Alex Lubin @a-lubin.bsky.social · 21/02/2026www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...chronicle.comLetter | Misunderstanding American StudiesA recent report and the news coverage around it failed to reflect the field’s aims, writes Alex Lubin. 011
Reposted by Alex LubinLaleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Colleagues overseas, check this out: 044
Reposted by Alex Lubinelee-2025.bsky.social @elee-2025.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Loving Memory of Barbara Lubin: A Legacy That Lives On mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#in... Today, we lost a dear friend, fierce comrade, rare human being. I have known Barbara Lubin for plus 40 years. Difficult to imagine this world without her steady presence, moral clarity, boundless compassion. 032
Reposted by Alex LubinRKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 08/07/2025The so-called 'Left' in this country is now just the polite wing of empire, doing the Right’s dirty work in inclusive language. If Zohran terrifies them, it’s because even a whisper of downwardly redistributive justice threatens their whole rotten consensus. :<> 011
Alex Lubin @a-lubin.bsky.social · 02/04/2025It seems to me that state-sponsored abductions, or extraordinary renditions, ought to be at the top of our list of contemporary outrages and existential threats. Nobody, regardless of citizenship status, should not be detained and disappeared to torture facilities or third parties. 040
Alex Lubin @a-lubin.bsky.social · 17/01/2025The submission portal for the 2025 ASA conference in San Juan, PR is now open. theasa.net 052
Reposted by Alex LubinA.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Andrew Ross is an incredible teacher and generous mentor who never turns down a request to stand alongside students seeking justice, regardless of consequence. Would that we were all so brave. 05318
Alex Lubin @a-lubin.bsky.social · 11/12/2024brittle paper has named Duse Mohamed Ali’s novel, Ere Roosevelt Came to their 100 Notable African Books of 2024 list. 030
Alex Lubin @a-lubin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024theasa.net/2025theasa.net2025 Theme & Program Committee2025 Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association November 20-23, 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico Late-stage American Empire? Submissions Open 1 January 2025; link forthcoming Submissions Due 1 February 2025 010
Reposted by Alex LubinGabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 22/11/2024You know I already knew theoretically and historically that liberalism is contradictory with itself, but I’ve never seen a live example like the Biden admin, champions of the rule of law as a bulwark against fascism, going down in flames to defend a fascist regime’s genocidal war crime spree 218528
Reposted by Alex LubinBenjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 20/11/2024fwiw act.newmode.net/action/ifnot...act.newmode.netTell Your Senator: Say No to $20 Billion in Weapons to IsraelThe Israeli military is systematically targeting Palestinians in Gaza, killing tens of thousands and displacing millions. Now its dangerous attacks in Lebanon have killed thousands of civilians and es... 0129
Alex Lubin @a-lubin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Can’t we agree that the US should follow its own laws with regard to US weapons use and humanitarian aid? Shouldn’t these laws apply in every case, including in the case of our weapons transfers to Israel? 110
Alex Lubin @a-lubin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Next year’s ASA conference in Puerto Rico will focus on “Late-Stage American Empire.” Official CFP coming soon. 03010
Alex Lubin @a-lubin.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Looking forward to the American Studies Association meeting this week in Charm City. Who else will be there? 030
Alex Lubin @a-lubin.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Trying out this new platform in the hope that we might find virtual community that is not merely metadata for state surveillance and oligarchic democracy. Interested in a free Palestine. 050