Forms of Regulation and Control: Professor Dina Ramadan on the Subversive Humor of Yara El-Sherbini
Dina Ramadan, assistant professor of Arabic, reviews Yara El-Sherbini's Forms of Regulation and Control at the Cue Art Foundation in New York for Art-agenda. “The first US solo exhibition for British-born, Santa Barbara–based El-Sherbini, curated by Naeem Mohaiemen, is an elegant rejoinder to the din of recent months,” Ramadan writes. “Deftly weaponizing humor through a series of discreet interventions, it challenges the so-called ‘unconscious’ bias that permeates even the most seemingly benign forms of knowledge and their production.”
Professor James Romm Asks: What Happened at Masada?
We know the Roman conquest of Masada only through the account of the enigmatic Jewish historian Josephus, whose shifting allegiances make his motives hard to discern. James Romm, James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics, writes for the New York Review of Books, reviewing A History of the Jewish War, AD 66–74 by Steve Mason (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth by Jodi Magness (Princeton University Press, 2019).Uyghur Scholar Rahile Dawut Named Honorary Professor in the Humanities by the Open Society University Network
The Open Society University Network (OSUN) has named Rahile Dawut, the prominent Uyghur folklorist who has been missing since December 2017, the first OSUN Honorary Professor in the Humanities. Rahile Dawut, a professor at Xinjiang University in Ürümqi in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is a folklorist and ethnographer. She created and directed the University's Minorities Folklore Research Center and is the author of dozens of articles and a number of books.More News
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