Sunday Reading
...Chai Pe Charcha Study suggests insular faculty hiring practices in elite departments U. Mass. Will Not Admit Iranian Students to Schools of Engineering and Natural Sciences Selling the Sacred Cow:...
Leak, Memory
...part of the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, for example, gathers testimonies of prisoner abuse in Guantánamo, and makes them widely available online. There is...
Sunday Reading
...option for school integration? Unfunded mandate: Columbia College, Arts and Sciences, and the Bollinger era No confidence in the UW administration / Setting the record straight Study and struggle Actually...
Red Planet
An interview with Nick Estes about his new book, Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
The questioning of experience and the images of the Same
...found to contain an intact version of the original simulation. Every divisible part of a simulation contains itself. [This very aspect most certainly led Imp Kerr to study simulations, and...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of November 25, 2019)
...eatery "Immigrant Food" occupies a spot near the White House More and more adults are asking "Why eat meals when you can snack," study finds Social media's impact on Japan's...
Transnational American Studies @ American University of Beirut 1/6-9
...the study of religion – broadly conceived – in a transnational American Studies frame. Scholarship in transnational gender and sexuality studies. Jan 6-9 American University of Beirut More Info...
When Lovers Die
...out. The love-is-death story is so common we could do nothing but list sentence-long summaries of examples for weeks. In its lasting depictions, love is a way to die more...
The Changing Faces of Sci-Fi and Fantasy
...would shift--even in a single scene, I’d be like, “I’m not quite sure if that actually happened or not.” When I was workshopping it with some of my peers, what...
Whose Time Is It, Anyway?
The uneven temporalities that structure global capitalism require martyrdom from its least valued commuters
Feminism, Fascism, and Frogs: The Case of Bertha Lutz at the United Nations
...scientific career. Trained as a zoologist and working as a herpetologist (the study of frogs), Lutz gained international prominence in the 1930s, a period when prominent female careers in science...
Recommended Reading
...the vanity table—and, sure, the passive beliefs we’ve absorbed—and go from there. So, yes, any true primer on beauty for women today must include The Beauty Myth, absolutely. But there...
Sunday Reading
...Militarism, and Imperialism Freedom From Education: Decolonial Study for Abolishing the Prison-University Complex Neoliberal Mothering and Vaccine Refusal "One can always tell how politically unstable the peripheries are by the...
Seducing the 'Feeble-Minded'
...Word came to the American Book Company’s editorial rooms that there was an objection to their textbook’s discussion of eugenics, which made use of a recent study of the “Kallikak”...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of October 13, 2019)
...explain why low-income people seldom follow popular "cooking on a budget" tips Get enough exercise if you want to lose weight — but also be sure to get enough sleep...
The Transcendence of the Makeover
...an immediate, albeit brief, stand-in for the longer, harder work of transcendence, which often requires such unglamorous tasks like study, or meditation, or spiritual communion, or plain old age. And...