Barbara Keys

@arakeys

History professor. Human rights, emotion, tech+social mvmts, torture, diplomacy. Editor . Past president . 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇬🇧

Vrijeme pridruživanja: lipanj 2009.

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    9. sij

    Now with permanent open-access link, my presidential address on why diplomats and leaders cannot disentangle personal interests from the construction of the national interest:

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  2. prije 17 sati

    This for work on a book for which he had received an advance of £90,000 just for the UK rights.

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  3. prije 17 sati

    Hobsbawm has great idea, writes to publisher in 1994: Is it “possible to advertise the book & publish extracts on INTERNET (international computer network)”?

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  4. prije 17 sati

    Angus Calder’s devastating review of Hobsbawm’s Age of Extremes: It left out “the music of Mapfumo and the poetry of Serote.”

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  5. prije 17 sati

    In the early 1990s Hobsbawm had an RA, Lise Grande, who worked for him for three years. For free. At the end he gave her $1,000.

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  6. prije 18 sati

    Former? tradition at the New School: Friday afternoon seminar called “Think and then Drink”

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    prije 21 sat

    I wonder if could take up this issue. It's not primarily about the history of US foreign relations, but certainly is important to many members.

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  8. 2. velj

    It “cheered people up” “as though we had won a World Cup with guns.”

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  9. 2. velj

    Hobsbawm in 1982 on the Falklands War. Plus ca change

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  10. 2. velj

    “Is London a big town or a small town,” an American asked Hobsbawm in 1982.

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  11. 2. velj

    When Hobsbawm did a stint at Cornell c. 1980, he found Americans “incomprehensible.” They think they’re like Europeans, he said, but they’re “the most foreign people on earth bar the Japanese.”

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  12. 2. velj

    Australian higher ed sector already battered by fires; now Dirk Mulder estimates that if AusGov's current 2-week ban on arrivals from China extends, it could mean over $1b in losses. Monash already starting classes a week late with the first week taught online.

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  13. 2. velj

    I look forward to this author's future corollaries: "Our president today is committing crimes, but at least s/he knows it's wrong. So much better than Trump!"

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  14. 2. velj

    People are making some incredibly strained arguments

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  15. 2. velj

    Sample conversation with Google AI's 2.6 billion parameter end-to-end trained neural conversational model, Meena:

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  16. 2. velj

    Historians think it's lightning speed if they research, write, submit, revise/copyedit, and have something appear in print in under a year. Scientists at the cutting edge of an epidemic measure these things in hours.

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  17. 2. velj

    Today in "perhaps it's not the end times after all": American women go to the library well over twice as often as they go to the cinema, and "visiting the library remains the most common cultural activity Americans engage in, by far."

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  18. 2. velj

    Not a recommended email: Dear Professor, I'm an undergrad at [another institution] and am applying for further study with [names of other professors at other institutions], but since you're the expert on the topic I want to write on, can you give me advice on my proposal?

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  19. 1. velj

    Biographies of historians are filled with books contracted but never written, written but never published, and written long after they were due.

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  20. 1. velj

    If you’re doing a Festschrift for a scholar who tended to write only the first of two volumes, it should definitely be planned as 3 volumes of which only 2 appear.

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  21. 1. velj

    Hobsbawm on the importance of curiosity:

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