A big Yes for citation chains.

Am I the only one who gets a real kick out of citation chains? Reading people's writing and footnotes, and making assessments and notes, finding the sources in the footnotes and reading them yourself, and making more notes? I...love it?

Learn about unique digital primary sources for South Asian studies.

Colleagues in South Asian Studies, the deadline for submitting papers for ECSAS is January 30, 2025. People have asked me why, when they have had their panels accepted already, do they need to ask their panelists to submit paper proposals.

This is indeed Required Reading, delightful and insightful. I am hooked and can see how it can be used in seminars to bring colonial documentation into conversation with the rich ecosystem of texts in which they were written.

Interested in doing research in Global Environmental History and the Environmental Humanities in Germany? I am scouting! Offering an up to 2 year research fellowship with the Humboldt Foundation. Deadline, December 13. www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet...

The European Conference for South Asian Studies (ECSAS) 2025 is being held at the University of Heidelberg, Oct 1-4. The Call for Papers is now open. Please check the list of accepted panels and consider submitting a paper proposal. Details are at ecsas2025.com/call-for-pan... See you in Heidelberg!

Brown paper packages tied up with string.

Defanged by a Santa hat

The South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg is looking to appoint an anthropologist, and the search is open rank. Please share: www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...

Pinker than usual.