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Spain’s Move to Decolonize Its Museums Must Continue

Sapiens

Read more from the archives: “ Repatriation Has Transformed, Not Ended, Research.” It follows the International Council of Museums’ 2022–2028 Strategic Plan for decolonizing museums and commitments Spain has made at international forums such as UNESCO’s Mondiacult 2022.

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Mapping Ancient Emotions: How Mesopotamians Felt and Expressed Their Feelings in the Body

Anthropology.net

Steinert Book : Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East , 2022. Kipfer Journal : ZORA: Zurich Open Repository and Archive , 2017. Sibbing-Plantholt Book : Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East , 2022. PDF Link : uzh.ch PDF Link : Academia.edu Sadness and Grief in Akkadian Texts Author : I.

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When Wartime Plunder Comes to Campus

Sapiens

IN 2022, the Art Crimes Division of the FBI became interested in a palm-size piece of carved ivory held by Emory Universitys art museum in Atlanta, Georgia. Read more from the archives: The Battle to Protect Archaeological Sites in the West Bank. Excitement rises when we reach displays holding the most ancient material.

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Call for Applications: 2025 APSA Advancing Research Grant for Early-Career Scholars | Deadline: May 6, 2025

Political Science Now

Read about previous grantees and their projects: 2020 Grants | 2021 Grants | 2022 Grants | 2023 Grants | 2024 Grants The post Call for Applications: 2025 APSA Advancing Research Grant for Early-Career Scholars | Deadline: May 6, 2025 appeared first on. Collaboratively-authored projects are also welcomed. Applications are due May 6, 2025.

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Black Teachers: A Pedagogy of Organized Resistance

Zinn Education Project

She is the author of eight books, including Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry and the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation.

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LGBTQ+ Histories of the U.S. Summer Institute

ASHP CML

to gather at the Graduate Center and to visit New York City archives and cultural sites. We also benefited from the enthusiastic contributions of six teachers who had previously taken part in 2022’s LGBTQ+ summer institute and who worked alongside Dr. After meeting virtually for a week, participants traveled from across the U.S.

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Tackling the Wreckage of War

Sapiens

Local surveyors, construction workers, architects, and engineers documented the destruction as it happened on hand-colored maps, which are now held at the London Metropolitan Archives. In 2021 and 2022, I conducted an archaeological walkover and photographic survey of the marshes. I struggled to find obvious evidence of the conflict.

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