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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 48m

and...if you can't join us but wish you could, keep your eye out for @mattseybold.bsky.social 's special American Vandal episode about the symposium sometime in the near future

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Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · 2h

Last week, Public Books published a roundtable that we put together on higher ed under Trump. Six contributors, six essays, six ideas for what those of us in higher education can do now to make the world a little better, a little saner, and a little safer. Read the series here (my intro below):

Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 3d

“Taken together, our roundtable contributors present a suite of ideas that, if enacted, just might make higher education more livable for us all.”
The full series “Higher Ed Under Trump” is live at Public Books. Read all the contributions here:

Toward the Next American University: A Roundtable Discussion on the Future of Higher Ed - Public Books

The path higher education was on before Trump’s reelection was neither certain nor stable. There is not much to go back to now.

www.publicbooks.org

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 3h

look at this incredible list of contributors and interlocutors for CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

so many thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and Emory for hosting our launch symposium -- which is free and open to the public.

maybe you want to join us?

Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 4h

On Friday, November 7, I'm hosting a symposium at Emory for the launch of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, which I edited with @johannawinant.bsky.social. If you plan on attending, sign up for the eventbrite—hoping to get a rough gauge for attendance www.eventbrite.com/e/close-read...

Program for Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, with a large slate of speakers from the volume.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 4h

On Friday, November 7, I'm hosting a symposium at Emory for the launch of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, which I edited with @johannawinant.bsky.social. If you plan on attending, sign up for the eventbrite—hoping to get a rough gauge for attendance www.eventbrite.com/e/close-read...

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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · 3d

Newly discovered 1908 revision of comical Virginia Woolf work, "The Life of Violet," edited by Urmila Seshagiri and published by @princetonupress.bsky.social is out. wp.me/p5Yfi-5PY #VirginiaWoolf

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 15h

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 17h

it made my day, honestly

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 20h

Wife reports that Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century is on the shelf at Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene

@johannawinant.bsky.social
@princetonupress.bsky.social
@greenlightbklyn.bsky.social

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 23h

Truly

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 23h

thank you so much

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 23h

Well this is going on my required reading list! Congrats to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social on an incredible lineup and on elegantly breaking down a practice that, at its best, feels (but never is) effortless.

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

OK fine here’s mine: the character of Jane Eyre is based on Dorothy Wordsworth

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 1d

oh actually that reminds me that the best one is my friend Jillian's theory about Portrait of a Lady -- that at the end, Henrietta Stackpole is hiding Isabel inside the house

cf @rscar.bsky.social

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 1d

it also seems obvious that Anna Karenina and Isabel Archer must have met in Italy

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 1d

mine are all very hinged, thank you, as when I insist that it makes so much sense that Ladislaw would have been at the premiere of Beethoven's Ninth

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 1d

Omg

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 1d

I loved it

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 1d

the pilot of this plane just said that we could see the northern lights out of the right side -- where I'm sitting at a window -- and I think I did?

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 1d

honestly shocked

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 2d

I've long thought some enterprising art historian or intellectual historian or anyone really could design downloadable -- and printable! -- scavenger hunts for many museums for different ages and interests.

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 2d

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 3d

i am feeling, i am seeing, i am hearing, i am getting the vibes, that students this sem are better than they've been in years because learning offers a rare haven from authoritarianism, a place to convene, commune, think together, refuel for the fight

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 4d

week 7, in a city under siege for 32 days and counting, and the students who are able to come to class despite the blitz are showing up like their lives depend on those 50 minutes of togetherness, poetry, and big questions

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 4d

IDK, man. School started 2 weeks ago for us, and once again students remind me that they’re so curious and interested in the world and anxious to ask big questions. We hear that these questions are no longer useful or relevant, but wherever that’s coming from, it’s not what students believe.

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