Incredible. Italy brought to a standstill as Italians descend to the streets to protest for Gaza. No business as usual. Schools closed. Businesses closed. Shameful on the rest of us. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

This one is by me! 🤓 Thanks @scienceopen.bsky.social for sharing 🥰

Here I talk about the genealogy of the term "sexuality" and how it is a critical site of scholarly inquiry. I also talk about attacks on gender studies now.

Final 8 hours—please share 🙏🏾 We’re doing this evacuation drive for EIGHT families as daily goals, because a lot of support is needed, and we’re also constantly sending the funds out. EVERY dollar is hope that they can flee south. 757/1000

Week 2 of Shaira Chaer's 6-session workshop, "Poetry for the People" begins tomorrow. Ok to join even if you didn't attend last week! Week 2's topic is "Consent is a labyrinth of yes" ⬇️⬇️⬇️

We are pleased to co-sponsor this lecture series! Join us on our video channel bit.ly/arf-channel

BTC Microgrants Are Open Again! We’re happy to announce that the BTC Microgrants program is now accepting applications again. After a brief pause while we resolved account access issues, we’re ready to continue supporting archaeology students. While applications are usually open from the 1st to…

🚨CFP for #ResDiff7 is now available!🚨 Res Difficiles 7 will take place on 13th March 2026 with Dr Samuel Agbamu as our keynote speaker. Submit an abstract by 12th January 2026: resdifficiles.com/cfp/

Last night, a judge ordered recently-released Palestinian activist and former @columbiasipa.bsky.social student Mahmoud Khalil deported Tonight at 6 at Busboys and Poets, I’ll be the first to speak with Khalil since the ruling. We will talk about Columbia, cancellation, and free speech.

Well well well, looks like my multi-year procrastination to update my academia. edu account with any work has paid off.

On October 18, from 2–3:30 pm EST / 11 am–12:30 pm PST, join us for a discussion with Thu Truong on her article “Ocean Vuong, Intertextuality, and the Limits of Interpretation,” which was awarded the prestigious John J. Winkler Prize in 2025! Registration link available in bio.

Grateful for this show of solidarity by our academic colleagues at GHSCN.

As of now, only $12K of the necessary $250K in legal fees have been raised to free Leqaa. If prisoners are the compass of the Palestinian struggle, they should be the compass of the Palestinian solidarity struggle as well.

one of the most baffling parts of this. I spent the last decade or so prepping to make the "first they came for ethnic studies" version of the Niemoller point to libs. while they did (see the CRT offensive and book bans) I absolutely did not think children's cancer researchers would be next in line

On Israeli archaeological malpractice, heritage crimes, and US complicity #archaeology #🏺

Don’t forget the place to be on October is here! For more info and to sign up to attend: societyforthestudyofthepast.com/annual-meeti...

Almost 2 years of this relentless assault on Gaza. Two years of genocide.

I'd like to commend the lawyers who wrote this complaint on behalf of the professors and employees of the University of California against the Trump administration. It's a sober legal document with strong claims, but also, this is a fight for public opinion, and this reads like the writers know it.

The program for the upcoming hybrid workshop on Endangered Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine is now out! I cannot overstate how much I am looking forward to this important event everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...

16 hours left, and 200 WILL BE MATCHED! Usually our deadlines aren’t so strict but Akram needs these funds tomorrow at LATEST to save his family from under fire. He’s been asking for a month. Read that back. But we haven’t failed yet. Transport & shelter south—2059/3000 chuffed.org/project/hope...

this tendency within contemporary liberalism is intimately connected with its aversion to acknowledging past or present colonialism

In After Transformation, @maiakotro.bsky.social offers a lyrical history of Christian late antiquity as it lives on in and with the present. Read the intro for free now. buff.ly/TNIwz7k

"It is time to resist the injustice that now threatens to be normalized by those who capitulate, sometimes in advance, to powers that are clearly willing to destroy the basic principles that protect the university’s independence against external manipulations." www.chronicle.com/article/when...

I have a new article out today in Public Humanities, where I try to find some words for how historicide is (and has always been) a project of European colonialism - and I try to find some words for the historians who continue to support it. 🇵🇸✊🏻 Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On today’s new #PeoplingBlog, @lylaahlb.bsky.social takes us through her research on elephants and how they, and their accompanying peoples, served as vehicles for cultural exchange and transmission of knowledge as they traversed land and sea in antiquity: peoplingthepast.com/2025/09/12/b... /1

Unreal. "Forwarding these names, a well-known practice from the McCarthy Era, may well subject a number of faculty, staff, or students to widespread surveillance—a breathtaking breach of trust, ethics, and justice." - Judith Butler, whose name was among the 160 shared with the Trump administration

Report from @theguardian.com on the IOF's plan to bomb decades of finds in Jerusalem's French Biblical and Archaeological School. Immense solidarity with all our Palestinian colleagues risking their lives daily to save heritage in Gaza, and all of Palestine. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Important book on Gaza from SOAS @soasuni.bsky.social colleague Dina Matar, scheduled for publication by Saqi Books in November: Archiving Gaza in the Present Art, Memory and Erasure Edited by Dina Matar and Venetia Porter saqibooks.com/books/saqi/a...

“Il Brutish Museum” — for those who read Italian here’s a piece of writing I published in The Passenger book-magazine for their issue on London earlier this year, about the British Museum 🇮🇹🏛️✨

Just in case you are not yet bored of articles by me coming out this summer, here is a new one out today on ‘Theorising Historiographical Islamophobia’ which has basically been my intellectual project of the last half decade! 🤓 It’s open access here: www.scienceopen.com/document_fil...

what a wonderful, generous review. how lucky am i to have @drewjakeprof.bsky.social as my reviewer!! truly the best of us. 💜

as the new AY starts back up in some parts of the world, some very important lessons from our past workshop convener Shaista Patel about cop pedagogy, cops, and cops cosplaying as decolonial scholars in her piece (scroll down): positionspolitics.org/going-back-t...

the encouragement of anonymous snitching by students is especially egregious here. Pure poison.

Do you know how you sound complaining about the Qur’an being on a syllabus, like it’s so dangerous students must never look at it? You sound like someone who doesn’t take their own kids to school complaining you’re scared to take the 6 train.

The Qur’an actually is on the reading list for our required second-year course on philosophy and political thought. Students read a few excerpts from it as well as from the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and many other books. It is true and it is not a bad thing www.college.columbia.edu/core-curricu...

If you’re an academic (especially if you work within a relevant field or are very outspoken about the genocide), it’s worth checking to see if someone has put your name on this list - seems to be the case for a few people.

And for precisely 0 pounds / dollars / euros / riyals / mark / rupees / pesos / ringgits etc you can join us at the @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social, a society dedicated to studying the past in solidarity with the occupied and the oppressed, instead: societyforthestudyofthepast.com

Response from the BDS-movement (Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel) on the EAA. If you are a member, go to the AMBM today and voice your opinion!

Always read Robin D.G. Kelley: "We need to create a new university. And we will never change anything unless we are organized," and, how? in the style of Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, "putting...body and...future on the line" www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re...

This is Day 26 of T Hoxha’s hunger strike. Her demands have still not been met. There is another 24-hour phone blockade on Sodexo today. Lots of unfilled 15-min shifts here to sign up for: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

your periodic reminder that “archaeology isn’t political” is a political statement

Archaeologists Against Apartheid urgent call for action! We are not anonymous. We are members of both the EAA&global archaeological community and more committed than ever to holding our representative organisations to account and anti-democratic influences. aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site

BTC Call for Action - EAA EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns. Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

I maintain this list and celebrate each new addition and funding improvement to allow all to access our discipline. It feels equally important to mark the rollback of past successes. Programs at UVa, Columbia, Cornell, and Rutgers, now no longer exist. RT pls. 1/ livyarrow.org/funded-mas-a...

One of the key points I make in "Heritage and Healing in Syria and Iraq" is about the roles and ethical responsibilities of archaeological and heritage organisations in conflict areas. In the following skeets is the text of my acceptance speech 1/n

"Three rounds of interrogation lasted 10 hours, before Gu was told he was to be deported. No specific reason was given, he said, and the removal paperwork he provided to AP indicated inadequate documentation." dailynous.com/2025/09/02/p...

There’s no reason to do this except racism: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...

Visiting Research Scholar in African American Studies at Princeton whose work focuses on"race in the national or global contexts." "With the approval of the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, the VRS will teach one semester-long undergraduate elective course." Deadline 12/15/2025

yesterday @eosafricana.bsky.social sent out their notice for Eos WRITES, which is a really great opportunity to work on writing, give feedback, and build community. here’s their link to sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...