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@klculkin.bsky.social
Historian, biographer, teacher, cat fan, New Yorker. Prof at Bronx Community College and @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social & @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Member of @psc-cuny.org Author of Emerson's Daughters from @umasspress.bsky.social
On November 7, The Mark Twain House & Museum will bring together writers, editors, scholars, journalists, and educators for Creative Writing in the Age of AI, a day of conversation about creativity, authorship, copyright, education, and the future of the written word marktwainaward.org/ai-symposium
The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.
Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 3w agoElite universities mea culpas about the “loss of trust” in higher education so often fail to consider the force of the longterm propagandistic attack on universities, given extensive play in conservative media, that long preceded Trump, but which he has massively accelerated.
Historian here UT Austin has eliminated courses on slavery, civil rights, the Holocaust and women from its core curriculum. We know the kind of people who have censored history in the past. www.statesman.com/news/educati...
UT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classes
The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum.
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Swing by if you are headed to the @bkbookfest.bsky.social Looking forward to spending the day with my fellow biographers, especially my colleagues from @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social and @biographersintl.bsky.social
"Marble Hosmer Sculpture is Mistaken for Garden Ornament in the Cotswalds" is my favorite headline of 2026. #harriethosmer www.bbc.com/news/article...
Marble Hosmer sculpture mistaken for garden ornament in Cotswolds
The 19th Century bust, which spent more than 70 years outside, could fetch up to £18,000 at auction.
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You know that thing people suggest where we make the SC justices ride circuit again? I want every still-living president of the AHA for the past 20 years to have to teach a year in a community college and then spend the summer working for me at the museum.
Republican mayor of Oswego standing strong on Lake Ontario. www.cnn.com/2026/09/03/p...
GOP mayor rejects Trump renaming Lake Ontario, speaks to OutFront: It’s ‘part of our identity’ | CNN Politics
A Republican mayor who voted for Donald Trump is publicly breaking ranks over a directive to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” Mayor Robert Corradino of Oswego, New York—a city situated on the la...
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Historian here at the start of the semester as we deal with the AI onslaught, this at least will elicit a laugh. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...
Our University Does Not Require Books, Paper, or Human Knowledge
“Such a radical shakeup in learning has never happened before, as far as I know. Is there even a way to learn about whether or not something has happened bef...
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The real "administrative bloat" in education is the money that schools are being forced to fork over to tech vendors that can just keep jacking up their prices year after year, because it would cost even more to rebuild the systems and retrain the people that were built/trained on that tech.
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 2mo agoOf course, there's basically 0 chance that the cost of ChatGPT for all stays at $13M/yr. The whole ed tech model is to offer an initial price that's ridiculously low, get schools hooked (ie, by helping them embed the new tech in all their systems), then jack up the price for contracts long-term. 3/
Labor Day Rally & March September 8, 2026 - 4:30PM The rally will begin on Liberty Street between Church Street and Broadway. Be a part of the strong PSC contingent to help demonstrate the power of labor in NYC. Join us: psc-cuny.org/calendar/nyc...
"For millions of Chinese readers, Walden is no longer simply a nineteenth-century American book about going to the woods. It has become a twenty-first-century survival strategy." Fascinating. lithub.com/why-thoreau-...
Why Thoreau and Walden Resonate With Chinese Youth
When I translated Walden in 2012, I was not a Thoreau scholar. I was an immigrant chasing the American dream: two kids, two cars, two houses, a long commute to a corporate job. Translating Walden b…
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He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.
"In their seminal book Life After Cars, journalists Aaron Naparstek, Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear write that the noise, pollution, and epidemic of violent death brought to our streets by cars have become so ubiquitous that we no longer even notice them."
Opinion: Cars are the biggest threat on the road, not kids on e-scooters
All the outrage we feel about teens weaving on e-bikes and scooters would be better spent figuring out how to keep massive motorized vehicles away from all other road users
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The Graduate Center mourns the loss of Prof. Johanna Fernández, a groundbreaking scholar and activist who transformed the understanding of Latino history. www.gc.cuny.edu/news/memoria... Ph.D. Program in History at The CUNY Graduate CenterBaruch History Department Baruch College
I didn't realize my panel at the Thoreau Annual Gathering was recorded. Up now on YouTube. @emersonsociety.bsky.social youtu.be/ULCGGVj1v20?...
Critical Health Comes to Concord.
YouTube video by The Thoreau Society
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This week on the podcast, Dr. Alison Parker, Richards Professor of American History at the University of Delaware, tells us about the life and work of Civil Rights activist Mary Hamilton. 1/2 Listen: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... Transcript: www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/u...
Dr Alison Parker on Mary Hamilton by Infinite Women
Dr. Alison Parker, Richards Professor of American History at the University of Delaware, tells us about her research into the life and work of Civil Rights activist Mary Hamilton. Regular listeners ma...
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What makes a literary biography literary, actually?
A Dialogue With the Facts: On Writing Literary Biography in a Post-Truth Age
Where does the “literariness” in literary biography belong? With the book’s subject—or its author? Traditionally, it’s attached to both, and to a third element too. Literary biography a…
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@sarannmcd.bsky.social’s Justice for Jehanne is included in The Millions’ Great Summer Book Preview! Check out the full list here and preorder this work today: buff.ly/JaNB3dD
The Millions’ Great Summer 2026 Book Preview
After a long and merciless winter, summer is upon us, and with it, the urgent need for beach reads, pool reads, park reads, fire escape reads, coffee shop patio reads—you get the point. We’ve got you…
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𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗢𝗡𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐒𝐂 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐀𝐔𝐏 A library faculty member who is dedicated to academic unionism will serve at the national level. Read the full article here: psc-cuny.org/clarion/onli...
Representing the PSC at the AAUP - PSC CUNY
A library faculty member who is dedicated to academic unionism will serve at the national level.
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The 85th Annual Gathering of the Thoreau Society The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society panel: “‘Give me Health and a Day’: Emerson and Health, Illness, and Unity” Panel: Ross Martin, Harvard University; Alice de Galzain, Sorbonne Université; and moderator Austin Bailey, Hunter College (CUNY)
In some very nice company in this roundup of scholarship by GC faculty to check out for the big anniversary. Thanks for including me @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
CUNY Graduate Center@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 4mo agoCelebrate and reflect on the nation’s 250th birthday with these exhibitions, books, and even an interactive walking tour curated, written, and developed by Graduate Center scholars www.gc.cuny.edu/news/see-ame...
the one and only @marthasjones.bsky.social on some American history 250 you actually want to celebrate www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Enslaved Woman Who Sued for Freedom and Emancipated Herself
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Excited to read anything @jamespolchin.bsky.social has to say
James Polchin@jamespolchin.bsky.social · 4mo agoI'm launching Vice and Visibility on Substack today. Subscribe and join me there for a monthly newsleeter about queer crime, historical research, and literary nonfiction. #trucrime #queerhistory #LGBTQ #history #crimestories #creativenonfiction open.substack.com/pub/viceandv...
The CUNY Immigration Assistance Project is hosting a free webinar for our community on June 25. The session will cover DACA delays, how to apply for an ITIN, and provide updates to recent immigration policy changes. Go to cuny.edu/ciapwebinar to register.
