Adam Mahler
@lusomedieval.bsky.social
to laughen, for nat to wepen // translator & scholar of the iberian world, from medieval to modern and back again // klarman postdoctoral fellow in romance studies @ cornell // lxa & ithaca // adammahler.net
*extremely* niche post: You guys, this may actually be forthcoming for real, and no longer just "forthcoming and I've been using the same pirated PDF since my senior year of college in 2005." yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
The Kuzari
The definitive translation of a classic text of medieval Jewish thoughtConsidered the crowning intellectual achievement of a renowned medieval Jewish poet, T...
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The Barkman is here! Thank you @postmedieval.bsky.social for such a great experience publishing my first article. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
‘I am the Barkman, and I am good at nothing’: Anthro-arboreal hybridity and vegetal politics in Q̄rvar-Odds saga - postmedieval
This article offers a new framework for approaching anthro-arboreal hybridity in Ǫrvar-Odds saga (c. 1250–1300 CE) by suggesting that the Barkman’s arborescent transformation is an active, political c...
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yale american studies is searching for a colleague (open rank) in 19th or 20th c. u.s. cultural history & cultural studies: apply.interfolio.com/188467
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NYRB should do their own version of the Criterion Closet for their book publishing arm imo
wait till they hear how Spanish speakers say goodbye
I keep thinking about this gorgeous essay about how LLMs- so often trained by inheritors of colonial English- has now rendered the kind of language that is natural to us (“fancy” vocabulary, passive voice, reduced relative clauses) artificial and suspect. marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
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Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 5d agoA Nigerian born author, Jerry Falade, had his $2.4M book deal pulled because he was accused of using AI. There is unavoidable optics of a Black man writing a brilliant novel that people assume must have been written by AI. However the broader issue is we can’t trust any writing isn’t AI generated.
When the pangram is the first word you see because it’s an occupational hazard.
🚨CFP🚨 “Visual Cultures of Sexuality in Postwar Europe” (Birmingham City University, 19-20 May, 2027)
A terra volve arder coa chegada do verán: unha nova ferramenta permite seguir os incendios activos da península en tempo real. Compróbao co seu mapa interactivo.
Onde hai incendios activos? Este mapa permite seguir os focos en tempo real
A ferramenta Incendib reúne nun único visor para España e Portugal con datos satelitais e información oficial actualizada
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One of the most fun writing experiences in recent memory. Thank you @liamh2os.bsky.social and @postmedieval.bsky.social !
Dr. Timothy Liam Waters@liamh2os.bsky.social · last wk.Publication day! Our About the Cover essay is now out in postmedieval. After @basilaprice.bsky.social and I submitted another co-authored article (forthcoming soon!), the editors invited us to write the accompanying cover essay. Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
full details here: sites.google.com/view/postmed... share with colleagues and networks!!
postmedieval journal - call for special issues 2026
Call for special issue proposals
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Emily is a genius; I am extremely, genuinely thrilled for her! But also: as The Odyssey sells out books and theaters alike, Classics departments and language classes are being decimated across the US. If you want more Emily Wilsons we have to FUND SCHOLARSHIP and FUND TRANSLATION AND TRANSLATORS.
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 2w ago“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”
Send this to the academic in your life
Nicholas Bauer PhD@bioturbonick.net · 2w agoThe sudden realization that August is next week.
NEW POST: Medieval Sicily, Italy, Malta, and Ifriqiya (IMC Leeds, 5-8 July 2027). See the full post on H-Net: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Sofía Ruvira gaña o Premio Illa Nova de Narrativa coa novela sobre a memoria e a violencia en Allariz #Galiciapress www.galiciapress.es
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Algerian word: يَتْشَنقْ /jatʃanəg/ In the west of the country, it means “to complain, to wine," and the east (Constantine) it is "to procrastinate; to drag one's feet.” Apparently, it is from Andalusi Arabic.
‘…we need to achieve a minimum of 40% street tree canopy cover, and preferably more, before we start to really feel the benefits of nature’s most advanced air-conditioning technology.’ Me, for Big Issue, on tackling urban #heatwaves…👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat...
2027 ICMS Kalamazoo CFP portal is now open! To explore all the sessions of papers, roundtables, workshops, and more for the 2027 Congress, visit icms.confex.com/icms/2027/pr...
2027 International Congress on Medieval Studies
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I love the phrase "writers and poets" because it suggests poets aren't writing but instead doing something far more sinister
Very happy to be coorganizing this panel at ICMS 2027, with Wiktoria Bryzys. Interested in the literary aljama beyond questions of representation, or in notions of medieval Iberian sociocultural autarky and interdependence, among related topics? Please submit yr abstract and join us at Kalamazoo!
(...) a vida é intensa, o meu olhar é intenso sobre as coisas, olha esse armário, esse armário me comove, eu posso chorar olhando esse armário, sabe por quê? Dentro dele, a solidão das coisas inúteis.
Still eager for someone to take care of fewer than 150 Hebrew words:-)
Logeion Greek-Latin@logeiongklat.bsky.social · last mo.Today is as good a day as any other to think about giving back to something in your life that comes free to you. Do you have special skills or interests - for instance, you know Hebrew and are proficient at typing it? The digitized Lewis and Short could use your assistance with a few words.
🇺🇸 Trump ligou diretamente para o presidente da FIFA pedindo a retirada da suspensão de Balogun pelo cartão vermelho, informa o The New York Times com base em três fontes ouvidas. É a primeira vez desde Garrincha, em 1962, que a entidade permite que um jogador entre em campo após ter sido expulso.
Eixo Político@eixopolitico.com.br · last mo.🇺🇸 FIFA revoga suspensão de um jogo aplicada a Balogun após o atacante americano levar um cartão vermelho no último jogo. Ele estará liberado para jogar as oitavas de final nesta segunda. O presidente dos EUA, Donald Trump, elogiou a FIFA por "fazer o que era certo e reverter uma grande injustiça".
