Maybe you and Paul should remarry overseas, and you might get to use an apostille?
09.03.2026 20:59
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Maybe you and Paul should remarry overseas, and you might get to use an apostille?
I was coming here to ask what the mechanics of this could be. Thanks!
Ditto.
I knew, but I don’t think super-common knowledge.
We’re delighted to welcome three new fellows joining IAS CEU this March: Rajshree Chandra, Michael Robinson, and Benedek Totth.
Auguri!
Been a while since I’ve used it. Maybe a little rough going in that case.
Fair.
My understanding is that they're still working on the underlying search. I'll be interested to see where it ends up.
I’ve been using it some, and once you get used to it, the underlying effect seems pretty much the same.
Yes, but that’s always been their abbreviation.
I enjoyed talking with @kensycoop.bsky.social on the Many Minds podcast about the metaphors we use to conceptualize AI.
manyminds.libsyn.com/seven-metaph...
I didn't realize this was already out, and the deadline is near, but here's the CFP for a really interesting conference on "Willful Imprecision" (aka non/failure/gap standardization) in Louvain in September.
www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
@zacharyherz.bsky.social explains his new book in this engaging conversation: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Our more senior "professional track" faculty are now on 3-year rolling contracts.
I think what that ad does is allow us to hire the genuine part-timers, who are employed full time elsewhere in the university, e.g. a former PhD student of mine who's now a senior administrator in the honors program, who occasionally picks up a class for $$$ on the side.
Hey, you and Mommsen. Could happen.
and do this for $$$ on top of their existing salary and benefit. Unfortunately, to do this the University requires us to run this ad periodically, but it is pro forma, and rogue classicist is not serving anyone's interests by highlighting it every year. 2/2
This is a place where UT is better than it looks. We have three "professional track" colleagues who are in fact in full-time, on-going (and promotable) positions. The people who pick up individual courses are (to the best of my knowledge) all people who have full-time non-academic positions 1/2
Have you had a chance to see the glorious new installation of the FUR?
@deromaaliisque.bsky.social
@turhansbeycompany.bsky.social
I think “progress” is complicated because you need some of it, but not so much as to call into question the presumption of an underlying essence. The essence/incidental distinction is very powerful for sweeping inconvenient facts under the rug.
Kind of the same way “law and order” policies are coherent once you realize they’re not really about law.
That is all to say, the distortions are quite real, but maybe less ad hoc than they first appear.
So even quite uncontroversial research on some particular aspect of just, say, the Roman Empire doesn't necessarily qualify (e.g. much of Bret's or my work). They want something that is explicitly about the big sweep, e.g. the history of "liberty" or some such.
I think in fact that they mean something fairly specific and coherent (albeit unstated) by that phrase. It does NOT mean anything that happens to have happened in "the West." It means much more narrowly research into the purported universal or constitutive features of the West as a whole.
Silver lining!
This is probably correct, right?
