Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s a long weekend here in North Dakotaland which hopefully means that people have some time off to relax and enjoy the warm summer weather (in a socially responsible and socially distant way).

This weekend will also see the return of Formula 1 in Austria, the Indy Car and Xfinity kids on the Indianapolis road course, and the NASCAR guys at the Indianapolis oval. If I didn’t have so much relaxing scheduled for the July 4th weekend, I’d sit and watch all four races!

So whatever your plans are, I hope you all find time to enjoy the weekend, as well as this short list of quick hits and varia:

• COVID Conferences:

The AIA/SCS meeting will be virtual.

The ASOR meeting will be as well. 

• Rethinking Modern Greek Studies.

• Open Context has two post-doc positions!

• Ester Shalev-Gerz Monumental Against Fascism. 

• 1453 and All That.

• The Summer of Magical Thinking.

• Museums and Social Justice.

• Philadelphia Fish House Punch.

• Black authors on whiteness.

• Whiteness in the academy.

• New strategic direction from the Mellon Foundation.

• Flu Note.

• Laurent Ferrier Classic Origin Opaline.

• What I’m reading: Michael Roller, An Archaeology of Structural Violence: Life in a Twentieth-Century Coal Town. (2018)

• What I’m listening to: Albert Ayler, New Grass.

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