The Oceanographer's House (2026) by British artist Christopher Thompson (born in 1969). Oil on canvas 80 x 60 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!

Come be my colleague! American University's History Department is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor of science, tech and society. I am chair of the search and pleased to answer any questions either on here or email (grao at american) american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...

could not have envisioned a better reviewer for ‘A Volatile Picture' than Shyam Tekwani who has lived this book & its photos. Enormously grateful for these words 🙏🏽 | How Photographs Defied All Attempts to Bury the Memory of Sri Lanka's War thewire.in/books/how-ph... @thewire.in

Many congratulations to Maria Adele Carrai and Surabhi Ranganathan on the publication of The Cambridge History of International Law Vol. 2 / International Law in Asia. The introduction "Against the Inequality of Ignorance" is linked below: www.cambridge.org/core/service...

Thomas and Barbara Metcalf have been so important to the study of South Asia, for decades. Thomas was influential in shaping and informing South Asian and British imperial studies at Cal and the wider world. He will be missed. southasia.berkeley.edu/news/remembe...

Desi Basketball Diaries www.saada.org/explore/publ...

Call for Applications: American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies dissertation planning grants, to fund 6-8 weeks of exploratory research in Sri Lanka. Applications due December 1, 2026. https://www.aisls.org/grants/aisls-dissertation-planning-grant/

Thank you to the brilliant Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social for this generous,wide-ranging, and deeply engaged conversation with me about my book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism @princetonupress.bsky.social

Presenting on maritime sovereignty and coastal livelihoods for the Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire seminar at the Oxford Center for Global History on 8 June at 2 PM BST / 9 AM ET. Please email [email protected] for Zoom link.

"[...] the work of building internationalist solidarity within an imperial social formation is the work of epistemic and affective claim-making" Sneha Krishnan explores the history of the Women's Christian College in colonial India.

Reading Anne-Isabelle Richard's valedictory editorial in Itinerario and very honoured to see that my and Andreas Greiner's 2024 special issue on colonial tourism gets a shout-out in her retrospective look at the past years.

New special section of CSSAME on "Methodologies of the 'Everyday' in South Asian Islam" co-edited by Harini Kumar and me is now out! Featuring articles from Mudit Trivedi, Ali Altaf Mian, Elizabeth Lhost & Taushif Kara, Harini and me, with a post-script by Shahzad Bashir. Check it out here!

***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!