A country that is determined to destroy its own economy, and to make everyone's lives greyer and grimmer into the bargain. Peanuts, with vast multipliers. Unbelievable. www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/dfe-sla...

DfE slashes creative and performing arts teaching grants for universities - Arts Professional

Performing and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of "difficult decisions" about

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Wonderful that @shteyngart.bsky.social has posted about my academic talk today on his fantastic and latest novel - Vera, or Faith

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Vera being discussed at an academic conference at the University of London.

Please sign & share @exeterucu.bsky.social petition on wholly unjustified, hugely damaging cuts to humanities staff at uni of Exeter (including, potentially, mine). Help us defend the humanities! And stick up for higher ed in the South West! c.org/RFqMvrKb6z

A wonderful episode of a podcast that is a must-listen for me. Pushing my four-month old son in his pram while listening to the ending, about a father and son relationship and how we meet this unbearable historical moment, was deeply profound and moving.

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One of the theses of Vandal Live has been that putting scholars in a room together to squabble about a well-conceived esoteric topic is knowledge production. Yael Segalovitz & David Marno maybe understood this assignment even better than I did.

Very excited to have two pieces published today! First a long essay on Joshua Cohen's 'The Netanyahus' that will be of interest to those working on Zionism, decolonialism, or Jewishness but also genre and/or the role of institutions in literature: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/sajl/ar...

Jews on Campus: Zionism, Postcoloniality, and History in Joshua Cohen’s The Netanyahus

Abstract. This article builds on the institutional turn in literary studies by reading Joshua Cohen’s 2021 novel The Netanyahus through the lens of the feedback loop between the institution of the uni...

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We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force.

I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.

That's a pogrom. She's describing a pogrom

Josh Halliday@joshhalliday.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

This is such an important point: we rightly bemoan the ‘corporatization’ of higher ed but the irony is that many of the corporate managerial practices being imposed on us were discredited and abandoned by for-profit corporations long ago.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What's it actually feel like to live through the decline and fall of mass Higher Education in Britain? Today I've written about this from the inside here... Hope you like it, and hope you find it useful. isrf.org/blog/what-do...

Turns out (says @jburnmurdoch.ft.com) it's not so much an oversupply of graduates in the UK (the same would be true of other similar countries but it's not) as an undersupply of the kind of jobs that a better-performing, more productive economy would supply.

‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question

The graduate earnings premium isn’t really measuring what most people think

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A wonderful read this - bringing an institutional literary studies approach to bear on the criminally understudied area of English as taught in schools

Alexander Manshel@manshel.bsky.social · 6mo ago

As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵 academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

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An actual conference nightmare: "[Kuhn] spied me in the conference lobby and said he’d like a word after he checked in. The word turned out to be that in his comments the following morning he would ‘have to destroy’ me." From one of my favourite book reviews: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Steven Shapin · Paradigms Gone Wild

Philosophers of science had long accepted their role in justifying science, making the case that scientific knowledge is...

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Look, does our university fee system create an active market in higher education? No. But does it function to incentivise investment in your education and encourage aspiration? Well, also no. But at least it does fund the universities? Ha, you're not going to believe this.

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Not least because if you actually *want* more people to do high paying tertiary qualifications, you’re creating a weird situation where an electrician on a higher salary is paying less tax than an English teacher. Not clear what the value of this is.

If this outcome holds it seems hard to see a way forward unless VVD will work with GL/PvdA. The key question then seems to become - does the VVD hate the left so much they would prefer to be in a coalition with JA21 to keep them out? Based on past performance, I would say yes... #netherlands

Europe Elects@europeelects.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Netherlands, 9:00 PM Ipsos-I&O exit poll: Seat projection national parliament D66-RE: 27 (+18) PVV-PfE: 25 (-12) VVD-RE: 23 (-1) GL/PvdA-G/EFA|S&D: 20 (-5) CDA-EPP: 19 (+14) JA21~ECR: 9 (+8) FvD-ESN: 6 (+3) BBB-EPP: 4 (-3) ... +/- vs. Last election result ➤ europeelects.eu/netherlands

Looking forward to my first @histmat.bsky.social conference next week, where I am going to be speaking on "Historicizing Jewish identity and global capital in Gary Shteyngart’s 'Absurdistan'; or, re-periodizing the contemporary in American literary studies."

Historical Materialism Journal@histmat.bsky.social · 10mo ago

BADA BOOM! The HM London Conference programme is now online! Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!

Scoured the bookshops and managed to find what was seemingly the one copy in Utrecht...

Wonderful to have overseen my first issue of the Netherlands American Studies Review as editor-in-chief, which features many excellent examples of the student work being done here in the Netherlands on North American history, culture, and literature! www.netherlands-america.nl/netherlands-...

Looking forward to my inaugural @jewishstudies.bsky.social conference presentation today, on Joshua Cohen’s fascinating novel 'The Netanyahus' - at 10.30 (EST)/4.30 (CET) today for those interested in joining!

Very happy to be presenting today at the European Association for Jewish Studies conference, talking about Joshua Cohen's novel 'The Netanyahus' in relation to questions of race, postcoloniality, and the American campus.

New here, so re-upping my recent publications: An article on race, identity, and Jewishness in Philip Roth: shorturl.at/iEY03 A piece on nostalgia and identity in Saul Bellow and Derek Walcott: shorturl.at/vyFNP A recent article on Asian American identity and the Vietnam War: shorturl.at/bcoz4

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