another day, another scholar who writes about power but who can’t apply their keen power analytic to their treatment of real marginalized peoples. shame.
Society for the Study of the Past
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The Society for the Study of the Past is a new subject organisation that believes solidarity with the oppressed, liberation of the occupied and a more just future are core concerns of the historian. 🍉 Join us! ⬇️ societyforthestudyofthepast.com
The literature scholar Refaat Al Areer would have been 47 today, if he had not been murdered by genocidal Israel. I think about his expo marker every day - it’s the best image I have for the kind of scholar I would like to be. ✊🏻🇵🇸
As Galo's advisor, Robin D.G. Kelley, said, “If Galo prevails, and he will, it will be a win for the entire student movement fighting for a free Palestine.”
Anyone re/reading Brontë's "Jane Eyre", I HIGHLY RECOMMEND also reading "Salvage: Readings from the Wreck" by Dionne Brand. #Lit The 3rd chapter takes a critical look at it in relation to Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea". "It is, above all, a novel about submission. Confinement and submission."
How the Western Literary Canon Made the World Worse
A talk with Dionne Brand about her recent book, Salvage, which looks at how the classic texts of Anglo-American fiction helped abet the crimes of capitalism, colonialism, and more.
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Citizen.Coping@propcazhpm.bsky.social · 2w agoThe introduction is included in full in "Expletives deleted : selected writings" by Angela Carter. The book can be checked out with a free account on archive.org. archive.org/details/expl...
I’m pretty sure that if nothing else it will be the yellowest book of 2027 🤭💛 www.plutobooks.com/product/clas...
Classicism - Pluto Press
History is written by the victors. But what happens when the story they tell is a lie?
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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees@badancient.bsky.social · 2w agoIt is the perfect book for just that topic. There is another book coming out start of new year if you later wish to dive deeper into this: How the West invented the Ancient World by @luxmea.bsky.social
“Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the crime of crimes that obligates states to intervene, has taken the lives of large numbers of Palestinian scholars.” A new archive honors the lives of the scholars, researchers, and teachers murdered in the Gaza genocide. www.publicbooks.org/remember-the...
Remember Them: Palestine Scholars Murdered in the Gaza Genocide - Public Books
“In Palestine, some 87,000 students have suffered a near total disruption of their studies for the duration of the genocide, and more than 1200 have been killed. Upwards of 200 academic staff have…
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The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! @caeliambulator.bsky.social discusses Hormuz & his new book on Indian Ocean Trade ⛵. Then, ancient mosaics enshrining pets, Aristotle in the antebellum South, medieval Denia, a new dinosaur in Brazil, ancient world journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more!
Pasts Imperfect (9.10.26)
This week, ancient historian Jeremy Simmons discusses Rome, India, and his new book on ancient Indian Ocean trade networks. Then, new mosaics may honor two beloved ancient pets, a new book on Aristotl...
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I'm going to keep posting this by @blacklikewho.bsky.social because i think its analyses are right on. It is urgent and brilliant. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
The university is the crisis
The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...
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Quick reminder that instead of giving your time and expertise to these institutions we could be building something like @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social that stands unequivocally on the side of the occupied and the oppressed. ✊🏻🇵🇸
Laura McAtackney@lauramca.bsky.social · last mo.It’s quite something seeing the (long) list of people who claim to work on social justice issues in archaeology who are prepared to go to EAA in Athens this year, sometimes sharing sessions with people involved in illegal excavations in the West Bank. bdsmovement.net/news/europea...
The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...
Opinion | A Scholarly Association’s Secret Washington Playbook
Did the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?
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Plagiarism is only one part of a much broader scope of academic misconduct, and ‘race realism’ is itself a form of academic misconduct: using academia to launder long-discredited and empirically refuted white supremacist propaganda. It is disseminating pernicious lies into broader society
Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · last mo.Racist Zero under investigation by his current employer www.thenational.scot/news/2648073...
Virginia Woolf discourse, Odyssey debates, Gandalf protestes -- it ys almoost as yf bookes are reallye ymportant.
Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
Great article by @durba.bsky.social on anticipatory compliance and complicity at elite universities that have no financial reasons for such obsequiousness. muse.jhu.edu/pub/434/arti...
Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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Yes. They hounded him to death. Days and days of breathless undoing. Damn them all.
This is brutal -- it took me a week to get through it -- but it's important.
“Everything Is Legitimate”: How Israel Uses Rape as a Tool of Genocide
The rape of Palestinian detainees is so commonplace that it’s no longer hidden. It’s filmed, joked about, and celebrated in parliament. This is no mistake; it’s core to Israel’s colonial project.
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Pasts Imperfect is back! This week, @jbrya.bsky.social discusses Zora Neale Hurston's 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙃𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩. Then, the mass grave at Phaleron (Attica) confirms a local population; UNESCO protects Sebastia; geoglyphs in the Amazon; ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more!
Pasts Imperfect (8.13.26)
This week, classicist Jermaine Bryant discusses Zora Neale Hurston's posthumously published The Life of Herod the Great. Then, a new study of the mass grave at Phaleron (Attica) confirms a local popul...
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Proofs day forمدرسة غزة للبلاغة والفلسفة : مختارات من كتابات روادها في آواخر العصور القديمة! (The Arabic translation of A Workshop of Eloquence: A Collection of Gazan Literature from Late Antiquity)
🏺With the solar eclipse in the news here in the UK, it’s probably worth noting that we have archaeological evidence of eclipses. Like this cuneiform tablet from Mesopotamia circa 900-600 BCE forecasting a solar eclipse. Now at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology. 📜 n2t.net/ark:/21549/h...
🎙️ From EOPodcast's Ep5: Beverly Bain on how Black and Indigenous academics "find ourselves knotted in this institutional capture" that is "meant to locate us and isolate us". Full episode on streaming platforms, Spreaker and our YT: www.youtube.com/shorts/hW29Q...
Black and Indigenous academics "find ourselves knotted in this institutional capture" - Beverly Bain
YouTube video by Everyday Orientalism
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I’m a planetary scientist & science communicator and I will do scicomm on here about the eclipse IF you share my pinned and drop a dollar for any one of the appeals listed there. AMA: ngl.link/divyamper + I will also post and share moon facts 🩶
run don’t walk to read my UCLA colleague Kelly Nguyen’s new book!! academic.oup.com/book/63209
Critical Classicality in Vietnam and the Diaspora
Abstract. This is the first book to study Vietnamese classicisms. Drawing on decolonial theory, critical refugee studies, and queer of color critique, Nguy
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🚨🐦🔎NEW: Princeton hires archaeologist who digs next to Israeli torture camp. Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison: open.substack.com/pub/sparrows...
Princeton hires archaeologist who digs next to Israeli torture camp
Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
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"There is no humane colonialism. There is no democratic colonialism There is no non-exploitative colonialism." - Samora Machel, Mozambican military commander, politician, revolutionary... President (1933-1986)
"He made me Odysseus… I'll take it." Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed reacts to a Republican AI attack ad depicting him, Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as communists inside the Trojan Horse. Subscribe to zeteo.com for more.
UK history is at a crisis point in academia. More & more people are going freelance on a part time basis, or as a whole new form of employment. IHN is creating support network for all historians who work independently. We aim to bring people together, promote your work, and be a hub of information.
Lucy Delap@lucydelap.bsky.social · 2mo agoGreat discussion at the 'crisis in UK history' meeting hosted by @ihr.bsky.social, @royalhistsoc.org, @histassoc.bsky.social and History UK. Horror stories of closures and redundancies, balanced by new resources. Check out for ex. the new Independent Historians Network independenthistorians.org
"If Odysseus’ voluntary exile and final sailing into the setting sun is the actual ending of his tale, Nolan’s movie can be read as an apologetics for the violence that the U.S. and its allies have meted out upon the world since 9/11." blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
Joel Christensen · Sunset of the West
With its emphasis on craft and a PR campaign tailored to the genius of its director, Christopher Nolan’s “Odyssey” wants to save cinema from the fangs of AI. But for all its visual magnificence, the f...
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On the New Platform, ‘Palestine is Everywhere’ Editors of the anthology Palestine is Everywhere -- Skye Arundhati Thomas, Edwin Nasr, and Gloria Habsburg -- recently launched a new "Palestine is Everywhere" platform to… https://arablit.org/2026/07/28/on-the-new-platform-palestine-is-everywhere/
On the New Platform, ‘Palestine is Everywhere’
Editors of the anthology Palestine is Everywhere -- Skye Arundhati Thomas, Edwin Nasr, and Gloria Habsburg -- recently launched a new "Palestine is Everywhere" platform to host a series of monthly commissions, "creating an ongoing space to support and amplify the work of artists, writers, and practitioners from Palestine and the wider region." You can explore the platform here:
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