Associate Professor of Religion at Florida State University / book: Thoreau's Religion, https://xitter.cf/t.co/DzYSHxgV9Z / mostly not on here
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I had a great conversation with Ilana Maymind @NewBooksNetwork about my book - *Thoreau's Religion* - and about what kind of readers it's looking for: folks wondering how to keep fighting for a future in a world that's gone quite mad #envhum #acrel newbooksnetwork.com/thoreaus…
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In American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 46.2-3, a special issue, @iamalda (@FloridaState) responds to Willis Jenkins's lecture “Migrations of the Sacred,” sharing her observations about his questions + what his proposal looks like from her classroom
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ALT Cover of American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, Vol. 46, No. 2 - 3, May - September 2025. Light grey background with Tables of Contents text and small red, green, yellow and blue abstract designs under the title text
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New setting: hide AI-generated images in DuckDuckGo
Our philosophy about AI features is “private, useful, and optional.” Our goal is to help you find what you’re looking for. You should decide for yourself how much AI you want in your life – or if you want any at all. (1/4)
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hope I don't burn my spot, but I just found the perfect place to ride out the tariff recession 💪
NEW BOOK! @catjonathantran and I are so pleased to see Yonatan Brafman's *Critique of Halakhic Reason* out in the series we edit - *Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion*
Order now for all your friends in theology, ethics + philosophy of religion
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ALT book cover for Critique of Halakhic Reason. includes an image of 5 men around a table with a large book: one man points animatedly at the text, two listen intently looking at the pointer, another makes a pained face, covering his ear, and the last stands behind all of them, looking slightly bored but with his hand behind his ear, listening in
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The NTEU welcomes new governance principles for universities. The current system is completely broken. We will keep fighting to make universities exemplary employers. As a starting point that means reducing insecure work, ending wage theft and safer workloads.
Increasing transparency and accountability in university governance: encouraging response from @JasonClareMP and other ministers to the Universities Accord interim report.
Latest on uni governance from @NTEUnion: nteu.info/corporatisation
#HigherEducation #universities #highered
Is there meaningful reform of governance in Australian universities in the cards? Here's hoping!
Serious news on the university governance front. Good work
@JasonClareMP . This won't be easy. Managers will resist with all they have. There is expertise on how to do this right. More on this soon. Please read the article, it is important development.
smh.com.au/education/inside-…
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“I was born and grew up in India, and I’m trying to remember when I became Indian.” Novelist @amitavakumar considers how his sense of national identity has changed. foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/08…
Thanks so much @AARWeb! I'm super excited to use this grant for travel to the @MertonCenter and to William Melvin Kelley's papers at Emory University. It's for a project on Thomas Merton's reading in the politics of the 1960s, and I can't wait to get to the archives!
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Our Judith Plaskow Travel Grant program awards $500 and complimentary November Annual Meeting registration to a student/independent scholar presenting a paper informed by/contributing to feminist approaches to the study of religion. Apply by April 23: ow.ly/fVb350QRk1S
ALT same text as caption; certificate looking design with photo of Judith Plaskow, white woman, cropped white hair, circular wire glasses
A little essay I wrote recently about the beautiful place I love living.
Last year, Australian voters rejected a referendum to provide a political voice to First Peoples. But the but push to move the country's politics beyond business as usual for Indigenous people continues. @iamalda earthisland.org/journal/inde…
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It was a delight getting to discuss writing about Solidarity with my co-author @astradisastra. In these dark times, we need more of this precious resource. theguardian.com/books/2024/m…
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Grateful to learn that my @thedrift_mag piece on the battery metal mining boom will be included in next edition of Best American Science & Nature Writing
thedriftmag.com/a-good-prosp…
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Jack Kerouac isn’t in the mood for self-doubt. From his 1947-48 journals. #writing
Sending so much ❤️❤️❤️ to everyone suffering in universities these days. Solidarity, friends. #JoinYourUnion
There is a mental health crisis among staff in our universities.
73% of academic & professional staff reported poor work environments in 2023 and more than two-thirds of participants reported poor psychosocial safety in an SA-based survey.
bit.ly/48jZLWT
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In 2023 we won the right for academic staff to be allocated the time it takes to do the work they are assigned. (we had to make that explicit?!!)
We gathered evidence but management argues their view is enough to decide how long work (they don’t do) takes. This is #wageTheft!
This looks like it will be a super interesting volume on what happens to Western political thought if we include animals - wish I had time to write a chapter on Thoreau. Get your abstracts in by 31 January!
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"There's barely a university in Australia which hasn't been caught out stealing workers' wages." - @AlisonBarnes25
9news.com.au/national/acu-un…
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For the 3rd international conference organized by the Environmental Humanities Center, Cappadocia University, is inviting scholars to discuss the branches and directions of ecocriticism, including recent theories, emerging topics, and new challenges.
ehconference.kapadokya.edu.t…
