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christinkallama

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Historian. Researching #Nation and #HolyRomanEmpire in #Renaissance #Germany.

Skeptic in the Show-Me State. Remonstrant.
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skykiss, (edited ) to random
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University of Utah says most arrested at pro-Palestine rally are not students.

Data point. Going to see more of this data point.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/university-of-utah-says-most-arrested-at-pro-palestine-rally-were-not-students/ar-AA1nX07S

christinkallama,
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@skykiss “Outside agitators” is a police excuse. At , students were arrested and faculty suspended. Others were St. Louis community members invited to participate. Sure, Jill Stein was there, but she was not central — the protest would have happened without her.

christinkallama, to academicchatter
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University's administration is falsely blaming budget cuts on unavoidable headwinds (inflation; enrollment cliffs), when instead the money has been irresponsibly spent on underfunded initiatives, buildings and more buildings, and just plain mismanagement, above all a focus on shiny things rather than the core university mission.

Boards of Trustees have been fundamentally failing in their oversight responsibilities.

https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=1ihBCFHizxyRa36CkcGgM0FYfXu1zFcBpUAy3JvcEiX8&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650

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christinkallama, to history
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Cornell University Press is having a 50% off sale today (4/24/24) on all print books. They have a particularly strong list on , , and , so if you'd like to know more about, say, in seventeenth-century Russia, Soviet medicine, or the ongoing conflict in Donbas, don't miss this opportunity!

https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book-listing/?q=russian+history

@histodons

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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College students across the country need to follow in the footsteps of the Columbia students who protested.

christinkallama,
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@BlackAzizAnansi @micchiato

And WashU students

https://www.studlife.com/news/2024/04/13/pro-palestine-protest-at-admitted-students-event-results-in-court-summons-for-protesters

christinkallama, to histodons
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Useful analysis of earlier regulation at the state level, before the national immigration head tax and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

Short version: While there was no national immigration control, the South and the Northeast had (different) legislation to control the entry of free Black people and poor Europeans, respectively.

While most 19th-century immigrants did not face current hurdles, wealthy white people still erected barriers.

https://www.bunkhistory.org/resources/the-myth-of-open-borders

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christinkallama, to history
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Excellent explanation of how consistent language is expected and important in scientific/social scientific academic writing, and why attribution, rather than incessant quotation, is considered the gold standard for crediting the work of others.

https://www.facebook.com/ejwillingham/posts/pfbid02LNszEZtVKCnw1pS59P1MMCxA4CoUneV7LHfDpNqw5GRXkaozR2xLAPSBf2KdFJESl

*would note that for , for whom crafting exposition is an original intellectual act, the lifting of the structure and detail of large passages, even with citation, is considered excessive borrowing.

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christinkallama, to random
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Dr. Sherita Goldon was forced from her position as chief diversity officer at University for including the following (helpful, accurate, and necessary) definition of privilege in an email newsletter:

"a set of unearned benefits given to people who are in a specific social group. Privilege operates on personal, interpersonal, cultural and institutional levels, and it provides advantages and favors to members of dominant groups at the expense of members of other groups...“ 1/2

christinkallama,
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"Privilege is characteristically invisible to people who have it. People in dominant groups often believe they have earned the privileges they enjoy or that everyone could have access to these privileges if only they worked to earn them. In fact, privileges are unearned and granted to people in the dominant groups whether they want those privileges or not, and regardless of their stated intent.” 2/2

https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/johns-hopkins-medicine-chief-diversity-officer-steps-down-two-months-after-backlash-over-privilege-email/


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christinkallama, to workersrights
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United, the independent labor union for Trader Joe's employees, is currently not calling for a boycott in response to management's attack on the constitutionality of the (National Labor Relations Board).

Right now they are "asking folks to support Trader Joe’s United by signing on in solidarity and letting us know you’ll stand with us if we call for a customer strike!"

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/stand-with-trader-joes-united-sign-on-in-solidarity/

christinkallama, to history
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With once again howling !”, your semi-regular reminder that being convicted through direct testimony of overt harm is the opposite of witchhunting.

https://wapo.st/47QRw43

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christinkallama, to history
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Beads were an important trade item in early European overseas , usually portrayed as objects of delight for less "sophisticated" societies. But Gerard Chouin argues that the value attached to beads originated with the stunning Accori beads produced in medieval Ife, in . Europeans adopted beads as trade goods as they became familiar with the trade.

https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/december-2023/accori-beads

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christinkallama, to history
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New Books! About the of ! in !

My colleague Douglas Flowe reviews Emily Brooks, Gotham's War Within a War:

Brooks ultimately depicts La Guardia’s [mayoralty] as the “origin story for the nonpartisan, deeply discriminatory form of policing we know so well today." [which depends on the fiction that] “unbiased police power can craft an orderly and equitable city in a deeply unequal society.”

1/

https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/gothamswarwithinawar-review-ppfbl-jhm5a-nyksp

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christinkallama, to animals
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My wish to all: May you each obtain your heart's desire.

DamienMarieAtHope, to random
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Adolf Hitler got a lot of his racist ideas from America, so it was the old USA that was the inspiration for actual Nazism...

christinkallama,
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@gnutelephony @microblogc @DamienMarieAtHope That’s not how Calvinism worked in the Americas. Not disputing the genocide, but the specific doctrinal mechanisms. See Benjamin Schmidt, Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World. Joyce Chaplin, Subject Matter: Technology, the Body and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, and Mark Valeri, Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America. @histodons

historianess, to random
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They are bound and determined to destroy Claudine Gay.

christinkallama,
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@historianess

And a credulous media is reporting on the accusations as if they were good-faith concerns, rather than making the story "They* are bound and determined to destroy Claudine Gay".

*they=people notorious for inventions and distortions aimed at destroying education.

Looking at you, @NPR

christinkallama,
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@historianess @NPR

Rufo is proudly (and almost certainly accurately) taking credit for it.

christinkallama, to workersrights
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The Guild is staging a one-day on December 7.

They are asking that we "respect [the] walkout by not crossing the picket line: For 24 hours, please do not engage with any Washington Post content. That includes our print and online news stories, podcasts, videos, games and recipes."

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LY2jViybLQPsgsm7hVo75V8aHNu5DUEZXB8vwc60YZo/edit?pli=1

christinkallama, to art
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For here in the United States, an article about Artisans Cooperative, a just-launched online marketplace for independent . To prevent the that happened at , the Artisans Coop is creator-and-consumer owned and operated (see article for more).

Still building up its offerings, but worth checking out for , , and what my mother calls "smell-nice stuff".

https://artisans.coop/

https://www.shareable.net/artisans-cooperative-an-etsy-alternative-owned-and-run-by-artists-and-makers/

christinkallama, to history
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📣 Job Alert!

History of Middle East/North Africa - modern or at Carnegie Mellon University.

Assistant professor/tenure-track.

Deadline: December 1

https://apply.interfolio.com/134185


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christinkallama, to history
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Looking to discover on and ? The Central European University Review of Books showcases new titles on the history, culture, and politics of the region.

https://ceureviewofbooks.com/reviews/

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christinkallama, to histodons
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This article (from 2021) is infuriating on the unwillingness of Very Important Scientists to reconsider their categories and recognize that #CovidIsAirborne during the crucial first phase of the pandemic, and illuminating on how the work of #histodons can help scientists understand how their categories came to be.

The description of the historical work is fascinating - and, of course, leads to a #Chortlemuffin.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/

@histodons
#COVID
#HistoryOfScience

christinkallama, to animals
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The finalists for the comedy awards are out! Nature is wonderful and majestic...and sometimes goofy.

Follow the link to see all the finalists.

Some favorites:
"air apparent"
"boing"
"that-wasn't-here-yesterday"

https://www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/finalists/2023_finalists.php

emmanuel, to baltimore
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November 1823 (200 years ago this month) — This free Black family compelled a customs officer in to cross out portions of their ship manifest pertaining to slavery & replace them with acknowledgements of Black freedom, reversing power dynamics in the archive of American racial capitalism
(https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7456575):

christinkallama,
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@emmanuel

If my paleography skills haven't failed me, they added "free" before "persons" in "Manifest of Negros, Mulattos and [free] persons" and then after "for the purpose of" crossed out "being sold or disposed of as Slaves, or to be held to Service or Labour" and wrote instead "Residence in the city of New Orleans".

dankennedy_nu, to journalism
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New at Media Nation: Marty Baron on Trump, the media and the original meaning of objectivity. https://dankennedy.net/2023/10/05/marty-baron-on-trump-the-media-and-the-original-meaning-of-objectivity/

christinkallama,
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@dankennedy_nu

I read the excerpt that appeared in the Atlantic and had some thoughts... https://mastodon.social/@christinkallama/111149841768264404

christinkallama, to random
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In this excerpt from his new book, former editor of the Marty Baron matter-of-factly reveals the allegiance to profit and power in corporate media (even as investigative journalism continues to be vital to the public interest):

  • the slogan "democracy dies in darkness" was not a commitment to pursue truth for the public good, but a Bezos-approved slogan to excite consumer allegiance.

1/2

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/washington-post-editor-journalism-covering-trump/675438/

christinkallama,
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@dankennedy_nu

I appreciate the saying and the sentiment very much; it was revealing, however, how it came to be adopted as the WaPo's official slogan.

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