Category: The Blog
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Conference Report: Looking Back and Forward—Developments, Challenges, and Visions for the Future of Global History (Queen’s University)
Adams’ Illustrated Panorama of History. Source: Wikimedia As we face a set of unknown changes to humanities scholarship and education that will inevitably unfold in…
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What We’re Reading This Week
Matthew Bowser Pratik Chakrabarti, “Covid-19 and the Spectres of Colonialism”,The India Forum Chakrabarti discusses how colonialism provided the initial model for pandemic control in India. He…
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What We’re Reading This Week
‘Culling Tea’ (c1869), attributed to Lai Fong (or Afong, Chinese, 1839-90). Photo credit: Aeon Chloe Bordewich Robin Wright, “To The World We’re Now America the Racist…
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Navigating PARES, or, how to research the history of the global Spanish Empire during a global pandemic
Kristie Flannery, a Killam postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia, and an Editor-at-Large of the Toynbee Prize Foundation…
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What We’re Reading This Week
Image credit: Foreign Policy Joshua Milstein Christoph Schneider, “Concrete Metaphysics and the Visual Image”, Los Angeles Review of Books Review of a new monograph on the aesthetic…
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What We’re Reading This Week
Zaib un Nisa Aziz Jill Lepore, The History of the “Riot” Report, The New Yorker Lepore examines the history of government commissions investigating organized resistance and shows…
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What We’re Reading This Week
Michigan National Guardsmen stand at the ready as firemen battle one of numerous blazes in riot-torn Detroit. July 1967. Photo credit: Associated Press James Parker …
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Kenneth Pomeranz wins 2021 Toynbee Prize
Kenneth Pomeranz has been named winner of the Toynbee Prize for 2021. Pomeranz is a University Professor of History, of East Asian Languages and Civilizations,…
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Podcast: Pandemic science and the history of animal-human encounters with Sujit Sivasundaram on The History of Now
The latest episode of The History of Now podcast from the University of Cambridge features Sujit Sivasundaram in conversation with Chris Clark about animal-human encounters…
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Toynbee Trustee Jeremy Adelman on global morality and the American response to the coronavirus
TOPSHOT – People coming from Venezuela with protective face masks as a precautionary measure to avoid contracting the new coronavirus, COVID-19, show hold their documents…