The Task List

Please complete these tasks and reading in the order they are here:
  1. Watch: The danger of a single story | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg
  2. Complete the reading list audit by downloading the Task Sheet document. It will be easiest to complete this in Word, though you can just write it out if you wish.
  3. Read ‘Do you see yourself in the curriculum’ (http://www.gal-dem.com/do-you-see-yourself-in-the-curriculum/) and ‘Trowel Blazing in the classroom (http://trowelblazers.com/trowel-blazing-in-the-classroom/) – PDFs to both are attached. You might want to have a look around the Trowel Blazing website more generally.
  4. Read How to create a diverse reading list: http://www.diversityreadinglist.org/how-to/
  5. Read the Introduction to James and Dillon (eds) (2012) A Companion to Women in the Ancient World, Blackwell: 1-3. (Attached at PDF)
  6. Read the Introduction to Budin and Macintosh Turfa (eds) (2012) Women in Antiquity: Real Women Across the Ancient World, Taylor and Francis: 1-4. (Attached as PDF).
  7. These books (both available in full text though the library, if you want to read more!) were published in the same year. What are the similarities and difference in their approach?
  8. Use ‘Whose Word Counts’ to audit (anonymously, if you wish) at least one of the classes you have taken here – leave out information you don’t know.
  9. Read and consider ‘Practical Tips for Feminist Pedagogy’ – this relates to Classics, rather than Archaeology or Ancient History, but it is widely applicable.
During the class we are going to talk about diversity and intersectionality in Archaeology and Ancient History classes – both in terms of finding ‘marginal’ voices in the ancient material, and in terms of representing a diverse population of scholars, and promoting the use of scholars from non-traditional backgrounds.
Please bring a scholarly article on a ‘traditional’ (interpret that however you like) topic by a non-traditional academic (i.e. not an old, white, cishet, Oxbridge man) AND an article on a ‘marginalised’ population or person from any period of ancient history.