Hannah Čulík-Baird
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♑️🌕 Associate Professor, Classics at UCLA. Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race, co-authored with Mathias Hanses, under contract with Yale University Press. Co-founder and editor, Res Difficiles, The Journal. She/her.
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Res Diff 2.1 (2025)
Maia Kotrosits, The Matter of Form: Rewriting Our Way to a Changed Field Keywords: academic writing, black studies, colonialism, crip theory, disability studies. Abstract: This essay argues that th…
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It is my enormous pleasure to share the most recent issue #ResDiffJournal: Res Diff 2.1 (2025)
With contributions from Maia Kotrosits (@maiakotro.bsky.social), Chance Bonar (@chancebonar.bsky.social), Chiara Bozzone and Daniela Negro, Erin Lam
#openaccess
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With contributions from Maia Kotrosits (@maiakotro.bsky.social), Chance Bonar (@chancebonar.bsky.social), Chiara Bozzone and Daniela Negro, Erin Lam
#openaccess
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We can lift up Renee Good without "say her name." It's not *just* about not coopting Black women's space, it's understanding the PURPOSE of language. Say her name recognizes the ongoing erasure of Black women's stories from conversations about police violence. Recommend www.ted.com/talks/kimber...
The urgency of intersectionality
Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersecti...
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January 12, 2026 at 6:36 PM
We can lift up Renee Good without "say her name." It's not *just* about not coopting Black women's space, it's understanding the PURPOSE of language. Say her name recognizes the ongoing erasure of Black women's stories from conversations about police violence. Recommend www.ted.com/talks/kimber...
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as we start to look towards the new year (!): abstracts for #ResDiff7 are due 12th Jan
🚨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/
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/
CFP: Res Diff 7
CALL FOR PAPERSRes Difficiles 7Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity In Classics Organizers: Hannah Čulík-Baird and Elke Nash Date: Friday March 13, 2026Platform: Webinar Since 2020 Res D…
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December 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
as we start to look towards the new year (!): abstracts for #ResDiff7 are due 12th Jan
if you're at the #AIASCS this week, keep an eye out for papers by UCLA Classics grads - we have about a dozen students presenting on a wide variety of topics. plus my colleague, Kelly Nguyen, speaking on the Presidential Panel
#AIASCS26
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#AIASCS26
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January 8, 2026 at 3:03 PM
if you're at the #AIASCS this week, keep an eye out for papers by UCLA Classics grads - we have about a dozen students presenting on a wide variety of topics. plus my colleague, Kelly Nguyen, speaking on the Presidential Panel
#AIASCS26
www.classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...
#AIASCS26
www.classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...
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My very smart colleagues are doing excellent coverage of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis today. I would urge you to follow along with local sources familiar with the area and the residents here.
Live: Mayor Frey blasts ICE in fiery response to fatal shooting
The mayor called for calm after a fatal shooting by an immigration agent in south Minneapolis. ICE said the agent acted defensively.
www.startribune.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:06 PM
My very smart colleagues are doing excellent coverage of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis today. I would urge you to follow along with local sources familiar with the area and the residents here.
Find the event details here: www.eosafricana.org/events/bhion...
Bhion Achimba READS: Rita Dove's Mother Love — Eos
Capping off the 30th anniversary of Mother Love , a poetry collection by former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, Bhion Achimba and Sasha-Mae Eccleston will be facilitating a session of READS at the 2026...
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January 7, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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In 2024, we founded a new open access, peer reviewed journal. I'll be at the #AIASCS in San Francisco with a stack of #ResDiffJournal postcards, and as submissions editor I'd be happy to chat with anyone looking to submit their work. resdifficiles.com
#AIASCS26
#AIASCS26
Res Difficiles | Difficult conversations in classics
Visit the post for more.
resdifficiles.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:06 PM
In 2024, we founded a new open access, peer reviewed journal. I'll be at the #AIASCS in San Francisco with a stack of #ResDiffJournal postcards, and as submissions editor I'd be happy to chat with anyone looking to submit their work. resdifficiles.com
#AIASCS26
#AIASCS26
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here's a slide with recent publications relating to race and postcoloniality in Classics. this is not exhaustive (and there are several exciting books still on the horizon), but it does represent a significant groundswell in recent years
January 6, 2026 at 4:54 PM
here's a slide with recent publications relating to race and postcoloniality in Classics. this is not exhaustive (and there are several exciting books still on the horizon), but it does represent a significant groundswell in recent years
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This term I'm teaching with "Classics and Race: A Historical Reader" (2025), edited by Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells, and Phiroze Vasunia. An incredible achievement: global sources from 14th-20th translated, and given commentaries by expert scholars. And OPEN ACCESS! uclpress.co.uk/book/classic...
January 4, 2026 at 10:05 PM
This term I'm teaching with "Classics and Race: A Historical Reader" (2025), edited by Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells, and Phiroze Vasunia. An incredible achievement: global sources from 14th-20th translated, and given commentaries by expert scholars. And OPEN ACCESS! uclpress.co.uk/book/classic...
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Ft. CAWS 🥰
here's a slide with recent publications relating to race and postcoloniality in Classics. this is not exhaustive (and there are several exciting books still on the horizon), but it does represent a significant groundswell in recent years
January 6, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Ft. CAWS 🥰
here's a slide with recent publications relating to race and postcoloniality in Classics. this is not exhaustive (and there are several exciting books still on the horizon), but it does represent a significant groundswell in recent years
January 6, 2026 at 4:54 PM
here's a slide with recent publications relating to race and postcoloniality in Classics. this is not exhaustive (and there are several exciting books still on the horizon), but it does represent a significant groundswell in recent years
happy publication day, @curtisdozier.bsky.social !
January 6, 2026 at 4:47 PM
happy publication day, @curtisdozier.bsky.social !
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Sending love to the imprisoned Palestine Action hunger strikers in the UK, whose well-being and survival I am deeply worried about. In Let This Radicalize You, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote about the escalating repression in the UK. For those who aren't aware, the situation has worsened.
January 6, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Sending love to the imprisoned Palestine Action hunger strikers in the UK, whose well-being and survival I am deeply worried about. In Let This Radicalize You, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote about the escalating repression in the UK. For those who aren't aware, the situation has worsened.
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Forthcoming 2026: Arabic Literature in Translation
An ongoing list of Arabic literature in translation forthcoming in 2026.
An ongoing list of Arabic literature in translation forthcoming in 2026.
Forthcoming 2026: Arabic Literature in Translation
An ongoing list of Arabic literature in translation forthcoming in 2026.
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January 5, 2026 at 5:18 AM
Forthcoming 2026: Arabic Literature in Translation
An ongoing list of Arabic literature in translation forthcoming in 2026.
An ongoing list of Arabic literature in translation forthcoming in 2026.
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This term I'm teaching with "Classics and Race: A Historical Reader" (2025), edited by Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells, and Phiroze Vasunia. An incredible achievement: global sources from 14th-20th translated, and given commentaries by expert scholars. And OPEN ACCESS! uclpress.co.uk/book/classic...
January 4, 2026 at 10:05 PM
This term I'm teaching with "Classics and Race: A Historical Reader" (2025), edited by Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells, and Phiroze Vasunia. An incredible achievement: global sources from 14th-20th translated, and given commentaries by expert scholars. And OPEN ACCESS! uclpress.co.uk/book/classic...
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did someone say holographic sticker?? #ResDiffJournal
February 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
did someone say holographic sticker?? #ResDiffJournal
In 2024, we founded a new open access, peer reviewed journal. I'll be at the #AIASCS in San Francisco with a stack of #ResDiffJournal postcards, and as submissions editor I'd be happy to chat with anyone looking to submit their work. resdifficiles.com
#AIASCS26
#AIASCS26
Res Difficiles | Difficult conversations in classics
Visit the post for more.
resdifficiles.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:06 PM
In 2024, we founded a new open access, peer reviewed journal. I'll be at the #AIASCS in San Francisco with a stack of #ResDiffJournal postcards, and as submissions editor I'd be happy to chat with anyone looking to submit their work. resdifficiles.com
#AIASCS26
#AIASCS26
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“Rules, conventions, morals, reality itself: all exist so long as their existence is convenient to the preservation of power. Otherwise, they, like all else, are expendable.”
-Omar El Akkad
-Omar El Akkad
January 3, 2026 at 9:26 PM
“Rules, conventions, morals, reality itself: all exist so long as their existence is convenient to the preservation of power. Otherwise, they, like all else, are expendable.”
-Omar El Akkad
-Omar El Akkad
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I've been thinking of how Achilles Mbembe says colonialism wears “the tawdry cloak of humanism" underneath which it hides its barbarism. In this respect, Trump, et. al. are nudists.
January 4, 2026 at 12:54 AM
I've been thinking of how Achilles Mbembe says colonialism wears “the tawdry cloak of humanism" underneath which it hides its barbarism. In this respect, Trump, et. al. are nudists.
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We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.
January 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM
We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.
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The brutality.
January 3, 2026 at 4:28 PM
The brutality.
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People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
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"Mamdani walks in an older Jewish tradition. Not that of ritzy Upper East Side synagogues, but of so many of our great-grandparents: the socialist sweatshop workers who fought for a better and more beautiful world." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition | Molly Crabapple
When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York
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January 1, 2026 at 11:59 PM
"Mamdani walks in an older Jewish tradition. Not that of ritzy Upper East Side synagogues, but of so many of our great-grandparents: the socialist sweatshop workers who fought for a better and more beautiful world." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
could an AI do... this??!? **proceeds to make a series of typos**
January 2, 2026 at 4:18 AM
could an AI do... this??!? **proceeds to make a series of typos**