James Opp
@jamesopp.bsky.social
History, photographic studies, 80s pop culture, and slurpees.
Carleton University
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Carleton University
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Currently peer reviewing an article that uses the term 'archive(s)' in the title, the key words, several times in the abstract, and c.50 times in the main text, yet fails to cite a single recognised archivist, archival theorist, or archives journal. This keeps happening. #archives
January 28, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Currently peer reviewing an article that uses the term 'archive(s)' in the title, the key words, several times in the abstract, and c.50 times in the main text, yet fails to cite a single recognised archivist, archival theorist, or archives journal. This keeps happening. #archives
Elbows up but kneecapping the heritage sector
January 26, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Elbows up but kneecapping the heritage sector
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I've been collecting metadata all day from the HistoricPlaces.ca website. I've got about 3k rows so far (going slowly, because I don't want to be a nuisance). Put together a little dashboard: https://shawngraham.github.io/historicplaces/ and if you're so inclined, you can grab the json version […]
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January 25, 2026 at 10:32 PM
I've been collecting metadata all day from the HistoricPlaces.ca website. I've got about 3k rows so far (going slowly, because I don't want to be a nuisance). Put together a little dashboard: https://shawngraham.github.io/historicplaces/ and if you're so inclined, you can grab the json version […]
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Why I wrote this. techpolicy.press/grok-is-an-e...
January 25, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Why I wrote this. techpolicy.press/grok-is-an-e...
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Registration is open for the 2026 Women of Photography conference-athon on 8th March.
Join 72 speakers over 24 hours celebrating International Women’s Day - starting with photography of Antarctica & travelling across the world.
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Join 72 speakers over 24 hours celebrating International Women’s Day - starting with photography of Antarctica & travelling across the world.
womenofphoto.com
Women of Photography
Join us to celebrate the contributions of women practitioners to the history and living present of photography.
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January 25, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Registration is open for the 2026 Women of Photography conference-athon on 8th March.
Join 72 speakers over 24 hours celebrating International Women’s Day - starting with photography of Antarctica & travelling across the world.
womenofphoto.com
Join 72 speakers over 24 hours celebrating International Women’s Day - starting with photography of Antarctica & travelling across the world.
womenofphoto.com
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My editor copy is finally here from @berghahnbooks.bsky.social ! I'm so happy to see it irl, & I'm so proud of everyone's hard work! 🎉
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Spinel...
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Spinel...
January 23, 2026 at 7:44 PM
My editor copy is finally here from @berghahnbooks.bsky.social ! I'm so happy to see it irl, & I'm so proud of everyone's hard work! 🎉
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Spinel...
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Spinel...
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Very much looking forward to hosting João Florêncio in a few weeks here @carleton.ca. Free and open to the public.
cuag.ca/event/imagin...
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Imagining Sex, Imagining Us: Pornography, Transnational Print Culture, and the Invention of "Gay Europe" - Carleton University Art Gallery
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January 21, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Very much looking forward to hosting João Florêncio in a few weeks here @carleton.ca. Free and open to the public.
cuag.ca/event/imagin...
cuag.ca/event/imagin...
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Sometimes I forget that the greatest gift we give our students is the example of passionately loving our own curiosity
January 21, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Sometimes I forget that the greatest gift we give our students is the example of passionately loving our own curiosity
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Reminder to folks in the Ottawa area that my union is organizing this rally to demand that Carleton agree not to use AI to replace human teachers or violate our rights. We would love to see you there! Thursday at noon. Please dress warmly!
January 20, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Reminder to folks in the Ottawa area that my union is organizing this rally to demand that Carleton agree not to use AI to replace human teachers or violate our rights. We would love to see you there! Thursday at noon. Please dress warmly!
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ICYMI check out this fascinating APTN interview with historian Cody Groat. Topics include the repatriation of cultural ancestors, the 10th anniversary of the TRC, and pipelines... and of course, his new book, Always a Part of the Land. Watch here: buff.ly/ZANKioZ Pre-order the book: buff.ly/lzWm6U3
The moments Mohawk historian Cody Groat has his eyes on
Historian Cody Groat always has his eyes on political affairs and there is no shortage of consequential issues affecting Indigenous Peoples.
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January 15, 2026 at 9:00 PM
ICYMI check out this fascinating APTN interview with historian Cody Groat. Topics include the repatriation of cultural ancestors, the 10th anniversary of the TRC, and pipelines... and of course, his new book, Always a Part of the Land. Watch here: buff.ly/ZANKioZ Pre-order the book: buff.ly/lzWm6U3
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Alberta’s book ban treats reading as a danger rather than a discipline. In an age of endless screens, the government is censoring the one medium that asks children to slow down, think, and engage with difficult ideas—importing US culture-war panic while mistaking imagination for harm.
The culture war comes for Alberta’s books
Book bans must be challenged both at school board meetings and in public debate. School libraries exist for students, not to enforce fear or ideology. By censoring imagination and critical thinking, A...
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January 15, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Alberta’s book ban treats reading as a danger rather than a discipline. In an age of endless screens, the government is censoring the one medium that asks children to slow down, think, and engage with difficult ideas—importing US culture-war panic while mistaking imagination for harm.
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They’ve arrived! It’s out!
January 7, 2026 at 8:08 PM
They’ve arrived! It’s out!
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If you're in the Ottawa area, please come out to our rally at Carleton University on Jan. 22 at noon, in support of AI protections for education workers. You absolutely don't have to RSVP to come, but if you feel comfortable, it helps us plan. Dress warm, bring a sign, bring a friend:
Rally for AI Guardrails at Carleton
TAs are calling for AI guardrails at Carleton. CUPE 4600 TAs have been fighting for fair AI protections since September. If you are concerned about protecting your TA work from AI, join us on Thursday...
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January 12, 2026 at 9:03 PM
If you're in the Ottawa area, please come out to our rally at Carleton University on Jan. 22 at noon, in support of AI protections for education workers. You absolutely don't have to RSVP to come, but if you feel comfortable, it helps us plan. Dress warm, bring a sign, bring a friend:
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register now for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb 2026 in Oxford! with keynotes @joannazylinska.bsky.social and Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual... 🌳 📹 🦫 🛰️
January 12, 2026 at 5:07 PM
register now for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb 2026 in Oxford! with keynotes @joannazylinska.bsky.social and Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual... 🌳 📹 🦫 🛰️
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CFP posted on the blog - Memories of Erasure: The Lost Villages of Eastern Canada 16th-21th Century
For more information:
For more information:
CFP: Memories of Erasure: The Lost Villages of Eastern Canada 16th-21th Century
Call for papers Memories of Eresure-Appel à contributions Mémoire de l’effacementDownload
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January 8, 2026 at 3:02 PM
CFP posted on the blog - Memories of Erasure: The Lost Villages of Eastern Canada 16th-21th Century
For more information:
For more information:
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We're delighted to announce the CFP for our #PHRC26 annual conference on "Photography's Tacit Knowledge". As in the past few years, it'll be a hybrid conference, online and in Leicester, o 15-16 June. Send your abstracts by 9 January! photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... #photohist
Annual Conference 2026
Photography’s Tacit Knowledge Image: A reproduction photographer at work. 1934 (Deutsche Fotothek). Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 15-16 June 2026…
photographichistory.wordpress.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
We're delighted to announce the CFP for our #PHRC26 annual conference on "Photography's Tacit Knowledge". As in the past few years, it'll be a hybrid conference, online and in Leicester, o 15-16 June. Send your abstracts by 9 January! photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... #photohist
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I'm a member of CUPE 4600, the union of contract instructors, teaching assistants and research assistants at Carleton University, and we have just launched an open letter demanding AI guardrails in our work. Please sign and share if you can.
Open Letter: Re Demanding AI Guardrails at Carleton - CUPE 4600
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January 7, 2026 at 1:16 AM
I'm a member of CUPE 4600, the union of contract instructors, teaching assistants and research assistants at Carleton University, and we have just launched an open letter demanding AI guardrails in our work. Please sign and share if you can.
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More gems from the family archive of John and Anya Berger, as discovered and compiled by their daughter Katya. Here, on her uncredited contribution to the concept of ways of seeing.
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/12...
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/12...
The New Way of Seeing: In Anya Berger's Archives by Emily Foister
December 18, 2025 – "In an untitled fragment from the summer of 1974, after her separation from John, she begins: 'To live alone is, first and foremost, not to be seen. No interested eye observes you....
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December 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
More gems from the family archive of John and Anya Berger, as discovered and compiled by their daughter Katya. Here, on her uncredited contribution to the concept of ways of seeing.
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/12...
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/12...
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working at a university
December 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
working at a university
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What was Lo-Fi?
Latest from music writer-critic Adam Harper locates the term “Lo-fi” in the changing historical contexts of the 1950s-2020s. Open access 🔓from ‘Popular Music and Society’
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Latest from music writer-critic Adam Harper locates the term “Lo-fi” in the changing historical contexts of the 1950s-2020s. Open access 🔓from ‘Popular Music and Society’
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM
What was Lo-Fi?
Latest from music writer-critic Adam Harper locates the term “Lo-fi” in the changing historical contexts of the 1950s-2020s. Open access 🔓from ‘Popular Music and Society’
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Latest from music writer-critic Adam Harper locates the term “Lo-fi” in the changing historical contexts of the 1950s-2020s. Open access 🔓from ‘Popular Music and Society’
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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If you feel like teaching photography as an art practice and as a historical matter, here is your position at Boulder:
Assistant Professor in Photography and the History of Photography
jobs.colorado.edu
December 23, 2025 at 7:34 AM
If you feel like teaching photography as an art practice and as a historical matter, here is your position at Boulder:
This is a good argument for withdrawing entirely from using institutional LMS’s.
YorkU management is building systems to comb through instructor course pages to create AI tutors.
There are plenty of people within the academic space, whether they're staff, managers or faculty who see an opportunity.
Whether it is right or not is not being asked.
www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/0...
There are plenty of people within the academic space, whether they're staff, managers or faculty who see an opportunity.
Whether it is right or not is not being asked.
www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/0...
December 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is a good argument for withdrawing entirely from using institutional LMS’s.
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due to a new federal initiative Carleton is hiring 5 to 10 "Canada Impact+ Research Chairs" at the rank of Associate or Full Professor
if you work in any of the strategic priority areas listed, and long for Canada, consider applying (&feel free to reach out)
carleton.ca/deputyprovos...
if you work in any of the strategic priority areas listed, and long for Canada, consider applying (&feel free to reach out)
carleton.ca/deputyprovos...
December 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
due to a new federal initiative Carleton is hiring 5 to 10 "Canada Impact+ Research Chairs" at the rank of Associate or Full Professor
if you work in any of the strategic priority areas listed, and long for Canada, consider applying (&feel free to reach out)
carleton.ca/deputyprovos...
if you work in any of the strategic priority areas listed, and long for Canada, consider applying (&feel free to reach out)
carleton.ca/deputyprovos...