Academic Footnotes

[YoungWillz 20,890]

Donald Singer, Scots born medical researcher/lecturer/consultant, ironically on heart and lung issues, reportedly dead of a heart attack: 

A co-founder of the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine with Michael Hulse.

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Irving Abella, one of Canada's foremost historians and the co-author of the best-selling book 'None is too Many', a scathing look at the Canadian government's dismal record at admitting Jews fleeing the Nazis, has died. He was 82. Abella passed after a long illness. He is survived by his wife Rosalie, who became a lawyer and then a judge, sitting on the Supreme Court of Canada until mandatory retirement at age 75, in 2021. The pair were among Canada’s best-known Jewish “power couples.”

 

https://thecjn.ca/lives/irving-abella-obit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=irving-abella-obit

 

[Ulitzer95 12,382]

French-born American medieval historian Nina Garsoïan (wiki) dead at 99, according to this tweet:
 

 

[msc 18,375]

Mentioning as he was on my long list for the "interesting oldies" DDP team, but British historian Correlli Barnett died last month, shortly after his 95th birthday. Never picked for the DDP as an unlikely name outside of nerds like me or WEP, ahem. He got a Guardian obit for those testing the waters for aging academics.

Speaking of old academics, Ranajit Guha recently turned 99. He is one of the legit big names in his field and will quite probably get full broadsheet obit when the time comes.

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Nel Noodings (Wiki), American philosopher, feminist and educator dead at 93

 

Best known for her work in philosophy of education, educational theory, and ethics of care.

 

 

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American academic, Catholic historian and Jesuit priest John W. O'Malley (Wiki) dead at 95

 

 

[Ulitzer95 12,382]

British classicist Joyce Reynolds (wiki) has died aged 103. One of her students was Dame Mary Beard (wiki).

A DDP pick for 3 teams. Guaranteed to get a QO imo.

A pity we can't get confirmation of the death of actress Joyce Reynolds (wiki) who is also a pick. It would probably spawn an obit somewhere, and we could have a DDP Joyce Reynolds double

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1 hour ago, Ulitzer95 said:

A pity we can't get confirmation of the death of actress Joyce Reynolds (wiki) who is also a pick. It would probably spawn an obit somewhere, and we could have a DDP Joyce Reynolds double

 

So far everything seems cloudy, although the search continues, it is still believed according to them that she is still living somewhere in a retirement home!

[YoungWillz 20,890]

2 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

British classicist Joyce Reynolds (wiki) has died aged 103. One of her students was Dame Mary Beard (wiki).

A DDP pick for 3 teams. Guaranteed to get a QO imo.

A pity we can't get confirmation of the death of actress Joyce Reynolds (wiki) who is also a pick. It would probably spawn an obit somewhere, and we could have a DDP Joyce Reynolds double

Joyce Reynolds Telegraph Obit: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/09/12/joyce-reynolds-classicist-who-inspired-mary-beard-specialised/

 

@Death Impends; @gcreptile

[Ulitzer95 12,382]

On 27/10/2017 at 21:26, DevonDeathTrip said:

Welsh born Canadian historian Dorothy Harley Eber is still alive at 92. She's an authority on Inuit history, although I doubt that will be enough to get her an obit here.    Anyway, I only mention her as I've just had the dubious pleasure of reading her book Encounters on the Passage about the Inuit's reaction to meeting European polar explorers in the nineteenth century.  I read it because I wanted to see a different perspective on the doomed Franklin Expedition, which has always fascinated me.   

 

I rather presumed that a book by a nice old lady about Eskimos wouldn't be too challenging, but it turned out to be like a horror story, apart from it all apparently happened for real.  Her account of the last Franklin survivors trudging hopelessly South is summarised in this article, although the book goes on in this vein for about fifty pages.   Chilling stuff (in more ways than one, I suppose)  

 

 

Dorothy Harley Eber (wiki) died on August 16, aged 97, from pneumonia.

Obit.

[TomTomTelekom 3,717]

American philosopher  Saul Kripke, known for contributions to modal logic and Philosophy of Language, died at 81 years:

https://dailynous.com/2022/09/16/saul-kripke-1940-2022/

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11 hours ago, TomTomTelekom said:

American philosopher  Saul Kripke, known for contributions to modal logic and Philosophy of Language, died at 81 years:

https://dailynous.com/2022/09/16/saul-kripke-1940-2022/

OK but this is the thread on academia, so you need to tie it up with a pretty bow:

“Professor Kripke was well-known for his work in philosophy of language and logic, with his Naming and Necessity, the book version of lectures he delivered at Princeton University in 1970, widely recognized as one of the most important works of 20th Century analytic philosophy. At the time of his death, Kripke was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science at CUNY Graduate Center.From 1977 to 1998 he was a professor of philosophy at Princeton University. Prior to that, he held positions at Rockefeller University, Harvard University, and Princeton, and even before he earned his BA from Harvard in 1962, he taught courses at Yale and MIT.”

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Kjell Espmark, Swedish writer, literary historian, professor and the oldest incumbent member of the Swedish Academy at the time of his death, dead at 92. The Swedish Academy is best known for being the body that chooses who gets the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Swedish Academy has 18 seats, Espmark had held Seat No. 16 from 1981, when Elias Wessén (1889-1981) died. He had announced that he would not participate in the work of the Academy in 2018 due to a MeToo scandal but returned in January 2019. The oldest member of the Academy is now Per Wästberg, born in 1933.

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Katherine Duncan-Jones, Shakespearean scholar, former wife of AN Wilson and mother of food writer Bee Wilson, dead at 81.

[YoungWillz 20,890]

Death Notice for historian Ann Savours Shirley aged 94, known for her study of HMS Discovery - the ship of Robert Falcon Scott: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/260176/savours-shirley

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SoCal scholar Mike Davis, one on many a 2023 shortlist, dead at 66.

[Sean 6,266]

Sociologist Ken Plummer known for his work on humanism and human sexuality has died at 76 according to the University of Essex.Also wrote a number of sociology textbooks.Came under scrutiny nearly a  decade ago when it was revealed he was a member of the Paedophile Information Exchange.Plummer claimed this was for research but wrote some highly suspicious things on the subject of paedophilia and sexual assaults.

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[Ulitzer95 12,382]

On 20/01/2022 at 13:58, Ulitzer95 said:

I always got Sir David Cox confused with Sir David Butler.

Both British.
Both called David.
Both knighted.
Both dealt with statistics.
Both born in 1924.

One key difference now... Sir David Butler is still alive, though statistically unlikely to live to cover another UK general election. 

Michael Crick reporting that Sir David Butler (wiki) died today, aged 98.

 

Edit: A unique DDP pick!

 

 

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18 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Michael Crick reporting that Sir David Butler (wiki) died today, aged 98.

 

Edit: A unique DDP pick!

 

 

Deathray used to pick him in everything, probably still does when he can.

 

Also the only instance I've ever heard the word psephologist.

[YoungWillz 20,890]

39 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Michael Crick reporting that Sir David Butler (wiki) died today, aged 98.

 

Edit: A unique DDP pick!

 

 

David Butler will be another hit on my Generation Game DP team when the QO comes...

 

Busy day!

[drol 11,720]

8 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Michael Crick reporting that Sir David Butler (wiki) died today, aged 98.

 

Edit: A unique DDP pick!

 

 

Guardian QO for Butler.

[msc 18,375]

Sad news but not unexpected - we knew he was old and in frail health. David Butler wasn't just the greatest in his field, he created his own field. There wouldn't be your Nate Silvers and John Curtices without him. He changed how the entire world views election data, and even how political campaigns work with the idea of voting swing ie how many net voters in 100 need to change votes from the previous election to shift a result. He also had knowledge about the political systems of most countries better than their own politicians and was frequently called on for expert advice across the world. Despite this, he spent most of his time praising other people for their work over claiming praise for his own. He used Twitter briefly, to discuss the 2017 general election, and was taken aback by the number of academics, experts in their field, who bowed to his knowledge, wisdom and expertise. 

 

He'll be missed as an intellectual presence and as a communicator, but he lived a long, good life and he made millions of people smarter on a key subject. RIP.

 

Btw, he hated the phrase "psephology". It derived from Greek (pebbles, as in watching the pebbles, divining the odds, etc) as a joke term among academics, and Richard Dimbleby (David's dad) used to push it to David Butler's discomfort. Of course, now it's stuck! 

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5 hours ago, msc said:

Btw, he hated the phrase "psephology". It derived from Greek (pebbles, as in watching the pebbles, divining the odds, etc) as a joke term among academics, and Richard Dimbleby (David's dad) used to push it to David Butler's discomfort. Of course, now it's stuck! 

 

Probably because everyone kept asking him about snakes!

[Youth in Asia 1,079]

Butler was a huge figure when I was at uni studying politics. Indeed the father of psephology.