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♑️🌕 Associate Professor, Classics at UCLA. Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race, co-authored with Mathias Hanses, under contract with Yale University Press. Co-founder and editor, Res Difficiles, The Journal. She/her. resdifficiles.com opietasanimi.com
In Gaza, Israel and Biden normalized war crimes beyond anything we have seen before.
And now, Israel and Trump are using that model against Iranian civilians.
At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
join us next week!
Congrats to @a-arvas.bsky.social for winning the Renaissance Society of America’s 2026 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize for Boys Abducted: The Homoerotics of Empire and Race in Early Modernity!
Here's the full #AncientBlackness thread in blog format opietasanimi.com/2025/03/08/a...
Registration for #ResDiff7 is now available:
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It is my pleasure to announce the program for #ResDiff7 (March 13, 2026), an annual digital conference addressing inequity in classics, co-organized with Elke Nash. Keynote: Samuel Agbamu (@samagbamu.bsky.social). Registration is now open: resdifficiles.com/res-diff-7-2...
today’s class is on Mary Church Terrell
My book cover: bright yellow with the title in big letters ‘Classicism: How the West Invented the Ancient World’ and the head of a statue making a “shhh” motion.
So the @plutopress.bsky.social catalogue is out and… my new book is in there! 🥳📚
Scroll to page 14 to read about it: www.plutobooks.com/wp-content/u... (it’s for fans of @profdanhicks.bsky.social, or so the catalogue says!)
tuning in!
check out this Lavender lunch event about Trans Biblical, over Zoom about this time next week (Tues, March 10), featuring Melissa Harl Sellew, Eric A. Thomas, and Jakob Hero-Shaw!
Huge thanks to the Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion for hosting!
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"man has no roots: he has feet"
today's class is on Nguyễn Mạnh Tường, using my UCLA colleague Kelly Nguyen's translation and commentary
the call for a new cohort of Racing the Classics fellows is out! people should really be applying for this. apps due April 10th
Our article on a dedication of a late Archaic representation of a dwarf woman on the Athenian Acropolis is out, and open access! This project began in earnest in Spring 2022, so it's been a long time coming and I am so proud of it. Share with your students!
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The mass murder of civilians in Gaza, the brazen attacks on hospitals and schools, without any accountability has created a new kind of warfare that should terrify and enrage all of us.
Every child lost is someone’s whole world. Every life lost matters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reports now that this has been revised up to 85 dead, with even more injured
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NEW: ICE agents reportedly lied their way into Columbia housing, without a warrant, to arrest yet another student.
This comes almost one year after plainclothes ICE agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil at his Columbia residence, also without a warrant. ICE has no place on our campuses or in our streets.
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today's class is on Pauline Hopkins
Very cool looking CFP for a special issue of Animal History on the intersection between African Studies and Animal Studies:
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especially after the absolute silence of snowfall. you brought back vivid memories!
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Photograph of an older W E B Du Bois, an African American man with a mustache and goatee. He wears a grey pin-striped suit and is posed against a vibrant colorful bg Carl Van Vechten, © Van Vechten Trust. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University via https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/w-e-b-du-bois
[23] W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), born #otd, was an American sociologist, historian, and later Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. He died in Accra, Ghana. He was a Classics professor at Wilberforce University, and the first African American to earn his PhD from Harvard #AncientBlackness
Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... #otd #BlackHistoryMonth
It’s part of a suite of free OpenLearn courses, HeadStart Classical Studies, written by my brilliant colleagues. You can study the course here: www.open.edu/openlearn/hi...
The following images each contain a description of the course - you can find an accessible version of that description by clicking the link in the next post.
Friends! For the @openuniversity.bsky.social’s free learning platform I wrote a course: Exploring Ovid’s big ideas. It’s about Pacific Islander creation myth, monsters, Brazilian art, how stories change their meaning across time, British-Nigerian poetry, and of course… about Ovid. 💻🏺
