Mack Penner

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: utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.31…

"Historians are thinking about AI, that much is clear, but they are not necessarily of one mind." Mack Penner's essay is live today. activehistory.ca/blog/2024/11/1…

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. uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/7510

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.” activehistory.ca/blog/2024/05/0…

"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." activehistory.ca/blog/2024/05/0…

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) bit.ly/JH5823b #capitalism

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: utpjournals.press/eprint/J9T8EDN…

If you might like to read it, “The Paradox of Polycrisis: Capitalism, History, and the Present,” by me, is just out here: utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.31…

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: bit.ly/chr1043b #neoliberalism #settlercolonialism #TomFlanagan #intellectualhistory

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 theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

never change, comrades

Man how are they not getting sued into insolvency? washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

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. versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne…

On the pacifist Christians whom Tolstoy loved and funded to move to Canada-and their situation today nytimes.com/2023/06/04/wor…

muse.jhu.edu/issue/49488 Free for Two Weeks ! Our Latest Issue « Mixed Signals » all things information but no AI authorship ! @zeithistoriker @iheid_history @kenlipartito

@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

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$$$$$$$$!

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

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 😊

@KristineAlexand @alanmaceachern Not quite yet…

@alanmaceachern @macksmilkshakes -- you back ON yet?

We have 2 last-minute cancellations for CHESS. If interested in attending (even from out-of-town: we have accom for you), dm or email me asap.