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Kristin Kobes Du Mez new book on the subculture of white Christian women
Quick Read Kristin Kobes Du Mez wrote her last book about the politics of evangelical hypermasculinity. This book…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/us/873105/
Kristin Du Mez writes, "Regardless of the ultimate goal, the intermediate steps are the same: weaken modern liberal nation states, secure access to resources, and use any means necessary to gain the votes needed to seize and keep power, until votes are no longer required." https://kakistocracyreport.substack.com/p/the-kakistocracy-report-1062026
For today's #inktober drawing, I felt like drawing ladybugs. So I did.
Here's an in-progress shot. The rest, and all of this month's drawings so far, now posted for my supporters on Patreon and Ko-fi: https://www.patreon.com/KristinHenry/posts/inkydays-october-171146353
https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-October-2026-Inktober-X1K1280QU3
Kristina Shcherbinina (Liya Silver) photographed by Murbo #Sexy #Erotic #Nude #NudeArt #FemaleBeauty
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https://www.europesays.com/no/376467/ Kristine Riis avslører ny kjæreste: – Kjempeglad for at jeg møtte ham #eksklusivt #Entertainment #JonNiklasRønning #kjendis #KristineRiis #NO #Norge #Norway #Underholdning
Our penultimate #MAMG26 panel has three papers on Nostalgia and presentism. We start with Kristina Wittkamp, discussing the binary of feminine hearth and masculine warrior identity in game reflections of medieval Rus: https://middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg26/between-the-hearth-and-the-kremlin-nostalgic-entanglements-gender-affect-and-materiality-in-digital-depictions-of-medieval-rus/
https://www.kpopnsfw.com/326682/261006-wonyoung-harpers-bazaar-korea-x-hapa-kristin-special-advertorial-preview/ 261006 Wonyoung – Harper’s BAZAAR Korea x Hapa Kristin (Special Advertorial Preview) #AnYuJin #AnYujin #gaeul #ive #JangWonYoung #JangWonyoung #LEESEO #liz #REI
One is too many:
https://projects.propublica.org/american-citizens-detained-dhs-civil-rights/
#dhs #cbp #ice #fuckice #tomhoman #markwaynemullin #kristinoem #chingalamigra #policebrutality #trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #fascism #maga #magarepublicans #farright #conservatism #trumpcrimefamily #trump #donalvonshitsinpants #oligarchy #broligarchy #aristocracy #kakistocracy #plutocracy #treason #traitor #criminal #crime #corrupt #corruption #news #usnews #policy #politics #uspol #uspolitics #history #ushistory
https://www.europesays.com/no/375749/ Marit Bjørgen om Kristine Stavås Skistads brudd med treneren: – Hun har det tøft #JulieBjervigDrivenes #KristinAustgulenFosnæs #KristineStavåsSkistad #Langrenn #MaritBjørgen #NO #Norge #Norway #Sport #Sports
When #AI Knows Everything, What Should Humans Learn? | Kristina Kallas | TEDxUniversity of Tartu
https://youtu.be/44St9MoJU0E?is=Qdx74ogpZAOF8MzA
#education #teaching #learning
> "Our chance for an evolutionary leap is to consciously train as many people as possible to be constantly in the flow of higher cognitive processes." Kristina...
https://www.europesays.com/ee/290675/ „Lihtsalt ei jõua seda kõike teha.“ Kristina Kallas otsib Eesti 200-le uut juhti – Eesti Ekspress #AlekseiJašin #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #EE #Eesti #Eesti200 #EestiKeel #Estonia #Estonian #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #HendrikTerras #KristinaKallas #LatestNews #LatestNews #News #PopulaarseimadLood #rohelised #TopStories #TopStories #ÜldisedUudised #Uudised #ViimasedUudised
https://www.europesays.com/lv/311986/ TV ekrānos būs skatāms pikantais latviešu seriāls “Mīļākās” #ElīnaBojarkina #Entertainment #Izklaide #KristīnaZaharova #Latvia #Latvian #Latviešu #LatviešuValoda #LatviešuValoda #Latvija #LeldeDreimane #LV #MalgožataApse #mīļākās
There's more D&D-inspired quests on the way! What happens when Divine's powers change during the winter festival? Find out in Tea Tale, by Kristina W. Kelly!
#fantasy #DnD #romance #sapphic
https://www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com/book/tea-tale
🇬🇧🇦🇲 Arrancó en Ereván el Foro Empresarial Armenia-Reino Unido: buscan dinamizar inversiones, educación y comercio bilateral. 📈 #AlexanderShaghikyan #AlexandraCole #anahit #armenia #CiudadAcadémica #ereván #KristinaTataryan #ReinoUnido #ZhannaAndreasyan https://soyarmenio.com/foro-empresarial-armenia-reino-unido-erevan-2026-2/
White Gold to Make UK Premiere at Camden People’s Theatre This Autumn
Award-winning Luxembourg performance-maker Larisa Faber will bring her multidisciplinary production White Gold to Camden People…
#London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Camden #CamdenPeople’sTheatre #CatherineKontz #ChristianeEiffes #JosieDale-Jones #KristinWinters #LarisaFaber #LucasFréchin #SarahMunro #ShamiraTurner #SimoneMousset #WhiteGold
https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/35557/
📣 10 novembre, 14h-17h30 : « La contraception aujourd'hui », demi-journée d'échanges du CNS
Table ronde n°1 « Les pratiques contraceptives » avec Cécile Thomé (sociologue, CNRS), Kristina Kirishanth (conseillère conjugale et familiale) et Olivier Marpeau (gynécologue, créateur de contenus).
📩 Gratuit, sur inscription : [email protected]
https://www.europesays.com/no/376321/ Heidi Weng etter full svikt i samlingsopplegget til landslaget: – Tror aldri vi får oppleve det igjen #HeidiWeng #KarolineGrøtting #KarolineSimpsonLarsen #KristinAustgulenFosnæs #Langrenn #MaritBjørgen #NO #Norge #NorgesSkiforbund #Norway #SjurOleSvarstad #Sport #Sports #Vintersport
ZDF-Familiendrama spielt im Wendland
„Das verschwundene Kind" wurde rund um Hitzacker und Neu Darchau gedreht. Es ist die Adaption des Romans "Unter Wasser Nacht" von Kristina Hauff
€ https://www.ejz.de/lokales/zdf-familiendrama-spielt-wendland-id544799.html?utm_source=mastodon
‘We’re not going to go away’: the mom fighting for social media reform after her son’s suicide
By Vivian Ho
A new documentary follows Kristin Bride as she takes on Congress after the death of her 16-year-old son who was cyberbullied
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/06/your-attention-please-documentary
#Documentaryfilms #Film #Culture #Socialmedia #Facebook #Meta #Digitalmedia #Socialnetworking #Technology #TikTok #TheGuardian #VivianHo
https://www.usluck.com/912968/johann-kristinn-petursson-the-viking-giant-carrying-a-young-girl-at-a-circus-event-circa-1950s-he-stood-7-feet-8-inches-tall-and-was-beloved-by-children/ Jóhann Kristinn Pétursson, the ‘Viking Giant,’ carrying a young girl at a circus event, circa 1950s. He stood 7 feet 8 inches tall and was beloved by children. #OldSchool #OldSchoolCool
Stop pretending that "representation" is a virtue. Imagine the sheer "empowerment" of a world managed by #HillaryClinton, #CondoleezzaRice, #MadeleineAlbright, #KamalaHarris, #MargaretThatcher, #KristiNoem, #MarjorieTaylorGreene, and #SusanCollins—the corrupt congressman who paved the way for #BrettKavanaugh. If you're clinging to the delusion that gender = morality, just remember that #GhislaineMaxwell facilitated #jeffreyepstein It's not about #believingallwomen. It's about believing evidence.
696 Teilnehmende beim Westenergie Distanz Duell in Wülfrath – Gemeinsam laufen, gemeinsam wachsen
Benjamin Wollny, Kristin Koplin-Drach vom Gymnasium Wülfrath, Bürgermeister Sebastian Schorn, Schulleiter Jörg Masuch und Judith Meuter von Westenergie…
#Wuppertal #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Germany #Nordrhein-Westfalen
https://www.europesays.com/de/1334867/
What happens when the side quest becomes the main quest? Find out in the sapphic romance, Tavern Tale, by Kristina W. Kelly!
#fantasy #DnD #romance #sapphic
https://www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com/book/tavern-tale
https://www.europesays.com/es/802728/ La razón por la que Sarah Jessica Parker no se pone la ropa de Carrie Bradshaw en ‘Sexo en Nueva York’ | Gente #cable #celebrity #ComedySeries #CynthiaNixon #Entertainment #Entretenimiento #ES #España #KimCattrall #KristinDavis #MiniDress #SarahJessicaParker #Spain #TV
#NFDI4Objects ist auf der #Herbsttagung der FG Dokumentation des #DMB am Zuse Institut Berlin. Themenschwerpunkte sind #Vokabulare und interdisziplinäre Ansätze zur wissenschaftlichen #Dokumentation. Kristina Fischer stellt heute das Metadatenschema für #Konservierung und #Restaurierung vor, @fthierygeo spricht über Orte ohne #NormdatenSatz, und den Einsatz von #Wikidata als #Normdatenhub. @anja_g_werder wird morgen die Publikation #FAIRe #Vokabulare der AG #Minimaldatensatz vorstellen.
https://www.europesays.com/sk/196616/ Veľké tajomstvo športovej moderátorky: Má 6-ročného syna! O materstve doteraz mlčala #dieťa #KristínaKucianová #SK #Slovak #Slovakia #Slovenčina #Slovensko #Šport #Sports #stvr #syn
DATE: October 6, 2026 at 08:00AM
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TITLE: Parents of transgender youth faced declining mental health after the 2025 inauguration
A recent study found that parents of transgender youth experienced worsening mental health and well-being following the 2025 United States presidential inauguration compared to parents of cisgender youth. The research highlights the immediate emotional toll that shifting political climates and federal policy changes can take on the family members of marginalized groups. The study was published in Psychological Science.
Following the 2025 presidential inauguration, the new federal administration issued several executive orders aimed at transgender youth. These orders sought to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors, penalize schools that support transgender students, and restrict transgender girls from competing on gender-aligned sports teams.
Prior research has established that such macrolevel policies can act as institutional signals. These signals communicate how broader society views specific groups, which can influence the well-being of those targeted and their families. Policies limiting self-expression and resources contribute to minority stress, a framework explaining how marginalized groups experience worse well-being due to societal hostility.
Researchers wanted to understand how this specific political shift affected both transgender adolescents and their supportive parents. The research team was led by psychologist Rachel A. Leshin of Princeton University, along with Aditi Kodipady, Grey F. Raber, Natalie M. Gallagher, and Kristina R. Olson. They designed a study to compare the mental health trajectories of transgender youth and their parents against a similarly situated group of cisgender youth and their parents.
The researchers tracked 160 youth between the ages of 12 and 17, as well as 167 parents. Within this group, 73 of the youth identified as transgender or nonbinary, and 87 identified as cisgender. The participants were drawn from larger, ongoing longitudinal studies of gender development across the United States.
The families involved in the research were predominantly white, highly educated, and high-income. Because both groups of parents skewed politically liberal, the study offered a controlled comparison. It allowed researchers to differentiate between general frustration with the new administration and distress specifically tied to raising a transgender child in a hostile political environment.
In their primary analysis, the researchers compared mental health data collected annually between 2022 and 2024 to weekly data collected in the seven weeks following the January 2025 inauguration. Youth and parents completed separate self-report surveys measuring depression, anxiety, and positive emotional states. Participants rated how frequently they experienced specific symptoms, such as being unable to stop feeling sad or worrying at bedtime, over the previous seven days.
The researchers observed widening gaps in mental health between the two groups of parents. Before the election, parents of transgender youth and parents of cisgender youth reported similar levels of depression and positive emotions. After the inauguration, parents of transgender youth reported higher levels of depression and lower positive emotions than their counterparts.
Anxiety levels also diverged. While parents of transgender youth reported higher anxiety than parents of cisgender youth before the election, this gap more than doubled in size after the inauguration. To ensure these differences were not just reflecting voting behavior or a parent’s own gender identity, the researchers ran additional analyses. The patterns remained the same when excluding the small number of parents who voted for the current president or who identified as transgender or gender-diverse themselves.
The team also conducted a secondary analysis tracking participants continuously over an eight-week period surrounding the inauguration. They found that parents of transgender youth experienced steady linear increases in anxiety and depression throughout this window. In contrast, parents of cisgender youth showed no consistent changes in these measures.
To understand why parents experienced these outcomes, the researchers analyzed weekly measures of parental worry and perceived social support. Their exploratory analyses suggested that elevated worry for their children may help explain the differing mental health outcomes between the two parent groups, though the researchers noted the causal direction could not be definitively established. Perceived social support did not differ between the groups and did not explain the results. Both groups reported high levels of social support, indicating that community backing was not enough to offset the distress caused by the new political landscape.
The researchers also examined the mental health of the youth themselves. In the primary comparison between pre-election and post-inauguration periods, the differences in well-being between transgender and cisgender youth were subtle and not statistically significant in most models. Transgender youth showed a drop in positive emotions after the inauguration. However, the mental health trajectories of the two youth groups largely diverged only in anxiety. During the post-election period, cisgender youths’ anxiety lessened, while transgender youths’ anxiety remained stable.
To explore why the mental health declines were more prominent in parents than in the youth, the researchers analyzed open-ended survey responses. Two independent reviewers, blinded to the participants’ demographics, coded these responses. They found that parents of transgender youth were much more likely to explicitly mention transgender issues and express severe negative emotions than the transgender youth were. Some parents shared statements like, “I have cried almost every day this past week,” and “Every week is a new wave of fear, frustration, and utter disbelief.”
The authors suggest that parents often anticipate long-term threats more acutely than adolescents do. At the time of the surveys, the executive orders targeting transgender youth had largely been blocked by federal judges and had not yet altered daily life for most participants. The youth might not have felt the immediate impact, whereas their parents were already processing the institutional signals and preparing for potential future consequences.
The study focused on a specific demographic of liberal-leaning, supportive parents. Parents who hold different political beliefs or who do not support their child’s transgender identity might not experience the same mental health changes. Research involving more politically, racially, and socioeconomically diverse families is necessary to see if these patterns hold across the broader population.
The number of participants involved also limits how broadly the conclusions can be applied. The group differences observed among the youth were small and less consistent than those among the parents. Further research with larger groups of adolescents is required to track how federal policies affect the long-term mental health of transgender youth. Future studies could also track whether the deteriorating mental health of supportive parents eventually impacts the well-being of their children over time.
The study, “Reduced Mental Health and Well-Being in Parents of Transgender Youth Following the 2025 U.S. Presidential Inauguration,” was authored by Rachel A. Leshin, Aditi Kodipady, Grey F. Raber, Natalie M. Gallagher, and Kristina R. Olson.
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Some talks from EABS and NACAL
Today’s deal: 2-for-1 on conference reports.
European Association for Biblical Studies Annual Conference, 20-23 July 2026, Leuven
This was my first time visiting this conference, prompted by co-chairing (with Nili Samet) the new research unit Biblical Hebrew Language and Linguistics. This research unit will return for next year’s EABS in London (CfP to go public by the end of October). For those who are already interested in submitting an abstract:
The Biblical Hebrew Language and Linguistics research unit invites submissions for the 2027 London meeting in two areas:
- An open session (or several open sessions) exploring Biblical Hebrew, broadly defined, from both traditional and innovative research perspectives. This includes various methodologies such as classical philology, linguistic analyses informed by both established and up-and-coming linguistic theories, emerging digital research methods, and others.
- A special session focused on non-Tiberian traditions of Biblical Hebrew, whether attested in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, or the Modern period.
For all sessions, we especially encourage young researchers to present their work in progress or recent findings and are open to dedicated panels on the topic of ongoing research projects within the field of Biblical Hebrew. Abstracts should clearly state the presentation’s research question, (anticipated) conclusion, and relevance.
Revisiting Leuven for this year’s edition was a lot of fun and I think our first BHLL sessions went very well. At some point after getting back, however, I lost the little notebook I brought to the talks. So here are some vague recollections, going by the programme.
Entrance to the opening receptionKristin Weingart (LMU Munich) talked about the sources for royal reigns mentioned in Kings and Chronicles. She plausibly distinguished between “real, reconstructed, and imagined sources”. The book of Kings’ “Chronicles of the Kings of Israel/Judah” etc. probably refers to historically real documents. The “Book of the Acts of Solomon” (1 Kgs 11:41), however, stands out and was probably made up or inferred by a later writer as the source behind the data on Solomon’s reign. The biblical book of Chronicles, in turn, cites all kinds of sources like “the miḏrāš of the Prophet Iddo” that are probably not real and may have been motivated by the Greek tradition of sources-based historiography. I actually wonder whether this use of miḏrāš (from d-r-š ‘to seek, investigate’) is a calque of Greek ἱστορία.
KU Leuven university library on Belgian National Day (July 21st)Na’ama Pat-El (UT Austin) elaborated on her idea that the *-t- in some BH weak verb infinitives is historically unrelated to the feminine suffix. Historically I’m not sure, but she presents very compelling evidence that at least synchronically it’s not a feminine marker.
Tania Notarius (University of the Free State/Polis Institute) argued that the Ugaritic function of ṯʿy-priest, held by the most important scribe of the preserved Ugaritic corpus (Ilimilku), was related to the cult of the rpu͗m (Rephaim).
Svenja Lueg (VU Amsterdam), who unfortunately couldn’t make it in person, talked about differential object marking with ditransitive verbs, an underexplored part of BH syntax.
Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge) presented on the question of narrative yiqṭol and weqaṭal in BH.
Raanan Eichler (Bar-Ilan University), also online, showed that the ləḇīḇōṯ that Amnon had Tamar prepare him probably derive their name from lēḇ in the sense of ‘(female) chest’ and were most likely intended as suggestively breast-shaped dumplings.
Finally got a chance to visit Leuven’s iconic Domus brewery/restaurant; good to get some closure on that but the food and drink were unremarkableThe last morning saw our special session on new advances in linguistic periodization of BH:
Aaron Hornkohl (University of Cambridge) continued the debate over the validity of linguistic periodization, especially (if I recall correctly) in light of his own recent work.
I presented a case study of a method developed by Chiara Bozzone to employ Homeric formulas for dating purposes and whether it can be applied to BH, using the example of a certain formula in the Holiness Code (H) and (arguably) post-H texts.
John Screnock (University of Oxford) highlighted some statistical arguments against the periodization model that emerge from a full consideration of the data.
Natascha Grabowsky (Technical University Dortmund) examined the distribution of different year-dating formulas and the possible implications for the dating of the relevant texts.
Harald Samuel (University of Tübingen), also on the sceptical side, noted some changes that don’t behave neatly and ways in which the complicated history of redaction and vocalization plays tricks on us.
Finally, Nili Samet (Bar-Ilan University) presented some of the same kind of complex changes and, among other things, introduced what I think she called the Late Spelling Paradox: increasing plene spelling in Late Biblical Hebrew sometimes disambiguates archaic forms that could be plastered over by the reading tradition in earlier texts where they were spelled defectively. As a result, sometimes archaic features seem to increase in frequency in late texts, if you identify them based on the vocalized Masoretic Text.
And beyond our research unit, I enjoyed the last talk of the conference (one of several in parallel) by Innocent Himbaza (University of Fribourg), who suggested that Psalm 37 is half early and half late, with late additions alternating with parts of the early base text.
49th North Atlantic Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, 30 September-2 October 2026, Paris
Probably my favourite conference, which I hadn’t attended since covid, in one of my favourite cities, let’s gooo
Lots and lots of interesting talks and conversations here, but for the sake of brevity I’m just going to mention the ones I took notes on and my own.
Remember Edith Piaf? This is her now. Feel old yet?The talks were off to a strong start with Simon Korneev‘s (University of Cambridge) argument for epiglottal, rather than pharyngeal consonants in Semitic. This can explain the vowel fronting effects they cause in various languages and traditions. Handy rule of thumb for identification in the field: “If it sounds like Louis Armstrong, it’s probably epiglottal.”
Maarten Kossmann (Leiden University) compared the consonantal phonemes of two corpora of Eastern Libyco-Berber inscriptions to his reconstruction of Proto-Berber (Proto-Amazigh) and found that the represented LB is neither an ancestor nor a descendant of Proto-Berber, but likely a sister language. We miiight be able to make it ancestral to PB if we assume they didn’t write glottal stops (realized as creaky voice or some other suprasegmental feature on the vowel?).
Lior Laks, also presenting on behalf of Maha Nassar (both Bar-Ilan University) presented their research into Western European (especially English) loanwords into Palestinian Arabic as seen online and tried to explain why you sometimes get doublets like kōran vs. tkōran ‘to get covid’. The availability and productivity of periphrastic alternatives (e.g. axad dūš ‘to take a shower’ competing with tdawwaš) plays a large part in explaining how loanwords are adapted.
Korneev citing Al-Jallad under the latter’s imperious gazeMatthew Morgenstern (Tel Aviv University) presented a talk he had wanted to give at our DOT workshop on Semitic reading traditions, speaking on Mandaic. Looking at spelling, it’s important to note that published Mandaic texts are almost all from manuscripts that postdate the 16th century CE. The earlier (5th-7th c. CE), magical texts often show more conservative from an Aramaic perspective, defective spelling. But interestingly, what is now identified as the ancestor of the Mandaic script, that of Elymaean Aramaic (early 2nd-early 3rd c. CE), already has widespread plene spellings of word-internal long a. So this was not a Mandaic innovation. In other ways, the Mandean tradition, which never developed a full vocalization system, largely relied on oral transmission of how to pronounce the texts. Only after the disastrous cholera epidemic of 1831 was this partially supported by Arabic transcriptions.
Mila Neishtadt (recently Tel Aviv University) very deftly combined two earlier ideas and lots of data on the representation of Aramaic š as either š or s in Arabic place names. In a nutshell, earlier borrowing gives s (as expected) and later borrowing gives š, with the geographic distribution (mostly š in Lebanon and the Galilee) resulting from mountain villages sticking to Aramaic for longer.
Julien Dufour (École normale supérieure) presented some very compelling but hard to interpret evidence that Modern South Arabian derived verbs used to have a voiceless consonant prefix wherever Arabic and Akkadian have u prefix vowels, notably in the D-stem as well as the C-stem. Dufour suggests these are ultimately all the same prefix, but that the one on the D-stem (and some other places) was already partially lenited in Proto-Semitic. Full, detailed handout presumably forthcoming on his Academia page.
I presented my ongoing work on reconstructing the North Semitic letter names as part of our alphabet project. Lots of great feedback on traditions I had missed and questionable steps in my argumentation.
Ahmad Al-Jallad (Ohio State University) and Alessia Prioletta (CNRS) argued that the Ge’ez script does not descend from Ancient South Arabian but is just one member of the larger South Semitic script family, closer in some ways to various Ancient North Arabian varieties (which just means everything apart from Ancient South Arabian). Only took them two slides to flip me from very sceptical to fully convinced. (Ahmad is giving a related talk in Leiden in two weeks, details upon request.)
Enam al-Wer‘s (University of Essex) keynote address gave an overview of the sociolinguistic research into Arabic conducted by her and her students over the past decades. One interesting coincidence that stood out to me is that the border between what they call Horani and Mu’abi dialects in Jordan pretty much aligns with the Moabite border before Mesha’s revolt, which was not the Arnon. I don’t think there’s a direct historical connection, but I wonder what in the landscape there makes Wadi al-Hedan (pronunciation corrected by Prof. al-Wer) a more natural border than Wadi Mujib.
Got jumpscared by Notre-Dame walking back from the conference dinnerHugo Cartwright (independent researcher) kindly provided a talk to fill a gap in the program, presenting his computational research on alphabetic orders in abjads. You can check out his work at www.abjads.org.
Maarten Mous (Leiden University) and five not physically present co-authors presented a big finding from the Cushitic realm. The Mbugu people of Tanzania speak both “Normal Mbugu”, a not very exciting Bantu language, and “Inner Mbugu”, which has large-scale lexical replacement and is often cited as a mixed language. Mous et al. now find that the most archaic layer of the Inner Mbugu lexicon is closely related to Dahalo, the phonologically very exotic (East? South? Narrow?) Cushitic language spoken by a hunter-gatherer group in Kenya. They posit that a now extinct “Old Dahaloan” language, spoken by pastoralists, provided both the core Inner Mbugu lexicon and the target of shift for the ancestors of the present-day Dahalo, who quite probably originally spoke some other language.
Finally, Massinissa Garaoun (CNRS) presented an in-depth investigation of the toponymy of the Canary Islands. By connecting features in the landscape to Amazigh words for body parts, he was able to show to the full satisfaction of those audience members who know what they are talking about that they are etymologically Amazigh (Berber), not para-Berber or something else.
Greatly enjoyable as both of these conferences were, they will also remain linked in my memory to the passing of three individuals. Hector Patmore, one of the organisers of the Leuven EABS meeting, tragically and suddenly passed away on 13 September 2026; see In Memoriams here. Harry Stroomer, Leiden University professor emeritus of Afro-Asiatic languages and cultures, died on 19 July 2026 (In Memoriam here); NACAL opened with a presentation in his memory by Marijn van Putten (Leiden University). Furthermore, Marijn’s own talk (on the apparently irregular preservation of a verbal noun prefix in Berber) was based in part on comments made by, and formally co-presented with, brilliant NACAL-goer Adam Strich (Harvard University), who died on 10 January 2019. זֵכֶר צַדִּיק לִבְרָכָה (Proverbs 10:7).
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