Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 24/05/2025😲 @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/history/earl...the-tls.co.ukThe universe in a bookThe notion of the universe as a book, an ancient trope that Ernst Robert Curtius traced in European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (1948), works in 020
Reposted by Seth KimmelJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/04/2025University of Michigan Regents come out squarely and publicly in defense of academic freedom against political coercion and the role of higher education and research in making America prosperous, secure ... and well ... maybe even Great? www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...michigandaily.comIn defense of our institutional independenceThis University is a proud public university that belongs to all of us and generations to follow. It is a place to test ideas, shape futures and pursue, not prescribe, truth. 573593844
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 07/04/2025“To protect both themselves and the entire educational system, then, university leaders should commit, collectively and immediately, to challenge unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom and university self-governance” @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comWhy Universities Must Start Litigating—and HowThe litigation would afford schools a high-profile venue in which to detail the Trump administration’s lawlessness and aggression. 04610
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Nominating “viewpoint diversity” as the euphemism of the year so far. 010
Reposted by Seth KimmelWIRED @wired.com · 02/04/2025The Trump administration, with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has gutted a small federal agency that provides funding to libraries and museums nationwide. This threatens student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to digital library services.wired.comThe DOGE Axe Comes for Libraries and MuseumsThe Institute of Museum and Library Services has long received bipartisan support. But after years of trying, President Donald Trump has delivered it a crushing blow. 751851833
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025“There are other people who urge, ‘Well, are there other ways that you can accommodate the government in some way, or bend to the government’s policy preferences in order to restore funding?’ I think that’s the wrong way, at least, for an academic institution, to be thinking…” 010
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...dailyprincetonian.comIn Bloomberg interview, Eisgruber signals that Princeton will not make concessionsUniversity President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 signaled that Princeton would not make concessions to the federal government after news broke that the Trump administration had suspended dozens of the U... 000
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Madre mía, la cola en la heladería del barrio el sábado de la tarde, a la hora de la merienda. 000
Reposted by Seth KimmelS.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 26/03/2025I know I'm late to the game but I've pulled together some reading recommendations for anyone who might be interested in learning more about Spanish as a language of the United States in the wake of the EO three weeks ago effectively saying that it isn't one. wp.nyu.edu/sjpearce/202... 36917
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Meanwhile in Seville it’s currently possible to purchase an empanadilla de torrija. 010
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 25/03/2025@aaup.bsky.social and @aftunion.bsky.social sue over government “using cuts as a cudgel to coerce a private institution.” www.aft.org/press-releas...aft.orgFACULTY UNIONS SUE TRUMP ADMIN: NO HALTING SCIENCE RESEARCH TO SUPPRESS SPEECHNEW YORK– The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the AFT today sued the Trump administration on behalf of their members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding... 15617
Reposted by Seth KimmelAAUP @aaup.org · 24/03/2025TODAY @ NOON ET in NYC: COLUMBIA PROFESSORS TO HOLD EMERGENCY VIGIL AGAINST ADMIN CONCESSIONS TO TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. Columbia gates at 116th & Amsterdam Ave (Not Broadway) • Hands Off Our Students, Faculty, & Research • Defend Science • Defend Academic Freedom • Defend Freedom of Speech 7439154
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Former Provost of Columbia unhappy with capitulation. Former President of Columbia has been quoted along similar lines. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Universities Gave Us the iPhone, the Jet Engine and Gatorade. We’re Tossing That Away.The postwar compact on research that powered America’s economic and military dominance is under threat. 010
Reposted by Seth KimmelAAUP @aaup.org · 22/03/2025Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will. The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.nytimes.comColumbia Concedes to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are StrippedThe administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules. 412121758
Reposted by Seth KimmelAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 22/03/2025The Shame of Columbia: violating academic freedom “Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight because of what its faculty researched or taught.” open.substack.com/pub/robertre...open.substack.comThe shame of Columbia UniversityIn surrendering to Trump, it's opening all universities to Trump's tyranny 32980405
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 21/03/2025I have the same question. www.chronicle.com/article/why-...chronicle.comWhy Hasn’t Columbia U. Sued to Protect Itself?Legal scholars say the university would have a strong case to make if it wanted to use the courts to fight for its funding to be restored. 000
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 20/03/2025In which constitutional law scholars make me fear for other recipients of federal aid besides universities: “K-12 schools, hospitals, nursing homes, and business and agricultural initiatives.” @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...nybooks.comA Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia | Eugene Volokh, Michael C. Dorf, David ColeWe write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the 010
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 19/03/2025The president of Princeton defending Columbia and American higher education in @theatlantic.com. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comThe Cost of the Government’s Attack on ColumbiaAmerican universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that. 020
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Would love to hear university presidents use some of this language. How about Columbia hosts a summit for the presidents of those 60 universities on the government’s list? 000
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Better late than never, choose courage: nymag.com/intelligence...nymag.comColumbia University Must Choose Between Courage and CowardiceAppeasing Trump won’t work — and there’s still time to take a stand. 010
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Been reading these. Suggestions for what to read next? 021
Reposted by Seth KimmelElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Sharing letter w/4 Columbia colleagues @pagefortna.bsky.social @vickymurillo.bsky.social Allison Carnegie & Turku Isiksel in which we speak only for ourselves, imagining how we would respond to the govt. This is *not* an official university statement. Grateful to @dandrezner.bsky.social for posting. 520972
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 15/03/2025My colleague Patricia Dailey cited at length about what’s happening at Columbia: www.eldiario.es/internaciona...eldiario.esLa detención de estudiantes y activistas propalestinos siembra el miedo en la Universidad de ColumbiaDespués del arresto de Mahmoud Khalil, recién graduado y uno de líderes de las protestas por la guerra de Gaza en el campus, al menos una estudiante ha sido detenida y otra ha aceptado marcharse del p... 010
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 14/03/2025The rugelach probably won’t be as good in Greenland, @mcsweeneys.net: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/as-...mcsweeneys.netAs an American Jew, I Feel Completely Reassured for My Safety Now That Trump Has Targeted the Epicenter of American Antisemitism, Columbia University“The Trump administration said Friday that it’s pulling $400 million from Columbia University, canceling grants and contracts because of what the g... 010
Reposted by Seth KimmelJelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social · 14/03/2025A few words on journalism, risk and what I actually said. 12050571183
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 12/03/2025m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDdw...m.youtube.comLIVE: US hearing over Columbia University protester's challenge to arrestYouTube video by Reuters 000
Reposted by Seth KimmelGabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Here is an open letter signed from UChicago AAUP signed by over 200 faculty to our administration on what we believe this moment requires: uchicagoaaup.wordpress.com 511943506
Reposted by Seth KimmelMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Today would be yet another good day for university presidents to loudly, collectively, & publicly start defending our institutions & industry. The silence is deafening & frankly, incomprehensible. What exactly are you waiting for? How many Columbias, Maines, & Johns Hopkins will it take? 462338561
Reposted by Seth KimmelEmily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025For @newrepublic.com, I wrote about the administration is cynically using the issue of antisemitism to attack higher ed, free speech/assembly, and due process, how some Jews sincerely support this, and why they are wrong newrepublic.com/article/1925...newrepublic.comTrump’s Crackdown on “Antisemitism” is Making Jews Less SafeThe Trump administration’s cynical use of antisemitism to justify a crackdown that will endanger many Jews. 1316760
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 11/03/2025www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGzx...youtube.comLIVE: Columbia University faculty, Jewish leaders condemn ICE detention of Mahmoud KhalilYouTube video by Reuters 151
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Today’s rhetoric of protecting Jews from antisemitism will all too easily become tomorrow’s blaming Jews for the destruction of American higher education. 020
Reposted by Seth KimmelKarl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 10/03/2025First, pull funding from Columbia and start to lock up its students. Second, threaten other universities with the same. All 60 schools on this list need to join together to fight this assault on academic freedom. 25966276
Reposted by Seth Kimmelbenitasampedro @benitasampedro.bsky.social · 05/03/2025MESA REDONDA HOY: abierta al público: La revista Peripherica les invita ql pre-lanzamiento del número monográfico titulado "Conversations with Hispanophone Africa and the Maghreb", coordinado por Benita Sampedro y Adolfo Campoy Cubillo Enlace de Zoom: uoregon.zoom.us/j/9789995747... 021
Reposted by Seth KimmelVíctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Join us this Friday to tune into thought-provoking discussions, a live recording of @latinxvisions.bsky.social, deep listening experiences, music by Acapulco en la Azotea, and much more! 193
Reposted by Seth KimmelEmily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 04/03/2025YES PLEASE. All New Yorkers deserve seven day service! gothamist.com/news/more-ny...gothamist.comMore NYC libraries would open 7 days a week in Council speaker's budget proposalCity Council Speaker Adrienne Adams will announce a $2 million proposal to expand seven-day service to 10 additional library branches citywide. 0499
Reposted by Seth KimmelSeth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Today it’s aranceles, tomorrow it’ll be alcabalas and almojarifazgos. 111
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Signs that Semana Santa is approaching in Seville: the CSIC library smells of incense. 1/? 150
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Why stop at subsidized rail service, unemployment insurance, and universal healthcare? 030
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 28/02/2025www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...bklynlibrary.orgBrooklyn Public Library Offers Free eCards to Teens Nationwide Facing Book Bans in Local Communities | Brooklyn Public LibraryLibrarians and Teen Volunteers Spearhead Books Unbanned Initiative to Combat Censorship 020
Reposted by Seth KimmelRicardo Campos @ricardocamposm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025El 5 de marzo tenemos Seminario del Dpto. de Historia de la Ciencia del IH-CSIC. Carlos Cañete nos hablará sobre "El Magreb en España. Otra historia del conocimiento geográfico de occidente". Será a las 12h. en la sala Gómez Moreno (2C) del @cchscsic.bsky.social. Toda la información en el cartel👇👇 044
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Went on the tour of the Palacio del Virrey Laserna today in Jerez and the guy selling the tickets, who was also the tour guide, opened the door to the living quarters with a flourish, saying “Welcome to my house.” Turns out he’s the Virrey’s great great great grandson. 140