In today’s think piece, Minke Hijmans discusses how the creation of the “insect-enemy” figure by European imperial entomology contributed to the present-day environmental disaster.
https://t.co/jUNMaXGe3C
Very excited to announce that we, Royal Thimphu College, with our partners, have been awarded a large, four-year research project on researching and documenting more-than-human highland heritages of Bhutan. First details in the link.
https://t.co/PC6DuG6x70
Thrilled to announce @JulianStrube and my eds. The Mahabharata in Global Political and Social Thought (Cambridge University Press). Thanks to Alok Oak for the book launch at Edinburgh Uni. today. You can join in-person or online: https://t.co/cK9tXk4ypt
Our contributors @JulianStrube Alok Oak @GhatakArkamitra @phispern Melanie Mueller @LanzilloAmanda Paulus Kaufmann @egasmb David Malitz Christopher Bahl Abdallah Soufan & me, track the Mahabharata's influence across India, Germany, China, Japan, Thailand, Iran & Arab world.
Day 2 #brainstorming session started with an eye-opening presentation by @verozuccarelli_ about the "Green Energy Revolution': socioenvironmental conflicts in the lithium triangle of South America"
Day 2 - Indigenous knowledge and perspectives on the Anthropocene crisis.
The session started with an outstanding talk by @shuvatri, "From goddess to property, from property to legal person: #colonialism, #capitalism, and stories of #riverine landscapes in #Himalayan India.
Happy Labour Day!🙌 Our 2024 Berlin conference is happening in about a month, and all public audience is welcome💬📢🌐
Full programme: https://t.co/EObh45wCaS
#GHSC2024#GlobalHistory#twitterstorians
Super excited to be in Brazil next week for 'Rethinking Global Capitalism', organised by @Sven_Beckert (@GlobHistHarvard) and Dr. Tâmis Parron (@uff_br). I shall place questions of gender, race, and environment at the heart of histories of global capitalism!
Thrilled to be a keynote speaker in the European Society for History of Political Thought conference, "Human Nature - Humans and Nature in the History of Political Thought" (CEU Vienna, 25-27 Sep 24). Deadline for proposal submission tomorrow!
@AileenFyfe and I are thrilled to announce a St Andrews "World-leading doctoral scholarship in History"! We are looking for a PhD student who will work with us to study connections between University of St Andrews and India, ca. 1780-1900! Do share widely! https://t.co/oyWzX4ldeK
Thrilled to share this event! From Bankimchandra & Vivekananda to Sarojini Naidu, Nazrul Islam, Muhammad Ali, Gandhi, & Nehru, from nationalist texts to Rajavamshi peasant caste discourses, I will argue that ancient Rome shaped debates on India's decolonization & democratization!
How Did Ancient Rome Shape India's Decolonization? Find out from @MilindaBanerje2 on Wednesday February 7, 2.15pm GMT in St Andrews School of Classics @StA_Classics, and online:
https://t.co/gU95m2GmWN
Do go and check out our latest blog post in the SACRA Asian takeover on Chinese translations of the word 'Greece' written by Egas Moniz Bandeira! Share and repost:) https://t.co/aYW0a2Mc78
We are back with our first "Profile Series" of the new year with Dr Milinda Banerjee @MilindaBanerje2, the programme director our of Global Social and Political Thought MLitt 🎉👋🌐
"This book is a blast" -- Historian Vinay Lal on Subaltern Studies 2.0. Immensely grateful for his engaging discussion on our book. @MilindaBanerje2
Subaltern Studies in the Anthropocene Age https://t.co/YT1Bu7FcC0 via @YouTube
The JHI Blog's symposium -- "The Intellectual History of Labor" -- will be held this Saturday, September 9! The program and registration information are available here: https://t.co/kvGANwBcYU.
Registration is now open for the JHI Blog's fifth-annual Graduate Student Symposium, "The Intellectual History of Labor," to be held on Saturday, September 9 on Zoom.
https://t.co/kvGANwAF9m