Mack Penner

historian, drawn more to argument than discovery and gone to 🦋

[Mack Penner @_MackPenner]

Breaking indefinite hiatus here to self-promote: “Settler-Neoliberalism: Tom Flanagan and Friedrich Hayek on the Prairies,” by me, available on an internet near you: https://t.co/D8meEHLiAS

[ActiveHistory.ca @ActiveHist]

"Historians are thinking about AI, that much is clear, but they are not necessarily of one mind."

Mack Penner's essay is live today.

https://t.co/K9nhSKfGxa

[U of L Department of History & Religion @ulethHistory]

The Department of History & Religion is hiring a term instructor with a background in Canadian & European history!
Please share with anyone you think might be interested.
https://t.co/cz8gOcVomc

[Mack Penner @_MackPenner]

Thanks to @ActiveHist for having me to write up some notes on the thinking behind Bill 18, which I think is a “move on the part of an emboldened right-wing in Alberta to put a thumb on its own side of the academic scale.” https://t.co/t0ylnXgXOn

[ActiveHistory.ca @ActiveHist]

"Smith is concerned that federal research funding is biased toward certain kinds of scholarship and opinion because she has been talking to “some of our academics.” This raises the question of with whom, exactly, Smith has been conversing."
https://t.co/xrFlVz2bHy

[UTP Journals @utpjournals]

Learn about the "paradox of #polycrisis" in the context of the coronavirus pandemic and its historiographical implications in this newly published JH 58.2/3 research by Mack Penner (@_MackPenner @McMasterU) https://t.co/6HKnMm0hf8
#capitalism

[Mack Penner @_MackPenner]

Here is a link that will give you full and free access to my article if you’d like to read it, at least until the link gets clicked 25 times: https://t.co/qTXtUTcitR

[Mack Penner @_MackPenner]

If you might like to read it, “The Paradox of Polycrisis: Capitalism, History, and the Present,” by me, is just out here: https://t.co/vAcyBUn9HQ

[UTP Journals @utpjournals]

Read @_MackPenner 's (from @McMasterU) CHR 104.3 article that explores how neoliberal ideas facilitated Tom Flanagan's defense of settler colonialism in Canadian political science: https://t.co/mFzRY3XyvL
#neoliberalism #settlercolonialism #TomFlanagan #intellectualhistory

[Robyn Doolittle @robyndoolittle]

My favourite Secret Canada story of the series. Last fall, @tom_cardoso and I put out a call: if you have stories about Canada's broken freedom of information regime, we want to hear from you. The loudest, largest group to reply: FURIOUS HISTORIANS https://t.co/Fo3pTJ1XgB

[Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @OlufemiOTaiwo]

never change, comrades

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

Man how are they not getting sued into insolvency? https://t.co/2hRCqux6qq

[Michal Schatz @miyyka9]

In honor of Eric Hobsbawm's 106th birthday today, we have a new piece on the @VersoBooks Blog: Hobsbawm's 1978 essay on the Communist Party Historians' Group. https://t.co/qJnJY1XVRc

[Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn]

On the pacifist Christians whom Tolstoy loved and funded to move to Canada-and their situation today https://t.co/1JyUPHQtwx

[Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics @a_capitalism]

https://t.co/7LfII5xbqz Free for Two Weeks ! Our Latest Issue « Mixed Signals » all things information but no AI authorship ! @zeithistoriker @iheid_history @kenlipartito

[Mack Penner @_MackPenner]

@harley_morman Could see myself doing the same on the spur of the moment! Could I be prepared to make the moment teachable ahead of time? Prob not my style haha

[Mack Penner @_MackPenner]

I’m reading the correspondence of some historians in the 60s and 70s… I’ve got fellas with eezy peezy annual raises of 8%, I’ve got apparently ordinary salaries inflation-adjusted well north of 200k, I’ve got favours being phoned in for pals, I’ve got honorarium$$$$$$$$!

[Mack Penner @_MackPenner]

2023 historian: ya sure I’d love to teach that lecture course and ya don’t worry im not super finicky about minimum wage or anything

1970 historian: guest teach your course? For the same salary that someone in 50 years would make if they taught it 4 times over? Aight whatev

[Mack Penner @_MackPenner]

And I’ve got the same people *complaining* about the job market! Meanwhile, I’ll count myself lucky if I’m reimbursed for the bus trip that got me here. If I ever get a steady job that pays a third of what these guys made I’ll do happiness backflips 😊

[Mack Penner @_MackPenner]

@KristineAlexand @alanmaceachern Not quite yet…