JAMES PARKER … Philip Kleinfeld, Inside Mission Impossible:

Protest and dissent: an inclusive interdisciplinary conference … Saturday 1st December 2018 – Sunday 2nd December 2018 … Vienna, Austria … The 21st century has seen a resurgence in protest movements and political dissent around the world.

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 Stoller, "Forging a Politics of Care," History Workshop. ADEN KNAAP … Karuna Mantena, "Getting the NIEO Right," Law and Political Economy Blog.

The Villanova Center for Liberal Education (VCLE) at Villanova University is sponsoring a one-day conference on W. E. B. DuBois and Liberal Education.

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 Study in Saint-Louis, seek papers for a conference on  Colonial Cities in Global Perspective , to be held in Saint-Louis, Senegal…

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 of quiescence after the tumult of the 1970s.

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 Foot, "Closing the Asylums," Jacobin.

"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.

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 Atlantic. Peter Hessler, 'Cairo: A Type of Love Story,' The New Yorker. Sophie Pinkham, 'No Direction Home,' The New Republic.

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," The Conversation. Colin Grant, "Britain's Debt to the Windrush Generation," The New York Review of Books.

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 Years on, Remembering the Hindu-German Conspiracy to Violently Overthrow the British Raj,' Scroll.in.

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 conference titled "Memory and Religion: Central and Eastern Europe in a Global Perspective." The call explains more:

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. Sagnik Dutta, "Remembering Saba Mahmood," The Wire.

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), the IAAW at Humboldt University Berlin, and the Faculty of Arts…

CAROLINE KAHLENBERG … Elizabeth Dore, 'Which Way for Cuba?,' Dissent. Ab Cahan, 'My First Pesach in America - In 1883,' Forward. Walter Johnson, 'Guns in the Family,' Boston Review. Rachel Syme, 'The Fate of the Juicy Couture Tracksuit in the Age of Athleisure,' The New Yorker.