David Wacks

Great news. The Department of Jewish Studies at McGill is looking to bring in a postdoc for 2027-2028 with a speciality in the pre-modern period. Let me know if you have any questions. Please spread the word. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

Rare example of a medieval scribe practicing Latin, Greek, and Hebrew on the same fragment. Any medievalists out there who can shed light on the style of the Latin characters? geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...

Here's a teaching unit on a 15th-c Danza de la Muerte in time for Día de los difuntos/Todos los santos/etc. openiberiaamerica.hcommons.org/2021/10/18/a...

Coming soon! #medievalsky brill.com/display/titl...

"The Department of #NearEastern Languages and Civilizations seeks a tenure-track or tenured professor specializing in #MedievaLIslam-ic Cultures and Societies, focusing on the medieval period (600-1500)." #ArabicStudies #IslamicStudies at Harvard #job 👇

My girlfriend pulled out her old copy of The Write Source and it immediately took me back to late elementary school when I'd carry around Write Source 2000 everywhere. I loved writing and I loved that book. Give me a new edition of this book, not AI in schools.

Birutė Ciplijauskaitė Fellowship (Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture) 27-28 U Wisconsin Madison (deadline Oct 22) irh.wisc.edu/irh-fellowsh...

Job: Associate Professor of Art and Architecture of the Medieval World at Johns Hopkins University #medievalsky

"Aimed at students, educators, librarians, and collectors, this volume explores..." This is not only atrocious but ludicrous (to be released jointly by @archumanities.bsky.social and, well, @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, i.e. #BusinesAsUsual).

CFP IX SIMPOSIO INTERNACIONAL DE LITERATURA Y CINE CSUDH, 25-27 de marzo de 2027 CSU Dominguez Hills (Los Angeles) "Trauma y terapia en la literatura y el cine en español" forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

"Will A.I. Make Your Brain Lazy? Here’s What the New Research Actually Shows" (NYT Oct 2, 2026). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Job Opening: Assistant Professor of Early Modern European Art History, College Park, Maryland #earlymodern

MAA News - CARA Call for Executive Committee Nominations The Medieval Academy of America’s Committee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA) invites nominations to fill one upcoming vacancies on its Executive Committee. CARA strives https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/?p=9967

Assistant or Associate Professor for the History of the Mediterranean and its Hinterlands, 500-1500 CE, University of California Berkeley aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05501

Job opening: Assistant Professor of Early Modern European Art, Brown University arthist.net/archive/54485

Hey here it is! The Speculative Detective Agency edited by Matthew David Goodwin and Ricjie Narvaez. I think my only mutuals on here that are in the book are @kjy1066.bsky.social and @theninagalaxy.bsky.social

ACMRS is hiring! We are seeking a program manager to join our ongoing Mellon Foundation-funded RaceB4Race initiative. Find the full position listing below and apply today! https://asu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ASUStaffCareers/job/Program-Manager_JR127481-1

My center is hiring an Assistant Director! We are looking for a humanities or social sciences PhD w/ admin experience to run undergrad research programs at UCLA. We are moving fast, so apply early! $87k salary, Dec start date, hybrid work sched, pretty okay boss (me) recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11365

Gente de Bsky. Buscamos colega en la Universidad de Chicago: tenure-track Assistant Professor in Modern Iberian Studies. Tenéis todavía margen para solicitar: el deadline es el 15 de octubre. EOE/Vet/Disability. Más info aquí: apply.interfolio.com/191615

Nicole T. Hughes (@ucirvine.bsky.social), «𝙈𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙖𝙨 𝙘𝙧𝙪𝙯𝙖𝙙𝙖𝙨: 𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙨 𝙙𝙚 #L𝙚𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙣 𝙡𝙖 #𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖 𝙙𝙚 Amér𝙞𝙘𝙖», 29 de septiembre, 13:00 horas México, Zoom: unam.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #EarlyModern #HistoriaIndiana #OttomanStudies

The Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position in the field of Early Islamic History, with a primary focus on the period ca. 600–1300 CE apply.interfolio.com/193875

‎Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic ‎Yom Kippur-related vocabulary ‎bdāl-ak בְּדַאלַכּ بدالك ‎‘my dear, please’ etc ‎Entirely Arabic vocab - literally ‘in place of you’ - its significance is Jewish. The speaker means that they will take accountability for the other person’s sins on Yom Kippur.

CFP: "Communities of Violence Revisited: Minorities, Sex, and Disease," IMC Leeds 2027. #jewishstudies #medievalsky mjsnow.hypotheses.org/22972

Talk by Jonathan Decter: "Jewish Thinking about Religion in the Islamic Middle Ages," The Jewish Studies Colloquium, Brandeis University, 29 September 2026. #jewishstudies #medievalsky mjsnow.hypotheses.org/22947

CFP VII Congreso Internacional e Interdisciplinar Del silencio a la palabra. Voces femeninas en la Historia y Cultura de España (Marzo 2027 Online)

Great opportunity for @pittprovost.bsky.social undergraduates to spend next summer in NYC, free housing, to do original research on any topic in #Jewishstudies using @columbiauniversity.bsky.social libraries and other collections. Use QR code to sign up info session. @mmargolis.bsky.social

[book review] gift link to my review of Anita Savo's 'Portraying authorship: Juan Manuel and the rhetoric of authority' (U Toronto Press 2024) www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VRA59...

[article] Mechele Leon, "By Means of Visitation: Tourism and Identity on Spain’s Sephardic Way” in the performance studies anthology Staging Visitation: Tourist Performances and Theatricalized Places. University of Michigan Press, 2026, pp. 19-36. 10.3998/mpub.12863389

Amherst College is looking for a Director of Public History and Engagement: networks.h-net.org/jobs/70277/a... 🗃️

The *very* last Blockbuster (Oviedo, Asturias, Spain)

No it does not

Back to school. ❤️

New job: Assistant Professor of Early Modern European Art and Architectural History in the World Brown University jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70237

Congratulations to Ronnie Perelis on this grant!

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

{New book} Shaping the Nation in Medieval Europe Edited by Éloïse Adde explores a fundamental problem of European historiography within a global context: the history of medieval nations and the question of their relationship to modern nation-states. www.arc-humanities.org/978180270424...

[open access book] *Libro de citas de Ramon Llull*, ed. Julia Butiñá Jiménez and Antonio Cortijo Ocaña www.peterlang.com/document/171...

📢📢📢 We are hiring! 📢📢📢 The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at UChicago invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Modern Iberian Studies, with an expected start date of July 1, 2027, or as soon as possible thereafter. EOE/Vet/Disability. 1/2

3 postdoctoral fellowships (1–2 years) at IAS Princeton, School for Historical Studies (Islamic World focus). PhD awarded 1 Jul 2024–31 Aug 2026. 1 position in Medieval Studies; 2 in Europe & the World post-1800. tinyurl.com/3zxzu8sd

A few things: (1) AI should not be used to assist writing. Cognitive outsourcing is bad. (2) The college essay is on the decline because of labor as much as AI. Learning to write well requires a lot of personal contact which neoliberal logics of higher ed work against www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...