Erik Linstrum
@ErikLinstrum
Historian of empire and decolonization. Author of AGE OF EMERGENCY. Writing about fascism and empire https://tinyurl.com/2k5aw922
Age of Emergency is out in the US (and soon elsewhere). It’s a book about how colonial violence comes home and what it means to live with warfare that is simultaneously distant and present, unsettling and unstoppable, existential and futile.
The Virginia Law says UVA is controlled by the General Assembly. Agree with Mr Speaker that thumbing your nose at the entity that controls your institution is not a smart way to kick off your new job
Anyone who takes this job from an illegitimate board made up of rejected board members will face a difficult environment in the General Assembly. UVA announces special committee to help select 10th president news.virginia.edu/content/uva-an…
Is this for real?
🚨Scoop: Former Congresswoman/UVA faculty member @Liz_Cheney is the current frontrunner to replace President @ProfJimRyan who resigned due to Trump admin.
Annoyed that Twitter got rid of the really lovely preview of the piece of art this whole piece is about. A good excuse to repost it
I wrote 3000 words about peasants, Cézanne, TJ Clark, and Patrick Joyce. And I started a blog, but mostly did so just to write this essay. Check it out. (link below)
U of Chicago is going to merge humanities departments and downscale its language offerings in part because...the institution spent too much money on construction projects. Its endowment: over $10 billion. Are there any leaders in higher ed who *want* to save the humanities?
The Division of the Arts & Humanities is considering consolidating its 15 departments into eight, reducing language instruction, and establishing minimum class and program sizes, citing new federal policies and shifts in the “underlying financial models” for higher education.
Pictures of starved children feature on the homepages of German newspapers. SPD calls for an arms embargo, Greens for a partial one. Hundreds of diplomats call for an end to Germany's unquestioning loyalty towards Israel. Something has shifted. But so, so little and so, so late.
Who sits on our Boards of Visitors? How can we influence our BoVs and exercise our share of university governance? We will address these questions and more on July 31 from 7-8:30pm on Zoom. Open to all, register here: zoom.us/meeting/regist…
Children of Men (2006), establishing shot
Officers are deployed at key points along the route as well as the form up point. There are additional officers in the vicinity of the counter protest. This week we have also distributed leaflets and deployed signage as a clear reminder about relevant offences.
Offices have since moved, but when I worked on the magazine side of NYRB in 2006-7, there was indeed a glorious closet filled with NYRB Classics
Is there a NYRB closet and can writers go in there and talk about what’s great and take it home
Over the past 150 years, the US built a university system that was the envy of the world. It made us a leader in research and science, helped shape global culture, and brought the world's brightest people to our door. It's now being dismantled with stunning speed, for nothing
I’m now hearing that the administration is proposing reducing the division to eight departments and also toying with the idea of eliminating and outsourcing language instruction. A rumor is also going around that doctoral admissions will be cancelled for next year.
Letter from 12 UVA deans to Board of Visitors goes unanswered for almost two weeks (from The Cavalier Daily) cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/0…
I wrote an idiosyncratic snapshot of the state of political theory. Basically, I don't think the study of decolonization grows out of postcolonial theory. It's the intellectual afterlife of the global financial crisis and the protest decade that followed. doi.org/10.1177/009059…