ICYMI: Fatima Naveed has been announced as the winner of Bloomsbury’s Academic Writing Fellowship for 2025, which supports emerging Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse (BAED) authors to develop their idea through to the final manuscript stage 👇

Announcing the winner of the 2025 Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship, Fatima Naveed! 👏 The Fellowship is designed by @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social & @writersandartists.bsky.social to support emerging Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse authors. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/connect/l...

Fatima Naveed has been announced as the winner of Bloomsbury’s Academic Writing Fellowship for 2025, which supports emerging Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse (BAED) authors to develop their idea through to the final manuscript stage 👇

Excited to talk about censorship practices in Pakistan at IASH next month - sign up to watch online! 📚✍️❌

📢 : There is still time to submit your proposal for the "1725 to 2025: Historical & Contemporary Links Between Scotland and South Asia" symposium in Edinburgh. You might even get to hear me talk about Indian revolutionaries, Russian maximalists, and bomb plots in Edinburgh, Paris, and Muzaffarpur.

Spending a suspiciously sunny day writing in @iashedinburgh.bsky.social ☀️

Two weeks to go! "1725 to 2025: Historical & Contemporary Links Between Scotland and South Asia" is open for submissions until 1 Feb 2026 ✨ Link: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/... @sheelalipi.bsky.social @olebirklaursen.bsky.social @iashedinburgh.bsky.social

I have many things to look forward to in 2026, not least speaking at the symposium "1725-2025: Historical and Contemporary Links Between Scotland and South Asia”, organised by @tgifatima.bsky.social and Sheelalipi Sahana at @iashedinburgh.bsky.social in April. The CfP is now live, check it out!

🚨 CfP Alert! 🚨 Thanks to the generosity of the Susan Manning Workshop Fund at @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, my colleague and I are delighted to be organising a symposium, "1725-2025: Historical and Contemporary Links Between Scotland and South Asia.” PDF here: drive.google.com/file/d/1IuTn...

Delighted to have started at @iashedinburgh.bsky.social this month as a postdoc fellow! My project is titled “Censoring a Nation: Blasphemy, Obscenity, and Sedition in Pakistan”: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-f...