Laure Stevens-Lubin's new series, "After Audubon: Abiding in the Anthropocene" bears witness to avian efforts to make a home in denatured environments tinyurl.com/afteraudubon#audubon#birds#environment#arts#artistonX#anthropocene#speciesunderthreat

I enjoyed talking with Babita Basnet on religion and law in Nepal's history and culture: youtube.com/watch?v=C3_L...#Nepal#lawandreligion#Hinduism

जसले अमेरिकामा हिन्दु धर्म र मुलुकी ऐन पढाउँछन...In conversation With Prof. Timothy Lubin

प्राध्यापक टिमोथी लुबिन अमेरिका स्थित वाशिंटन एण्ड ली युनिभर्सिटीमा संस्कृत, हिन्दु धर्म, धर्म शास्त्र तथा कानून पढाउनुहुन्छ । संस्कृतमा धारा प्रबाह बोल्ने र...

Great new article by Nathan Dean poses (and answers) the question, "Does Richard Rorty have ‘anything to say to blacks’?" by reading him in light of Derrick Bell: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...#publiclaw#politicaltheory#race

A mind-boggling decision at Harvard to undermine a stellar translation series of classical Indian lit, by dissolving the entire editorial team on opaque grounds

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Murty Classical Library of India drama continues.

Looking forward to my talk at U.Mich. this month, "The Exemption that Proves the Rule: Reading Law Between the Lines of Medieval South Asian Foundation Charters," in honor of the superb historian Tom Trautmann. ii.umich.edu/csas/news-ev...#legalhistory#ancientlaw#lawandreligion#southasianhistory

This is the country that Tucker Carlson is claiming is better and more democratic than the US. One where dissidents are poisoned in attempted murders, then arrested on trumped up charges, then die in work camps north of the Arctic Circle. (1/) www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...

Russian activist and Putin critic Alexei Navalny dies in prison

Opposition leader, 47, was being held in jail about 40 miles north of Arctic Circle

Tremendously good value for your tax dollars! The NEH helping to fund the historical knowledge and technology-driven innovation at the same time! #NEH#AI#ancient#history#philology#vesuvius

Read how NEH-supported AI technologies at Univ of Kentucky are helping to crack one of archaeology’s most famous mysteries: www.neh.gov/news/student...

Students Decipher 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scrolls

Just heard my WLU colleague George Bent present his groundbreaking project florenceasitwas.wlu.edu#DH#medieval#history

Here we were talking about the project almost 3 years ago in a Cambridge conference on "Decolonising Archives": www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhg_...#ancientlaw#legalhistory#romanlaw#hindulaw