Prof Bob Davis
@Rokewood
Prof of Religious & Cultural Education, Univ of Glasgow. Arts, Humanities, football, birds. We’ve 3 sons—‘the crow makes wing to the rooky wood’—Tweets personal
On the seemingly ruinous 2025 moment in which we live. Walter Benjamin & the Angel of History. ‘Awaken the Dead’
Oh good! She can join Jezza in PartyMcPartyface bbc.com/news/articles/…
The team at @PuseyHouse will be hosting a full programme of conferences, colloquia and lectures in Michaelmas 2025. Here is a first look at our confirmed speakers for our 'Receiving Nicaea' conference on 12–13th November. puseyhouse.org.uk/receiving-nica…
I wonder if Tom Dolphin will be joining Jezza & the new Party McPartyface after that @BBCr4today performance
Echoing discussions we have had, gentlemen @tombennett71 @C_Hendrick ☺️😧
In a sparkling interaction at the other place with Prof Sonja Rimmer of UMass Amherst—on the latest brash techbro pitches to AI our university teaching—I remembered a discussion with our ESRC Digital Citizenship team where I referenced 1 of the great satires of our literature …
How long before the Trump Tariff Artillery is trained again on every country that does this & at new levels of intensity, trashing all the vaunted ‘trade deals’? bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx2l…
Some of my new book on early career is about the value of viewpoint integration, synthesizing opposites: Left-Right, Micro-Macro, Theory-Practice. Recently, I visited 3 influencers, Marx (economy), Weber (bureaucracy) & Hegel (synthesis). @Rokewood @rickhess99 @DianeRavitch
As Eric Morecambe used to say of talking nonsense, “It’s a gift.”
How to renew world order? My essay on why now is the time to learn crucial lessons of the long 20th century. @EngelsbergIdeas engelsbergideas.com/essays/how-to-…
Good. I hope he takes all his deluded pals—who helped take his last party to historic defeat, while his lifestyle remains untouched—with him into oblivion. Len McCluskey for Party Chair! bbc.com/news/articles/…
I am delighted to announce the establishment of the brand new C.S. Lewis Center @SterlingCLife. My first semester at Sterling has been a whirlwind (or should I say tornado..) but being appointed the Director of the Lewis Center here has been beyond any of my wildest imaginings.
I thought of this when I was in Grasmere last week. Such a place of pilgrimage. & in the heatwave too
Great things happening at The Friends of Coleridge, including a fresh website and ongoing open access to most articles in The Coleridge Bulletin.
I hope @IMcMillan heard this.
What an extraordinary @bbcproms @BBCRadio3 concert tonight bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…