#public-scholarship — Public Fediverse posts

📝 Excited to share that new articles from the Journal of the Council for Research on Religion (JCREOR), Vol. 7 No. 1 (2026), Sources of Religious Nationalism, will be rolling out over the coming weeks. We begin this week with two outstanding essays by Muhammad Afdillah and Mohammad Meerzaei.

https://creor-ejournal.library.mcgill.ca/issue/view/17

#acrel, #AARSBL, #SBLAAR

#ReligiousStudies #ReligionAndPolitics #ReligiousNationalism #AcademicPublishing #JCREOR #PublicScholarship #HigherEducation #InterdisciplinaryResearch

Excited to share that new articles from the Journal of the Council for Research on Religion (JCREOR), Vol. 7 No. 1 (2026), Sources of Religious Nationalism, will be rolling out over the coming weeks. We begin this week with two outstanding essays by Muhammad Afdillah and Mohammad Meerzaei.

https://creor-ejournal.library.mcgill.ca/issue/view/17

#acrel, #AARSBL, #SBLAAR

#ReligiousStudies #ReligionAndPolitics #ReligiousNationalism #AcademicPublishing #JCREOR #PublicScholarship #HigherEducation #InterdisciplinaryResearch

Excited to share that new articles from the Journal of the Council for Research on Religion (JCREOR), Vol. 7 No. 1 (2026), Sources of Religious Nationalism, will be rolling out over the coming weeks. We begin this week with two outstanding essays by Muhammad Afdillah and Mohammad Meerzaei.

https://creor-ejournal.library.mcgill.ca/issue/view/17

#acrel, #AARSBL, #SBLAAR

#ReligiousStudies #ReligionAndPolitics #ReligiousNationalism #AcademicPublishing #JCREOR #PublicScholarship #HigherEducation #InterdisciplinaryResearch

Why I don’t like recording events

I was asked earlier why I don’t like recording events and realised I’d never actually written it down. There are a few reasons I feel increasingly strongly about this:

• We have started to record academic events by default and I think that is fundamentally problematic in principle
• There’s an assumption that the ease with which we can record online events means we should record them and I just don’t get why that is
• There’s a fundamental value in the academic event as something that brings people together synchronously which recording undercuts
• The biggest problem with online events is passive engagement and (automatic) recording of them fits into that structure
• The quality of engagement should be more important than the quantity in most cases. What matters is how richly a core audience engages and there are trade offs which we need to recognise.
• Recording undermines the space for intellectual improvisation and risk taking
• The evidence I’ve seen (as someone who ran a lot of academic social media for a long time) is that engagement rates with event recording is very slow.
• My hunch is that the request for a recording often tracks a fear of missing out as much as it does a deliberate intention to engage with the recording

I’m not saying never record events. Clearly this serves a purpose in some cases. But we should only record events when we are clear about the rationale for doing so.

#academicEvents #conferences #digitalScholarship #onlineVideo #publicScholarship #seminars #socialMediaForAcademics #workshops #zoom

Episode 5 of Gender Sex and Tech is out today!!

https://gendersextech.opened.ca/podcast/season-two-episode-four-interview-with-dr-alex-ketchum/

In this episode, Jill interviews Dr. Alex Ketchum about her open-access book Engage in Public Scholarship! We discuss both the academic and social challenges that exist for scholars who wish to engage in public scholarship. Lastly, Dr. Ketchum tells us why it is so vital for scholars and institutions to start prioritizing public scholarship now

#academicpodcast #publicscholarship
#feminism

Thanks to Rodrigo at Cogitatio for inviting me onto the "Let's Talk About" podcast to talk about my recent article "Radical Solidarities in Punk and Queer Refusals of Safety and Inclusion Narratives in Planning" in Urban Planning journal.

#podcast #OpenAccess #PublicScholarship #punk #Ottawa #SpatialJustice #UrbanPlanning #gentrification #placemaking #MusicCities #CulturalRevitalization

https://www.cogitatiopress.com/wp/lta/safe-spaces-punks-radical-take-on-inclusion

A thoroughly enjoyable afternoon running a media workshop with #Criminology academics and PhDs, with Prof Ali Fraser (University of Glasgow).

Ali's work for broadcast media is so poetic and sociologically superb.

Thanks to our colleagues who were good sports at giving our briefs a go! A space for discussion with refreshing honesty, wise warnings, reflection, helpful practical tips, and lots of encouragement.
#Media #News #communications #academia #academicchatter #publicscholarship #Scotland

#PublicScholarship should challenge academic standards.

IMHO the whole "I argue" statements are there to measure an individual's "contribution" for the purpose of career advancement not knowledge advancement. Not to mention, there for a lazy reader who just wants to skim am article to find the central arguments without engaging with the full text.

Interesting. BF (not an academic but avid reader) is reading a book:
- on a topic he is interested in
- on a topic he is knowledgeable about
- written by an academic
- published by public-facing but semi-academic press

His reaction: "I hate all the 'I propose' 'I argue' 'I will show.' Just do it."

I don't disagree. They're part of the #HiddenCurriculum code to "proper" #AcademicWriting that I haven't cracked and get called out on by reviewers = #Jargon

#AcademicPublishing #PublicScholarship

@leonido @netzpolitik_feed

CC #WissKomm #PublicScholarship #ScholCom

Thanks to our wonderful #DigitalHumanities students for sharing their work and to the community members who came to support them and learn about their community-engaged projects! What a great way to wrap up and reflect on a busy semester in IRIS.

https://www.siue.edu/news/2022/12/StudentsDisplayInnovativeWorkatDigitalHumanitiesShowcase.shtml

#DHPedagogy #DHShowcase #LocalHistory #CommunityCollaboration #CommunityEngagement #PublicHistory #PublicScholarship #Edwardsville #Alton #Histodons @histodons @digitalhumanities

"Forget Me Not: Recognizing and Remembering in Medieval Romance" by Mikayla Hunter is beginning soon! It's free and not too late to register, but this is your last chance!

#medieval #PublicScholarship #MiddleAges

https://clockworksacademy.com/mikayla-hunter

This talk by Mikayla Hunter was really great! It will be repeated at 2100 GMT with a live Q&A to follow, and you should definitely come if you can!

It's free and not too late to register!

#medieval #PublicScholarship #MiddleAges​

https://clockworksacademy.com/mikayla-hunter​

"Forget Me Not: Recognizing and Remembering in Medieval Romance" by Mikayla Hunter is beginning soon! It's free and not too late to register!

#medieval #PublicScholarship #MiddleAges

https://clockworksacademy.com/mikayla-hunter

Tomorrow at 1500 GMT, Mikayla Hunter will give the last talk of this Symbolic Symposium! This talk will be about recognition and seeing through disguises in medieval romances. I'm really looking forward to it!

You can join us free, or if you're so inclined (and genuinely, no pressure) donate something to help fund the project!

#medieval #literature #PublicScholarship

https://clockworksacademy.com/mikayla-hunter

The Symbolic Symposium: Seems Familiar begins THIS FRIDAY! It's going to be a blast!

Four talks on disguise in literature and folklore, from superhero secret identities and Japanese shapeshifters to medieval romance and forgetful knights. Come to all or just your favourites!

Please tell your friends!

All talks are free and pitched toward a general audience.

#literature #folklore #superheroes #japan #comics #medieval #PublicScholarship

https://clockworksacademy.com/events

On December 4 come hear Dr Mikayla Hunter give a talk about disguises and recognition in medieval romances!

All Symbolic Symposium talks are free and pitched toward a general audience.

#medieval #literature #MiddleAges #PublicScholarship

https://clockworksacademy.com/mikayla-hunter

On December 2-4 come hear talks about disguise and recognition! Run Gu will kick things off on Friday the 2nd with a talk about shapeshifting in Japanese culture!

All Symbolic Symposium talks are fully online and free to attend.

#japan #JapaneseFolklore #anime #shapeshifter #publicscholarship

https://clockworksacademy.com/run-gu

On December 3 come hear my talk about recognition in Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur! Nobody ever knows who anyone else is in that book. What's up with that?

This talk is free, and pitched for a general audience!

#medieval #KingArthur #literature #publicscholarship

https://clockworksacademy.com/events

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After being harassed by an ESPN-Indiana radio show host in spring 2021 + receiving threats of sexual violence, I advocate for protective measures institutions should provide for scholars doing #publicscholarship (#journalists need this too!)

I fully oppose AHA president Sweet’s right wing-supporting “anti-presentism” words - #history is always political, “neutrality” is an oppressive tool, past-present connex matters!

@histodons @histodon

I teach courses on #nationalism and #memory in Europe, modern #worldhistory broadly, world histories of sport as well as #WWI #FWW, #oralhistory #ColdWar Europe focusing on #gender #labor #immigration, #globalmigrations, and next semester on #authoritarianism in #postcolonial states!

Believe strongly in #publicscholarship to break down academic gatekeeping of knowledge & expand communities!