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3 May, 6 tweets, 3 min read
#ClassicsTwitter #medievaltwitter and Friends

Politics a #RaceB4Race Symposium starts this week

Sponsored by @BrandeisU @BrandeisCLAS @acmrs_org

eventbrite.com/e/politics-a-r…
Tuesday

Shelley P. Haley - "Re-imagining Classics: Audre Lorde Was Right"

Scott Manning Stevens - "Early Modern Indigenous Chronologies"

Jared Rodriguez - “Anti-Blackness, Medieval Studies, and Other Religions of Latin Christian Coloniality”

Q&A with Dan-El Padilla Peralta
Wednesday 1

Lubaaba Al-Azami - "Remembering Hans Sloane: Decolonial Disruptions to Archival Violence"

Lyra D. Monteiro - "What’s in a Column? Liberation Archaeology and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy"
Wednesday 2

Shyama Rajendran - "The Politics of Language: Vernacularity and Racialization, Past and Present"

Q&A moderated by Urvashi Chakravarty

Keynote with Ibram X. Kendi co-sponsored by Wellesley College
Thursday

Roland Betancourt - "The Far Right’s Whitewashed Byzantium"

Joyce Green MacDonald - "Finding Black Women in Shakespeare"

Patrice Rankine - "Pre-Racial Fantasies: Locating Antiquity and the American Stage at the fin de siècle"

Q&A moderated by Cord J. Whitaker
Friday
Yujhán Claros - "Biology, Gender, Color, and the Racialization of Politics at Imperial Athens"

Jennifer L. Morgan - "Race and Reckoning—Slavery, Kinship and the Marketplace"

Stacey Murrell - "Black in Iberia: On Concubinage, Race, and Belonging"

Q&Awith Dorothy Kim

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4 May
Following up on @SarahEBond's tweet: a list of reasons why Campbell's monomyth is problematic

7 themes.

1. The monomyth presents simplified descriptive narrative pattern as a prescriptive tool, overlooking that most myths that have monomythic patterns can be analyzed in different ways for many different functions. Campbell reduces myth to what is useful for Campbell
2. The monomyth oversimplifies a 'hero', ignoring different distinctions: ancient heroes were not about virtue and sacrifice. They were about a. cosmic eras (an age of man, or generation of hemitheoi; b. a heros is a person in their full strength, full "bloom" riffing on "hera"
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take a minute and imagine a tree in a park or garden. Make it a really nice tree that has been well situated in its environment. Think about the trees’ imperfect symmetry, they way it occupies its space

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Now think about this: someone planted the tree; others tended to it and trimmed it; more people spent generations selecting this domesticated tree from its ancestral stock. It is a inextricable product of nature and nurture.
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Then there’s the aesthetics of the tree. Your appreciation is based on other trees you might not remember as well as an entire ‘grammar’ of human beings and the environment

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16 Feb
To riff on Tolstoy as one does: All happy classics departments resemble one another, but every unhappy department is unhappy in its own way

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.@kataplexis and @lpoldybloom train our gaze to a small liberal arts school where they teach, to move the discourse from elite institutions and PhD programs

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6 Feb
on #BurningItDown

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This report's reductive, revisionist, and racist idolatry is exactly why I come down so hard on approaches to the humanities that use similar strategies even if they adjust the content and make it "centrist" or "apolitical"
The construction of the past is always political. Claiming otherwise is political.

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1 Oct 20
.@PeterGainsford @theo_nash @ProfThibodeau

Friends, I have been following the janko discussion and as a homerist with some interest in traditional and formulaic language, I just wanted to add my two cents. Sorry to butt in! But...you know...

#JankyHomer
I have not taken Janko’s methods or his results seriously for decades because (1) it is based on deeply problematic premises and (2) the dataset will never be sufficient

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For (1) his method and model assumes (a) a static and (b) hierarchical relationship between texts that (c) does not entertain multiple performance traditions development different levels of fixity over time

#JankyHomer 3
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