"Someone told me recently that ‘rock art is dead.’ If ‘Art’ was dead, that would not matter to we Aborigines. We have never thought of our rock-paintings as ‘Art.’ To us they are IMAGES. IMAGES with ENERGIES that keep us ALIVE—EVERY PERSON, EVERYTHING WE STAND ON, ARE MADE FROM; EAT AND LIVE ON.
[…]
Instead of talking about ‘Rock Art’, we should be thinking about our responsibility to keep all things of Nature alive, to STIMULATE those places the way Aborigines have always done in the past."

This is a quote from the well-known statement about 'rock art' by David Mowaljarlai (Mowanjum community, Western Australia).

Mowaljarlai, David, Patricia Vinnicombe, Graeme K. Ward, and Christopher Chippindale. 1988. “Repainting of images on rock in Australia and the maintenance of Aboriginal culture”. Antiquity 62 (237): 690-696.

#RockArt #Image #Art

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@academiccommunity
@anthropology
@culturalheritage
@archaedons
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269164534_REPAINTING_OF_IMAGES_ON_ROCK_IN_AUSTRALIA_AND_THE_MAINTENANCE_OF_ABORIGINAL_CULTURE_1988

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anyone in the sciences, academics should have a listen

The Q&A makes the point.

The field of economics needs a massive housecleaning of ideas that are lethal to humanity (and I would say of even a functioning economy).

Neoclassicals are so vain they imagine their discipline should run every field of study(!)

https://www.youtube.com/live/CmD79GNVPNs

#SteveKeen #climate #climatechange #economics

Israeli Damage to Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Gaza, October 2023–January 2024 (A Preliminary Report from Librarians and Archivists with Palestine).

"The destruction of cultural heritage in Gaza impoverishes the collective identity of the Palestinian people, irrevocably denies them their history, and violates their sovereignty. In this report, we offer a partial list of archives, libraries, and museums in Gaza that have been destroyed, damaged, or looted by Israeli armed forces
since October 7, 2023."

"We compile and offer this information with the understanding that the erasure
of Palestinian culture and history has long been an Israeli tactic of war and occupation, a means to further limit the self-determination of the Palestinian people."

#War #CulturalHeritage #Gaza #Israel #Librarians #Museum #Monument #Archive #Library #Culture #History #Palestine

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@histodons
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@culturalheritage
@archaeodons
@anthropology

https://librarianswithpalestine.org/lap-gaza-report-2024/

Listening to a webinar about how course material costs affect students other than simply financially, and one thing they touched on is the temporary nature of a lot of course materials these days. They're e-books that you rent and then get returned, or physical book rentals, or they're so expensive you have to sell them back to the bookstore to recoup the loss of money. And I hadn't really grokked how much mroe true this was now? @academicchatter #TextbookAffordability

Huge. *The* higher education story to watch - not just in Canada but internationally.

RE: tuition hikes for out-of-province Canadian and international students for the only three English universities in Quebec: 'We are undertaking...legal action because we believe that these measures are illegal and if upheld, will threaten McGill’s mission,' Deep Saini, President and VC @mcgillu

https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-launches-legal-challenge-against-government-measures-355652

#Academia #AcademicChatter #Education #HigherEducation #Canada @academicchatter

It's time for us professors who study #data #surveillance #infosec #internetgovernance #privacy to start hassling our university IT departments whenever they integrate extractive platforms into our professional workflow.

Feel free to repurpose my verbiage in your own emails.

#academia #academicchatter #commodon @academicchatter @academicsunite @commodon

Shaping Black Modernisms: Art, Culture, and Community in California Feb 23 & 24, 2024

"Topics in this 2-day conference address Black artists in the Bay Area—centered on the life and work of Sargent Claude Johnson—and in Southern California, especially the Black artistic community that developed in Pasadena, as well as California’s key position along the Pacific Rim."

@academicchatter @blackmastodon https://huntington.org/black-modernisms #Art #History

Beautiful start to the day at Umeå Marine Sciences Centre (#UMF)!
What an office view - join us and this could be yours!
Research positions and #PhD studentships come up regularly, and we will always welcome #science #collaboration!
https://www.umu.se/en/umea-marine-sciences-centre/

#marinescience #oceanscience #baltic #balticsea #MarineResearch #academicchatter @academicchatter #multidisciplinary #multidisciplinaryresearch #umeauniversity #umeauniversitet #umeåuniversity #umeå #sweden #sverige #norrland #västerbotten