Tuesday, Oct. 28. 4:00 p.m. Mabel O. Wilson (Columbia): "Hints on Public Whiteness: Building the Smithsonian Castle" Pembroke Hall 305. A Pembroke Seminar “The Civic Work of Monuments” Lecture. Learn more: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @juliethooker.bsky.social

New from me: On Kara Walker's radical transformation of a toppled Confederate memorial — the Stonewall Jackson statue from Charlottesville, Va. Her piece goes on view next month, part of the big MONUMENTS show at The Brick and MOCA in Los Angeles. [Gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...

Junior faculty and grad students in political science, history, law, and Native American Studies, come take a class with us at the New York Historical Society (and via Zoom) on Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the U.S. Constitution. To apply, Institute for Constitutional History: 1/2

Free to read now. www.book2look.com/book/SO9q2ZB...

The EO that included restoring monuments/memorials on federal property is a full-on embrace of Confederate ideology. Beginning Monday @uncpress.bsky.social will make my book No Common Ground available to read FOR FREE for the next two weeks. Educate yourself about what this embrace means. ✊

#WomensHistoryMonth: The City of Women Map is a fascinating visualization of women’s history and urban transportation. Created by Molly Roy, Rebecca Solnit, and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, the map renames subway stops after notable women with links to that area, offering an entirely new way to view #NYC.

📜 How we remember matters. What happens when records become harder to access? OAH has launched the Records at Risk Data Collection Initiative to track changes in the availability of historical sources & their impact on public history. 🔎 Read about it: ow.ly/c9A950VgxWt

My department at Smith College is hiring a one year VAP in Political Theory. Full time (2:3) and benefited position. Specialization is open but particularly interested in candidates in either American Political Thought and/or Comparative Political Theory. Apply here apply.interfolio.com/164854

Patriarchy Redux: Now What? A webinar. Monday, March 31, 2025. 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Registration required. buff.ly/k8zyYZh @kateshaw.bsky.social @devawo.bsky.social @juliethooker.bsky.social

In Black Grief/White Grievance, @juliethooker.bsky.social calls for an expansion of Black & white political imaginations, arguing that both must learn to sit with loss, for different reasons & to different ends. 🎧 Add this #audiobook to your #audio library today: press.princeton.edu/books/audio/...

Scholars from any field whose work relates to the theme of the Pembroke Seminar, "The Civic Work of Monuments” are welcome to apply to our fellowship. Learn more: https://buff.ly/44G5BA6. Apps due 11/25. Led by Juliet Hooker, Political Science. @juliethooker.bsky.social @brownupolisci.bsky.social

Please share this call for abstracts! The Revolutionary Spirit: Hannah Arendt & Black Political Thought A conference at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics & Humanities, Bard College – March 27-28, 2025 Feat. a keynote by Prof. Neil Roberts & a talk by Prof. Ainsley LeSure bit.ly/HACSpring25

A reminder as people go vote: Millions of people are barred from voting due to convictions. In some states, this accounts for up to 10% of voting-age population! Just a startling amount. Harshest are states with lifetime bans — you can lose your right for life for any felony.

Alternate timeline where every U.S. media outlet spends a decade fixated on explaining to the public why it is that the economic anxiety of Black and Latinx women, who are consistently at the bottom of these things, has never led them away from a politics of solidarity or toward fascism

Welcoming postdoc applications from scholars from any field whose research relates to the theme of the Pembroke Seminar, "The Civic Work of Monuments.” Learn more: https://buff.ly/44G5BA6. Apps due 11/25. Led by Juliet Hooker, Political Science. @juliethooker.bsky.social @brownupolisci.bsky.social

New: Israel Deliberately Blocked Humanitarian Aid to Gaza, Two Government Bodies Concluded. Secretary of State Blinken Rejected Them. www.propublica.org/article/gaza...

AAUP report: none of what we are seeing in FL is unique. Nor is it simply chaotic & haphazard policymaking…When we fight for free inquiry, we fight…for the generations to come and for their ability to understand and envision a world that is more than a reflection of the interests of those in power.

An amazing archival find, beautifully told, about June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich and the challenges of solidarity. lareviewofbooks.org/article/movi...

"...since Philando was killed, she has poured her energy into activism, wiping out school lunch debt and pushing for free school meals. This week, her advocacy hit a high point: The state Legislature passed a bill to provide free [meals] to all schoolchildren." sahanjournal.com/education/fr...

Kathleen Searles and I have been researching how to better support and protect colleagues who face backlash when they share their expertise publicly. We prepared this tip sheet for academics who are likely to be doing public-facing engagement this election season. Please share widely.

Every University in Gaza Has Been Destroyed. So Have These Students’ Dreams. | Sondos Fayoumi | @thenation.com The class of 2024 was supposed to graduate this year. Instead, they are trapped in the hell of Gaza, and their futures are unknown www.thenation.com/article/worl...

“How can we come back from so much grief? How could we let this happen? What are we supposed to make of the world when Palestinian deaths are excused by talking points, repeated again and again on the news?” www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/o...

CNN finally sheds light on Israel's shocking and barbaric torture chambers: thousands of people, detained for months: Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center www.cnn.com/2024/05/10/m...

Did you read (or write) a great feminist political theory paper in 2023? Please nominate it for APSA's Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory! Any paper published in 2023 in any English-language journal is eligible

There’s a similar operation happening at CCNY. But there is much more violence happening there according to my students there. 🤬

Great interview w friend & colleague, Prof. Noelle McAfee, arrested in the peaceful demonstration (that the police turned violent) on our #Emory campus. Excellent points re the nuanced views of students & faculty, polarizing actions of UNI administrations nationwide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwNW...

patriot front is marching unopposed in West Virginia right now no police in sight. People really need to be asking why neo-Nazis are allowed to march with impunity while peaceful students protesting against genocide are being beaten, mercilessly and treated like a invading army.

You can toggle over any dot on our map to find the campus name, number of arrests, prosecuting agency, prosecutor's response, and prosecutor's election year. Prosecutors hold enormous power: they can brand these protesters with a criminal record for life—or let them go.

“Repression is meant to teach us that there are limits to what you can say, who you can talk to, what you can demand, what value you can give to your life and to the lives of those around you. If you make the mistake of thinking that you are a human being—well, then violence is inevitable.”

The excellent @jordanuhl.com put together this list of protesters’ bail funds, contribute early, contribute often

Today in @thenation.com we have a piece by Lujayn, a 14-year-old girl in Gaza, that has floored me every time I've read it. It's about what happened when an Israeli bulldozer came to destroy the house she was staying in, and you must, must, must read it. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

““I have so much privilege being in this country where we have rights to just being able to go to university, while in Gaza all the universities got destroyed,” Ahmed said. “A sit-in like this is the bare minimum.”” www.dallasnews.com/news/educati...

The "Palestine exception" to academic freedom and free speech on campus is spreading, and those who value universities and their principles should fight against it regardless of their views on the conflicts in the Middle East.

Duke University announced it is ending a full-ride scholarship program for Black students in the wake of the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling

This is the talk that got cancelled at the barbican: it hums with moral clarity & intellectual integrity, & is a model for principled public speech on these matters

Georgia is about to outlaw bail funds. GOP really knows how to do repression. Legally prevent the utilization of collective resources/make acting as and in community as costly as possible. Then build a hyper-militarized police territory in the middle of the largest public green space.

If I were a New York Times education reporter, I’d cover this, really looking at the consequences for students in New York City.

This is part of what Wes Lowery has calls “whitelash” it looks different than in Florida, than Tr*mp, b/c it’s Ivy educated and has weaponized the language of equality, real issues of marginalization, and history as part of a huge gaslighting project to Make Universities Great Again.

If you can’t see the forest through the trees of what that all means I don’t know what to say. The pressure is part of the larger backlash to marginalized people and voices being integrated into universities and that having a real impact on student’s interest in holding power to account.

One of the things I want folks to understand about the billionaires who forced the Penn pres to resign is they started all this before Oct 7 and among their complaints is that Penn “prioritizes DEI” is “too social justice focused” and is “unrecognizable” to what it looked like when they attended.

Yes, this Masha Gessen piece is essential reading. "It is ever so hard for people to wrap their minds around the idea that someone could have been the enemy of your enemy and yet not a benevolent force. A victim and also a perpetrator. Or vice versa." www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

Tribes in Maine Spent Decades Fighting to Rebury Ancestral Remains. Harvard Resisted Them at Nearly Every Turn. The university’s Peabody Museum exploited loopholes to prevent repatriation to the Wabanaki people while still staying in compliance with NAGPRA. The tribes didn’t give up.

The college student who was shot in Vermont shares a message. His doctors and family say he may not walk again

A number of political scientists are calling for an immediate ceasefire in the current Israeli-Palestinian war, and an end to Israel’s blockade of Gaza to allow in aid sufficient to address the territory’s acute humanitarian crisis. You can read and sign the petition here: Polisky