#Scholars

https://www.tracingcenter.org/resources/background/james-dewolf/“The DeWolf family fortune was built on the buying and selling of human beings. DeWolf slave ships brought the enslaved from the west coast of Africa to auction blocks in
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Because the UK is dead set on almost always qualifying Roma or Romani with "and other travelers" or as "GRT," a lot of people in this country believe Romani people
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Let me tell you a little story of corporate EDI in higher ed. UC San Diego has a largish EDI office, the result of an Academic Senate study that highlighted
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A couple more thoughts on this bit of advice in response to @extremefriday 's call for suggestions for overhauling her department's math history course.Confining non-Western traditions to the past is
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now Danielle Guizzo on how Research Excellence Framework and how macro researchers respond to its incentives (note: REF is used in United Kingdom to assesses the research of British higher
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Yesterday, I watched CS professor Michael Kearns speak on AI ethics, and now I feel compelled to rant.Namely, how a lot of AI ethics represents a complete failure in moral
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From an academic point of view, Brazil's current foreign policy is quite relevant for International Relations theory. For example, it'll be a useful case study to test whether soft power
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'Aqd and Walīmatu'n-Nikāh in perspective1. 'Aqd (عَقْدٌ) literally means 'a bond', 'a covenant' or 'a contractual agreement'. Its plural is عُقود. In Qur'ān 5:1, Allāh says, يَا أَ
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So this article, while interesting, seems like it could have used the expertise of a greater number of historians of the slave trade and slavery to clarfify and more importantly,
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Our Dawah by Imam Muqbil ibn Hadi al Wadi’ 1. We believe in Allaah and His Names and Attributes, as they were mentioned in the Book of Allaah and in
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May I present : a Frivolous List of Bangtan represented by Australian birds. Please note, I'm going for personality over aesthetics, so I didn't just choose the prettiest birds -
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New RSQ issue came in the mail today, which means it is time for book review round up! @rhetsoc (But first look at those essays! Wow!) Diana Martínez reviews Not
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A PhD is hard & life sometimes adds to this. So here's a little reminder that even though we're socially distancing & away from campus, we still have a strong,
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@krupashanker @AbodeOfLakshmi @manojskulkarni @Varanasiboy_ @Anand_108_Om @VedveerArya3 @Defence_360 @Sumiran_KVS #JaiShriRam KNOW YOUR RAMA "Aachara Prabhavo Dharma"Conduct is the root of virtue-Veda Vyasa. Read This Slowly , Mull Over it
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Thread on some experiences teaching online:I just finished and uploaded the final lecture for this summer, and then kept wondering: how much stuff exactly were we putting out there during
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"Reductionist" (i.e., most economic) theories of collective action explain acts like voting by individual incentives, perhaps including "social" phenomena via payoff terms like social pressure or warm glow.A short thread
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