children they stole these toys from will have been driven from largely destroyed homes.

Many will be maimed. Many will have lost loved ones. Some will be killed.

All survivors will be traumatised for life.

Look at the joy on the faces of the soldiers who did all that.

It's past midnight in New York, and thousands of students and faculty continue to fill the entire plaza of Columbia University in solidarity with the Palestinian people amid the ongoing Israeli genocide.

Someone please tell the resistance lib #twitterstorians .

Your teaching evaluations aren’t great, you aren’t publishing much, and you have no external funding, have you considered going into administration?

Lucia Wolf has written an amazing online guide to the Premio Strega collection at Library of Congress that provides very interesting insights into contemporary Italian fiction:
guides.loc.gov/premio-strega

PremioStrega Fondazione Bellonci

Congress now in the business of policing the speech of Americans, and decreeing which opinions are racist and thus 'must be condemned.'

Ordinarily the self-branded free speech crusaders would be indignant about this, but given the country it's designed to protect, it's fine:

Interessante 'attacco' (in vari sensi) di una recensione del musicologo Davide Daolmi. In effetti l'inglese in ambito umanistico è molto usato da chi in fondo non ha niente di nuovo da dire, ma vuole dirlo a tutto il mondo.

Jon Stewart checks in on the war in Gaza and examines how America's 'values' stack up against its support of Israel

Mort de Maryse Condé, plusieurs vies de combat

La grande romancière s’est éteinte à l’âge de 90 ans, laissant une somme d’œuvres d’importance, le plus souvent sur l’esclavage, la colonisation et le racisme, contre lesquels elle a lutté sans relâche. ➡️ l.humanite.fr/yZ

The History of the Jews in Early Modern Italy
From the Renaissance to the Restoration

By Marina Caffiero

Challenging traditional historiographical approaches, this book offers a new history of Italian Jews in the early modern age. The fortunes of the Jewish communities of Italy…

Today's talk, 'Circling Back Home: Thomas Shuler Shaw, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, and The Library of Congress,' by Brent L. Kendrick, one of the seminars by the Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies.
It was great being back in person at the Library of Congress!

Looking forward to the workshop 'Rethinking Early Modern Confessionalism' Harvard University.
This is part of the Short Peace Network conferences and workshops organized by Noah Millstone
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A packed room for Julie Greene's compelling Distinguished Scholar-Teacher talk on 'The Wages of Empire: US Workers and the Making of History'
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Thank you to Viviana Tagliaferri for this very generous review (in Italian) of my 'Making Italy Anglican':

aro-isig.fbk.eu/issues/2024/1/…… #twitterstorians #BCP

OUPReligion OUP History

Join us for the official release of the 'Writing Bilingually' database, the first comprehensive survey of prose self-translations produced in Italy and France from the early age of print to the end of the seventeenth century.

Wednesday 15 May, 2-4pm

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Mar 28 1871 – The Paris Commune is formally proclaimed across the city, though elections had been held on the 26th.

Two weeks ago, Bassirou Diomaye Faye was in prison. Now he’s set to be Africa’s youngest president after winning Sunday’s delayed election.

We take a look at Senegal’s next leader ⤵️