Jelena Subotic

And if all that has you feeling down re. heritage politics, here's a contribution from Matthew Weinert about the possibilities that open up with heritage destruction becoming part of ICC's mandate:

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But wait! There's more. @filipejdus.bsky.social and Marina Vulovic explore how a proposed land swap between Serbia and Kosovo resulted in the recovery of Helen of Anjou's heritage to construct Northern Kosovo as a space of Serbian heritage and attachment

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Next up we have @debfrombrazil.bsky.social and Guilherme Casarões illustrating how Bolsonaro stitched together a socially conservative heritage narrative to build both domestic power and international alliances

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I wrote about the work that "humanity" does in the construction of a distinctly international form of cultural prestige via UNESCO's world heritage:

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@jelenasubotic.bsky.social turned to the 'antiquities rush' of the 19th century to show the long entanglement of heritage with international status competition

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So, @jelenasubotic.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue on heritage politics for @risjnl.bsky.social, and the contributions are starting to drop on first view!

Stay tuned for our co-authored introductory essay and more contributions but here is what we have so far:

one of the things that gets me about so many of the pundits who pontificate about "higher education" when they really mean a handful of elite private institutions is that most of them live within driving distance of either a community college or a non-selective public institution

Looking forward to reading this new article in RIS by @jelenasubotic.bsky.social on c19 international cultural status competition #HistIR www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Check out @jelenasubotic.bsky.social's thread about the new article and the forthcoming RIS special issue 🧵👇

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!!!!! thank you so much Kate!

!! thanks so much!

Stay tuned for the full @risjnl.bsky.social special issue on the politics of cultural heritage coming out imminently, and with articles by @elifkalay.bsky.social, @filipejdus.bsky.social, @franziskabn.bsky.social, @debfrombrazil.bsky.social and others!

This is a bit of a preview of my book "The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution" coming to a bookstore near you in a few months.

Parthenon Marbles in an empty gallery

The Parthenon Marbles, specifically, were civilizational status symbols over which France and Britain competed. Britain's Lord Elgin got to them first and they still are culturally sutured to the British sense of self. I have pictures.

🚨My new article, part of a @risjnl.bsky.social special issue on heritage I co-edited with the wonderful @elifkalay.bsky.social. I explore how the frenzy for acquiring antiquities in early 19th century (most famously, the Parthenon Marbles) was really international competition for cultural status.

we have chocolate treats!

Good morning to everyone other than a person on my panel at BISA that mansplained to me that I need to accept AI generated articles as an editor because "we are at the cusp of semi-human writing." Like, what the fuck are we doing here people?

Yup

I mean this sucked

Big fan of the aborted landing at Newark right now (we made it the second time 🤞) and by big fan I mean I hated it. Newark airport doesn’t seem to work for flights and such

The same way a lot of people didn't realize how big the QAnon problem was until those fuckers literally stormed the capital, I fear we're a year or two away from a shocking discovery of just how many "seemingly normal" people have lost their minds "talking" with ChatGPT.

So Mountainhead is basically a documentary

Yes, you did vote to deport moms.

I’m in theater and the entire first half of the play there was this super annoying muffled sound coming from somewhere in my row and everybody complained and called an usher to investigate and, reader, I left a podcast on running on my phone. Everybody hates me now as they of course should.

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

Don’t threaten me with a good time

I try

on it

this is true