"Early Modern Antiquarianism," a special issue of Modern Language Quarterly edited by Megan Cook and Ali Madani, is now available. View the TOC and read the introduction, made freely available: buff.ly/q3r4W8y
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If you're in Durham this Thursday 10/1, catch Emily Lim Rogers, author of "Sick Work," giving at talk at Duke University: buff.ly/NzUBeOo
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If you can't make it to our Centennial exhibit at @DukeU, you can watch a video walkthrough. The exhibit will be up in Rubenstein Library through February 2027. #DUP100buff.ly/sN3b05n
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The Weekly Read is “Dorothy Day's Modernist Hospitality” by Sean Weidman. Published in TCL 71:3, it was recently named runner-up for the Modernist Studies Association’s new Contingent and Independent Scholars Essay Prize.
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Today on the blog, Mack Paul, author of "Miracle Road," writes about the history of Research Triangle Park, NC, whose articles of incorporation were signed on this day in 1956. buff.ly/wAC0yeb
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For Part I of the JHI Blog's retrospective on Mrinalini Sinha’s "Specters of Mother India," we present Susan Pedersen’s 2006 review, hitherto unpublished. @DukePressweb.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/20…
A roundtable on *The Radical Spanish Empire: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World* by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and HAHR author Adrian Masters. notevenpast.org/the-radical-…
Butler reflects on the diaries, letters, publications, performances, lives, and afterlives of her most beloved queer feminist writers: Kathy Acker and Cookie Mueller.
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Part two of this special issue of the Federal Sentencing Reporter, coedited by DEPC's Doug Berman (@SLandP), offers analyses of recent sentencing guideline amendments and aims to spark conversation about what comes next.
Select articles free @DukePress: read.dukeupress.edu/fsr/issu…
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HAHR author James N. Green joins the Explaining Brazil podcast to discuss Brazil's upcoming elections in light of the Banco Master scandal, the crisis roiling Brazil's Supreme Court, and US politics. open.spotify.com/episode/0iE…
Congratulations to HAHR author Chloe Ireton, who just received the Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Book Prize for *Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic.* rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-prize…
HAHR associate editor Charles Walker joins the Buen Librero podcast to discuss public history in Peru, the Tupac Amaru rebellion, and the teaching of history. piped.video/RBxdjnHdS9E?si=6yL9…
Save 30% on #NewBook "Worlds Beyond Bios," edited by Sophie Chao, Christine J. Winter, and David Schlosberg, which builds on recent theoretical and ethnographic approaches to the more-than-human to offer new ways of thinking toward planetary repair.
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Kimberly D. Blockett's "The Audacious Ministry of Zilpha Elaw" analyzes the life, autobiography, and transatlantic travels of one of the first Black Methodist women ministers in history. Read the intro for free now:
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Congratulations to Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez @smunozar, whose book "The New Kingdom of Granada" has been awarded the 2026 Alejandro Ángel Escobar Award in Social Sciences and Humanities by the Alejandro Ángel Escobar Foundation @FAAEColombia. buff.ly/veXFM2t
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Congratulations to @smunozar whose book "The New Kingdom of Granada" has been named the winner of the 2026 Alejandro Ángel Escobar Award in Social Sciences and Humanities.
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This Wednesday - "Teaching Critical AI Literacies," a workshop with Lauren M.E. Goodlad, editor of the interdisciplinary journal Critical AI.
Wednesday, 9/23, 4:30 pm
John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke
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