Jeremy Bassetti
@jeremybassetti.com
🏛️ Professor of Humanities, PhD ✨ History | Culture | Ideas ⛰️ Working on Mountains More info ⤵ jeremybassetti.com/link-in-bio
I'm a professor at a Florida state college (2 yr). I applied for funding to attend the American Historical Association's annual conference. Denied. Florida state law bars colleges from paying for conferences deemed sympathetic to DEI. A Florida brain drain in the works? @historians.org
If you live not too far from Perpignan, why not join me at the inaugural PYRÉNÉES-ORIENTALES ENGLISH LITERARY FESTIVAL on 24 October? The event is being held in the Domaine Treloar winery. More details (and lunch bookings) can be found here: fb.me/e/kFA9wzAVE @yalebooks.bsky.social #literaryfestival
Compare these two pictures, one from the early C20th, the other from 2023. Via @alpineclub.bsky.social and this article www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/news/alpine-...
I’ve started a new YouTube channel that focuses on my mountain work. I did this because my old channel was a bit of a potpourri in terms of the topics I covered, and separating my mountains work will offer better clarity for me and for the platform’s algorithmic signals. www.youtube.com/@onmountains
On Mountains
Exploring the human history of mountains.
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The source of the flood in Nepal is a collapsed glacier 🧪⚒️
Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦@watershedlab.bsky.social · 2mo agoThere has been a truly horrific flood in Nepal this morning (you can go search for videos). Let's be careful not to jump to conclusions about the trigger until we have visual confirmation. This is unlikely to have been a glacial lake outburst flood. 🧪⚒️
One tries not to add to the burden of climate angst but anyone who has been on a glacier knows that the scale of this is... unimaginable.
Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 2mo agoAn incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.
We need more school administrators - especially at smaller, two-year schools whose students are less prepared than their peers at more selective institutions - to show some spine and start unplugging shit. Fewer screens and more books. While we are at it, smaller classes too. This is the way.
Christopher W. Jones@cwjones.bsky.social · 2mo agoAn exemplary policy at UChicago: - Technology ban in class. - Total AI ban. Students may not use it, instructors may not assign it. Exceptions to the latter for narrow purposes must be approved at the administrator level. - Instructors may not use AI for grading. chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...
New Mountain Book: 'The Pyrenees' by Colin Duncan Taylor (@colinduncantaylor.com) jeremybassetti.com/on-mountains...
New Mountain Book: 'The Pyrenees' by Colin Duncan Taylor
Colin Duncan Taylor's new book explores the human history of 'The Pyrenees.'
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Virtual Teach-In: Protect Mato Tipila Against Rare Earth Mining! 🗓️ Wednesday, August 26, at 6:00 p.m. MT / 7:00 p.m. CT Zoom registration link: ndnco.cc/matotipila #ProtectHesapa #Landback #NoMiningInTheBlackHills
Today is the Entrada Folklórica for Bolivia’s Festival of the Virgin of Urkupiña. This weekend is the mass and pilgrimage. Sad to miss it all this year. Here is a photo of me in a mine with my stone, which was confiscated by airport security on my way home.
The four Americans returning home [in caskets] were Tyler James Feehan, Michael Emmanuel Swinton, Angel S. Rampersad and Isabella Gonzales. They ranged in age from 19 to 25, and hailed from the entire breadth of the United States, from Hawaii to North Carolina, New York to Texas.
You've finished the manuscript. Now what? Join our AHA Online webinar on July 28 at 12 p.m. ET exploring the nuts and bolts of book publishing, from acquisitions and contracts to marketing. With Mike Baccam, Levi Stahl, and Elizabeth Townsend Gard. Register now.
Book Publishing 101: Acquisitions, Contracts, and Promotion for Historians – AHA
Book Publishing 101: Acquisitions, Contracts, and Promotion for Historians AHAOnline Tuesday, July 28, 12–1 p.m. ET You’ve written a dissertation or drafted a new manuscript and are in talks to publis...
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Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
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I wrote about the concept of "mountains" in Sumerian temples, via the Gudea Cylinders. jeremybassetti.com/on-mountains...
The Temple as Mountain in the Sumerian Gudea Cylinders
A look at the Gudea Cylinders, the E-ninnu temple, and one of the earliest known instances of the temple-as-mountain motif.
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@rsmythfreelance.bsky.social Morning! Do you have a gift link to your review of Ed's new book "Upland" on the Literary Review? 😬
Publication day for my new book Upland: The Strange History and Vital Future of Britain's Mountains. It's essentially about how they were made, literally and in our heads, and how we used and abused them, and how they still carry us along. Enjoy!
I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"
I posted some notes on mountains in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Read more here: jeremybassetti.com/on-mountains...
Mountains in the Epic of Gilgamesh
What the world's first epic says about mountains, sacred heights, and revelation — roughly 1,000 years before the Old Testament.
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"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"
What is the German term for the feeling one has that the book proposal you're working on is actually two different books?
Ancient metaphors of verticality inform and influence contemporary discourse. In his recent Encyclical MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS, Pope Leo XIV coined the term "Babel syndrome," which he defined as...
Why was Raul Castro not indicted in 1996? Because we need a pretext for war in 2026.
