If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

We screened it at Yale this week, followed by a fantastic (and sobering) Q&A. Howard French, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Raoul Peck—it’s been a remarkable two weeks here!

We're all so grateful you made your way to New Haven! Apparently the persistent fly yesterday was grateful too! 🪰

I wanted to remind everyone about the "Save AIDS Research" livestream that will go live on YouTube this Tuesday (9/16) at 11:00am EDT. We have an amazing program of 70+ speakers who will be sharing their latest research. Get all the details at www.saveaidsresearch.org.

It should not be lost on anyone that Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot to death in her home last night by an assassin, was a gun safety advocate who worked tirelessly to protect her constituents from gun violence.

New Haven doing that New England thing of gathering on the town green to oppose tyrants. #NoKings

One need not vacuum when fascists are about! But look at those advanced filing skills!

✨ Job posting: ✨Visiting Assistant Director of the Humanities Without Walls program at the HRI, U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign✨ illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Portrait of Otelia Cromwell, the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. from Yale University, 1926, by contemporary US painter Jennifer Packer #WomensArt

The first P. Everett novel I read was American Desert, and I want everyone to read this truly bonkers and wonderful novel that opens with a decapitated man sitting up at his own funeral. And then mayhem!

The lovely @natlhumanities.bsky.social is hiring a Scholarly Programs Research Manager! nationalhumanitiescenter.org/careers/

Poster design Rick Rawlins/Work (Salem, MA).

Next week at Yale: Angela Davis on abolition. Just when we need her most 🔥. whc.yale.edu/program/tann...

@yalewhc.bsky.social

Tenure-track position in history at Louisiana Tech

The brilliant Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi reading from her forthcoming pan-African novel, Alkebulan: When the Lions Returned at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale @yalewhc.bsky.social

That purple gingham shirt was a fine investment! Happy birthday to a kid and his dad! 🫶

Today at Yale: distinguished art historian Chika Okeke-Agulu, on Egyptian modernists and Gazbia Sirry. Join us: 4:30 in the Humanities Quadrangle at 320 York. @yalewhc.bsky.social

For all you newbies to Bluesky, remember to repost more than you’re used to (even your own posts sometimes), as there’s not really an algorithm here. Also you can make custom feeds of your friends, or on specific topics.

Also repost funny, quirky things, not just political outrage or despair!

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚

Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

Heartfelt thanks for so many interviews, so many books (and their smart authors)!

I just watched this for the first time last week: I want Susan and Nick at every gathering, everywhere!

We will be screening it at Yale February 8: Films at the Whitney (all our screenings are free and open to all).

David Gergen was right up there with Julia Childs for me as a Cambridge famous person I saw with odd frequency when I lived there in the 1990s. I have always admired him.

I spent a lot of grad school time at Spy Pond, research assisting for a professor who liked me to take it on the road. Fond memories of that calm place.