Oxford Classicists of Colour

@POCinClassics

The Christian Cole Society run by Oxford classics students to promote the diversification of Classics and engage the wider community of POC in Classics

Oxford, England
Vrijeme pridruživanja: kolovoz 2019.

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    What do we mean when we talk about “Western Civilisation”? Who is included/excluded by this term? A (long-ish) thread of some of the quotes and questions raised in the first session of our ‘Let’s be critical about Classics...’ seminars: “the West”

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  2. The talk will encompass their undergraduate days at Oxford; how awareness of the politics of race and ethnicity in modern Britain have shaped their careers, and approaches to teaching; what challenges there've been and what sources of strength, support and optimism they've found

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  3. Come along to the Oxford Classics Faculty tomorrow to see and in conversation about their experiences of being classicists of colour. The talk is FREE and OPEN TO ALL so drop in to hear these wonderful women speak Tomorrow (7th Feb) 6.30pm

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    ***FREE tomorrow (Friday) in Oxford*** & I will be in dialogue sharing our experiences of being classicists of colour as undergrads in Oxford to our research and activism today, including the twists & turns in our respective paths. Book via link or just turn up!

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    So pleased we were able to reschedule after the strike! Good to consider the material conditions of our intellectual labour as WOC

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  7. Our ‘Decolonising Classics’ Lecture series is back and this term all our BAME lecturers are women* Come along on 7th Feb and 6th March to see , and speak Secure your space now:

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    31. sij
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    would that I could make this my pinned tweet... an ETERNAL mood around Westernization, oppression, empire-building, and otherizing

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    It’s really exciting being in Oxford, and part of the School of Classics, as these important conversations are happening!

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    30. sij

    and twitter! Mathura and I are organising a conversation / little conference around the idea of ‘Critical Ancient World Studies’ and we would like you to come! The CfP is here 👇 and you can also read it via this google doc:

    Picture of the abstract (the same text is available via the google doc link above)
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  11. For so many young Classicists-to-be, Percy Jackson was their first taste of the Classical world... ‘s critical reading of books really illustrates that the main myth pervading the novels is that of Greece and Rome as the ancestors of ‘Western civilisation’

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    You can see some of the things the students were thinking about at the ‘Let’s be critical about Classics’ discussion group here 👇

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    Odgovor korisnicima

    I JUST emailed my dept about this very thing. Thank you!

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    30. sij

    Excellent thread on “western civilization.” Very useful for art history survey classes.

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    This is great, thanks!

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  17. “It all sucks”

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  18. In the myth that Greece and Rome handed civilisation to the West, “we haven’t thought about literature and history in a linear form, but have made a huge jump to modern Europe” which neglects the centuries in between and conveniently, the contributions of Islam to the discipline

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  19. “People care about maintaining hierarchy because it keeps certain people out”

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  20. “Colonisers didn’t want to humanise the people they were colonising so they had to make a distinction between ‘us’ and ‘them’.“

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  21. “There is huge intentionality in the way that Classics has been constructed as Western”

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