Jesse W. Torgerson

Tweets personal views (e.g. Tenure the Professoriate)
Teaches/Studies Ages Late Antique, Byzantine & Middle in the College of Letters @ Wesleyan University (CT)

[Jesse W. Torgerson @JWTorg]

Hot off the press!
The Ends of Time explains why the
Chronographia of George the Synkellos & Theophanes
-reading which I nearly quit grad school-
was powerful & influential in its era.
100% FREE e-book thanks to @mjcbac & @wesleyan_u & @Brill_History!
1/
https://t.co/F2rgGR0j9u

[Jesse W. Torgerson @JWTorg]

@WhiteHouse Superman Story: #undocumented #immigrant taken in, sheltered, given farm work, makes home ... story of hope, truth, justice, & love FOR "illegal" immigrants!

@WhiteHouse (#copyrightinfringement much?) we know you & #Trumpit don't read but have you even watched the movies?

[Jesse W. Torgerson @JWTorg]

@minilek Jerusalem
Damascus
Alexandria
Antioch
Caesarea
Byzantion
Nicaea
Beirut
Edessa
Aleppo
Carthage ...

... all those famous european christian cities.

[Jesse W. Torgerson @JWTorg]

Where does "Christian" or "Western Civilization" originate? EUROPE?!? LOL

Try: Jerusalem, Antioch, Damascus, Alexandria, Carthage, Caesarea, Beirut, Istanbul (Constantinople) ...

The @VP is mispronouncing
"The Middle East, Egypt, and North Africa"

[Lee Mordechai @LeeMordechai]

1/ I am a historian and Israeli citizen. For over a year, I’ve been documenting the war in Gaza and periodically publishing my findings here & in link. Today I update the section on hostages. Here’s what I found 🧵:
https://t.co/qUfS8lwnao

[J. Preiser-Kapeller @Byzanzforscher]

We are delighted to inform you that the website of the 25th International Congress of #ByzantineStudies has now been launched. Please visit us at https://t.co/p5LVFR0Odq #ICBS2026 #ICBSVienna

[Lee Mordechai @LeeMordechai]

1/ I am an historian and Israeli citizen. Over the past year I have been writing publicly about events in Gaza during the war, while collecting and documenting thousands of pieces of evidence and dozens of reports.

[Afif Aqrabawi @AjAqrabawi]

Yesterday during a lab meeting, my mentor informed me that I may no longer progress in my career due to my so-called 'infamy.' I was told that I was to blame for the challenges I've been facing in publishing my work—that my 'negative' political activism might be provoking the particularly unusual hostility of peer reviewers. Apparently, several 'respectable' figures in the scientific community have contacted him to voice their disapproval and even urged him to terminate my employment. This also highlights how the cowardly silence of my 'allies' perpetuates bigotry and exclusion.

To my 'colleagues' who feel entitled to pass judgment on my existence as a Palestinian scientist—one who cannot turn away from the human instinct to preserve life while witnessing the daily murder of my people—I regret to inform you that I will continue to exist, unapologetically, with no regard for your comfort or supremacist ideals.

Fortunately, science is not confined to institutions. It lives in my mind and heart, and I can enjoy it fully—even from the solitude of my imagination; even if I were to become homeless. Home, however, is precisely what I am fighting for. I only wish I had the privilege to contemplate nature, without the existential threat of Zionism.

From my perspective at the margins here at MIT, I have come to see academia for what it truly is: a stronghold of racism, classism, and spiritual rot masquerading as enlightenment.

Apologies in advance if I don’t respond to comments on this post—this is a deeply personal reflection, shared primarily for myself.

[Karen Attiah @KarenAttiah]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again:

The years ahead will be rough.
Now is not the time for despair or to quit, but to shift energy.

Get into community. Learn how to organize. Get grounded physically, spiritually, and creatively.

If you haven't already, start NOW.

[David Kaib @DavidKaib]

I don’t think it’s appropriate for universities to invest in weapons manufacturing even if there wasn’t a genocide happening.

[Jesse W. Torgerson @JWTorg]

on point

[The Vertlartnic @TheVertlartnic]

How The Covid Lockdowns Destroyed The Roman Empire

[Dr Ruth Alison Clemens @RuthieClems]

UPDATE: yesterday @routledgebooks @tandfonline told all staff that it's extra important to meet 2024 targets as they have promised the LLM companies a quota of books for them to digest to train their AIs. So if your editor is pushing you to meet that deadline, this is why!

[Dr Ruth Alison Clemens @RuthieClems]

Just found out that Taylor & Francis has sold access to all @routledgebooks data to Microsoft to train their AI. This includes my publications. I get no payment for using my research labour, never mind the bigger problems of this energy-intensive extractivism...

[Jesse W. Torgerson @JWTorg]

It is *possible* the #MNTwins make the playoffs.
But having just gone
1-3 vs Cleveland
1-2 vs Boston
1-2 vs MIAMI
… I do not WANT the emotional crush that this team will inevitably bring us in the playoffs.
We know you tried, guys.
This season was a massive Front Office Fail.

[Aaron Gleeman @AaronGleeman]

#MNTwins lose in 13 innings, dropping two out of three games, at home, to the 100-loss Marlins.

Twins are 12-24 since mid-August.

Now their only path to the playoffs is sweeping the Orioles while the Tigers get swept by the White Sox and/or the Royals get swept by the Braves.

[Aaron Gleeman @AaronGleeman]

FanGraphs' projection of the #MNTwins playoff odds throughout the season definitely captures the mood. https://t.co/4MzCi69yWl

[joma @ka_joma_]

@Louis_Allday @NewLeftReview “we live in a time of comrades and cowards, the dividing line between the two becoming starker by the day. all love to the comrades, nothing but scorn for the legions of cowards in academia and beyond…” -geo maher

[Jesse W. Torgerson @JWTorg]

@Pseudo_Isidore Is it become worth the switch?

[Jesse W. Torgerson @JWTorg]

Good morning my fellow teachers and students.
Remind each other that education is essential and is more needed and desired than ever.
Meanwhile
the Business of #HigherEducation(TM) continues to exploit our energies, and profit off our pedagogies.
Make sure to give it the finger.

[Institute for Palestine Studies @PalStudies]

📣Join us on Thursday, Sept. 26 at 12pm ET/7pm Palestine with @FranceskAlbs, @luigidaniele10, & @PeruginiNic to discuss how Israel appropriates International Humanitarian Law to mask atrocities in Gaza. The event will be live-streamed. Register: https://t.co/6AlfpTYlKS

[Adam X. McNeil, PhD (aka Metaphors & Memes) @CulturedModesty]

The Department of African American and African Studies at The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of African American history.

https://t.co/xS0TfDupo0