David M. Reher (he/him)

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Interested in: #EarlyModern , #SigloDeOro , and #Medieval #Spain, Spanish views of #Constantinople / #istanbul and the #OttomanEmpire

https://chicago.academia.edu/DavidReher

Twitter: @DavidReher1

Research#Middleages, #Renaissance, #Spain, the #Mediterranean, #Constantinople, the #OttomanEmpire
Published on#DonQuixote, #EmbajadaaTamorlan, #CantardelmioCid
Right nowVAP @ Denison U, Ohio
Now Watching:Foundation, Star Trek SNW, and Shadows die Twice playthrough
David M. Reher (he/him)Nov 20, 2024
Wrenasaurus Tex Nov 20, 2024

If you follow any trans people here you’ll probably see some posts about Trans Day of Remembrance today.

Like everyone, we all have special days we mark… birthdays, those of loved ones, anniversaries, graduation dates, first kiss, when we got a beloved pet.

But there are two days we in the trans community all mark.
One of them being Trans Day of Visibility in March and the other today, Trans Day of Remembrance. .

#TDoV is essentially: “Hey! Look at us. We really do exist.”
#TDoR is: “Please stop murdering us.”

There have been at least 30 trans and gender diverse people who have been killed this year. There have been too many trans people who have attempted suicide and so many who think about it constantly because local, state and federal governments actively and deliberately make it difficult for us to exist.

We need your help allies. Speak up in our defense when you can.

David M. Reher (he/him)Nov 18, 2024
Medievalists.netNov 18, 2024
Writing and the Mongol Empire https://www.medievalists.net/2022/11/writing-mongol-empire/ #Mongols
Writing and the Mongol Empire - Medievalists.net

In 1204, the Mongolian warlord Temüjin adopted the Uighur script for his state and people. Two years later, he established the Mongol Empire and took the title of Chinggis Khan. What led an otherwise illiterate Mongol nomad to adopt a script, and how was it implemented in the new Mongol Empire? In this piece, we’ll look at the introduction and use of the written word in the early Mongol state.

Medievalists.net
David M. Reher (he/him)Nov 18, 2024
Julie GoldbergNov 18, 2024
"Now the youngest generation of voters will essentially never know consensus reality on any subject again." https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/your-body-my-choice-a-new-rallying-cry-for-the-irony-poisoned-right
“Your Body, My Choice”: A New Rallying Cry for the Irony-Poisoned Right

Jia Tolentino writes that it took less than twenty-four hours after Donald Trump’s reëlection for young men to take up a slogan that could define the coming era of gendered regression.

The New Yorker
David M. Reher (he/him)Nov 15, 2024

Amidst his policies that are bad for public health (removing vaccine requirements and removing fluorine from water), I think a positive thing that RFK talks about is banning or further researching food additives is good in theory.

However, it is very much at loggerheads with an administration that is sure it can cut the size of government. The FDA would need substantially more staff to inspect the nearly 2,000 plants that are overdue for inspection, as well as funding to incentivize research into additives affects.

The best case scenario is that RFK is able to get this funding; the worst case (and perhaps more likely) is that his policies embody a neoliberal nanny-state that cuts funds for children´s vaccines and fluorine treatment in the name of knowing better than parents who still want these.

David M. Reher (he/him)Nov 13, 2024
It would be nice if we all agreed on EITHER Mastodon OR bluesky
David M. Reher (he/him)Feb 7, 2024
Life is more becoming than being sometimes...
David M. Reher (he/him)Jul 26, 2023

Please boost and share :)

http://bit.ly/RSA2024

#Renaissance, #rsa #ottomans #Art #historians #lit

CFP for RSA 2024 Ottomans and Christian Europe

Representing the "Other" in the Long Renaissance: Ottoman and European Perspectives (Roundtable) Sultan Selim II receiving representatives of the Austrian Emperor, including ambassador Anthonius Varantius da Agra. The relationship between the Ottoman Empire and the rest of Europe was marke...

Google Docs
David M. Reher (he/him)May 16, 2023
Hello--Writing group tomorrow at 11:30 AM Eastern--if you're interested, message me for the link!
We'll also be talking soon about changing times, so let me know if you'd be interested, just at a different time.
David M. Reher (he/him)Apr 5, 2023
Would anyone recommend a good ai to have on a desktop, something do things like generate a file of a language test based on some schematics, and also find similar passage between two different texts?
David M. Reher (he/him)Mar 31, 2023
I'm sure at some point, things will get serious again, but it's kind of fun to watch Republican congress people twist themselves into pretzels to defend trump while probably realizing that their best hope for '24 is him ending up in jail, while threading the needle of trying to convince T's base that they're really sad about all this....