My Unrequited Love Story with J.F.K., Jr.
My Unrequited Love Story with J.F.K., Jr.
Philosophy's Shifting Borders: Text, Translation, and the Global Stage
Brown University's Philosophy Department discusses how philosophical ideas travel globally through translation and diverse narratives, changing how we see world literature.
#Philosophy, #WorldLiterature, #BrownUniversity, #GlobalIdeas, #TranslationStudies
https://newsletter.tf/brown-university-philosophy-world-literature/
Brown University is exploring a new idea: Philosophy as World Literature. This means looking at how ideas travel across countries, like stories do, changing as they are translated.
#Philosophy, #WorldLiterature, #BrownUniversity, #GlobalIdeas, #TranslationStudies
https://newsletter.tf/brown-university-philosophy-world-literature/
Today in Labor History March 22, 1794: President Washington signed the Slave Trade Act, which banned U.S. ships and citizens from engaging in the international slave trade. However, Americans continued to import and export slaves illegally, and other countries could still legally import slaves into the U.S. until 1807. A slave trader named John Brown, founder of Brown University, was the first person tried and acquitted under the Slave Trade Act. But the government still confiscated his ship. He was later elected to Congress.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #slavery #brownuniversity #racism #abolition #washington #congress #BlackMastodon

FBI response to Brown mass shooting was delayed because Kash Patel was in Florida with one of the agency’s jets: report
A whistleblower is claiming that FBI Director Kash Patel’s use of a bureau jet delayed the law enforcement…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #BrownUniversity #FBI #FBIDirector #governmentaccountabilityoffice #kashpatel #massshooting #massshootings #responseteam #RichardDurbin #SenateJudiciaryCommittee #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/408232/
“Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies Michael Satlow and a team of Israel-based scholars plan to develop advanced AI and natural language processing techniques — adapted for historical Hebrew and Aramaic sources — to analyze more than 130,000 texts spanning 18 centuries.”
#brownuniversity #hypertext #corpus
https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-02-04/jewish-texts-ai-grant-satlow

Supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, Brown University scholar Michael Satlow will use cutting-edge computational techniques to analyze 18 centuries of traditional Jewish texts.
Investigations and a Billion-Dollar ‘Shakedown’: How Trump Targeted Higher Education