The Cambridge World History Workshop is inviting submissions to deliver papers during Michaelmas Term 2019 (October – December). The workshop welcomes contributions that give attention to global historical perspectives. We welcome, amongst others, presentations that focus on economic histories, histories of science, migration, race, gender, colonial and post-colonial studies, and comparative history. We encourage presenters…
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Peter James Hudson, “How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean,” Boston Review
“Is Labor’s Future in Labor’s Capital?: A Debate,” LPE Blog
“Reflections on the Plantationocene: A Conversation with Donna Haraway & Anna Tsing, moderated by Gregg Mitman,” Edge Effects
Joshua Milstein
Håkan Forsell, “Crack in the future: On 1989 and historical time,” Eurozine
“Gene Sharp, the Cold War Intellectual Whose Ideas Seduced the Left – An interview with Macie Smith,” Jacobin
Susannah Heschel, “Time to Provincialize Christianity: A Response to Daniel Boyarin’s Judaism,” LA Review of Books
Martin Crevier
Tamson Pietsch, “Where I stand: rewriting the academic bio,” Caps and Gown
David Motadel, “The Far Right Says There’s Nothing Dirtier Than Internationalism – But They Depend on It,” NYT
…The Toynbee Prize Foundation is seeking to make an appointment of an Executive Director, to begin on September 15, 2019. The position is part-time (ca. 5 hours per week), and the current compensation is US$6000 per annum. In addition, the executive director has the chance to travel to Toynbee Prize Foundation events. While the foundation is located in Boston, Massachusetts, the executive director can be based anywhere in the world. The executive director will mainly communicate with other foundation members via email and teleconferences, and so strong communication skills in English in addition to one’s native language are a must.
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Martin Crevier Aaron Ackerly, “Old Prejudices, New Debates: J.A. Hobson and Anti-Semitism,” History Matters Damian Zane, “Why is a Tanzanian chief’s skull mentioned in the Versailles Treaty?,” BBC Christine Chevalier-Caron, “Algérie, une histoire de révolutions: discussions avec trois jeunes engagés,” Histoire engagées Natalie C. Behrends Audrey Farley, “We Still Don’t Know How to Navigate the…
Matthew Bowser
Alex Ward, “Aung San Suu Kyi Meets with Hungary’s Orbán to Lament their ‘Growing Muslim Populations’”, Vox
Vincent Bevins, “What the United States Did in Indonesia”, The Atlantic
Ajay Verghese, “Is India Becoming a ‘Hindu State’?”, The Washington Post
Sean O’Grady, “Just like the Suez Crisis, Brexit Humiliation is a Stark Reminder of Britain’s Waning Global Influence”, The Independent
Dexter Govan
Meehan Crist, “A Strange Blight“, London Review of Books
Richard English, “If Brexit, rather than militant Irish republicanism, brings about end to partition, how will future view violence of the past?” Belfast Telegraph
Rana Foroohar, “Plans for a worker-led economy straddle America’s political divides” The Financial Times
Simon Vazquez, “Losing Barcelona“, Jacobin
Colin Bernard
Howard W. French, “Africa’s Lost Kingdoms“, NY Review
Sarah A. Seo, “How Cars Transformed Policing“, Boston Review
Kim Phillips-Fein, “Fear and Loathing of the Green New Deal“, The New Republic
Peter Svik, “Global Neo-Colonialism (Or on the Cold War and What Came After)“, LSE International History Blog
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Joseph Satish
Ehsan Masood, “How China is redrawing the map of world science” , Nature
Zoe Jackson, “ARPANET and the Development of the Internet, 50 Years Later”, Perspectives on History
Prerna Gupta & M V Ramana, “A Decade After the Nuclear Deal”, The India Forum
Mark Kinver, “Compassionate conservation is ‘seriously flawed'”, BBC News
Sean Phillips
Damon Salesa, “Decolonising the Pacific”, E-Tangata
Katharina Rietzler, “The Hotel Majestic and the Origins of Chatham House”, Chatham House
Joshua Specht, “American Bull“, Aeon
Mary Hui, “The generations are warring in Hong Kong over the memory of Tiananmen”, Quartz
Yehor Brailian
Keith Lowe, “Was 1945 the World’s Year Zero?”, History Extra
Alexander Lee, “Enchiladas, a Culinary Monument to Colonialism”, History Today
Onni Gust, “Radical Books: Trans Like Me (2017), CN Lester,” Historical Workshop
Nicholas Germana, “Hegel and the Sphinx: The Riddle of World History”, JHI Blog
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James Parker
Kapil Komireddi, “Five More Years of Narendra Modi Will Take India to a Dark Place,” The Guardian
Lauren MacIvor Thompson, “Abortion: The Archive Doesn’t Lie, but Republicans Do“, Nursing Clio
Elias Rodriques, “Building Another World: When the Black Panthers Came to Algeria,” The Nation
Chloe Bordewich
Arafat Razzaque, “Who was the ‘real’ Aladdin? From Chinese to Arab in 300 Years,” Ajam Media Collective
Hala al-Bazri, “بدايات في ‘فرنجة التسطير’’: كيف واكب الشدياق انتقال الكتاب من النخبة إلى العامة,” Bidayat
Sam Haselby, “Muslims of Early America,” Aeon
Chris Szabla
Dexter Fergie, “The Department of Everything,” LA Review of Books
Adam Shatz, “Orientalism Then and Now,” NYRB
Suzy Hansen, “Timeless Life of the Grand Bazaar,” Lapham’s Quarterly
Thomas Wells, “Asshole Nationalism: Toward a New Theory of International Relations,” ABC Religion and Ethics
As world politics continue to revolve around questions and controversies concerning refugees and migration, historians have begun to pay increasing attention to earlier forms of human movement that have been compelled or assisted by states or international organizations, which can offer valuable background and precedents. A conference to be held in Germany next year seeks…
Prof. Selçuk Esenbel is Emeritus Professor of Japanese and Asian History in the History Department of Bogazici University. She is also a Professor of History at 29 May University in Istanbul.
Looking at academic calls for papers and conference topics in recent years, there can be no doubt that global history is on the rise. However, despite calls to write “global history globally,” it is clear that global history has not risen in all countries simultaneously. Turkey, which has a long history of hosting many different civilizations has much potential for supporting work in global history. Although this potential is not yet reflected in academic studies relating to global history, international events such as the Global History Student Conference-Istanbul held recently in Istanbul Sehir University are an indicator that work in this field is accelerating.
Our most recent guest, Prof. Selçuk Esenbel is one of the trustees of the Toynbee Prize Foundation, and a leading historian in Turkey. Prof. Esenbel has contributed greatly to the development of global history in Turkey, specifically in relation to Japanese and wider Eurasian history. I got the chance to sit down with Esenbel in Istanbul to talk about the state of global history in Turkey today and her recent book, Japan on the Silk Road: Encounters and Perspectives of Politics and Culture in Eurasia (Brill’s Japanese Studies Library, 2017).
-Fatma Aladağ…
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Yuliya Komska, “In Search of an Anti-Fascist Language,” Boston Review
Jan-Werner Müller, “Populism and the People,” LRB
K-Sue Park, “Self-Deportation Nation,” Harvard Law Review
Tiger Zhifu Li
Greg Lockhart, “What we forget on ANZAC Day,” Pearls and Irritations
Kirsty Needham and Matthew Knott, “White House Reviews Military Plans Against Iran, in Echoes of Iraq War,” NYT
“Diver breaks record with deepest submarine voyage ever recorded, finds discarded plastic,” NZ Herald
Natalie C. Behrends
David A. Bell, “Daniel Bell at 100,” Dissent
John Schneider, “‘Working’: A Brief History of History,” LA Review of Books
George Packer, “The End of the American Century,” Atlantic Monthly
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