After two days of #SnowdenLecture, I get the treat of being at an event I didn't help organize: @NMAAHC is celebrating @HowardU sculptor Akili Ron Anderson & his Last Supper @StudioActingDC www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/last-s...
Looking forward to @HowardU #SnowdenLecture @PhiBetaKappa Day 2: Teaching Transformative Texts from Antiquity & the African Diaspora. Thank you to @HellenicStudies for hosting & @NEHgov Teagle for helping make this possible. Key notes Dr. Carolivia Herron & Dr. @AnikaFreeindeed
Thrilled to listen to this year's #SnowdenLecture & #PhiBetaKappa Liberal Arts Roundtable by Dr. Anika Prather (Howard alum! FMI drprather.com/about-2/) There's a complimenting workshop tomorrow @ the Center for Hellenic Studies chs.harvard.edu/event/teachi...
Thrilled to listen to this year's #SnowdenLecture & @PhiBetaKappa Liberal Arts Roundtable by @AnikaFreeindeed (@HowardU alum! FMI https://drprather.com/about-2/ There's a complimenting workshop tomorrow @HellenicStudies...
Also bless the student who reminded everyone that @HowardU’s own Dr. Stark started @eosafricana Africana Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome https://www.eosafricana.org/ #SnowdenLecture #BlackClassicists
Murray reminds us that scholarship isn’t the only way to reclaim Classics; there are also artists re-imagining Classicism as anti-racist counter-monuments #SnowdenLecture #BlackClassicists
As HU students speak out in the Q&A about how much they love their Classics classes prompts me to also just leave piece by Murray & RFK here andscape.com/features/classics-is-a-p... #SnowdenLecture #BlackClassicists
I regularly assign @eidolon_journal to students & am so sad it is no longer active. I also recommend all of @platanoclassics & Sarah Bond’s articles there.
#SnowdenLecture #BlackClassicists
Links for , RFK, & DEM’s similar calls in @eidolon_journal #SnowdenLecture #BlackClassicists 3/ 3
*Denise Eileen McCoskey “Bad to the Bone: The Racist Application of DNA Science to Classical Antiquity”
https://eidolon.pub/bad-to-the-bone-617ca3e37347
Links for , RFK, & DEM’s similar calls in @eidolon_journal #SnowdenLecture #BlackClassicists 2/ 3
*Rebecca Futo Kennedy “We Condone It by Our Silence” (11 May 2017)eidolon.pub/we-condone-it-by-our-sil...
Links for , RFK, & DEM’s similar calls in @eidolon_journal #SnowdenLecture #BlackClassicists
* @donnazuck “How to Be a Good Classicist Under a Bad Emperor” (21 Nov 2016) eidolon.pub/how-to-be-a-good-classic...
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Murray ends with a call to arms for Classicists to push back against anti-Black, anti-LGBTQ+, generally anti-inclusive approaches to the field. Reminding us of @donnazuck, RFK, & DEM’s similar calls in @eidolon_journal #SnowdenLecture #BlackClassicists links in next tweet
.@HellenicStudies has been incredibly supportive of @HowardU’s Classics/IDS & @PhiBetaKappa chapter. The partnered on the previous #SnowdenLecture (a 3-day symposium on incarceration, pre-pandemic) & it is a pleasure to work with them again. #BlackClassicists
My ability to live tweet has devolved over the years, so here’s a quick reminder that @HellenicStudies generously have provided live-streaming, recording of both the #SnowdenLecture & yesterday’s fireside chat. #BlackClassicists
https://chs.harvard.edu/black-classicists-2/
That this historic revisionism is happening so soon after the Civil War, in Kentucky (a state that was actually in the Union) illustrates how representations of the past are used to push white supremacist policy in the present. #SnowdenLecture #BlackClassicists
Murray reminds us that in US Civil War discourses, the “Lost Cause” explanation emerges after the conflict, often claiming comparisons between the Confederacy & Classical precedents such as the Spartans. #SnowdenLecture #BlackClassicists
Murray reminds us of right-wing attempts to recast the US’s history of systemic racism by turning to Classicism then & now, that we are called to be explicitly anti-racist in how we represent Antiquity #SnowdenLecture #BlackClassicists
Dr. Murray shares a chilling image from @WorldPopReview graphic of states banning what they label as CRT worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/states-th... #SnowdenLecture #BlackClassicists
Dr. Murray connects the United Daughters of the Confederacy early c20 attempts ban the play adaptation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin as a social danger to children to current attempts to suppress discussion of systemic racism, homophobia in education. #SnowdenLecture #BlackClassicists
