The RSA is hosting online discussion sessions meant to help the Renaissance Society of America better understand how the RSA can be more welcoming to scholars of color and to scholars who work on such issues as race, gender, sexuality, disability, and coloniality in the late medieval and early modern period (1300–1700). Any and all interested s…[Read more]

RSA Webinar: Research in the Age of COVID-19 Webinar

The RSA is hosting a webinar over Zoom for “Research in the Age of COVID-19: Access and Collaboration” on Thursday, July 30 at 12:00 pm EST. The webinar will explore the library closures and travel restrictions and how to address them through digital access and collaboration among scholars. The…[Read more]

The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Advocacy Committee has compiled a list of resources against racism. The list includes resources for teaching, for deconstructing white privilege, for the emotional implications of the work, for calling out racism in the academy, and to multimedia and recommended books,…[Read more]

A preview: An RSA webinar will be held Thursday, July 30, at noon (Eastern time): “Research in the Age of COVID-19: Access and Collaboration.” Watch for an announcement late next week. Also, for scholars who are not RSA members: Renaissance Quarterly’s 10 most downloaded articles of 2019 are free to access through the end of July 2020. You can v…[Read more]

For those struggling with organizing archival document photos and transcriptions, I recommend using Tropy as a research photo management tool. The tool allows you to enter metadata, add tags, enter transcriptions and annotations, and organize the photos into projects and lists. You can also group multiple images under one object and adjust colour…[Read more]

When I was a student, a scholar told me an incredibly simple strategy that has helped me so much. I used to work on my dissertation for hours, then stop when I was feeling blocked and figure that I would sort it out the next day. The problem is that the next day I might still be feeling blocked. This scholar said that each day, when he stopped…[Read more]

I was thinking about this again yesterday. I’m going to take a guess that the educational divisions of arts organizations are going to be the most stable units with respect to employment, because those efforts can continue even when the venue itself is closed.

Insofar as there is good news here, it’s that I’ve set the nesting to a max level of 4. So we should not break the time-space continuum here. But yes, the contrast in that reply link must be dealt with.

Even if you do see the reply link, it takes a reply-to-a-reply to actually nest.