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This year's Pflaum Lecture sponsored by Dickinson's History Department will be delivered by Camilla Townsend. So thrilled to welcome her to campus today. Great memories from our time at grad school Rutgers @ruhistorydept.bsky.social

My wonderful colleague @emilypawley.bsky.social co-edited A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World: Responding to the Global Climate Emergency with MIT Press. It'll be out in mid-November. Check out this timely work!

Sharing a link to the latest isse of the Journal of Migration History, which became available online in early summer. It includes an article on space and gender in migrant letters by yours truly that may be of interest to some of the people in this community. Thank you brill.com/view/journal...

Our Cambridge History of Global Migrations is 40% off right now! Good opportunity to get the two-volume set. #migration

Since September, I have been at Iméra-Institute for Advaced Study of Aix Marseille Université. My residence is now coming to an end. Very grateful to the community that welcomed me to Marseille. If interested about the project that brought me here, see the video below. youtube.com/watch?v=jcDD...

“Rather than lying low and hoping to fly under the radar, we are proposing a strategy of strength in numbers. It is all the more urgent now to work in solidarity to safeguard higher education in this country.” #defendhighered #academicsky

***TODAY*** The @ihrc-umn.bsky.social invites you to the Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States webinar on Wednesday, November 12 from 4:00 to 5:15 CST. Register: z.umn.edu/HiddenHistories.

Migration Stories: Connecting Activism, Policy, and Scholarship, edited by Benjamin Gatling is out. It is the latest book in the Series Studies of World Migrations, which I co-edit with Madeline Hsu @illinoispress.bsky.social. More about our series here: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/find_b...

So happy that Hidden Histories is now out! Congratulations to @dbattisti.bsky.social , @kangborderlaw.bsky.social and the contributors for this timely history of unauthorized migration from Europe. Check it out here www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... @illinoispress.bsky.social

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Birthright citizenship changes? They portend caste hierarchies that will affect citizens as well. Here is my recent Mother Jones interview: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Coming out in May! Don't miss this volume edited by @dbattisti.bsky.social and @kangborderlaw.bsky.social So happy for it to be part of our Studies of World Migrations Series @illinoispress.bsky.social A timely historical discussion of unauthorized European migrations to the U.S. @immigration

The CfP for the 5th Biennial Conference of the Society of the History of Emotions is OPEN. Full details are available on our website: societyhistoryemotions.com/she-conferen...

Forget Trump’s propaganda and learn the history of the Panama Canal in this week’s Unsung History! I talk with Kelly Pollock about my book BOX 25, and more.

International Migrants Day/Día Internacional de las Personas Migrantes Jorge Drexler, Movimiento (Movement) #migration #migraciones #migrações #InternationalMigrantsDay youtu.be/rGL_JSfpAqU?...

Oh, don't you think it's a miracle that amidst all this pain amidst all this noise sometimes all it takes is a song even a stupid song just a stupid song to remind you who you are to remind you who you are (Brunori Sas)

Mood: Canzone contro la paura (Song Against Fear), Brunori Sas youtu.be/O5UejY-iGRc?... Ma non ti sembra un miracolo Che in mezzo a questo dolore E in tutto questo rumore A volte basta una canzone Anche una stupida canzone Solo una stupida canzone A ricordarti chi sei

Colleagues/academic writers: Presses have started sending AI addendums for existing book contracts. Are there options in these situations? What about edited books? Who is consulted in these cases? Can some opt out and others not? Some addendums don't offer such an option. #skyhistorians #AcademicSky

Geranium still going outside (zone 6b/7a) #GardensHour