#ICYMI: “Why are the soldiers hurting Palestinian children?” Parenthood, identity and culture during #genocide. Ala Sirriyeh’s look at how the war on Gaza has affected children and parents across the Palestinian diaspora is among the Magazine’s #2024mostread. https://buff.ly/3VlVH3S

UCU Westminster notes with dismay that two senior professors from the University of Westminster delivered keynote addresses to a conference at Tel Aviv University last November. Read out full statement on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DGK3ZMStqYU/ or here: westminsterucu.craft.me/YTKHiJYOa8r0OG

The most depressing thing about University Ranking Days is that it ignores the fundamental truth about UKHE: Every department in every university is full of outstanding and original scholars. Every. Single. One. What distinguishes between them are the systemic inequalities in which they work.

'Thinking with Prehistory' is now out in Epoch issue 3. 'Across contemporary Europe there is a renewed interest in engaging with the ancient earthworks and megalithic artefacts of the prehistoric landscape' Read or download here www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/m55zr...

Today's story about the BFI's reclassification of Mary Poppins on account of its reference to 'Hottentots' reminds me of this thing I wrote about the way that cultural change around race undermines the legitimacy of our own pasts sociologyatwestminster.wordpress.com/2018/01/01/m...