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On #GivingTuesday UC Press reaffirms its commitment to stand strong as an independent publisher amid federal attacks on academic institutions. If our work has supported your teaching or research, please consider donating to the UC Press Foundation: form-renderer-app.donorperfect.io/give/univers...
December 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
JSTOR's reading list presenting some of the main debates in public space scholarship includes articles by @sah1365.bsky.social's "Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians" and others. daily.jstor.org/perspectives...
Perspectives on Public Space: A Reading List - JSTOR Daily
This list introduces some of the main debates about public space, from park politics to political protest, public expressions of sexuality to safety and security.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
"Cemeteries and burial grounds are not only about the people interred there, but also, like the rituals following someone’s death, they are just as much for the living as for the deceased." — #TPHJournal special issue, 'Cemeteries, Graveyards, and Massacre Sites' online.ucpress.edu/tph/issue/47/4
Volume 47 Issue 4 | The Public Historian | University of California Press
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November 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Have you read the latest issue of "Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos" yet? It's available online now. online.ucpress.edu/msem/issue/4...
Volume 41 Issue 3 | Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos | University of California Press
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November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
'Paleoscience and the Study of Late Antiquity,' a new special issue of "Studies in Late Antiquity," edited by Timothy P. Newfield & Kristina Sessa, is available online. online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/4
Volume 9 Issue 4 | Studies in Late Antiquity | University of California Press
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November 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Through an examination of the Muslim call to prayer opening Julie Dash's "Daughters of the Dust" (1991), Pardis Dabashi's article examines certainty and doubt generated by the speculative turn in Black feminist film and media historiography.

Open access today: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Thank you to @mesa1966.bsky.social and all #MESA2025 attendees for a wonderful conference in Washington DC!

Our website where you can save 40% off our latest Middle East Studies books will remain up for a limited time: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...

See you all for #MESA2026!
Middle East Studies Association 2025
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Curious about how A.I. has really changed the classroom? Read this original piece in @nytimes.com by Professor Carlo Rotella, author of WHAT CAN WE GET OUT OF THIS? Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It's the last day of #MESA2025 and we're only here for the morning! Stop by before noon for your last chance to check out our latest Middle East Studies books.

Our website where your can save 40% off our displayed book will be up for a few weeks after the conference: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Half day for our final day at #AARSBL2025! Last chance to drop by to see our latest books on Religion before we head out of here for the holidays!

As always, our AAR website will remain up for a few weeks so you can still save 40% as we head into the holiday season: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Big congratulations to Simine Vazire @simine.com, 2025 individual winner of the @einsteinberlin.bsky.social Award for her work championing methodological reform in psychological science award.einsteinfoundation.de/award-winner...
Simine Vazire – Einstein Foundation Award
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November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
"FREQUENCIES OF DECEIT is not simply a history of radio. It is a history of how states tried to speak entire worlds into being—and of what happened when those words failed."

Author Margaret Peacock on her new book and how propaganda shaped the Middle East: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/w...

#MESA2025
When the Radio Lied
Author Margaret Peacock on Cold War propaganda and the crisis of language in the Middle East.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"Your writing is your response to what you are consuming, and ideas can come from unexpected places."

THINGS UNSEEN author Ellen Muehlberger dispense valuable advice when crafting your book in our latest #AARSBL2025 author post:
Author Ellen Muehlberger on Building a Book
Author Ellen Muehlberger on her path to writing THINGS UNSEEN.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Thanks to Ariel Dorfman and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social for the great review of CHILE IN THEIR HEARTS by John Dinges: "Dinges confirms in these hundreds of pages what has made him such a superb investigative journalist": lareviewofbooks.org/article/chil...
Chile Yesterday, America Today | Los Angeles Review of Books
Ariel Dorfman revisits acts of brutality in the 1970s and John Dinges’s investigation of who is to blame.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Thanks to @thelancet.com for the great review of Seth Berkley, MD's FAIR DOSES: An Insider's Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity: "Berkley’s narrative is both illuminating about this history and serves as a wake-up call": www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
A quest for vaccine equity
For those working in global health, and especially on immunisation, it is difficult not to feel despair at the headwinds in 2025 that have been blowing forcefully against decades of collective efforts...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Thanks to @economist.com for including Seth Berkley, MD's FAIR DOSES: An Insider's Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity in their "Best Books of 2025" feature! www.economist.com/culture/2025...
The best books of 2025
Gladiators and dictators, wolves and Beatles feature in our list this year
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November 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Good morning, #MESA2025 attendees! It's our only full day of exhibiting so you've got all morning and afternoon to drop by and see our latest Middle East Studies books and chat with one of our editors.

Visit our MESA website to save 40% off our books on display: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Another full day in the exhibit hall, #AARSBL2025 attendees! If you haven't already gotten your headstart on beating the holiday travel rush, drop by and check out our Religion books!

Or if you're already making your way home, our website is up for you save 40%:
American Academy of Religion / Society for Biblical Literature 2025
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Let's kick off #MESA2025 in the most traditional way: sharing the recipe for an Egyptian lentil soup!

NILE NIGHTSHADE author Anny Gaul shares her recipe for this warming soup for chilly nights and the significance of Egyptian cuisine for our MESA author content:
A Tomato-y Egyptian Lentil Soup for Cooler Days
Author Anny Gaul shares a cozy recipe for fall soup season that highlights the key themes in her book, "Nile Nightshade."
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November 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
And we're back in our Nation's Capital! Hello @mesa1966.bsky.social and #MESA2025 attendees! Drop by the exhibit hall and check out our latest books in Middle East Studies!

And visit our MESA website to save 40% on our displayed books throughout the conference: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
November 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
We're grateful to our authors for providing us with original content to share for this year's #AARSBL2025

Read an excerpt from Christine Shepardson's A MEMORY OF VIOLENCE and her commentary on the wide questions of religion and violence:
Excerpt from "A Memory of Violence"
An excerpt from A MEMORY OF VIOLENCE with commentary from author Christine Sheparson.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Morning, #AARSBL2025 attendees! We're here all morning and afternoon so drop by and check out our latest books on Religion.

If you can't make it, our AAR website has all of displayed books on sales for 40% off: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Thank you to the @americananthro.bsky.social and #AAA2025NOLA attendees for a wonderful conference. As mentioned out AAA website will remain open for a few weeks so you still have time to save 40% on our latest Anthro books: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

See you next year in St. Louis!
American Anthropological Association 2025
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"Birth is like some kind of open secret, a fact of life, a miracle, a trauma, both too precious and too abject to confront frankly."

NEAR BIRTH author Andrea Ford on the role of doulas in childbirth: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/h...

#AAA2025NOLA
How should babies be born? The question contains worlds.
What do doula-supported births reveal about American cultural values?
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November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM