Dr Basil Arnould Price
@basilaprice.bsky.social
He/Him 🏳️⚧️ ✨ Asst. Prof. of Queer and Medieval Literature @SUNY, previously UCLA, York, UO ✨Gender, Empire, and Race in the Old Norse World ✨my own bad opinions
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Sagas and Sovereignty in Kalaallit Nunaat, Grænland, and Red, White, and Blueland
by Basil Arnould Price
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New work from me in The Sundial, all about Greenland and imperial fantasies, old and new.
How does one cope with loads of writing deadlines, a pile of grading, and, as of yesterday, a broken arm?
November 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
How does one cope with loads of writing deadlines, a pile of grading, and, as of yesterday, a broken arm?
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Congrats to Rowan Dorin, whose book No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe is the Finalist for the @jewishstudies.bsky.social Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the Medieval & Early Modern Jewish History & Culture category!
Learn more: hubs.ly/Q03VrNlT0
Learn more: hubs.ly/Q03VrNlT0
November 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Congrats to Rowan Dorin, whose book No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe is the Finalist for the @jewishstudies.bsky.social Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the Medieval & Early Modern Jewish History & Culture category!
Learn more: hubs.ly/Q03VrNlT0
Learn more: hubs.ly/Q03VrNlT0
The incredible @jameyj.bsky.social deserves all the accolades in the world, and this article is 🔥🔥🔥
We are very pleased to announce that “Trans Misogyny in the Colonial Archive" by Jamey Jesperson was selected for the 2025 Jensen-Miller Award for best article on women and gender in the North American West from the Western History Association!
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The incredible @jameyj.bsky.social deserves all the accolades in the world, and this article is 🔥🔥🔥
Hi! This is today ! Please come along !
I’m speaking with some amazing colleagues next week about fire and its dualities in the medieval world - I’ll be talking about eco-apocalypse, how to litigate a hyperobject, and the Sturlungaöld as a never-ending fire-season. Please join us !
November 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Hi! This is today ! Please come along !
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They're destroying American higher ed and CELEBRATING IT.
It's obscene.
It's obscene.
The White House just blasted this out under the headline "Good News You May Have Missed"
November 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
They're destroying American higher ed and CELEBRATING IT.
It's obscene.
It's obscene.
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“the loss of deep literacy is not an organic development or an accident without an author but rather the intentional consequence of concrete actions undertaken by the unholy alliance of capital and the state, which has availed itself of technology to slowly erode our capacity to understand…”
Brain Rot Without Borders | Baffler Forum
There’s no point in denying it anymore: literature as we know it is well on its way to becoming a lost art.
thebaffler.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“the loss of deep literacy is not an organic development or an accident without an author but rather the intentional consequence of concrete actions undertaken by the unholy alliance of capital and the state, which has availed itself of technology to slowly erode our capacity to understand…”
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Can't wait for this special issue of @parergon.bsky.social! Always great to work with Dr Cassandra Schiling and @flindersuniversity.bsky.social DECRA Fellow in Medieval History, @mattfirth.bsky.social and of course, ANU's Prof. Rosalind Smith!
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Can't wait for this special issue of @parergon.bsky.social! Always great to work with Dr Cassandra Schiling and @flindersuniversity.bsky.social DECRA Fellow in Medieval History, @mattfirth.bsky.social and of course, ANU's Prof. Rosalind Smith!
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Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
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Hey if you're into energy, environment, pipelines, Great Lakes, Indigenous rights, or just a habitable planet, checkout this webinar about how we can start to dismantle the infrastructure that sustains fossil capitalism. It's a great panel that happens to include me. @billmckibben.bsky.social
Join OWDM and partner organizations for a information-filled virtual event on November 18 about the steps you can take to shut down North America's most dangerous fossil fuel pipeline.
RSVP: www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/big_oil_vs_b...
RSVP: www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/big_oil_vs_b...
Big Oil vs. Big Water Webinar
Discover the risks associated with the threats posed by Line 5 and the proposed tunnel project.
www.oilandwaterdontmix.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Hey if you're into energy, environment, pipelines, Great Lakes, Indigenous rights, or just a habitable planet, checkout this webinar about how we can start to dismantle the infrastructure that sustains fossil capitalism. It's a great panel that happens to include me. @billmckibben.bsky.social
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This looks fantastic for those working on later medieval gender and politics.
Call for Papers! Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis #medievalsky #Fissures2026
November 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This looks fantastic for those working on later medieval gender and politics.
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In the same week, both the University of Nottingham and the University of Leicester announced closing their Modern Languages departments. Disastrous for the sector as a whole and for the ML landscape in the Midlands: c.org/4X7VMy9MPD
Sign the Petition
Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester
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November 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
In the same week, both the University of Nottingham and the University of Leicester announced closing their Modern Languages departments. Disastrous for the sector as a whole and for the ML landscape in the Midlands: c.org/4X7VMy9MPD
I’m speaking with some amazing colleagues next week about fire and its dualities in the medieval world - I’ll be talking about eco-apocalypse, how to litigate a hyperobject, and the Sturlungaöld as a never-ending fire-season. Please join us !
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I’m speaking with some amazing colleagues next week about fire and its dualities in the medieval world - I’ll be talking about eco-apocalypse, how to litigate a hyperobject, and the Sturlungaöld as a never-ending fire-season. Please join us !
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“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
binghamton.interviewexchange.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
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#GLAM friends, quite a lot of you went to IU for your undergrad, MLS, and PhD! Those of us still here would appreciate alumni support against the upper administration’s nonsense, especially in regard to academic/intellectual freedom
My undergrad alma mater, Indiana University, has gone full Project 2025 - from eliminating liberal arts majors, to suppressing campus protest to shuttering the student paper. A group of alums are organizing thanks to @juliedicaro.bsky.social. Join us by filling the form.
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Alumni For a Better IU
Connecting alumni to save IU
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November 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
#GLAM friends, quite a lot of you went to IU for your undergrad, MLS, and PhD! Those of us still here would appreciate alumni support against the upper administration’s nonsense, especially in regard to academic/intellectual freedom
Harm reduction in action.
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Harm reduction in action.
Odense is my favourite city in Europe and SDU is wonderful! A great opportunity ✨⬇️
3-year postdoc with CODICUM project for a medievalist placed in Odense, Denmark!
Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️
tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3
Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️
tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3
3-year postdoc position in medieval studies
3-year postdoc position in medieval studies The Department of Culture and Language invites applications for a 3-year postdoc position in Dominican studies within the CODICUM project. The position is e...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Odense is my favourite city in Europe and SDU is wonderful! A great opportunity ✨⬇️
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We are now accepting submissions for Vagantes 2026, hosted by The University of Rochester, April 9-11!
See the CFP below, and feel free to share with graduate students and colleagues who might be interested.
Abstracts are due 12 December 2025.
See the CFP below, and feel free to share with graduate students and colleagues who might be interested.
Abstracts are due 12 December 2025.
September 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
We are now accepting submissions for Vagantes 2026, hosted by The University of Rochester, April 9-11!
See the CFP below, and feel free to share with graduate students and colleagues who might be interested.
Abstracts are due 12 December 2025.
See the CFP below, and feel free to share with graduate students and colleagues who might be interested.
Abstracts are due 12 December 2025.
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Terrible news. Universities are being decimated.
'Music and modern foreign languages degrees are among courses being suspended at the University of Nottingham, with the institution saying it “cannot rely on additional income” from the coming tuition fee rises.' 1/3
Nottingham suspends music, language and nursing courses
University says financial uncertainties continue as government’s proposed student levy will ‘wipe out any benefits’ from rising tuition fees
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Terrible news. Universities are being decimated.
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Call for Papers for an excellent series. The editors are great and the journal open access. #CfP
“The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past”
olh.openlibhums.org/news/863/
“The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past”
olh.openlibhums.org/news/863/
Second Call for Articles: The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past
The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past Special Collection explores how the medieval past is ‘curated’, that is, collected, interpreted, and communicated, across both professional and popular soci...
olh.openlibhums.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Call for Papers for an excellent series. The editors are great and the journal open access. #CfP
“The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past”
olh.openlibhums.org/news/863/
“The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past”
olh.openlibhums.org/news/863/
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A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...
CFP: Bookselling and Literature
Bookselling and LiteratureA Special Issue of English Studies Guest Editor: Matthew Chambers ([email protected]) One of the best-known literary friendships was formed in a bookshop, and one…
bookshoplit.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...
i don't know why, but paul gilroy's 'postcolonial melancholia' looks to me like the VHS cover for some lost late-90s movie
November 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
i don't know why, but paul gilroy's 'postcolonial melancholia' looks to me like the VHS cover for some lost late-90s movie
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign