Category: The Blog
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Building Scholarly Communities in the Time of COVID: Fieldnotes from the Indian Ocean World Podcast
By Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi When COVID-19 turned the social world upside down, scholarly connections and conversations became restricted or altogether severed. Like other graduate students…
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What We’re Reading This Week
Credit: Excavated Shellac Joseph Satish Yeonsil Kang “Cold War’s Cold Legacy: Soyang Multipurpose Dam, the Local Environment, and Envirotechnical Development in South Korea,” Technology’s Storie…
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What We’re Reading This Week
Jan Brandes’s Tea party in a European house in Batavia (1785), a colorful late-eighteenth century sketch of life in Jakarta under Dutch rule in the late eighteenth…
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Sir Brian Urquhart: A Tribute
Credit: UN Audiovisual Library of International Law Sir Brian Urquhart (1919-2021): A Tribute The Toynbee Prize Foundation regrets to announce that Sir Brian Urquhart, who…
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What We’re Listening To: Global History Podcast Holiday Edition
Credit: Nylon Magazine By Dr. Kristie Patricia Flannery Dear readers, I created this global history holiday ‘best podcast’ playlist for historians and history-lovers…
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Doctoral Opportunity in Global History at University of Bern
The research group “Anticipations and Disruptions of the ‘Synthetic Age’: Rubber, Science and Resources” is inviting applications for one doctoral position (100%, yearly salary of…
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BLOG—Phantom Africa: The Topos of Silent Trade
Credit: Iberian Connections at Yale University Phantom Africa: The Topos of Silent Trade By Lexie Cook Issue 07 — Fall 2020 — Session 02 — Contemporary Pasts…
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Raymond Grew: A Tribute
Credit: University of Michigan Raymond Grew (1930-2020): A Tribute The Toynbee Prize Foundation regrets to announce that Raymond Grew, a Board of Trustees member of…
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What We’re Reading This Week
From Michael G Vann and Liz Clarke’s The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam (2018) Kristie Flannery Trevor Getz, “Comics offer radical opportunity…
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How to Research the History of Maritime Asia and the Spanish Pacific during a Pandemic
Source: The History and Conquest of the Philippines and our Other Island Possessions by Alden March, 1899 Historians around the world are confronting an unprecedented lack of…