“Last July, when it became public that a founder of the African American Intellectual History Society had accepted the $300,000 Dan David Prize, which is headquartered at Tel Aviv University, a group of leading scholars in the field of Black studies wrote and circulated an open letter in protest”
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Mark the date. October 29, 2026. The FIFTH Alchemy Lecture at York University, Toronto ScALE.
Don’t miss it. More soon.
Endlessly disappointed by historians willing to accept the Dan David Prize. This appeal outlines why no historian who respects their own work or supports our discipline should lend this prize their name.
My department is hiring a Lecturer in International Relations (full time, permanent, teaching and research) jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... <- very happy to talk to potential applicants about UK academia, the department (but probably not about the IR side of things)
This new article by @loladickinson.bsky.social on trans sex workers in England in the 1980s and 1990s is really good.
Survivors say no to the EHRC…
"How Disability Shaped American Citizenship"
Mother Jones interviews @sarialtschuler.bsky.social on her new book!
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
bdsmovement.net/news/palesti...
Another reminder from 2025
"The Dan David Prize Amid a Genocide? By a group of Asian American Studies scholars"
socialtextjournal.org/periscope_ar...