@vbivar
🇨🇦 Historian of capitalism, pollution, Marseille, farming, land use, plastics, climate, and economic growth; misanthrope; hockey player; expert baker; amateur gardener; works at St Anne's College at Oxford; lives in York (the old one).
It's 500 years since the first text printed in Yiddish, and one of our amazing grad students is hosting a symposium this October to mark the date: please forward the CFP to Yiddishists, book historians, typography nerds, and anyone you think might be up for this! medieval.ox.ac.uk/500-years-of...
Do you know Celeste Day Moore? She’s in Paris this year, with a seven year old!
Thanks for sending! 3-D reading is oh so much better.
Looking forward to celebrating the launch of this bad boy with @smidbob.bsky.social on Monday. Come join us at the IHR if you’re in London!
I am finally going to read The Epic of Gilgamesh. Please tell me which translation/version I should choose.
Today!
Me too friend, me too.
You should expand this and publish it somewhere!
This is a hella smart, and new (to me anyways) critique of AI. Read the whole thread!
Loki says be brave! He did it and it was all a-okay.
Indeed. I was so hoping for the time to have DEEP THOUGHTS. Oh well, I'll just have to sandwich them into the summer I suppose. Godspeed to you!
Me too :(
Happy unsuccessful BA Mid Career fellowship Day to all who celebrate.
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Come join us in Oxford this Thursday for @egholmlund.bsky.social's chapter on Jules Verne and planetary apocalypse. No need to register - and a light lunch will be served. 12-1:30pm at the Schwarzman Centre.
Super bummed that I'll be missing this. If you're in any of these towns, you should go!
Fuck Rida. I’m so sorry. Both for your dad and for everyone who is on the receiving end of this nightmare.
Social media is not the difference between good and evil. In your time away, listen to the Dig interview about the commons with Peter Linebaugh: thedigradio.com/podcast/the-...
The end of the second instalment is a beautiful reminder of what our priorities should be.
If you’d like to understand history of the country that US and Israeli imperialists are waging an illegal and unjust war against check out @thedigradio.bsky.social five part series with Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran www.thedigradio.com/History%20of...
Then you can both join the Brits and celebrate the Greens win in Manchester early!
Have you watched Small Prophets? I’m sick and have also been watching up a storm and this was just wonderful.
So happy to hear this ❤️
I'm guessing you know about the new Jad Abumrad series on Fela Kuti? I've only listened to one episode, but so far, so good.
Woo hoo! ILR!!!!
Did you win a grant???
Now available in podcast form on all the platforms! link.deezer.com/s/32ycvwesZz...
Just Googled it. Feeling slightly uneasy with myself over the disappointment that it's not full frontal. Also very interested in the MAMMOTH scar on his right thigh. Egads. Google tells me he was hit by a motorboat while swimming in St. Tropez. The propeller blades did him in. Fuuuuuuuck.
Too many non-academic posts. I'm forgetting what this account is for!
To atone: Le Corbusier had 2 complaints about his brand new fancy building in Marseille: the 2nd was the poisonous smoke making everyone ill (ch 1 of my book), but the FIRST was that tourists were banging al fresco on the roof.
Honestly don't care if this is fool's spring or the real deal. I see blue sky and spring flowers. Darkest winter be gone!
