Category: The Blog
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What We’re Reading This Week
LOTTE HOUWINK TEN CATE Jenna Tonn, “White Feminism and Eugenics: The Case of Gertrude Davenport,” The New Inquiry. Colin Koopman, “The Power Thinker,” Aeon. Sadia Shephard, “Foreign-Returned,” The…
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Submission Deadline Extended: Global Histories (January 20th, 2018)
Global Histories has extended the deadline for its most recent call for papers. The deadline for submissions is now January 20th, 2018. The Call explains more: In…
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Fifth Conference of the Association for African Studies in Italy (ASAI): Plural Africa – Politics, Knowledge and Social Dynamics in Time and Space
ASAI has issued a call for panels at the Fifth Conference of the Association for African Studies in Italy (ASAI) to be held in Bologna,…
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Upcoming Public Lectures at the Centre for Global Health Histories, University of York
The Centre for Global Health Histories at the University of York in the UK has shared the following details for two upcoming public lectures to…
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Call for Participants: Comparative Histories of AIDS in Europe
As part of the Festival of AIDS Cultures and Histories taking place in London and Amsterdam next year, scholars working on histories of HIV/AIDS have…
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CFP: Entangled Others – Other Entanglements: Critical Perspectives on the Relationship of Racism and Antisemitism (Berlin, June 2019)
At least since the end of the Second World War – and Hannah Arendt’s suggestion in her 1951 Origins of Totalitarianism that the Holocaust was…
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CFP: Globalization and Migration in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Paderborn, Germany – November 2018)
“Europe has, in the final analysis, a utilitarian relationship to globalization,” write the organizers, at Germany’s Paderborn University, of a conference on how the subject…
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What We’re Reading This Week
MARTIN CREVIER Simon Han, “The Impossible Task of Remembering the Nanking Massacre”, The Atlantic. Daniel T. Willingham, “How to Get Your Mind to Read”, New…
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CFP: Global Mountains (Cambridge, UK – July 2018)
Lauren Benton’s 2009 book, A Search for Sovereignty, introduced mountains as terrains of power often as uneven, relative to the polities that claimed them, as…
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CFP: Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labor (Paramaribo, Suriname – June 2018)
The Anton de Kom University of Suriname is offering scholars worldwide the opportunity to discuss legacies of forced migration and labor in a unique time…