P A P E R B A C K !!!!!!!!!!!

Don’t know but if I was university management I’d think twice before cancelling a discipline that existed two thousand years before “international student recruitment” and indeed more or less invented the concept and practice of a “university “.

News Post: The University of St Andrews invites applications for a Lecturer in History, with research interests in Ottoman and/or Middle Eastern history in the period c.1400-c.1800.

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For the record, I have never done this. And if I were to give a book review to a student, it would be as part of their training. We'd be having serious conversations first.

Save Language, Translation & Interpreting degrees at the University of Aberdeen - Sign the Petition! chng.it/r6GsV5gS via Change.org UK

Please circulate widely and contact me with any questions.

Honored beyond words.

Alongside mine, Mary Laven has a parallel postdoc at Cambridge History Fitzwilliam Museum for the same project! jobs.ac.uk/job/DCS966/pos…

🌟Your reminder that we are looking for TWO PERMANENT colleagues to join us in #earlymodern history at York. ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE interested should apply, but preference may be shown for those working on gender, sex and the body; or Asia and its transnational connections. 🌟

More than 300K demonstrated across Israel for the 10th week in a row against Neyanyahu's plan to weaken the supreme court & other Democratic institutions. 200K in Tel Aviv. 50K in Haifa. 10K in Beersheba. 10K in Jerusalem. 5K in Ashdod. Thousands more in dozens of other cities

This seminar was such a pleasure - engaged interlocutors, wonderful hospitality, gorgeous views. Highly recommend Trento (and Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK) every time.

A banner year at the Routledge Books Renaissance SRS Book Series, Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge. Read all about it here! rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-serie… with thanks to Duncan Frost.

I thought I'd be nervous, but recording this podcast for my book was such a lovely experience! Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s SeforimChatter

Says it all… information from the Guardian theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/d…

Hey Alexander Lee this is absolutely the very nicest thing to see on my way into the weekend. The book means a great deal to me. Thank you so much - for reading it and for your praise. Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s

Oh, I've been looking at the @SheffieldUni accounts, alright! Richer than ever, with £140m of net cash generated in the year to 31 July 2022. That's enough to give a rebate of around £4,500 TO EVERY STUDENT. Or a pay rise of around £17,500 TO EVERY STAFF MEMBER. #ucuRISING

A reminder that Late Modern History Fellowship applications are due 19th December. Please consider applying and joining us for a term in St Andrews.

A reminder that Cameron Fellowship applications are due 19th December. Please consider applying and joining us for a term in St Andrews.