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Adam Shear
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Please send us paper ideas today or tomorrow!
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early modern Jewish history and history of the book at University of Pittsburgh (speaks for himself of course); chair of www.religiousstudies.pitt.edu/; co-director of footprints.ctl.columbia.edu/
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Adam Shear
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Please send us paper ideas today or tomorrow!
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Adam Shear
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Do you have a paper on circulation of Jewish texts (or a Jewish text) in the early modern period that you would like to present at the Renaissance Society Conference next March in Boston? Send us your proposal: www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
#earlymodern #bookhistory
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Adam Shear
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Methodologically, this doesn't have to be limited to Jewish texts but we thought for coherence we would keep to texts in Jewish languages. But if you have ideas for a paper about non-Latin, non-European vernaculars, let's talk.
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Adam Shear
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Do you have a paper on circulation of Jewish texts (or a Jewish text) in the early modern period that you would like to present at the Renaissance Society Conference next March in Boston? Send us your proposal: www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
#earlymodern #bookhistory
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Adam Shear
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Adam Shear
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Yes, just a quick reminder that finding a new copy/edition/manuscript/fragment of a known text is important but it's not the same as finding an unknown literary work. The article makes this clear, but the headline is a little misleading.
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Adam Shear
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Such nonsense. That's clearly Helen Mirren on the right.
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Adam Shear
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Sporadic summer updating of this list of Jewish Studies jobs and who filled them. If you have official/public news, please send me a note and I will update. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Adam Shear
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A great project. www.pitt.edu/pittwire/acc...
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Adam Shear
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Did you see the@nytimes.com article on the complexities of Asian American identity, focusing on the Bhutanese community in Pittsburgh? Pitt Religious Studies is offering a new course on "Asian-American Religions" (RELGST 1600) this fall! Spread the word. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/01/u...
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Adam Shear
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Conference inperson and online Friday-Saturday May 31-June 1: Asian Religions in Law and Litigation at the University of Pittsburgh. cuilanliu.com/conference/
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Adam Shear
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For some reasons my bluesky feed this morning is mainly two conversations: 1) humanists reposting an article from last August about a lack of humanities research funding and 2 2) Baltimoreans posting about rats.
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Adam Shear
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Newberry Consort Lecture and Performance: The Vints Hans Lied: Yiddish Song in the Seventeenth-Century Frankfurter Judengasse. With groggers! Purim at #RenSA24
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Jan Machielsen
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Woohoo! My book has a cover! And a web page! And a release date! And some amazing endorsements! Plus you can pre-order it! And you won't go bankrupt! #earlymodern #hextag
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/basque-wi...
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Margot Finn
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5 full-time, permanent entry level (Lecturer, eg Assistant Prof.) academic posts at UCL History Department: 1) African, 2) Environmental, 3) Modern East Asian, 4) Modern European, & 5) Social & Economic History. Deadlines are 5 April 2024; apply for more than one if the job descriptions fit.
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Nick Kodama
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Checking google scholar for recent articles with the phrase "certainly, here is a":
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Adam Shear
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Who are you, my fellow academics, who send in letters of reference in Word instead of PDF? And what is up with a filename that doesn't contain your name or the candidates name? Are you related to the students who turn in a paper online in Pages format and/or with the title "Paper"?
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Adam Shear
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Today's insanity in higher ed, this time courtesy of the dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the CEO of Hopkins Healthcare system. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
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Adam Shear
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Two lectures by Laurie Zoloth at Pitt today and tomorrow-- tonight in-person, Tuesday virtual.
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Adam Shear
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This was my effort. I was going to do “Correcting the sins of earbud wearers” but that was too long for my compositing skill level.
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Adam Shear
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My "Religion, Book, and Beyond" students typeset and printed polemical titles for their own projected Reformation of Pitt 2024. (One student said we were printing Festivus mottos). I got the idea from Rachel Kranson's activity she discussed here. ingeveb.org/pedagogy/mak...
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Adam Kotsko
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I wrote an article for Slate about the sharp and sudden decline in reading skill among college students:
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Adam Shear
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My "Religion, Book, and Beyond" class is reading your Studying Early Printed Books book for the next two weeks and I promise to make them cite you!
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Adam Shear
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are you revealing the real reason "early modern" became popular?
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David M. Perry
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From Clifford Ando, a distinguished classics professor, comes this extraordinarily clear analysis of how Chicago has changed itself through risk taking and policy shifts. He talks a lot about the debt loads and presidential compensation, understandably, but I want to focus on a few excerpts. /2
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Adam Shear
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CFP Thursday: "Overcoming Deep Differences" workshop at the University of Pittsburgh February 18-20; abstract submission December 15.
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Adam Shear
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This week!
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Adam Shear
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Great idea for peripatetic peace-making. penntoday.upenn.edu/news/locust-...
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Adam Shear
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Learn modern Hebrew from scratch in 6 weeks in Pittsburgh this summer as part of Pitt's Summer Language Institute: www.sli.pitt.edu/programs/heb...
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Adam Shear
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ignore the hasty double "seems"
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Adam Shear
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not sure the specific context in the UK but it seems getting rid of judicial review seems to be the conservative flavo(ur) of the day. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023....
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Adam Shear
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Mark your post-Thanksgiving calendar now: Pitt Dept of Religious Studies Wilmer Endowed Lecture. Kristy Nabhan-Warren (U. of Iowa) on "Meat, Religion & Migration: What Do We Learn When We Study Them Together?" Wednesday November 29, 5:30 pm, 501 Cathedral of Learning
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Adam Shear
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Starts in an hour. 5 pm Tues Nov 14: William Pitt Union Room 548, University of Piittsburgh: Sacha Senderovich, "How the Soviet Jew Was Made"
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Adam Shear
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Too many hot takes and shallow memes about Israel/Palestine conflict out there. Too much anger. Too much cleverness. Not enough room for the stories of the humans who interact and love. Some, like this one, are very sad: jewishcurrents.org/remembering-...
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Adam Shear
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More fascinating microhistorical rabbit holes in the study of early printed Hebrew books. This time tales from the Jewish Theological Seminary Library-- edblogs.columbia.edu/footprints/2...
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Adam Shear
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This Wednesday for the 5th anniversary on the Jewish calendar (yahrzeit).
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Adam Shear
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Well this is bonkers.
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Adam Shear
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It feels more academic than twitter thus far. But also the format makes me keep feeling like I am stumbling into conversations in the middle. (Which is basically how I awkwardly navigate parties and receptions.)
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Adam Shear
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Ok, this is my favorite so far.
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Adam Shear
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Some impressive colleagues I've got: www.as.pitt.edu/showcase-vol...
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Adam Shear
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Please spread the word about this great job in a thriving and friendly department in a university that hasn't abandoned the humanities in a great city. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
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Adam Shear
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Somehow in my head this is correlated with a lot of other stuff, like not knowing that on a street without sidewalks, you walk facing traffic or not waiting for the people in the elevator or subway car to get out first. Feels like some kind of erosion of "functioning in society 101" knowledge.
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Adam Shear
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My copy of her Society and Culture in Early Modern France is in my office but I am thinking of the lovely poem her husband Chandler Davis wrote her at the beginning of that volume "Envoi."
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I gasped reading this. You know when you think someone might just live forever?
What an incredible scholar that has influenced my work in innumerable ways. May she rest in peace.
#NZD #earlymodern 🗃️
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Adam Shear
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May her memory be a blessing. Her work and her life was inspiring to me as it was too so many. An unbelievably dedicated intellectual interlocutor to colleagues junior and senior. Loved watching her take copious notes no matter the topic of a lecture & then ask perceptive and constructive questions.
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Adam Shear
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Oct 25, 5-7 pm, Lecture at Pitt, 501 Cathedral of Learning, Joanne Silwa, "Hiding to Survive: Jewish Children in Krakow, Poland." Inaugural Renee Sachs Memorial Lecture of Pitt Jewish Studies.
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Adam Shear
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If you missed this webinar, there is now a recording of: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pLm...
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Adam Shear
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In the US, I learned the basics from the back of the dictionary and supplemented by Dorothy Sayers’ novels.
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Adam Shear
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Tonight.
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Adam Shear
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hi-- chair of Pitt Religious Studies here-- fair criticism that we didn't say this explicitly in the ad. But we certainly would be interested in disability studies. And please note our mission statement on our dept home page. www.religiousstudies.pitt.edu
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