Category: The Blog
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What We’re Reading This Week
FATMA ALADAG Matthew Vitz, An Unlikely Environmentalism: Mexico City’s Urban Ecological Thought in the Age of Development, Global Urban History. Faisal Devji, Will Saudi Arabia…
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Conference Report: Global History Student Conference (Istanbul Sehir University, June 22-24, 2018)
Academic trends can encourage collaboration among scholars from different parts of the world. A good example of this was the student conference on global history…
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Conference Report: Russia’s Global Legal Trajectories: International Law in Eurasia’s Past and Present (University College London, 16-17 February 2018).
On the 16th and 17th of February 2018, the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at University College London (UCL) hosted an international…
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What We’re Reading This Week
JAMES PARKER Philip Kleinfeld, Inside Mission Impossible: Special Report on the Central African Republic, IRIN Scott McLemee, Theory in Revolt Now Thunders, Inside Higher Ed Afua Hirsch, Why…
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CFP: Protest and Dissent: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference (Vienna, December 1-2, 2018)
Protest and dissent: an inclusive interdisciplinary conference Saturday 1st December 2018 – Sunday 2nd December 2018 Vienna, Austria The 21st century has seen a resurgence…
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CFP: W.E.B. DuBois and Liberal Education (September 14, Villanova, PA)
The Villanova Center for Liberal Education (VCLE) at Villanova University is sponsoring a one-day conference on W. E. B. DuBois and Liberal Education. We have…
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What We’re Reading This Week
LOTTE HOUWINK TEN CATE Sarah Jaffe, “The Factory in the Family,” The Nation. Peter Slezkine, “What Happened to the ‘Free World’,” The New Republic. Sarah…
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CFP: Colonial Cities in Global Perspective (Saint-Louis, Senegal, December 10-12, 2018)
The Global History Network, the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, the Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris, and the Institute of Advanced…
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Call for Submissions: Feminist and Queer Activism in Britain and the United States in the Long 1980s
Feminist and queer activism in the long 1980s has recently become subject to renewed scrutiny. Scholarship has challenged the perception that the period was one…
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What We’re Reading This Week
COLLIN BERNARD Tariq Ali and David Edgar, “That Was The Year That Was,” LRB. Stathis Kouvelakis, “Borderland: Greece and the EU’s Southern Question,” New Left Review. John…