Very excited about our summer school, and about Prof Hsu & @sulinlewis.bsky.social Prof Lewis's joining us on the teaching team of the summer school! Apply before 3 May 2026.

Conference time! From protest routes to print networks, from imperial capitals to port cities, urban spaces were not just backdrops but engines of anticolonial struggle. Join us for the "Cities and Decolonization" conference in Oxford this week. More: citiesanddecolonization.com

Thank you @aselmeyer.bsky.social ! Really looking forward to being an urban historian again :-)

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

Happening in just over two weeks!

📣 CFP for a workshop I’m co-convening with UGM as part of the DEVHIST project in Yogya on 8-10 September 2026. Travel support is available for Indonesian and intl speakers. Please share!!

We have organised a series of exciting events throughout March for our Rethinking Internationalism project, including an in-person conference at Birkbeck on 19th-20th. For more details and information on tickets, see our website: csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/rethink...

So excited for this @carriegibson.bsky.social ! Listening to this year's Reith Lectures on Wilberforce and the abolitionist movement 🙄 and thinking how much we need this!!!

In the run-up to the publication of my new book, The Great Resistance, on 6 Jan 2026 (link in bio), I’ll have a daily post featuring photos from two decades of research trips, along with a snippet from each of the book’s 35 chapters. Today: Barbados 💙📚#booksky #thegreatresistance #history

‘Since January 2025, I have collaborated with Imagined Malaysia, a Malaysia-based NGO, and started a public history campaign titled ‘Malaysia Unbound: Transregional Histories through Documents’…

This was a compelling biography of man at the helm of the UN in the turbulent 60s. Here I tried (in 750 words!) to give more context on the #afroasian world, its engagement with the UN, and Burma's decolonisation. Read it just for U Thant and Kruschev bobbing along together in the Black Sea.

So in order for a Swedish grandmother to receive her pension, a child in #Myanmar will have to get killed by the junta, did I understand this correctly? "Swedish pension funds had invested $485 million in companies selling arms to or doing business with Myanmar's military rulers"

(1/2) The second workshop in the AHRC-funded Rethinking Internationalisms series titled 'New Methods for New Histories' will take place via zoom on 9-10 July – reflective panels followed by an open discussion. Audience-participants can sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...

We stand in solidarity with trans women and the trans community and we will always be a space that recognises the importance of trans history. Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8

@sulinlewis.bsky.social reposted her 2016 essay in Afro-Asian Visions to mark the 70th anniversary of #BandungConference (18 April 2025): tinyurl.com/2t2dkuej. Her final paragraph on reframing the present & future remains inspiring & worthwhile. (1/3) #connectingimaginaries #transregionalstudies

We had a really fun blog for a while about all things #afroasia with wonderful contributions, but to mark the 70th anniversary of the #Bandung conference here's my first post: medium.com/afro-asian-v... 1/2

Yesterday’s #esshc2025 panel was such a joy. Talking about anticolonial mobilisation with the global history gang @riakapoor.bsky.social @sulinlewis.bsky.social and @emleake.bsky.social. Thanks to Anne-Isabell Richard for chairing and the audience for great engagement. Feeling inspired!

The March issue includes the AHR’s first playlist. Jason Gibbs, a leading expert on late 20th Vietnamese popular music, has created a playlist of 12 songs that introduce listeners to Vietnamese soundscapes of the wartime era. 🗃️

Very important article by Nyi Nyi Kyaw on the shrinking opportunities for young people in #myanmar with forced conscription of both men and women into the military & cancellation of USAID scholarships to study at Asian universities theconversation.com/myanmars-mil...

Later in March we've publication of 'Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle', by Rachel E. Johnson bit.ly/4hMppbB Rachel's is the latest book in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' series: available free #OpenAccess and p/back print on Thursday 20th #Skystorians

Applications for the MA Black Humanities are open @brisblackhums.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social. You can find more information here: www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr... Come join us! Please share widely!

Are you in London this afternoon? Make sure to attend this event at birkbeck 2-4pm to launch this incredible new handbook on histories of socialism and development with @sulinlewis.bsky.social @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social and @jessicareinisch.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 online link available too, just lmk!

Another reminder - and correction - that this is tomorrow (TUESDAY not Thursday). Really looking forward to it! If anyone would like to join online, please let @jessicareinisch.bsky.social know, & thanks again to Jessica and Birkbeck's Centre for the Study of Internationalism for hosting us!

Obviously I can't read a calendar 😊 the launch is next TUESDAY, Feb 11.

If you haven't read it, I'd strongly recommend Amy Kaplan's book OUR AMERICAN ISRAEL on the development of the special relationship between Israel and the U.S. since 1948 - Amy was a fearless and brilliant scholar, and this book is necessary reading right now

Next Thursday (2-4) we'll be launching Development, Socialism, and Internationalism in the Third World (edited with @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social) with a brilliant group of discussants (below)- many thanks @jessicareinisch.bsky.social for hosting us at Birkbeck! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/socialism...

The "anniversary" of the coup always brings alot of attention to the situation in Myanmar which is good but alot of people / media / countries who pop up don't really comment the rest of the year. More sustained attention & support is needed. Tis the reasons I built the #whatshappeninginmyanar feed

I was interviewed for this ... www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

New article! Open access - ‘Indonesian Tourism Workers on Volcanoes and Geotourism's Colonial Origins: Making a Subaltern History Visible’ #indonesia #photography #volcanoes #labourhistory #colonialism #tourism 🇮🇩📷🌋 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

2. 11 February, 2-4pm: book launch & discussion panel for @sulinlewis.bsky.social's Socialism, Internationalism and Development in the Third World - with @riakapoor.bsky.social, @tanyaharmer.bsky.social, Leslie James (QMUL) and @jamesamark.bsky.social (Birkbeck Central Building, Malet St, Room 209)

The ❤️ wants what it wants - I asked my co-hosts at Pusat Sejarah Rakyat (the People's History Centre) in Malaysia what I should speak about while here, so it's round 12 of Bandung, with responses from incredible activists on how transnational activism changed in the 70s/80s and beyond...

Loved seeing this pic of @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social with our book cover at the @historians.org conference - and have major fomo for missing his panel with @emleake.bsky.social @lydiawalker.bsky.social @emmakluge.bsky.social and @erezmanela.bsky.social

The #FactsFirstPH coalition says fact-checking initiatives need to be strengthened, not scrapped, pointing out the role of disinformation in past Philippine elections

Very excited to be co-editing this new Bloomsbury handbook on Histories of Internationalism with @jessicareinisch.bsky.social and David Brydan. To allow for the widest possible regional and thematic perspectives we've opened a call for contributions!

Will be very interested to see this next fall. It’s a welcome departure for the IWM exhibition hall and could set the standard for a new public history of British decolonization www.iwm.org.uk/events/emerg...

"What’s unfolding in South Korea is not just a domestic issue—it’s a reminder that democracies everywhere require constant vigilance". Thank you so much for this much needed information, @heesoojang.bsky.social. I hope the whole world listens.

Opportunity: Burma Studies Group travel award for 2025 AAS conference with preference given to junior Myanmar scholars burmastudiesgroup.com/2024/11/28/o...

A big hello to all our new followers! We are a quarterly literary magazine focused on Asia and Asian perspectives. We also have an email newsletter that we encourage people to sign up to because it’s direct and not subject to the vagaries of socmed whims: subscribepage.io/mekongreview...

As this site is coming alive, I tried to help my own orientation by creating a starter pack for global urban history. Suggestions welcome go.bsky.app/3FUgYoE

Usual caveats apply go.bsky.app/Gaka15u

I wrote an essay on decolonization talk for Aeon Magazine, sparked in part by the seemingly odd image search results for 'decolonization' when making posters for Ohio State's International History Seminar last year. @mershoncenter.bsky.social @osuhistory.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/what-...

There are many layers here, but I want to comment on one aspect of these findings for now--the editorial board representation. Some will see this and immediately think: we need to get more POC on our boards! I understand that impulse, but encourage you to think a few steps down the game tree 1/n.

Very proud that our new volume on Development, Socialism, and Internationalism is now out on Open Access! Many thanks to my wonderful co-editor Nana Osei-Opare and all our contributors, & @jessicareinisch.bsky.social & David Brydan for welcoming us in their series www.bloomsbury.com/us/socialism...

Postdoc alert! Come join our wonderful Peace Movements Project team! We are looking for someone to work on the history of peace movements in the MENA region - please share widely and let me know if you have any questions! www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

Very excited about the new History lab in this month's AHR on Southeast Asian History and Contemporary Art!