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Courtney Bryan, a 2020 Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition, was just named a MacArthur Fellow. Brava!
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In her new book “The West,” prize-winning historian andarchaeologist Naoíse Mac Sweeney explains that our understanding of the history of Western civilization is wrong. She tells @MichelMcQMartin why this matters.
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Only two days until our second annual APIDA in Classics Q&A for high school students! Panelists will share experiences & answer questions about studying Classics, THIS SATURDAY 9/9 at 2pm ET/11am PT.
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
ALT Flyer titled APIDA IN CLASSICS (September 9, 2023 11am PT/2pm ET). Four headshots of panelists: Ethan Ganesh Warren, PhD student at University of Texas; Ruth Elizabeth Varghese, MA Student at SF State University; Frances Lin, BA student at Amherst College; Christine Wong, teacher at Newport Independent Schools. Box reading: Q&A for high school students interested in Classics! Presented by AAACC The Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus.
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Applications are now open for our 2023-2024 mentorship program! Apply by 9/15 to be a mentor (tinyurl.com/aaaccmentor) or a mentee (tinyurl.com/aaaccmentee).
More info here: aaaclassicalcaucus.org/newsa…
ALT Yellow background with a ripped paper graphic reading "AAACC MENTORSHIP PROGRAM." Applications open throuhg 9/15. Two links: tinyurl.com/aaaccmentee and tinyurl.com/aaaccmentor
Shaun Abreu @CMShaunAbreu on Brian Lehrer, discussing his new anti-discrimination bill for NYC rn with community members
Today:
-@emmanuelfelton on CA's reparations plan;
-@CMShaunAbreu on his anti-size discrimination bill;
-Ari Fox of @copewithschool, on 'school refusal'
-Which boro's wildflower should win? w/@nycbotanist, @evie4us & @naturegardener
Live now: wnyc.org/story/the-brian-leh…
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I wrote about the carceral logic of the model minority myth.
“Even as the model minority myth is the most widely circulated discourse regarding Asian Americans…its relationship to the sociology of crime and deviance is not widely discussed.”
aaww.org/the-carceral-logic-…
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Tomorrow at 11:30 AM! Join @IA_Impact in welcoming @PadmaLakshmi and @meena to Philadelphia to rally and launch a canvass! Let’s tell Dr Oz to pack his knives and go!!! 👩🏾🍳🔪🗳 Sign up here! iaimpact.org/gotv/
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If you voted by mail, check whether you are one of the Philadelphians who might have left off the date or have another similar issue with your ballot. You can still ensure your vote is properly counted:
vote.phila.gov/news/2022/11/…
Philly has posted lists of voters who submitted flawed mail ballots.
• 1,830 undated ballots
• 1,092 naked ballots
• 338 wrongly dated ballots
• 145 unsigned ballots
vote.phila.gov/news/2022/11/…
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“Affirmative action is less about diversity than it is about justice,” says law professor @stone_geoffrey. “It's about reckoning with our history, with our past, and even with the unfortunate discrimination that continues to exist in our society today.” @MichelMcQMartin
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#AsianAmericans make up 27.6% of @Harvard's class of '26. In the war on affirmative action, the plaintiffs argue that the % would be higher if admissions were based strictly on objective metrics, unconstrained by race. But even grades are subject to bias.
nytimes.com/2022/11/01/opini…
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Thank you, @GovernorTomWolf, for taking action to protect abortion in Pennsylvania. This is an important front in the larger fight to enshrine a person's rights to freedom and bodily autonomy and care. #SB106 is GOP gaslighting, with deadly consequences.
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New @LeftAnchor episode! This week, the hosts talked to Pennsylvania state Senator @NikilSaval about legislating as a progressive in a Republican-controlled legislature.
You can listen to the episode here:
prospect.org/podcasts/the-ar…
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Why is the Egyptian wing of museums so far away from the African wing?
Why is “classical” used to describe some cultures and “primitive” others?
Read our new interview Sarah Derbew, who reflects on the intellectual geneses of her forthcoming book:
buff.ly/3G8slOj
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Students @FairfieldU protest for more diversity. Administrators offer a two-year "college" in nearby Bridgeport, CT with no actual campus, pathways to the main campus, or economic support for the city. See my thoughts @insidehighered about this dangerous approach to diversity 👇🏿
Fairfield University’s Bellarmine College, designed to give low-income students in neighboring Bridgeport an affordable education, faces pushback from some residents. #HigherEd bit.ly/3yLAIw0
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Today on the blog, Kate Meng Brassel reflects on teaching race & ethnicity in antiquity in the context of the ongoing surge of anti-Asian violence in the U.S.
classicalstudies.org/scs-blo…
ALT A dark painting featuring men in togas. A number of men in the center wearing white togas reach towards an older man, seated in a brown toga. As they extend arms towards him, he pushes them away and looks aside.
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Today on the blog, Kate Meng Brassel reflects on interviews with students and scholars of Asian descent in Classics. This piece is the second in a two-part series on AAPI experiences in Classical Studies.
classicalstudies.org/scs-blo…
ALT Bronze statuette showing a smaller animal biting the leg of a horse, which stands above it.
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Pleased to share some news: I am opening a new chapter as a tenure-track Assistant Professor @Harvard_History and @HarvardAAAS! 1/
history.fas.harvard.edu/peop…
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Attacks on LGBT+ Americans escalated during Pride month, with violence and erasure from public space becoming very real threats, children's author @jmc_clintick told @Independent independent.co.uk/news/world…