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Call for Fellowship Applications: Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History

Society for Classical Studies

Often, the product of this influence is a colonialist narrative that presents past cultures as flawed or inconsistent (because they fail to meet modern criteria) and modern (usually Western) cultures as the resolution of these inconsistencies. Fellowships will be distributed equally across the 2025-2026 academic year (i.e.,

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Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History: Call for Fellows

Society for Classical Studies

Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History: Call for Fellows kskordal Mon, 03/04/2024 - 13:37 Image The Future of the Past Lab and the Center for Premodern Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities are excited to announce a three-year series of visiting fellowships titled “Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History.”

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New Discoveries on Ancient Thule-Inuit and Paleo-Inuit Settlements

Anthropology.net

A recent groundbreaking study 1 provides new insights into the ancient cultures of Canada's Arctic, focusing on the Paleo-Inuit and Thule-Inuit peoples who inhabited the region over thousands of years. Biological Sciences , 291 (2026). 1 Gallant, L. P., & Blais, J. Proceedings.

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College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 8

The Hechinger Report

A few years ago, I went out to Amherst College in western Massachusetts, where Catherine Epstein took me down to the school’s archives. Epstein gives me a sampling of some of the history department’s offerings, like ‘Birth of the Avant-Garde: Modern Poetry and Culture in France and Russia, 1870 to 1930.’ What does that mean?

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How a Megadam Disrupts the Flow of Water—and Money

Sapiens

After two decades, the dam is expected to finally start generating electricity in 2025 and be fully operational in 2026. In Assamese society, tamul-paan holds great cultural significance and is offered to people as a sign of respect. Read on, from the SAPIENS archives: The Struggles of a River People in Assam.