Professor at University of Toronto. I study ideas, claims, and competitions over law and justice, often in turbulent, disrupted, violent & unsettled times. Direct labs on antisemitism and on justice systems under stress.https://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3lsckxubwx22aUofT ranked 16th in US News & World Report global university rankings (and 5th in social sciences & public health) …. https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-ranked-16th-globally-us-news-world-report-university-rankings23 Jun 2025 21:52 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsckxubwx22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3llr633hd4c2xSo enthusiastic about today's class on comparison, in justice institutions in Europe, at Munk School @uoft.bsky.social Here are 2 quotes from readings -- compared and twinned ! One by Rossi in LRB on twin studies, and the other by Foucault on psyc expert reports from 1955 & 1974. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Apr 2025 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3llr633hd4c2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3llmymjtftk2dHow to select two cases or events on justice institutions in Europe? What do we do when we compare ? This week in our course on justice institutions in Europe at Munk School @uoft.bsky.social ! And … two readings. One on twin pairs, and the other on two expert opinions in penal cases!30 Mar 2025 23:27 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3llmymjtftk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3ll32ae27ac2oAnd next week, in our course on justice institutions in Europe … Witnesses, Publics, Victims, Events ...! We are covering a lot of ground! [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Mar 2025 20:08 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll32ae27ac2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3lksoipbrhk2aToday (20 March), at Lab for the Global Study of Antisemitism at UofT! Eitan D. Hersh, on “The Impact of the Israel-Hamas War on College Students.” www.jewishstudies.utoronto.ca/events/eitan...20 Mar 2025 12:16 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lksoipbrhk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3lkhfls2kh22oJust a few hours left to submit for social science history conference. Deadline is today! (Conference in Chicago, this November!) [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Mar 2025 00:38 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkhfls2kh22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3lkheyo2iyk2overy enthusiastic about class next week ! On measurement, in our course on justice institutions in Europe..!16 Mar 2025 00:27 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkheyo2iyk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3lkcheszvlk26פורים שמח !14 Mar 2025 01:26 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkcheszvlk26https://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3ljqljksznc2dSurvey of 2000 students in French high school and middle school: 16% of students do not want a Jewish friend. 21% report seeing students hide their Jewish background or religion in school. https://www.leparisien.fr/societe/au-college-et-lycee-16-des-eleves-ne-veulent-pas-dun-juif-pour-ami-lecole-nest-plus-un-sanctuaire-05-03-2025-Q7FGOZ2WRBFRLICBV7ZJSPTCSQ.php06 Mar 2025 22:53 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljqljksznc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3ljdlknfues2q«Les juifs se trouvent, encore une fois, au cœur de la crise de la République et de ses valeurs universelles. Ils n’ont pas voulu occuper ce rôle, mais force est de constater qu’au travers de la question juive se joue à nouveau l’avenir moral et politique de notre société. » t.co/34qK5Zhwyk01 Mar 2025 18:49 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljdlknfues2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3lipizinsj22nU of T ranked 21st in the world based on its reputation for teaching and research @uoft.bsky.social https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-ranked-21st-world-based-its-reputation-teaching-and-research21 Feb 2025 19:10 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lipizinsj22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3lhzdwnczgc2rHooray ! Thrilled to have this out in the world, w/ Revue d’histoire des sciences humaines! Coedited by Antonin Cohen & myself, on Funding & Disciplinary Arrangements. Brilliant papers, and we introduce with an essay on academic fields, funding, & turbulent times. journals.openedition.org/rhsh/962712 Feb 2025 23:40 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhzdwnczgc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3lhybza3md226Our next talk at the Lab for the Global Study of Antisemitism @uoft.bsky.social : Chad Alan Goldberg, on “Antisemitism and American Exceptionalism: Rethinking the Place of the Postwar Era in US History”. 4 March, information here! https://www.jewishstudies.utoronto.ca/events/chad-alan-goldberg-antisemitism-and-american-exceptionalism-rethinking-place-postwar-era-us12 Feb 2025 13:33 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhybza3md226https://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3kb64lmcudj2wאסון07 Oct 2023 13:50 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3kb64lmcudj2whttps://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3kb4agdlkvx2lJust superb. And you need to get to John Lanchester's sentence: "There’s what you can count, and what sense you can make of what you count, and the lessons to be learned from that are not always what they seem." Perfect. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n18/john-lanchester/get-a-rabbit06 Oct 2023 19:53 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3kb4agdlkvx2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3kb3jradr6w2xI’d like to be only here. I’m happier here. It’s better. But the other place has lots of news agencies & non-North Am commentators, including where I follow events & news closely. I’ve dabbled w/ being active there in other languages, & set my location to another place. Anyone else feeling this?06 Oct 2023 13:08 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3kb3jradr6w2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3kb2h2itbpl2c“When Donald Trump said, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” he was cultivating not healthy loyalty but rather destructive defiance …” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/opinion/trump-white-working-class-maga.html06 Oct 2023 02:46 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3kb2h2itbpl2chttps://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3kazoair6on2bTook some time out to read this today. A brilliant and timeless sociological reminder about sociology. Howie Becker, reflecting on a class taught by Everett Hughes (in What About Mozart? What About Murder?: Reasoning From Cases).05 Oct 2023 19:22 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3kazoair6on2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3kayzylio2a22Want to know the most infuriating reaction to this ? Here it is: “I don't think it's time to review everything. History is history.” (Quebec Conservative MP Gérard Deltell). Idea: Let’s instead engage with, learn, and act on our collective past. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-deschenes-commission-ex-nazis-1.698636405 Oct 2023 13:20 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3kayzylio2a22https://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3kayxdti7iq22events.au.dk/isrlc2024/home05 Oct 2023 12:33 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3kayxdti7iq22https://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3kahdu4ag4j2bYup. And the autocracy problem is connected with exclusion and potential for violence. As we’ve worked on, America First incited and leveraged a volatile exclusionary populism, that is focused on distrust of others, & connected with criminal arrests. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/opinion/republican-debate-donald-trump.html28 Sep 2023 12:29 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3kahdu4ag4j2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3kaf3x7he762x"Canada suffers from a lack of historical memory, not too much." Absolutely right. Rota stepped down, now time for Government of Canada to step up. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-the-speakers-belated-resignation-is-not-enough/27 Sep 2023 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3kaf3x7he762xhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3kaevo6xeaq2kThis is superb; Conversation with Alexander Paseau. With thanks to Brian Leiter’s blog for pointing to something I’d never have otherwise read. Full text: https://tverums.lv/blogs/news/structures-apples-and-pears-and-why-numbers-are-not-objects-a-conversation-with-alexander-paseau27 Sep 2023 13:09 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3kaevo6xeaq2khttps://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3kacoeqs2lz27say what now ??? https://www.lapoliticaonline.com/amp/269721-fox-agrede-otra-vez-a-sheinbaum-con-mensaje-antisemita-judia-y-extranjera/26 Sep 2023 15:51 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3kacoeqs2lz27https://bsky.app/profile/ronlevi.bsky.social/post/3kab327lnnf24I research and teach on the sociology of atrocities, including collective memory, legacies, and events of mass violence over time. A far better response here would be to call for deeper recognition, engagement, and collective learning. This isn't it. https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/speaker-responsibility-inviting-nazi-soldier-conservatives-blame-pmo26 Sep 2023 00:33 +0000at://did:plc:m4i2p2byaok3pdvv5f7fvp2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3kab327lnnf24