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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

So enthusiastic about today's class on comparison, in justice institutions in Europe, at Munk School @uoft.bsky.social Here are 2 quotes from readings -- compared and twinned ! One by Rossi in LRB on twin studies, and the other by Foucault on psyc expert reports from 1955 & 1974.

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

How to select two cases or events on justice institutions in Europe? What do we do when we compare ? This week in our course on justice institutions in Europe at Munk School @uoft.bsky.social ! And … two readings. One on twin pairs, and the other on two expert opinions in penal cases!

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Le Parisien @leparisien.fr · 23/03/2025

Après l’agression du rabbin d’Orléans, le choc et l’émotion : « Je continuerai à marcher avec fierté » ➡️ l.leparisien.fr/ceoo

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

And next week, in our course on justice institutions in Europe … Witnesses, Publics, Victims, Events ...! We are covering a lot of ground!

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Today (20 March), at Lab for the Global Study of Antisemitism at UofT! Eitan D. Hersh, on “The Impact of the Israel-Hamas War on College Students.” www.jewishstudies.utoronto.ca/events/eitan...

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Just a few hours left to submit for social science history conference. Deadline is today! (Conference in Chicago, this November!)

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

very enthusiastic about class next week ! On measurement, in our course on justice institutions in Europe..!

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Survey of 2000 students in French high school and middle school: 16% of students do not want a Jewish friend. 21% report seeing students hide their Jewish background or religion in school. www.leparisien.fr/societe/au-c...

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Au collège et lycée, 16% des élèves ne veulent pas d’un juif pour ami : « L’école n’est plus un sanctuaire »

Un sondage Ifop portant sur la haine antijuive, mené auprès de deux mille collégiens et lycéens, sera présenté ce jeudi soir au Sénat. Résul

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

«Les juifs se trouvent, encore une fois, au cœur de la crise de la République et de ses valeurs universelles. Ils n’ont pas voulu occuper ce rôle, mais force est de constater qu’au travers de la question juive se joue à nouveau l’avenir moral et politique de notre société. » t.co/34qK5Zhwyk

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EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales @ehess.fr · 14/02/2025

#VendrediLecture 🏦💰 Plongez-vous dans le dernier numéro de la Revue d'histoire des sciences humaines @edisorbonne.bsky.social, dirigé par Antonin Cohen et Ron Levi sur le thème "Financements et agencements disciplinaires". ⬇️ Accessible en ligne ⬇️ www.ehess.fr/fr/revue/fin...

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Hooray ! Thrilled to have this out in the world, w/ Revue d’histoire des sciences humaines! Coedited by Antonin Cohen & myself, on Funding & Disciplinary Arrangements. Brilliant papers, and we introduce with an essay on academic fields, funding, & turbulent times. journals.openedition.org/rhsh/9627

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Our next talk at the Lab for the Global Study of Antisemitism @uoft.bsky.social : Chad Alan Goldberg, on “Antisemitism and American Exceptionalism: Rethinking the Place of the Postwar Era in US History”. 4 March, information here! www.jewishstudies.utoronto.ca/events/chad-...

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Chad Alan Goldberg, Antisemitism and American Exceptionalism: Rethinking the Place of the Postwar Era in US History

Chad Alan Goldberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Antisemitism and American Exceptionalism: Rethinking the Place of the Postwar Era in US History

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Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Politics nowadays are pushing society toward confrontation rather than cooperation. On March 14, @ronlevi.bsky.social & I are thrilled to host @bernardharcourt.bsky.social for a keynote lecture on working together in these conflictual times. Register & join us: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/cooper...

In a recent book titled Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory, Bernard E. Harcourt outlines a vision of a cooperative society based on worker and consumer coops and mutual aid. The current political climate, the rise of extremist parties, and the developments on university campuses seem to be pushing society toward conflict and confrontation rather than cooperation. How can we think about cooperation in these conflictual times? Join us on March 14, 2025 from 5:00PM - 6:30PM in the Boardroom and Library of the Munk School at the University of Toronto, aT 315 Bloor St. West, Toronto, M5S 0A7

Bernard E. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and a chaired professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Just superb. And you need to get to John Lanchester's sentence: "There’s what you can count, and what sense you can make of what you count, and the lessons to be learned from that are not always what they seem." Perfect.

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John Lanchester · Get a rabbit: Don’t trust the numbers · LRB 21 September 2023

Data and statistics, all of them, are man-made. They are also central to modern politics and governance, and the ways we...

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Melissa (Mimi) Arnold Lyon @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

I should probably have a first post...so here's what I'm working on today Revising/updating my working paper with @matthewakraft.bsky.social on the rise and fall of teaching profession: www.edworkingpapers.com/ai22-679 New teacher licenses still down (by ~100k relative to 2006) in Title II data

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

I’d like to be only here. I’m happier here. It’s better. But the other place has lots of news agencies & non-North Am commentators, including where I follow events & news closely. I’ve dabbled w/ being active there in other languages, & set my location to another place. Anyone else feeling this?

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

“When Donald Trump said, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” he was cultivating not healthy loyalty but rather destructive defiance …”

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Opinion | How MAGA Corrupts the Culture of the White Working Class

Republican elites are delivering the worst kind of red meat to their working-class base.

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Took some time out to read this today. A brilliant and timeless sociological reminder about sociology. Howie Becker, reflecting on a class taught by Everett Hughes (in What About Mozart? What About Murder?: Reasoning From Cases).

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

removing headlines from news articles is the funniest thing elon has done so far. crafting an experience where the user is perpetually scrolling through 25 consecutive uncontextualized pictures of donald trump and timothee chalamet and then reading something vaguely antisemitic

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Want to know the most infuriating reaction to this ? Here it is: “I don't think it's time to review everything. History is history.” (Quebec Conservative MP Gérard Deltell). Idea: Let’s instead engage with, learn, and act on our collective past. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

events.au.dk/isrlc2024/home

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Yup. And the autocracy problem is connected with exclusion and potential for violence. As we’ve worked on, America First incited and leveraged a volatile exclusionary populism, that is focused on distrust of others, & connected with criminal arrests. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/o...

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

This is superb; Conversation with Alexander Paseau. With thanks to Brian Leiter’s blog for pointing to something I’d never have otherwise read. Full text: tverums.lv/blogs/news/s...

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

say what now ??? www.lapoliticaonline.com/amp/269721-f...

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

I research and teach on the sociology of atrocities, including collective memory, legacies, and events of mass violence over time. A far better response here would be to call for deeper recognition, engagement, and collective learning. This isn't it. nationalpost.com/news/politic...

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

$78 is a whole lot of bagels

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

9pm Turkish coffee still the best. Even without foam.

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

even though we seem to know, I still find myself wondering who shot J.R.

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

Back for another research trip in Bakersfield!

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

in big news today, I finished copying and pasting all the reviewer comments for an R&R into the right places of the paper.

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Lars E.F. Johannessen @larsjohannessen.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

One of my all-time favorite sociologists passed away yesterday. May you rest in peace, Howard Becker. #Sociology

Elijah Anderson tweeted: Howard S. Becker, my dear former teacher and mentor died yesterday afternoon in his beloved San Francisco at 95. He rested peacefully at home and was in no pain. I will always remember Howie, and the careful instruction he gave to me as a young qualitative field worker. RIP.

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

very sad sign but also the most awesome sign . #torontoneighbourhood

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 15/08/2023

“sorry, I’m still in in this one footnote, it’s been about an hour.” Me, today. Sorry coauthor.

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

every once in a while, it's best to just take a few minutes and go back to read Howie Becker. "Scholarly worlds embody a deep ambivalence, mirrored in the opposing attitudes of get-it-out versus take-your-time." Yup. And sometimes that ambivalence is within the same person, too.

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

This is awesome. Molokhia, the soup of my childhood, & eaten exactly as below, is now … part of a description for how to drink arak at the LCBO website here in Ontario (over in Canada) ! Best part: molokhia isn’t included on the label itself! So someone wrote it for the website? That’s super.

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

I sometimes try to say what binds my interests. Now I read a stunning account in Rogues, of Patrick Radden Keefe‘s “abiding preoccupations” of “crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial.” Just wow.

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

Job! Assistant Professor tenure track position, focusing on the sociological study of science and technology. Position is downtown campus (aka St. George). Apply and join us here in Sociology at University of Toronto @uoft.bsky.social !

jobs.utoronto.ca

Assistant Professor - Science and Technology

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 15/07/2023

Super week in archives, focusing on policing and everyday ideas of legality and justice between 1950s-1960s in France, at both Mémorial de la Shoah and Archives de la Préfecture de police. Huge thanks to archivists at both for help and access.

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

research trips still mean letters home. A little retro but meaningful to do!

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

More from Queen Mary University of London

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

A real honour to be IHSS visiting fellow this week at Queen Mary University London. And just came across the Jewish Novo Cemetery on the QMUL campus, of the Spanish and Portuguese community of London. Having grown up through the Spanish and Portuguese in Montreal, incredible to see this here today.

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Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social · 01/07/2023

It was the morning before camp. Fantastic weeks ahead, and with some Margaret Atwood in her back pocket!

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