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Academia
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The Last Graduate Students?
“I began writing this as a record of what it felt like to be a student then, as collective attachments to values—long recognized as fraying, with the knell of the next scapegoat, or horrifying spectacle—face the final chopping block: public good, responsibility to others, democracy itself.”
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Shoptalk: Overheard at APSA 2018
Over a holiday weekend in early September, political scientists gathered in the heart of Boston in a mall (well, in a conference center and two hotels …
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Carolyn Heilbrun Told You So
Over the course of a few weeks in April, amid the usual tiny indignities that beset women in academe, I read through Carolyn Heilbrun’s entire oeuvre. April …
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What Can Millennials Teach Us about the University?
Perhaps more fragile and contested than ever before, the university today feels …
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Editor 2 Editor: Mary Francis and Gita Manaktala
How does a scholarly book differ from a dissertation, or a string of articles? What does and doesn’t change with a shift to digital publishing? What do editors do all day?
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The Book Is a Time Machine
When we are not actually holding them, books are things over which we like to wring our hands. They stand, in their very solidity, for what might be precarious …
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The Future of the Global University
Great universities seek to erase the borders that confine intellectual exchange. The aspiration is at once scholarly and political: policies informed by research will topple …
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Shoptalk: Overheard at ICA
This May over three and a half thousand scholars descended on Prague for the International Communications Association Conference. In between the thousands …
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Shoptalk: Overheard at Kzoo 2018
Everich yeer, michel clerkes fare tu Michygan and eten, drynke, and telle tydinges. For you plebs who don’t speak Middle English, that means each year …
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Shoptalk: Overheard at C19
This year, members of the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists gathered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the organization’s fifth biennial …
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Editor 2 Editor: Priya Nelson and Joe Calamia
How important to an editor is the spark one feels (or doesn’t) about a potential project? How does one identify books that are surprising, new, and relevant? And …
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Shoptalk: Overheard at MLA 2018
Literary critics that managed the trek to this year’s Modern Language Association conference descended into a professional circle of hell: the convention was held in …
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Shoptalk: Overheard at AAA
The American Anthropological Association’s 116th Annual Meeting was brimming with how can we even? under the Trump administration. The theme …
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Editor 2 Editor: Lindsay Waters and Peter J. Dougherty
What does it take for a scholarly book to reach a broad audience? What should …
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Shoptalk: Overheard at ASA
This year’s American Studies Association conference coincided with Chicago’s first snowfall of the season. Its theme was “Pedagogies of Dissent,” and conversations that circulated in the conference commons suggest there was robust critical engagement with emergent subthemes of Pedagogies of Day Drinking, Dissenting from Weather, and Against 8 a.m. Panels. Read on for a neoliberal…
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Shoptalk: Overheard at GSA
Over one thousand scholars gathered in Atlanta, Georgia, in early October for the German Studies Association annual conference. In keeping with the German language’s tendency to prefer the passive construction, it can be reported that many humorous quotes seem to have been overheard. Join us in celebrating the 95 Theses’ quincentennial, titter at the titillating…
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Virtual Roundtable on Engaged Scholarship and Teaching
With political divisiveness and gaps in access to higher education intensifying, the imperative for universities to interact meaningfully with local and global communities has perhaps never been greater …
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Shoptalk: Overheard at ASA
Each August, sociologists from across North America gather for their annual meeting. This year they congregated in and around the Palais des congrès …
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Shoptalk: Overheard At MLA
Literary scholars say the darndest things, and their comments at this year’s annual Modern Language Association convention in Philadelphia proved no exception to this rule. From chatter overheard in bathrooms and on barstools …
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Stop Defending the Humanities
Whatever things the humanities do well, it is beginning to look as if promoting themselves is not among them. I say this after having read widely across the rapidly accumulating literature in defense of the humanities, to which this book loosely belongs. Strictly speaking, The Humanities and Public Life is a record of a seminar on…
