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Call for Fellowship Applications: Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History

Society for Classical Studies

If selected, fellows will give a public lecture on their work, participate in a workshop on their project, participate in a seminar with graduate students relating to their work, and record an episode for the Future of the Past Podcast. 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

The lenses of Western modernity – e.g., capitalism, Christianity, democracy, empirical science – surreptitiously shape the study of past cultures in ways that disregard their own claims about their world in favor of those that align with traditions of the Euro-American academy.

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What’s it like to teach psychology?

Jonathan Firth

I became interested in teaching when I was an undergraduate, through the experience of giving talks to my Honours class and leading small seminars – I found that I enjoyed explaining concepts and research to others. In contrast, those with a joint honours degree combining it with a traditional ‘school’ subject (e.g.

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WWI and the 1920s: Interview with Jennifer Keene, Part 2.

Teaching American History

Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. When I use this document in seminars, teachers always want to talk about it. He still hopes to devise a plan that will eliminate future causes of war.

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Speaking Truth to Israel Requires More Than Academic Freedom

Sapiens

In December 2023, I attended an online seminar featuring the anthropologist Ghassan Hage , a leading expert on race and migration. Scholars in the social sciences and humanities must put our ethical values and critical thinking tools to work to explicitly challenge such “post-truth” distortions.