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In early modern Europe theatre was the mass media. From street performances to court theaters, early modern plays laid the groundwork of racializaiton and what Noémie Ndiaye calls "the racial matrix." Find her full talk on Throughlines.
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January 8, 2026 at 6:16 PM
In early modern Europe theatre was the mass media. From street performances to court theaters, early modern plays laid the groundwork of racializaiton and what Noémie Ndiaye calls "the racial matrix." Find her full talk on Throughlines.
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
Anyone else buzzing about meeting the legendary Nile Rodgers at Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium? Here's his incredible @npr.org Tiny Desk Concert recording from 2023, which we've got going on repeat here at ASU.
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Nile Rodgers & CHIC: Tiny Desk Concert
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January 6, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Anyone else buzzing about meeting the legendary Nile Rodgers at Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium? Here's his incredible @npr.org Tiny Desk Concert recording from 2023, which we've got going on repeat here at ASU.
youtu.be/pRERgcQe-fQ?...
youtu.be/pRERgcQe-fQ?...
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Check out @acmrs.bsky.social’s Throughlines if you don’t know it already: www.throughlines.org
Throughlines — Race in the premodern classroom
Created by field-leading scholars, Throughlines’ pedagogical approaches offer accessible and critical ways to incorporate discussions of race in the premodern studies classroom.
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December 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Check out @acmrs.bsky.social’s Throughlines if you don’t know it already: www.throughlines.org
"He cited ASU’s charter mission and specifically its emphasis on 'fundamental responsibility' for the communities it serves . . . 'ASU seemed to me to be doing something very right in its commitment to inclusion,' Padilla Peralta said."
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Professor Dan-el Padilla Peralta, champion of anti-racism in classics, to leave Princeton in August
Padilla Peralta will enter a teaching position at Arizona State University in order to pursue an interest in public service.
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December 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"He cited ASU’s charter mission and specifically its emphasis on 'fundamental responsibility' for the communities it serves . . . 'ASU seemed to me to be doing something very right in its commitment to inclusion,' Padilla Peralta said."
www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...
www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...
End of semester quiz: what’s the through line between a Renaissance pope and the 21st-century US Supreme Court? See the full video on The Doctrine of Discovery from Scott Manning Stevens on throughlines-asu.webflow.io/suite-conten...
December 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
End of semester quiz: what’s the through line between a Renaissance pope and the 21st-century US Supreme Court? See the full video on The Doctrine of Discovery from Scott Manning Stevens on throughlines-asu.webflow.io/suite-conten...
Freak out! Register for the keynote event for Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium is legendary musician and songwriter Nile Rodgers. Nile is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee and a multiple Grammy Award winning artist. Save your spot: na.eventscloud.com/asu-nile-rod...
December 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Freak out! Register for the keynote event for Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium is legendary musician and songwriter Nile Rodgers. Nile is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee and a multiple Grammy Award winning artist. Save your spot: na.eventscloud.com/asu-nile-rod...
RaceB4Race First and Second Book Institutes deadline has been extended until Friday! Apply this week to join a cohort of PCRS scholars to work on your book projects.
acmrs.asu.edu/RaceB4Race/F...
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December 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
RaceB4Race First and Second Book Institutes deadline has been extended until Friday! Apply this week to join a cohort of PCRS scholars to work on your book projects.
acmrs.asu.edu/RaceB4Race/F...
acmrs.asu.edu/RaceB4Race/F...
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Such good news for ASU!
Welcome to ASU @platanoclassics.bsky.social!
“Dan-el Padilla Peralta is in the vanguard of scholars working to ensure that the complexities of the past are not flattened in service to the monochrome myths of our day,” said Jeffrey Cohen, dean of humanities at ASU.
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“Dan-el Padilla Peralta is in the vanguard of scholars working to ensure that the complexities of the past are not flattened in service to the monochrome myths of our day,” said Jeffrey Cohen, dean of humanities at ASU.
news.asu.edu/b/20251112-d...
November 22, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Such good news for ASU!
Welcome to ASU @platanoclassics.bsky.social!
“Dan-el Padilla Peralta is in the vanguard of scholars working to ensure that the complexities of the past are not flattened in service to the monochrome myths of our day,” said Jeffrey Cohen, dean of humanities at ASU.
news.asu.edu/b/20251112-d...
“Dan-el Padilla Peralta is in the vanguard of scholars working to ensure that the complexities of the past are not flattened in service to the monochrome myths of our day,” said Jeffrey Cohen, dean of humanities at ASU.
news.asu.edu/b/20251112-d...
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Welcome to ASU @platanoclassics.bsky.social!
“Dan-el Padilla Peralta is in the vanguard of scholars working to ensure that the complexities of the past are not flattened in service to the monochrome myths of our day,” said Jeffrey Cohen, dean of humanities at ASU.
news.asu.edu/b/20251112-d...
“Dan-el Padilla Peralta is in the vanguard of scholars working to ensure that the complexities of the past are not flattened in service to the monochrome myths of our day,” said Jeffrey Cohen, dean of humanities at ASU.
news.asu.edu/b/20251112-d...
Got a PCRS book project? Looking for community and guidance in the process? The RaceB4Race First and Second Book Institutes are here for you! Run by @folger.edu the institutes connect scholars with readers and experts.
First book: forms.gle/ht75W13xphDj...
Second book: forms.gle/gMSuCSjUj9dH...
First book: forms.gle/ht75W13xphDj...
Second book: forms.gle/gMSuCSjUj9dH...
November 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Got a PCRS book project? Looking for community and guidance in the process? The RaceB4Race First and Second Book Institutes are here for you! Run by @folger.edu the institutes connect scholars with readers and experts.
First book: forms.gle/ht75W13xphDj...
Second book: forms.gle/gMSuCSjUj9dH...
First book: forms.gle/ht75W13xphDj...
Second book: forms.gle/gMSuCSjUj9dH...
Thank you to Andrea Myers Achi for your contributions to Throughlines!
Learn about the pedagogy of careful curation and how exhibitions can confront power structures, reshape public understandings of history, and highlight racial and cultural complexity.
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
Learn about the pedagogy of careful curation and how exhibitions can confront power structures, reshape public understandings of history, and highlight racial and cultural complexity.
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Thank you to Andrea Myers Achi for your contributions to Throughlines!
Learn about the pedagogy of careful curation and how exhibitions can confront power structures, reshape public understandings of history, and highlight racial and cultural complexity.
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
Learn about the pedagogy of careful curation and how exhibitions can confront power structures, reshape public understandings of history, and highlight racial and cultural complexity.
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
Thank you to everyone who attended "Shakespeare now but not Hamlet again" last night with the brilliant Emma Smith! Thoughtful, compelling, funny, and revelatory. And thank you Emma Smith for the lecture and filming with Throughlines! More to come soon!
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Thank you to everyone who attended "Shakespeare now but not Hamlet again" last night with the brilliant Emma Smith! Thoughtful, compelling, funny, and revelatory. And thank you Emma Smith for the lecture and filming with Throughlines! More to come soon!
Hope to see you tomorrow for 'Shakespeare now — but not Hamlet again' an evening lecture with renowned scholar Emma Smith. Where she will offer an answer to the question, what is the Shakespeare play that best speaks to this historical moment?
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November 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Hope to see you tomorrow for 'Shakespeare now — but not Hamlet again' an evening lecture with renowned scholar Emma Smith. Where she will offer an answer to the question, what is the Shakespeare play that best speaks to this historical moment?
na.eventscloud.com/emma-smith
na.eventscloud.com/emma-smith
A book salon for The Sweet Taste of Empire by @profkfh.bsky.social? Tonight? Yes please! Still time to get your tickets. See you there!
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The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribb
Book salon for Lucyle Hook Professor of English and Africana Studies Kim F. Hall’s new book The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery.
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October 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
A book salon for The Sweet Taste of Empire by @profkfh.bsky.social? Tonight? Yes please! Still time to get your tickets. See you there!
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-sweet-...
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-sweet-...
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Applications are open for the RaceB4Race First and Second Book Institutes @acmrs.bsky.social. @mhanses.bsky.social and I took part in the 2024 Second Book Institute with our Cicero project, and we learned so much from early modernists. Cannot recommend enough! acmrs.asu.edu/RaceB4Race/F...
First Book Institute | Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
RaceB4Race First Book InstituteThere is a glaring need to support early career premodern critical race scholars through the process of publishing their first book, a critical juncture in an academic c...
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October 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Applications are open for the RaceB4Race First and Second Book Institutes @acmrs.bsky.social. @mhanses.bsky.social and I took part in the 2024 Second Book Institute with our Cicero project, and we learned so much from early modernists. Cannot recommend enough! acmrs.asu.edu/RaceB4Race/F...
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Monday, Oct. 20, ASU English professors Larissa FastHorse, Michael John Garcés and Ty Defoe facilitate an evening of Indigenous stories: "Native Nation Project"—a book launch, reading and discussion of the collaborative work.
More: ow.ly/jBf050XcKRm #ASUHumanities @acmrs.bsky.social
More: ow.ly/jBf050XcKRm #ASUHumanities @acmrs.bsky.social
Trio of Indigenous plays to debut at upcoming book launch | ASU News
On a crisp October evening, Indigenous stories will take center stage at Arizona State University’s Tempe campus.
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October 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Monday, Oct. 20, ASU English professors Larissa FastHorse, Michael John Garcés and Ty Defoe facilitate an evening of Indigenous stories: "Native Nation Project"—a book launch, reading and discussion of the collaborative work.
More: ow.ly/jBf050XcKRm #ASUHumanities @acmrs.bsky.social
More: ow.ly/jBf050XcKRm #ASUHumanities @acmrs.bsky.social
Join us on Monday October 20 for an incredible book launch event with Larissa FastHorse, Michael John Garcés and Ty Defoe. And check out this interview with them about their work and an upcoming Oronooko adaptation... (!) news.asu.edu/20251016-art...
Trio of Indigenous plays to debut at upcoming book launch | ASU News
On a crisp October evening, Indigenous stories will take center stage at Arizona State University’s Tempe campus.
news.asu.edu
October 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Join us on Monday October 20 for an incredible book launch event with Larissa FastHorse, Michael John Garcés and Ty Defoe. And check out this interview with them about their work and an upcoming Oronooko adaptation... (!) news.asu.edu/20251016-art...
Last week BTS with Cassie L. Smith for Throughlines. Her scholarship explores the long history of Black literature from Olaudah Equiano to Phillis Wheatley to Black-ish. Be on the lookout for more!
October 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Last week BTS with Cassie L. Smith for Throughlines. Her scholarship explores the long history of Black literature from Olaudah Equiano to Phillis Wheatley to Black-ish. Be on the lookout for more!
What is the Shakespeare play that speaks to our current moment? Oxford professor Emma Smith has ideas: definitely not Hamlet. Join us for her talk on November 6 to hear her thoughts on the play that reflects some of our concerns, and use its fictions for good.
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na.eventscloud.com/ereg/index.p...
October 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
What is the Shakespeare play that speaks to our current moment? Oxford professor Emma Smith has ideas: definitely not Hamlet. Join us for her talk on November 6 to hear her thoughts on the play that reflects some of our concerns, and use its fictions for good.
na.eventscloud.com/ereg/index.p...
na.eventscloud.com/ereg/index.p...
Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium is now open for registration!
What does it mean to love in a time of turmoil, and what can the premodern world teach us about this? How do we negotiate loving a being, a nation, a profession that fails to love us back?
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What does it mean to love in a time of turmoil, and what can the premodern world teach us about this? How do we negotiate loving a being, a nation, a profession that fails to love us back?
na.eventscloud.com/raceb4race-l...
October 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium is now open for registration!
What does it mean to love in a time of turmoil, and what can the premodern world teach us about this? How do we negotiate loving a being, a nation, a profession that fails to love us back?
na.eventscloud.com/raceb4race-l...
What does it mean to love in a time of turmoil, and what can the premodern world teach us about this? How do we negotiate loving a being, a nation, a profession that fails to love us back?
na.eventscloud.com/raceb4race-l...
Yale professor Tarren Andrews understands the importance of language. She teaches her students that law is a linguistic technology shaped by culture. Find more of her thoughts and pedagogy including videos and reading lists on Throughlines.
www.throughlines.org/scholars/tar...
www.throughlines.org/scholars/tar...
October 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Yale professor Tarren Andrews understands the importance of language. She teaches her students that law is a linguistic technology shaped by culture. Find more of her thoughts and pedagogy including videos and reading lists on Throughlines.
www.throughlines.org/scholars/tar...
www.throughlines.org/scholars/tar...
Abdulhamit Arvas creates classrooms spaces where discomfort sparks growth, where students wrestle with hard questions, and where they learn to read beyond their own assumptions and beliefs. You can read his teaching materials on Throughlines now. www.throughlines.org/scholars/abd...
September 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Abdulhamit Arvas creates classrooms spaces where discomfort sparks growth, where students wrestle with hard questions, and where they learn to read beyond their own assumptions and beliefs. You can read his teaching materials on Throughlines now. www.throughlines.org/scholars/abd...
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The latest issue of Daedalus, journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was guest-edited by ASU English professor Ayanna Thompson & includes contributions from ASU President Michael Crow + other writers, artists & scholars.
Learn more: ow.ly/63XX50WRASB #ASUHumanities @acmrs.bsky.social
Learn more: ow.ly/63XX50WRASB #ASUHumanities @acmrs.bsky.social
Latest Daedalus journal features ASU scholars, asks readers to think about our past and future | ASU News
“How will we think about the past in the future?” asks the latest issue of Daedalus.
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September 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The latest issue of Daedalus, journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was guest-edited by ASU English professor Ayanna Thompson & includes contributions from ASU President Michael Crow + other writers, artists & scholars.
Learn more: ow.ly/63XX50WRASB #ASUHumanities @acmrs.bsky.social
Learn more: ow.ly/63XX50WRASB #ASUHumanities @acmrs.bsky.social
"You should remember that students have led or been in solidarity with the most important struggles for a sustainable, equitable world in the 20th and 21st centuries. Students have connected their ability to study power’s intentions to these global struggles." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
An Open Letter to Our Students: Universities Do Not Deserve You
At the start of the school year, two professors provide some hard truths about the state of academia and what you should fight for.
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September 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"You should remember that students have led or been in solidarity with the most important struggles for a sustainable, equitable world in the 20th and 21st centuries. Students have connected their ability to study power’s intentions to these global struggles." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
This tragicomedy about life, love and transformation has been reimagined as a two-hour-long musical inspired by the gospel traditions of the American Black church, and presented by the Public Works program of the Public Theater.
(Dramaturged by THE Ayanna Thompson)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/t...
(Dramaturged by THE Ayanna Thompson)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/t...
A New ‘Pericles’ Pairs Shakespeare With Black Gospel
www.nytimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This tragicomedy about life, love and transformation has been reimagined as a two-hour-long musical inspired by the gospel traditions of the American Black church, and presented by the Public Works program of the Public Theater.
(Dramaturged by THE Ayanna Thompson)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/t...
(Dramaturged by THE Ayanna Thompson)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/t...