JOSHUA MILSTEIN … Victoria Pashentseva, "Tough Lessons in Transnistria," openDemocracy. Rebeka Foley, "Azerbaijan's Pre-Soviet Independence Embroiled in Post-Soviet Polemics," Eurasianet. Francis P. Sempa, "Surviving the Future: Looking Back at the Toynbee-Wakaizumi Dialogue of 1970," The Diplomat.

Theme: "Altruism and Its Discontents: Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development" Proposal deadline: February 15, 2018 … Materials:

Our friends at The Global History Center (GHC) of Capital Normal University (CNU) have released a flier containing information about their recent work:

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 recent years, global history has become one of the most ambitious and promising strands of historical research.

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 New Yorker.

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, 5-7 September 2018. The Fifth Conference of ASAI aims, first of all, to analyse the 'Africas', that is…

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 be held on 22 January and 19 February 2018: From Face/Off to the Face Race:

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 announced a one day symposium to explore HIV and AIDS in a historical perspective in Europe.

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 an outgrowth of attitudes developed in the context of European colonialism - historians and other scholars have been preoccupied with the links between…

"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 relates to migration.

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 York Times. Serge Gruzinski, "Tristes Tropiques," ["Sad Tropics"] Libération. Faisal Devji, "C.A. Bayly (Obituary)," Past & Present.

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 their angled peaks: contested spaces often beyond the fully encompassing reach of states and empires.

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 and place.

SEAN PHILLIPS … Rogers Brubaker, "The New Language of European Populism," Foreign Affairs. Alexandra Förderl-Schmidt, "Ein Quadratkilometer Weltgeschichte" ["One Square Kilometer of World History"], Süddeutsche Zeitung … Erik Linstrum, "The Empire Dreamt Back," Aeon.

For those interested in the Global South, here's a recent call for papers for a conference to be announced by Alanna O'Malley (Leiden University, The Netherlands) titled "Challenging the Liberal World Order: