Erik O’Barr
@erikcharlemagne.bsky.social
Columbia Ph.D. // Ottoman and Iranian History // Other Random Stuff
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Applications for the Keyman Early-Career Scholars Article Workshop Spring 2026 are open until February 20. For more information, please visit: keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu/.../early-ca....
January 14, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Applications for the Keyman Early-Career Scholars Article Workshop Spring 2026 are open until February 20. For more information, please visit: keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu/.../early-ca....
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It's here! A very incipient starter pack for the art, architecture, and archaeology of the Islamic world. This is just a first quick effort, please let me know if I can add you or others so we can build up this community!
November 16, 2024 at 11:32 PM
It's here! A very incipient starter pack for the art, architecture, and archaeology of the Islamic world. This is just a first quick effort, please let me know if I can add you or others so we can build up this community!
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A decade long transatlantic panic about the civilizational threat of left-wing cancel culture and we now have an "anti-woke" censorship campaign taking out Plato at a major American university. Absolutely pathetic.
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 6, 2026 at 9:30 PM
A decade long transatlantic panic about the civilizational threat of left-wing cancel culture and we now have an "anti-woke" censorship campaign taking out Plato at a major American university. Absolutely pathetic.
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New episode drops tomorrow 📢👇
Burcu Karahan (@burcukarahan.bsky.social) on translating "One Thousand and One Kisses", a remarkable collection of erotic and humorous short stories published anonymously in Istanbul in 1923-24
Stay tuned 📌📌
turkeybooktalk.com
turkeybooktalk.substack.com
Burcu Karahan (@burcukarahan.bsky.social) on translating "One Thousand and One Kisses", a remarkable collection of erotic and humorous short stories published anonymously in Istanbul in 1923-24
Stay tuned 📌📌
turkeybooktalk.com
turkeybooktalk.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:10 PM
New episode drops tomorrow 📢👇
Burcu Karahan (@burcukarahan.bsky.social) on translating "One Thousand and One Kisses", a remarkable collection of erotic and humorous short stories published anonymously in Istanbul in 1923-24
Stay tuned 📌📌
turkeybooktalk.com
turkeybooktalk.substack.com
Burcu Karahan (@burcukarahan.bsky.social) on translating "One Thousand and One Kisses", a remarkable collection of erotic and humorous short stories published anonymously in Istanbul in 1923-24
Stay tuned 📌📌
turkeybooktalk.com
turkeybooktalk.substack.com
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On this day in 1901, CLR James is born in Trinidad. James was an important anti-colonial activist, socialist historian, theorist, journalist and cricket aficionado.
anticolonialhistory.com/event/148/
anticolonialhistory.com/event/148/
January 4, 2026 at 3:53 PM
On this day in 1901, CLR James is born in Trinidad. James was an important anti-colonial activist, socialist historian, theorist, journalist and cricket aficionado.
anticolonialhistory.com/event/148/
anticolonialhistory.com/event/148/
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By saying this I mean so much of the political thinking that emerged then — from imperialism to race science to rank positivism on and on — remains unvanquished and at large in the world. I don’t think we get to say we live in “the future” until that’s achieved.
January 4, 2026 at 3:28 AM
By saying this I mean so much of the political thinking that emerged then — from imperialism to race science to rank positivism on and on — remains unvanquished and at large in the world. I don’t think we get to say we live in “the future” until that’s achieved.
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All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending.
UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.
UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.
December 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending.
UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.
UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.
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Applications are now open for the Keyman MTS Postdoctoral Fellowship! For more information, please visit: keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu/our-scholars...
Become a Keyman Scholar: Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program - Northwestern University
keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu
December 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Applications are now open for the Keyman MTS Postdoctoral Fellowship! For more information, please visit: keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu/our-scholars...
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*Mick Foley is GOOD.*
Foley took big bumps for the fans, whether as himself, Mankind, Cactus Jack, or Dude Love. He's also a best-selling author & largely a company guy. But he's a beloved man who's never been a Trumper...so this public separation from WWE (& giving up a Legends deal) is huge.
Foley took big bumps for the fans, whether as himself, Mankind, Cactus Jack, or Dude Love. He's also a best-selling author & largely a company guy. But he's a beloved man who's never been a Trumper...so this public separation from WWE (& giving up a Legends deal) is huge.
December 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
*Mick Foley is GOOD.*
Foley took big bumps for the fans, whether as himself, Mankind, Cactus Jack, or Dude Love. He's also a best-selling author & largely a company guy. But he's a beloved man who's never been a Trumper...so this public separation from WWE (& giving up a Legends deal) is huge.
Foley took big bumps for the fans, whether as himself, Mankind, Cactus Jack, or Dude Love. He's also a best-selling author & largely a company guy. But he's a beloved man who's never been a Trumper...so this public separation from WWE (& giving up a Legends deal) is huge.
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Pro-wrestling legend Mick Foley announced this morning that he's parting ways with WWE over the organization's "close relationship with Donald Trump," saying the president's "incredibly cruel comments in the wake of Rob Reiner’s death is the final straw for me."
December 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Pro-wrestling legend Mick Foley announced this morning that he's parting ways with WWE over the organization's "close relationship with Donald Trump," saying the president's "incredibly cruel comments in the wake of Rob Reiner’s death is the final straw for me."
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When Chappell Roan said “I’m moving to Saskatchewan,” I did not feel that
December 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
When Chappell Roan said “I’m moving to Saskatchewan,” I did not feel that
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“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”
December 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”
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CfA | Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship 2026
Open to advanced PhD & early-career researchers in Turkish Studies (1–3 months, €1,500/month). Apply by 15 Dec 2025.
Details: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/forschung/fe...
Open to advanced PhD & early-career researchers in Turkish Studies (1–3 months, €1,500/month). Apply by 15 Dec 2025.
Details: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/forschung/fe...
October 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
CfA | Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship 2026
Open to advanced PhD & early-career researchers in Turkish Studies (1–3 months, €1,500/month). Apply by 15 Dec 2025.
Details: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/forschung/fe...
Open to advanced PhD & early-career researchers in Turkish Studies (1–3 months, €1,500/month). Apply by 15 Dec 2025.
Details: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/forschung/fe...
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atay bewitched me when I was an engineering student, he was indeed a different soul… huge congrats @ralphhubbell.bsky.social
"Ralph Hubbell has succeeded marvelously in rendering the stream of consciousness of inner offbeat voices within the short stories of the great and notoriously difficult twentieth-century Turkish author Oğuz Atay."
Nice translation praise from MLA's Scaglione Prize committee.
Nice translation praise from MLA's Scaglione Prize committee.
December 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
atay bewitched me when I was an engineering student, he was indeed a different soul… huge congrats @ralphhubbell.bsky.social
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Learning that the great Turkish political scientist Taha Parla has passed. He was the first to really theorize Kemalism as a corporatist ideology. His book, /Corporatist Ideology in Kemalist Turkey: Progress or Order?/ Co-authored with Andrew Davison, was absolutely foundational for my own work.
Siyaset bilimci Prof. Dr. Taha Parla vefat etti
Siyaset bilimci Prof. Dr. Taha Parla vefat etti
Türkiye'de siyasal kültür ve rejim tartışmaları üzerine önemli eserler veren Prof. Dr. Taha Parla yaşamını yitirdi.
medyascope.tv
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Learning that the great Turkish political scientist Taha Parla has passed. He was the first to really theorize Kemalism as a corporatist ideology. His book, /Corporatist Ideology in Kemalist Turkey: Progress or Order?/ Co-authored with Andrew Davison, was absolutely foundational for my own work.
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Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
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700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online
700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online
Too often those in power lump thousands of years of Middle Eastern religion and culture into monolithic entities to be feared or persecuted. But at least one government institution is doing exactly th...
www.openculture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online
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Again, this is an existential crisis for the entire financial & academic model of 🇺🇸 public universities, but the public doesn’t understand this, in part because our leaders have been on this issue. It’s maddening:
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bsky.app/profile/mcop...
New foreign student enrollment in the US fell 17% this fall www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
How foreign student enrollment is shifting in the U.S., in 6 charts
Foreign student enrollment in U.S. colleges has stalled, with a 17 percent decline in new students this fall after Trump policy changes, a key survey shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Again, this is an existential crisis for the entire financial & academic model of 🇺🇸 public universities, but the public doesn’t understand this, in part because our leaders have been on this issue. It’s maddening:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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The petition is LIVE! uOttawa suspended Greek & Roman Studies without consultation ending advanced ancient languages teaching and Ontario's only ancient languages programme in French. Please sign, share widely and follow for updates. buff.ly/hjj4J7u #SOSClassicsUO #SaveHigherEd #ONfr #Ottawa
Sign the Petition
Save Greek and Latin at the University of Ottawa!
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October 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The petition is LIVE! uOttawa suspended Greek & Roman Studies without consultation ending advanced ancient languages teaching and Ontario's only ancient languages programme in French. Please sign, share widely and follow for updates. buff.ly/hjj4J7u #SOSClassicsUO #SaveHigherEd #ONfr #Ottawa
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Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated. Enrollment is near pre-pandemic levels, real tuition is flat or down, and the college wage premium remains high.
I explore how the narrative became disconnected from the data.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/is-college...
I explore how the narrative became disconnected from the data.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/is-college...
Is college enrollment really plummeting?
Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated. Enrollment is near pre-pandemic levels, real tuition is flat or down, and the college wage premium remains high.
I explore how the narrative became disconnected from the data.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/is-college...
I explore how the narrative became disconnected from the data.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/is-college...
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Fear & Loathing in the Halls of Academe: Trump’s Columbia U.
Fear & Loathing in the Halls of Academe: Trump’s Columbia U.
In 2024, Columbia kept the campus locked down. It put in place so many rules governing protests that it effectively quashed
dlvr.it
November 12, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Fear & Loathing in the Halls of Academe: Trump’s Columbia U.
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since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign