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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 1d

A World of Piety by Jeremy Phillip Brown examines the historical aspirations of kabbalah to prompt a revival of ancient rabbinic piety in medieval Castile.

https://www.sup.org/books/religious-studies/world-piety

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Book cover of A World of Piety: The Aims of Castilian Kabbalah by Jeremy Phillip Brown

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 19h

How to Survive a Hostile World is a defense of an ancient way of thinking about international politics: realism. Patrick Porter defends the realist approach to understanding the world by addressing the most robust critiques of the tradition https://ow.ly/Gz2T50X7kmC

Book cover of How to Survive a Hostile World: Power, Politics, and the Case for Realism by Patrick Porter

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 19h

How to Survive a Hostile World is a defense of an ancient way of thinking about international politics: realism. Patrick Porter defends the realist approach to understanding the world by addressing the most robust critiques of the tradition https://ow.ly/Gz2T50X7kmC

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 1d

A World of Piety by Jeremy Phillip Brown examines the historical aspirations of kabbalah to prompt a revival of ancient rabbinic piety in medieval Castile.

https://www.sup.org/books/religious-studies/world-piety

#ReadUP

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Joseph Torigian @josephtorigian.bsky.social · 2d

If you're in the Netherlands, I'm giving a book talk on "The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping" at 4 pm at the University of Leiden on October 13 (hosted by Frank Pieke)

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Book talk: The Party’s Interests Come First by Joseph Torigian

We are very excited to announce that Joseph Torigian will be joining us on 13 October to talk about his latest book: The Party’s Interests Come First – The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping. C...

www.universiteitleiden.nl

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · 3d

A handmade version of the book cover from Denton, Texas! I'm really grateful for this chance to talk about my new book in one of the key places in the story, with people who taught me some essential lessons on working for justice over generations.

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 4d

TUESDAY, 10/21, 7PM PT— We hope you join us in celebrating the publication of @royscranton.bsky.social's Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social.

For full event details: citylights.com/events/roy-s...

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Institute for Historical Studies @ UT Austin @utaustinihs.bsky.social · 5d

This Monday at Noon, hear Jacob Daniels, UT Austin Assistant Professor & Schusterman Center Assistant Director, discuss Edirne’s Jewish community and modern borders. GAR 4.100 & Zoom. Info/Register: bit.ly/DanielsIHS

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 6d

Tomorrow! 👇🎉
Join me and @apprecovery.bsky.social for a full blown nerd out on Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas!

Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 13d

Book talk: join us to talk about Binding Media on Friday October 3 with the amazingest team of @apprecovery.bsky.social
RSVP for link!

A flier reading:
UNIVERSITY of HOUSTON ARTE PÚBLICO
2025 Fall Speaker series on Digital Humanities
The US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) Center serves as a venue for scholarship focused on the US Latino written legacy. USLDH provides a physical space for the development, support and training in digital humanities projects using Latino and Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage collections; promotes and fosters interdisciplinary scholarly work; and administers a communal virtual space to share knowledge and projects related to US Latino digital humanities.
To RSVP, please visit:
bit.ly /bindingmedia
"Binding Media: Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas"
PUBLIC LECTURE
Open to all
Friday, Oct. 3
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11:00am-12:0pm CT
Virtual
RSVP required
Far from signaling the "death of the book," digital technologies have enabled new literary forms that merge print and digital media. Binding Media explores these hybrid works across the Americas, showing how they challenge conventional literary, regional and linguistic boundaries.
While often marginalized due to technological and commercial constraints, these projects leave a rich legacy that illuminates cultural hybridization in the digital age.
Élika Ortega-Guzmán, PhD
Élika Ortega-Guzmán is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research focuses on the intersection of digital and print publishing, digital literature, cultural hybridity, digital humanities and multilingualism in academia. Ortega-Guzmán's work on these topics has appeared in venues such as ASAP Journal, PMLA, Hispanic Review, Debates in the Digital Humanities, EBR and others. She has also created literary bots, including Twitter bots dedicated to the work of Mexican writer and artist Ulises Carrión, which were featured in Antología LitELat Vol. 1 and have more recently been ported to Bluesky as @BotCarrión.
USLD!:
US LATINO DIGITAL HUMANITIES

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Duck of Minerva @duckofminerva.bsky.social · 7d

6+1 Questions about American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy

What’s the name of the book, and where can we find it? American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy (Stanford University Press, 2025). What’s the argument?…

6+1 Questions about American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy

What’s the name of the book, and where can we find it? American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy (Stanford University Press, 2025). What’s the argument? Relations with Native American groups were constitutive of early U.S. foreign policy, and this should make us reconsider the notion that the United States was isolationist in this period.

www.duckofminerva.com

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 6d

For all the details please see the full press release:

Press Release 9/30/25: Three New Journals | Stanford University Press

Stanford University Press + Public Knowledge Project Add Three Journals to Collaborative Open Access Journal Publishing Program Stanford, CA: September 30, 2025: Stanford University Press and Public ...

www.sup.org

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 7d

SUP & @pkp.sfu.ca are pleased to announce the launch of 3 new journals in their open access program, bringing the total number of SUP+PKP titles to 4. The 3 scientific journals join SUP+PKP’s first journal, Reviews of Economic Literature (REL), which launched earlier this year.

Journals | Stanford University Press

Reviews of Economic Literature Submissions Open .

www.sup.org

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 7d

When Egypt's markets opened to private capital in the 1840s, a new infrastructure of commercial laws & institutions emerged. How Commerce Became Legal by @omarcheta.bsky.social considers how modern laws redefined the commercial sphere, shaping a mode of market governance

www.sup.org/books/middle...

Book cover of How Commerce Became Legal:
Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Omar by Youssef Cheta

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 7d

American Conquest by @szarejko.bsky.social is out now!

"This exciting, vital book places the frontier at the center of US foreign policy and forces us to rethink nineteenth-century American foreign relations."
—Eric Grynaviski

www.sup.org/books/politi...

Book cover of American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy by Andrew A. Szarejko

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Andrew Szarejko @szarejko.bsky.social · 7d

It’s publication day 🥳 my book is officially out in the world thanks to @stanfordpress.bsky.social, and I celebrated by giving it the 6+1 treatment at the @duckofminerva.bsky.social.

Duck of Minerva @duckofminerva.bsky.social · 7d

6+1 Questions about American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy

What’s the name of the book, and where can we find it? American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy (Stanford University Press, 2025). What’s the argument?…

6+1 Questions about American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy

What’s the name of the book, and where can we find it? American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy (Stanford University Press, 2025). What’s the argument? Relations with Native American groups were constitutive of early U.S. foreign policy, and this should make us reconsider the notion that the United States was isolationist in this period.

www.duckofminerva.com

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 7d

When Egypt's markets opened to private capital in the 1840s, a new infrastructure of commercial laws & institutions emerged. How Commerce Became Legal by @omarcheta.bsky.social considers how modern laws redefined the commercial sphere, shaping a mode of market governance

www.sup.org/books/middle...

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 7d

Published by Elsevier through the end of the year, JMSACL is the first existing journal to transition from a commercial publisher to SUP’s nonprofit program and will officially reside on SUP+PKP’s Open Journal Systems starting January 1, 2026.

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 7d

The Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Advances in the Clinical Lab is a comprehensive journal focused on innovations in diagnostic technologies within clinical environments, championing research that translates into meaningful improvements in patient care.

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 7d

Population Biology Modeling & Theory (PBMT) is a peer-reviewed journal reporting advances in modeling and theory within population biology. Its scope spans demography, ecology, epidemiology, evolutionary biology, population genetics, and phylogenetics. PBMT will be online soon.

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 7d

The new journals are:

Biogeography (BIOG) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles ranging from biological work that is geographically situated to geographical work that is biologically relevant. biog.journals.sup.org/index.php/biog

Biogeography

Biogeography is an academic-owned, diamond Open Access journal, published by the academic, non-profit, Stanford University Press (SUP), using the Public Knowledge Project’s Open Journal Systems platfo...

biog.journals.sup.org

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 7d

SUP & @pkp.sfu.ca are pleased to announce the launch of 3 new journals in their open access program, bringing the total number of SUP+PKP titles to 4. The 3 scientific journals join SUP+PKP’s first journal, Reviews of Economic Literature (REL), which launched earlier this year.

Journals | Stanford University Press

Reviews of Economic Literature Submissions Open .

www.sup.org

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 7d

American Conquest by @szarejko.bsky.social is out now!

"This exciting, vital book places the frontier at the center of US foreign policy and forces us to rethink nineteenth-century American foreign relations."
—Eric Grynaviski

www.sup.org/books/politi...

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 7d

The New Lives of Images is out! In this ambitious new work, eco-philosopher and cultural theorist Adrian Ivakhiv presents an incisive new way of thinking about images and imagination. #ReadUP

https://www.sup.org/books/media-studies/new-lives-images

Book cover of The New Lives of Images:
Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds by Adrian J. Ivakhiv

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations to the winner of the 2025 MSA First Book Prize: Sonali Thakker for The Reeducation of Race: Jewishness and the Politics of Antiracism in Postcolonial Thought.

Congratulations Sonali and @stanfordpress.bsky.social!

The Reeducation of Race | Stanford University Press

World War II produced a fundamental shift in modern racial discourse. In the postwar period, racism was situated for the first time at the center of international political life, and race's status as ...

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