Applications are not yet open for the "Racing the Classics" fellowship for next year, but if anyone at #AIASCS2026 #AIASCS who would like to learn more about it, I'm here and, as an associate convener, am eager to talk with folks who are considering applying!
Hm, I return to Blue Sky and see this post, & only I came here to say I could (but won't) write an article, titled after Beverly Tatums' book:
"Why are all the white boys sitting together at the Classics conference?"
Back at #AIASCS2026 in 2+ decades (?!) and visibly WAY more diverse, but and ofc.
Be sure to read Dr. Lyra Monteiro @intersectionist.bsky.social on the white supremacy of neoclassical architecture.
This piece was written during at the end of Trump's first term, but still very much relevant!
hyperallergic.com/614175/how-a...
URGENT:
We may be facing an illegal eviction. It's a Saturday night and we've only just found out.
If you know a housing attorney in NYC, who we could speak to re: the situation before Monday, please lmk, or send them my email lyra.d.monteiro at gmail (DM for my phone number).
@mxabdulaliy.bsky.social and I wrote a letter to the editor which ran in @inquirer.com today re: the Mütter Museum’s horrifyingly regressive new Human Remains Policy.
The Mütter Museum needs to close.
#FindingCeremony
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It's an embarrassment to Philly.
@mxabdulaliy.bsky.social and I wrote a letter to the editor which ran in @inquirer.com today re: the Mütter Museum’s horrifyingly regressive new Human Remains Policy.
The Mütter Museum needs to close.
#FindingCeremony
web.archive.org/web/20250902...
I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.
"The issue isn't whether we should or shouldn't exhibit human remains, but rather can we do so in a way that does justice to these individuals."- Sara Ray, director IE
No, you can't do so! Because in the end, you're still displaying their stolen bones! So whose version of justice is this?
Well said.
This is less of a human remains policy and more of a "we'll add more label text admitting that the bones were stolen in the first place."
If you're writing a syllabus in anthropology, public history/humanities, museum studies, etc., please consider these pieces about #FindingCeremony:
1. This short intro which I co-authored with Finding Ceremony's Co-Convener, @mxabdulaliy.bsky.social in @SAPIENS_org: www.sapiens.org/biology/find...
For classicists, historians, and others concerned with the politics of the past, here are links for my work on American whyte supremacy and ancient Greece and Rome that are frequently taught:
1. This January 2021 @hyperallergic.com op ed:
hyperallergic.com/614175/how-a...
Syllabus material for Fall 2025 (and beyond!)
2. This 2020 Medium post adapted from a chapter of my 2012 PhD dissertation, titled: "Power Structures: White Columns, White Marble, White Supremacy"
intersectionist.medium.com/american-pow...
For classicists, historians, and others concerned with the politics of the past, here are links for my work on American whyte supremacy and ancient Greece and Rome that are frequently taught:
1. This January 2021 @hyperallergic.com op ed:
hyperallergic.com/614175/how-a...
My Co-Convener, aAliy Muhammad, and I are available for keynotes/talks for an appropriate fee.
If you're interested in inviting us to speak about #FindingCeremony at your institution, organization, or conference, you can reach us at: lyra.d.monteiro at gmail.
It's not the same thing for an academic to speak to students about her work with minimal compensation, as it is to ask a community member to revisit trauma under those circumstances.
With that in mind:
Both pieces work well in undergrad and grad courses.
I'm available to guest lecture in any class where #FindingCeremony's work is on the syllabus taught, for your institution's standard honorarium--DM me or email lyra.d.monteiro at gmail to schedule this.
2. "Open access violence: Legacies of white supremacist data making at the Penn Museum, from the Morton Cranial Collection to the MOVE remains," a longer journal article that I published in the International Journal of Cultural Property: doi.org/10.1017/S094...
If you're writing a syllabus in anthropology, public history/humanities, museum studies, etc., please consider these pieces about #FindingCeremony:
1. This short intro which I co-authored with Finding Ceremony's Co-Convener, @mxabdulaliy.bsky.social in @SAPIENS_org: www.sapiens.org/biology/find...
Relatedly: exactly a week before
Rosa’s story is published, the museum hosts a “skull drawing workshop” with remains not currently on display:
Meanwhile, from the museum’s own social media (their thread includes images of human remains):
CW: more theft of human remains by a Philly museum + medical examiner in the 1980s.
Tell me again why it’s ok for this museum to exist.
And if they go public with this, think about what isn’t being shared—maybe isn’t even known yet, by current leadership.
#FindingCeremony
they got thesw skulls in 1999??? y'all, just play the recording of me last the mütter town hall meeting at the next one. just play it on loop until the end of time and all the stolen bones are laid to rest
Do you hear this, Mütter Museum???
That’s a relief, ty for telling me! It’s unfortunate the caption doesn’t make that clear.
Thanks for capturing so clearly the situation at the museum—most of the media coverage this past year has compounded the violence of the museum’s staff & fans by leaning into sensationalism.
Thanks for recommending! Just to clarify, there are no images of human remains accompanying the piece; the photos are of wax or plaster models. (But they look close enough that the warning is appropriate!)
TW: link has images of human remains
Excellent piece in today's @newyorker.com by @rachelmonroe.bsky.social re: Philadelphia's Mutter Museum.
No coincidence it's in the same city that was home to Samuel George Morton & is home to the Penn Museum.
#FindingCeremony
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