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…
Liat Spiro
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
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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
Liat Spiro
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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Matthew Bowser
Stephen Kinzer, “Inside Iran’s Fury”, Smithsonian Magazine
Soutik Biswas, “India election 2019: How sugar influences the world’s biggest vote”, BBC World News
Christopher Clark, “South Africa elections: What are the main issues?”, Al Jazeera
“Mapping the Yemen Conflict”, European Council on Foreign Relations
Colin Bernard
Zach Messitte, “As nationalism surges, Italy must reckon with its fascist past“, The Washington Post
Paul Mason, “Reading Arendt Is Not Enough“, NY Books
Samuel Clowes Huneke, “Gay Liberation Beyond the Iron Curtain“, Boston Review
Shakar Rahav, “May Fourth for the World“, China Channel
Meghna Chaudhuri
Adam Shatz, “Trump’s America, Netanyahu’s Israel“, LRB
Nikhil Menon, “Jumbo Exports: India’s history of elephant diplomacy“, The Caravan
David Ciepley, “Wayward Leviathans: How America’s corporations lost their public purpose“, The Hedgehog Review
Sarah Franklin, “Nostalgic Nationalism: How a Discourse of Sacrificial Reproduction Helped Fuel Brexit Britain“, Cultural Anthropology
Rustam Khan
Michael Welton, “Navigating the Intricacies of Habermas“, Counter Punch
Prankaj Mishra, “The Mask It Wears“, LRB
Antonia Weiss and Tim Verlaan, “From Miers to Bjarke: Ten Moments in the Manly History of the Architect’s Model“, Failed Architecture
Sean Phillips
David Edgerton, “A misremembered Empire“, Tortoise Media
Heidi Tworek, “Information Warfare is Here to Stay”, Foreign Affairs
Rob Gilhooly, “Defining the Heisei Era: Just how peaceful were the past 30 years?“, The Japan Times
Editorial Board, “In Paraguay, Long a Haven for Corruption, Popular Protests Get Results“, New York Times.
David Agren, “Mexico battles over legacy of revolutionary Emiliano Zapata“, The Guardian
Yehor Brailian
Alexander Lee, “Jerk, an Authentic Taste of Jamaican Liberty“, History Today
Madhuri Karak, “Mahatma Gandhi, Master Mediator“, JSTOR DAILY
Adam Higginbotham, “Chernobyl: 7 People Who Played a Crucial Role in the World’s Worst Nuclear Disaster“, History Today
Dexter Govan
Michael Sonenscher, “The Politics of Old Europe“, LBR Blog
Zeinab Badawi, “Women, hopeful for change, are driving Sudan’s uprising”, Financial Times
Michael Prodger, “An act of faith: resurrecting Notre Dame“, New Statesman
Joan Redmond, “My London history students’ knowledge of Ireland is, at times, shocking“, Irish Times
Anna Coote, “Universal basic income doesn’t work. Let’s boost the public realm instead“, The Guardian
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Joseph Satish
Robert P. Crease, “The rise and fall of scientific authority — and how to bring it back”, Nature
Anna Grear, “It’s wrongheaded to protect nature with human-style rights,” Aeon
Mihir Shah, “Political Radicalism of Ambedkar’s Spirituality,” The India Forum
Chloe Bordewich
Diana Abbani, “ديانا عباني، تعالى حبيبي لنسكر: عوالم أحيين ليالي بيروت,” Jeem
Thomas Manuel, “A Tale of Two Continents: The Story of Lemuria and Gondwana,” Lapham’s
Chris Szabla
Allan Chapman, “Ye final frontier: the 17th century space race,” History Extra
Hussein A.H. Omar, “The Arab Spring of 1919,” LRB Blog
Paul Cohen, “France’s Philosopher-Presidents,” Dissent
“Nollywood Dreams, Lagosian Realities: A Bibliography for the Capital of West Africa,” The Metropole
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