***Blog Submissions from Undergraduates*** Our blog, Not From Here, will be running a short blog series this year highlighting the work of undergraduate students whose research engages with immigration and ethnic history. We invite submissions! Those interested should contact [email protected]

Also published today in Transactions: Peter Gatrell's article 'The "RefugeeWorld": A Twentieth-Century Retrospective' bit.ly/49nWmtg This is an article version of Peter's 2025 Prothero Lecture given in July last year. Now available free Open Access 1/2 #Skystorians

A thread about new bks that I used in my teaching about the Indian Ocean World this past semester:

OTD in 2019 the Easter Attacks led to mob violence and riots against the minority Muslim community in Sri Lanka. In this piece from the archive, @shamaraw.bsky.social considers the historical roots of these attacks and the genealogy of communal violence in Sri Lanka.

71% of our planet is ocean, but you wouldn’t know it from traditional maps. Shift your land-based perspective this Earth Week with a story about the Spilhaus Projection map and the WHOI oceanographer who created it: go.whoi.edu/spilhausmap

Excited to host @unlawfulentries.bsky.social at @siwpscolumbia.bsky.social this week to talk about her new book!

I'm delighted to share that my book "The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905–1918" (Liverpool UP) has been accepted by JSTOR as part of their Path To Open programme. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

thrilled to share that my article, "The Ghost of Comilla: Authoritarian Biopolitics and Global Development in Rural East Pakistan," is now out in print in the latest issue of @diplomatichistory.bsky.social.

PUB. DAY! Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia is officially out today. Available Open Access: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... #legalhistory Outfit: red for bloodstain testing+flowered shirt for botanical poisons+poisoner's ring (for show only)

The inaugural Cambridge Amplify Grant will support early-career scholars in History and Area Studies in publishing their first book, providing financial and editorial support over 12 months. ⏰ The closing date for submissions is 13 April 2026. Find out more 🔗 https://cup.org/3NJAd1a

Happy publication month, @mitrasharafi.bsky.social ! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Big news, everyone!! The ASLH has created a new dissertation prize for non-US legal history: the Global Dissertation Prize aslh.net/award/global... Eligible authors for this cycle must have received their doctoral degree in *2025.* Deadline: 1 June 2026. Please spread the word &/or submit your work!

Today marked the launch of the Asian Legal History Association, with the secretariat at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Maynooth School of Law and Criminology is one of the founding institutional members. Further details about the Association and its activities here: web.law.cuhk.edu.hk/ALHA/

Happy publication day, @durba.bsky.social !

If you study legal history, please consider submitting a proposal for the 2026 conference of the American Society for Legal History in Banff, Canada in November! The Program Committee accepts proposals until March 24! #ASLH #legalhistory 🗃️ aslh.net/2026-annual-...

We have a zine! Over the past year, I've been working w/ Pusat Sejarah Rakyat and the International Institute of Social History to bring together organisations around Southeast Asia working on archiving and disseminating "people's histories" and the histories of social movements in the region. 1/4

The sinking of the IRIS Dena by a US submarine just 19 nautical miles from Sri Lanka’s shore in its Exclusive Economic Zone has forced Colombo to navigate one of the most complex diplomatic and legal crises in its recent history www.sundaytimes.lk/260308/news/...

I'm excited to be chairing the American Society for Legal History Projects and Proposals Committee this cycle. We look forward to receiving funding applications for conferences, museum exhibits, pedagogical experiments, and more! We are accepting submissions until Sept. 1. aslh.net/award/projec...

Macro Photograph of an Abalone Shell #1143 taken 2:02 pm

Tansen Sen will be in #Vancouver for the 2026 @asianstudies.org conference! Please join us on Wednesday March 11, 2026, 5pm, where he will present a talk for the Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series at UBC Asian Centre, Room 604 frogbear.org/yin-cheng-di...

Happy publication day to @uobrishistory.bsky.social’s Professor Sumita Mukherjee!

I put on my lawyer hat for this piece on time limits under Indian citizenship legislation, and ongoing constitutional challenges in the Indian Supreme Court for Statelessness and Citizenship Review: statelessnessandcitizenshipreview.com/index.php/jo...

Vol. 88 (50th Anniversary) Pt. II: ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ special issue Introduction by editors @jakehodder.bsky.social and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.018 7/31

In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Socio-Legal Review has call for papers for a special issue on Law and History in South Asia: repository.nls.ac.in/slr/news.html

Excited to be speaking at @UniofExeter's CGS Virtual Seminar Series on "Portuguese Black Serpents Meet Safavid Dragons: The Intellectual World of Indian Ocean Imperialism." 🐉🐍 Register here: universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The trial of 6 Italian officers for a 2023 shipwreck in which at least 94 people died is set to start this week. The Cutro shipwreck trial is a crucial opportunity to secure truth and justice for survivors and families of victims.

It was a pleasure to review Reeju Ray's Placing the Frontier in British Northeast India: Law, Custom and Knowledge for Law and History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Its publication month for Lindsey Stephenson's Belonging on Both Shores! @supmktg.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/middle...

Now reading.

"Climate change may be measured in carbon, but its mother tongue is water"

Congratulations, Julia!

A quick introduction to new followers: I am a political and legal philosopher working on diasporas and transnationalism, the ethics of immigration control, victims' duties, and transitional justice. My first monograph looked at exile politics,

Reading @kalramnath.bsky.social’s incredible Boats in a Storm in Puducherry — history coming alive on and off the page.

I wrote a book, it now has a cover, it's all feeling very real! Coming out (open access) in February, for all those with an interest in, well, religion, gender, and/or politics in Sri Lankan history. www.arc-humanities.org/978180270309...

Watch this space. www.barandbench.com/news/litigat...

Jakarta, Indonesia’s vibrant, overcrowded and sinking capital, has displaced Tokyo as the most populated city in the world, according to the UN, thanks to its new way of counting urban populations.

Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

The IOWC is holding a hybrid conference in May 2026! We are currently asking for paper submissions. More details can be found here: indianoceanworldcentre.com/2026-mapping... Or via the QR code on the poster.

NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange. #vastearlyamerica #arthistory journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...

Congratulations, @mitrasharafi.bsky.social and #ASLH!