Dr. Giusi Russo
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Historian and author in the Philadelphia area.
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Eleanor Paynter
11 months ago
Hi there! I work on migration & asylum w/ a focus on rights, race, coloniality, & testimony in the Mediterranean & globally.
#CriticalRefugeeStudies
via ethnography, media, narrative My book Emergency in Transit is out this month
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Emergency in Transit by Eleanor Paynter - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/emergency-in-transit/paper
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Margot Tudor
4 months ago
âšDon't forget to sign up to our upcoming ONLINE conference on 'New Methods for New Histories (Online)' - we've structured the whole workshop as a virtual space; benefitting from global speakers, a roundtable structure and regular breaks! Pls get tickets here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...
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New Methods for New Histories (Online)
Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-methods-for-new-histories-online-tickets-1418793041179?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Excited to share that I'll be spending my sabbatical semester at Swarthmore College as a visiting scholar. Iâll be writing my chapter on Tano DâAmicoâs photography in a beautiful and inspiring setting.
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Myriam Piguet
5 months ago
My review of Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the UN, 1946â1975 by
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is out in Comparativ! Her research is a vital read for anyone interested in international women's rightsâand the roots of the global order. Hope it inspires you to dive in! âš
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Vol. 35 No. 1-2 (2025): Atlantic Crossings: Temporary Migration and Labour around 1900 | Comparativ
https://comparativ.net/v2/issue/view/183
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Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center
6 months ago
Join us for a May seminar series! Silvia Federici and Decolonial Topographies of Struggle Every Wednesday in May from 3 PM - 4:30 PM Please register via the Making Worlds website. See you there!
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ProfKFH
7 months ago
Feels wrong to celebrate while academia is on đ„, but this week I got the lovely cover for my long overdue book *The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean* forthcoming from UPenn Press!
#RaceB4Race
#RenSA2025
#RSA2025
#Shax2025
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Gillian Murphy
9 months ago
"Women of the World Unite: The United Nations Decade for Women and Transnational Feminisms 1975 to Now' - new exhibition opening on 10 February.
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If you are teaching a course on gender and internationalism, I'd like to recommend my book, "Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations," University of Nebraska Press, 2023,
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
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Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946â1975 - Nebraska Press
Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946â1975 tells the story of how womenâs bodies were at the center of the international politics...
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496205810/women-empires-and-body-politics-at-the-united-nations-19461975/
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Alexander Chee
9 months ago
I'm returning to teach this summer for a week at the Provincetown Work Center's Queer Week, 6/22-6/27. I'm teaching alongside Andrea Lawlor, Carmen Maria Machado, Catherine Opie, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Celeste Lecesne, Ilanda Savdie, and Miriam Klein-Stahl:
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Resurrections - FINE ARTS WORK CENTER in Provincetown
This workshop is about returning to a piece of fiction you have struggled with and set asideâreturning to it and bringing it back to life. We will look for ways to complete this work, including inner ...
https://fawc.org/summer-program/resurrections/
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The remarkable life of Andrée Blouin - Africa's overlooked independence heroine.
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Andrée Blouin - Africa's overlooked independence heroine
Blouin ran in the same circles as liberation icons like Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah and Sékou Touré.
https://bbc.com/news/articles/c5ydjkgx7x4o
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Michael Lobel
10 months ago
Malick Sidibé, Nuit de Noël (Christmas Eve, Happy Club), 1963
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a new review of my book!
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Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946â1975
Published in International Feminist Journal of Politics (Ahead of Print, 2024)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2024.2433590?needAccess=true
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10 months ago
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What does the verdict in the GisĂšle Pelicot rape trial mean for France? Our panel responds | Rokhaya Diallo, Anne Bouillon and others
All 51 men on trial have been found guilty, a fact that needs to prompt major changes in French society, say Rokhaya Diallo, Anne Bouillon and others
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/19/verdict-gisele-pelicot-rape-trial-france-panel
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anthropologyworks
10 months ago
She lives on: Nikki Giovanni, poet who wrote of Black joy
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/o...
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Nikki Giovanni, Poet Who Wrote of Black Joy, Dies at 81
As a writer, she tackled race, gender, sex, politics and love. She was also a public intellectual who appeared on television and toured the country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/obituaries/nikki-giovanni-dead.html?smid=bs-share
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart
11 months ago
I interviewed
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about her new book, By The Fire We Carry, what Native people will be up against under Donald Trump, and the histories people in the US need to understand if they hope to create a just future.
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Reclaiming History: Rebecca Nagle on Native Struggle and Survival
"There are historical patterns and political patterns that a lot of people might not be able to recognize," says Rebecca Nagle.
https://organizingmythoughts.org/reclaiming-history-rebecca-nagle-on-native-struggle-and-survival/?ref=organizingmythoughts-newsletter&attribution_id=6746a73af4a01f0001921757&attribution_type=post
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