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.

For those interested in the First World War in a global context, this conference titled "Global War, Global Connections, Global Moments - International Conference about the First World War" is for you. The call for papers explains more:

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 Guarantee a New Era of Leadership in Africa,' Blog Africa@LSE.

It's time to begin planning your summer program and conference travels in global history!

NAGOTHU NARESH KUMAR … Sinem Adar, "Understanding Religion in (New) Turkey," Jadaliyya. Bill Niven, "Adolf Hitler, Film Fanatic," History Today. Ian Johnson, "Chairman Xi, Chinese Idol," New York Review of Books.

For those interested in the history of migration in a global context, this conference titled "Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives" is for you. The call for papers explains more: