Alex Drace-Francis
Cultural historian, modern Europe @uvahumanities.bsky.social. Books: The Making of Mămăligă (CEU Press); Networks, Narratives and Nations (Amsterdam UP). Amateur gardener.
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- How did that happen? #languages
- New book: Erik van Ree, "The Revolutionary Organisation: Armed Struggle from the Late 18th Century to the Present" Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 57 brill.com/display/titl...
- Anyone have access to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics? Our library's subscription seems to have lapsed - I'll try to get that fixed, but meanwhile if anyone can help I'd appreciate, thanks in advance
- True, but I hate the thought that even if I retired to the other end of the galaxy I would still be in danger of spotting Mandelson
- Question on behalf of a student - there were some good sites with digitized runs of Romanian magazines from the socialist times? Thinking domestic, women's magazines, leisure, film &c. Thanks in advance for any help.
- Couldn't "increased oversight" be achieved by fostering a culture in which the research community actually reads the publications? Just a thought..
- February (Faurar in old Romanian) Illustration, "Minerva" Calendar, Bucharest 1912
- Krakatice 'squid' - love these Czech lexicographer's index cards bara.ujc.cas.cz/psjc/search....
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- High praise in Südost-Forschungen for Aleksov, "Jewish Refugees in the Balkans", vol. 34 of our #BalkanStudiesLibrary series (click on alt-text for trans.) www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...
- The reviews section of "Südost-Forschungen" is a thing of wonder - 201 p. of careful assessment, even an index! Grateful for Alexander Vezenkov's nice review of my book - indexed under "Ethnographie" and "Rumänien" - and to read about many other books of note www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...
- 24 January - 167 years since the Union of Moldavia and Wallachia (1859). 103 years since the recording of the dance tune "Mamaliga". Harry Kandel's Orchestra, Camden, NJ, now part of Library of Congress 'National Jukebox' collection. Sărbători fericite! www.loc.gov/item/jukebox...
- Reposted by Alex Drace-FrancisHistorians and legal scholars: please submit your articles for the Burbank Global Legal History prize! Any article published in 2025 is eligible. The deadline is June 1. I am chairing the committee this year so reach out with any questions! aslh.net/award/jane-b...
- Pagina web a ediţiei româneşti / We have a webpage for the Romanian edition! Traducere de / Translated by Irina Vainovski-Mihai În curând în librării / Out soon polirom.ro/studii-roman...
- What I am doing while Rome burns: helping prepare a Romanian edition of Natalie Zemon Davis "Listening to the Languages of the People" - more soon! My review of the original here, w author's response reviews.history.ac.uk/review/2472/
- New book: Daniela Keller, "Anglo-German Entanglements in English Fiction: From the Cold War to Brexit" www.bloomsbury.com/uk/anglogerm...
- "About half the known languages of the world have vanished in the last 500 years" (Nettle and Romaine 2000) - wonder how many in the quarter century since then?
- Also, use of the term "expert". Funny how we don't say "writing expert", "sums expert" &c. But AI, yeah, experts..
- "the routine use and overuse of AI do not simply harm students' cognitive development—both actively place children at risk of cognitive decline." (Brookings Institute) www.brookings.edu/wp-content/u...
- "the routine use and overuse of AI do not simply harm students' cognitive development—both actively place children at risk of cognitive decline." (Brookings Institute) www.brookings.edu/wp-content/u...
- No examples given of the final sense, but goes back at least to 1934 (Academy Dictionary, vol. II, pt. i, p. 911)
- Reposted by Alex Drace-Franciswikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
- Question: écrit-on « Société de linguistique de Paris » avec un L majuscule ou minuscule?
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- Nationalism = the art of imitating foreign models (horrible example but point is clear)
- A pamphlet from 1952 - feels like quite a few countries could publish one with this title in 2026...
- What I am doing while Rome burns: helping prepare a Romanian edition of Natalie Zemon Davis "Listening to the Languages of the People" - more soon! My review of the original here, w author's response reviews.history.ac.uk/review/2472/
- Reposted by Alex Drace-Francis‘If a drug boasted such benefits [as the arts] governments would be pouring billions into it. Instead, funding has been slashed across the culture sector.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- A branch of 19th-century Romanian language theory held that you should not import western neologisms directly into the language but create equivalents based on existing words. So history was called tîmplăturistică 'happen-istics'. (Sbiera, 1906)
