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Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future

Zinn Education Project

Register We are delighted to host scholar Jason Stanley in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian for an online class on Monday, May 12. Here is why: In Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future , Jason Stanley exposes the ways authoritarian regimes manipulate historical narratives to maintain power. Stanley demonstrates how attacks on education and historical memory support authoritarianism, undermining public understanding of past struggles for j

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North American Cicero Awayday

Society for Classical Studies

North American Cicero Awayday kskordal Fri, 03/07/2025 - 10:46 Image North American Cicero Awayday 12 April 2025 at Wake Forest University: Registration now open. The departments of Classics and Philosophy at Wake Forest University cordially invite you to the second biennial North American Cicero Awayday on 12 April 2025 at the Wake Downtown campus in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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Discarded

Living Geography

New in my library is a book exploring the legacy we will leave behind for future occupants of the planet to find. which is looking increasingly likely at the moment. It's called 'Discarded' and connects directly with a unit we do on consumption and the geography of stuff. indeed, consumption and convenience have resulted in a rapid increase in things being discarded prematurely.

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CFP: 1st International Graduate Conference (Classical Association of Ghana)

Society for Classical Studies

CFP: 1st International Graduate Conference (Classical Association of Ghana) kskordal Fri, 03/07/2025 - 09:13 Image 1st International Graduate Conference (Classical Association of Ghana) 16-17 December 2025, University of Ghana Call for Papers On Vice The Classical Association of Ghana invites graduate students and early career researchers (with not more than two years research experience after PhD) to submit abstracts (and, subsequently, papers based on the abstracts) for our maiden two-day inte

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Sandi Toksvig and the Mappa Mundi

Living Geography

Sandi Toksvig is giving a Monday Night Lecture in April at the RGS-IBG. I'd like to be there, but it clashes with family events. She is talking about a project which she describes in this Cambridge alumnus newsletter/journal: which is called Mappa Mundi. Inspired by a map of the world made in 1300 by German nuns, Sandi Toksvig is looking to reassess how we chart what we know.

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Erasing Events and Acknowledgements

All Things Pedagogical

A shorter post today and a bit earlier as I have had a busy week of events, workshops, and talks and I need to take some time this weekend to rest and work on some article writing. I was going to go to the International Women's Day (IWD) march tomorrow, but my bodymind needs a bit more rest after the busy week I've had. But the fact that we are almost at IWD had me thinking this week about those digital calendar providers that I will not name here who made the ridiculous decision a few weeks ago

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Global Commons

Living Geography

I've been working on some writing which references the Global Commons. These are shared spaces which are for all humanity. They all have regulations and agreements limiting how they can be used, in an attempt to protect them from exploitation or actions which may slowly degrade them, or set precedents for future use. Elon Musk's Space X / Starlink satellites are already degrading Space and littering it with satellites for commercial gain.

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Signs of Spring

Living Geography

Outside my classroom are plenty of signs of spring, with snowdrops and aconites already out, and some daffodils beginning to show in green. The mornings are getting lighter earlier and we will soon see the last of the frosts perhaps. The Field Studies Council have teamed up with the Royal Society of Biology on a Signs of Spring Survey. They have identified ten signs of spring.

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The Science of Your Social Media Sources

Political Science Now

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Sienna Nordquist , covers the new article by Jon Green, Stefan McCabe, Sarah Shugars, Hanyu Chwe, Luke Horgan, Shuyang Cao, and David Lazer, “Curation Bubbles “ There are many differences between the 20th and 21st centuries: computers which used to be the size of entire buildings now fit in our pockets, skinn

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The Lapedo Child: A 28,000-Year-Old Mystery Reshaped by Science

Anthropology.net

A Child Buried in Ochre, A Legacy Written in Bone Buried deep within a Portuguese rock shelter some 28,000 years ago, a small child’s ochre-stained bones whisper a tale of interwoven ancestries, ritual significance, and a culture lost to time. When the "Lapedo Child" was unearthed in 1998 in the Lagar Velho Valley, it upended long-held assumptions about Neanderthal extinction and human evolution.