Happy International Women's Day to all the women who have survived men and their bullshit and carry on.
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Happy International Women's Day to all the women who have survived men and their bullshit and carry on.
Photo w caption: A person flees after throwing a homemade explosive device during a protest organized by far-right influencer Jake Lang in front of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's official residence on Saturday. Charly Triballeau / AFP - Getty Images
NBC - Two arrested and two IEDs seized as right wingers hold an anti-Islam demo outside Gracie Mansion today during Ramadan. Not immediately known if Mayor Mamdani was home.
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Here is the spreadsheet DOGE had ChatGPT produce, to determine which grants were too DEI www.historians.org/wp-content/u...
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They should invent a way out that isn't through
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 20% Discount on this title Expires 31 May 2026 A Social History of Modern Tehran Space, Power, and the City Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi University of Tehran, Iran Tehran, the capital of Iran since the late eighteenth century, is now one of the largest cities in the Middle East. Exploring Tehran's development from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi paints a vibrant picture of a city undergoing rapid and dynamic social transformation. Rezvani Naraghi demonstrates that this shift was the product of a developing discourse around spatial knowledge, in which the West became the model for the social practices of the state and sections of Iranian society. As traditional social spaces, such as coffee houses, bathhouses, and mosques, were replaced by European-style cafes, theatres, and sports clubs, Tehran and its people were irreversibly altered. Using an array of archival sources, Rezvani Naraghi stresses the agency of everyday inhabitants in shaping urban change. This enlightening history not only allows us to better understand the contours of contemporary Tehran, but to develop a new way of imagining, talking about, and building the city. Foreword by Arshin Adib-Moghaddam; Preface by Jennifer A. Jordan; Introduction; 1. Segmented society and the social production of communal spaces; 2. Segmented society and spaces of political mobilization; 3. Iranian travelers and the production of spatial knowledge; 4. The Qajar court and the city: spatial strategies of the state in the nineteenth century: 5. The interwar period and middle-class urbanism; 6. The age of social movements: the transformation of political public space; Conclusion; Appendix: protest, political gatherings, and parades between 1941 and 1953; Bibliography; Index. Paperback 978-1-00-918891-3 Original price Discount price £29.99 to order, visit: www.cambridge.org/9781009188913 and enter the code HIST2325 at the checkout
Some of you may know the story of my brilliant former student, Prof. Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi (RIP) whose book “The Social History of Modern Tehran” I published posthumously with much assistance from @universitypress.cambridge.org The book is now out in paperback, and relevant in so many ways.
61 years ago today at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama.
Brooklyn! Very excited for this event on Monday March 9th at the Brooklyn Public Library where I’l be discussing The Sirens Call with @alondra.bsky.social . Come thru!
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The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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I very much welcome your thoughts and any feedback (tho I haven’t had the privilege of teaching from this expertise in a while 😔).
SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.
But in office hours. I also encouraged (some years required) office hours visits so I could learn more about the expertise they brought and what they wanted from our course.
At some point in there I emphasize the data on what (little) access minoritized scholars have to academic knowledge production and how even more rare it was to have a class on hip hop (this was 2003-2010). I talked about that as a trust and honor we bore, and that I welcomed Qs about my expertise
From everyone’s foundation of knowledge. And that being “right” isn’t going to advance that knowledge as much as not knowing or believing someone else might know a thing you don’t see.
Once it kinda felt like we were at a shared space I’d go into a more didactic mode and talk loosely about histories of knowledge and how academies shut most of us out, and how faculty and students can carry that water for power. But that we don’t need to choose that. We can find ways to learn here
At no point in these brainstorms do I self-disclose on any of these dimensions. The “truth” of my identity is not the stakes we care about in the end, but rather the obstacles and opportunities to listening and learning from one another.
At some point, students inevitably start noticing it’s a technique they use to address power imbalance—their lived experience vs my training (& their assumptions I had no relevant lived experience). That made it easy to query their assumptions about other forms of power—age, gender, race, class.
The first “quiz” question (or “who’s your favorite rapper?”) I’d ask what was at stake. What info would you want from my answer? What deeper questions or concerns would it bear on? I’d then encourage other students to brainstorm more ideas about this.
This was so often a part of my Sociology of Hip Hop teaching experience that I had a potted mini lecture on testimonial injustice and its (in my case) fair racial dimensions and unfair gender dimensions that every class got the 1st time it came up.
I have so many examples of students questioning whether I know enough about a topic to teach it. I asked in faculty meeting "who has been questioned whether they are qualified to teach a class?" The women raised their hands, the men didn't. It's definitely rooted in sexism and racism.
Obviously a good move. It’s worse than Frogger out there.
Rewatching episodes of THE WEST WING in These Times is dispiriting, ofc. Worse, it invites speculation about the witty staffer debates the current crew must have about stifling dissent, extrajudicial killings, profiting from their positions, firing black women, killing education, etc.
Pleas save the date, Cambridge-Boston friends histsci.fas.harvard.edu/announcing-a...
Recently at a party my masking failed and I said to a stranger “even as I’m talking to you, I wish I was writing.”
Might it be better if, instead of waking and crying as we contemplate the bombs falling, children dying, & oligarchs profiting, we instead gathered in a park or a coffee house or a library and witnessed the distress of our neighbors and our tears mingled & we held one another?
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
There’s an obvious lesson here about how to sustain arts and science non profits and expand access that exactly 0% of the arts sector leadership will learn. See also the immersive arts shows that they love to hate.
Free 2-K is launching in:
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"Nearly all the traffic cameras in Tehran had been hacked for years, their images encrypted and transmitted to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel, according to two people familiar with the matter."
The panopticon surveillance state as security vulnerability, password 12345678.
I believe they still have a store in Columbus Circle, and there’s a Maison du Chocolat in both locations as well. 😉
