Category: The Blog
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CFP: “The Uncanny in Language, Literature and Culture,” International Conference (18 August 2018 – London, UK)
“The Uncanny in Language, Literature and Culture” Organised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research The twentieth-century literature and culture tended to explore and to celebrate subjectivity. But…
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What We’re Reading This Week
CAROLINE KAHLENBERG Ann Snitow, ‘Talking Back to the Patriarchy,’ Dissent. Alan Taylor, ‘100 Years Ago: France in the Final Year of World War I,’ The…
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What We’re Reading This Week
JAMES PARKER Joanna Kakissis, “An Anti-Immigration Speech Divided Britain 50 Years Ago,” NPR. Rohan Deb Roy, “Decolonise Science – Time to End Another Imperial Era,”…
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What We’re Reading This Week
MEGHNA CHAUDHURI Daniel Luban, ‘In Marx’s Republic,’ The Nation. Pankaj Mishra, ‘Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism,’ The New York Review of Books. Anu Kumar, ‘100…
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CFP: “Memory and Religion: Central and Eastern Europe in a Global Perspective” (16-18 October, 2018)
For those interested in secularism and relationships between religious systems, here’s an interesting call for you! European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (ENRS) has announced a…
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What We’re Reading This Week
FATMA ALADAĞ Gabriela Marcovich, “On the Potentialities (and Limits) of Collaboration in Global History,” L’Atelier. Priya Satia, “The Whitesplaining of History is Over,” The Chronicle.…
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Summer Academy: “Labour and Leisure in Global History” (University of Nairobi, 9-16 September, 2018)
For those interested in summer programs on global history, here’s a recent call for you! The international research centre Work and Human Lifecycle in Global (re:work),…
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What We’re Reading This Week
CAROLINE KAHLENBERG Elizabeth Dore, ‘Which Way for Cuba?,’ Dissent. Ab Cahan, ‘My First Pesach in America – In 1883,’ Forward. Walter Johnson, ‘Guns in the…
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Lauren Benton wins 2019 Toynbee Prize
Lauren Benton has been named winner of the 2019 Toynbee Prize. Benton is Nelson O. Tyrone, Jr. Professor of History and Professor of Law at…
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What We’re Reading This Week
JAMES PARKER Bronwen Everill, ‘Demarginalizing West Africa in the Age of Revolutions,’ Blog Age of Revolutions. Miriam Abaya, ‘The Resignation of Old Leaders Does Not…