📢 New #history book announcement! 'Quantitative History and Uncharted People' argues that quantitative history can help fill in gaps and mitigate biases in historical records. Pre-order from Amazon (amzn.to/3NF9roc) or Bloomsbury Academic (bit.ly/44q7S3l)

🚨 New episode 🚨 Slavery's Demise The abolitionists want the complete eradication of slavery, but how will they fare against one of the most powerful lobbying groups in British history? anita anand + William Dalrymple discuss with Michael Taylor 👇 linktr.ee/empirepod

An enriching, thought-provoking first workshop of the #NHAMH Network today. Animal privacy, spider collaborations, ethics, surveillance, naturecultures and slugs! Huge thanks to Camille Bellet🌬🌾🐄 and Renelle McGlacken for hosting. 🐸🐖🎥🐄🕷️🦅🎭🐌📸

honoured to be elected a Fellow of The British Academy yesterday in the section Culture, Media, and Performance, which houses Paul Gilroy, Fred Moten, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak… Amongst the 2023 cohort are Achille Mbembe, Abdulrazak Gurnah, John Akomfrah… thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/ananya…

🚨 We are hiring!⁠ Join our friendly and supportive admin team to work on fascinating research projects.⁠ 💼 Programme Coordinator for the Global History Lab⁠ 💼 School Research Project Admins 💼 PA for Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy Find out more and apply ⬇️ crassh.cam.ac.uk/about/vacancies

We are holding a symposium titled "Navigating Commodities: Production, Markets, and Consumption in History" at the University of Tokyo, November 18-19! IMPORTANT: We have funding for those coming outside from Tokyo! #CfP #CommoditiesHistory2023 politicaleconomyseminar.wordpress.com/2023/07/25/nav…

A fabulous start to #ECSAS2023 Panel 7 on cereals Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates rethinking the origins of rice - the puzzle of ‘Nivara’ - as it is a spontanae hybrid- and how a move to thinking about human, non-human and environment interactions would help figure Cambridge South Asia Adam S Green

Call for Papers for #MIASA Conference on "The Role of Traditional Institutions in Promoting Sustainable #Peace in Africa", 30 Nov-2 Dec 2023 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in coll. with #INSS. Submission deadline: 14 Aug 2023; details (English & French): ug.edu.gh/mias-africa/co…

jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/41949/📢: 3-yr Knowledge Exchange and Funding Facilitator + Research Associate in Social #Anthropology Cambridge University - good for an anthro w/interest in wider engagement & impact! Incls time for own research 🤓

📚 Joanna Page’s new book 'Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art' explores artistic projects that draw on historical genres of collecting, organising, and displaying nature. Free via Open Book Publishers bit.ly/43kQE5F

Applications are invited for a 3-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in history starting on 1 Oct 2024. The post is in connection with the research programme on Economic History, Climate & the Environment and is based at the Cambridge Centre. Info below. histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/fellowship2023…

📣 Apply now British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships at CRASSH ⏳ Deadline 29 August 🔗 bit.ly/3JBxzoB A three-year fellowship for early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences with emphasis on completion of a significant piece of publishable research

We have a *FULLY FUNDED* place for an international student on our Masters in #LatinAmericanStudies Cambridge University. Join us for October 2024 entry CLAS Cambridge. Detail below. Spread the word! 💫 tinyurl.com/yj4en2tb

Karin Pallaver Pablo Fernández Cebrián Mesfin Abraham Ali And I forgot to mention: next year's edition of the conference (& the Jay Jay Okocha match) will take place in Rome, organized by DONATELLA STRANGIO & others. Already looking forward to it! Keep updated on activities of the network: follow African Economic History Network (AEHN) and check out aehnetwork.org

The Consortium for the Global South's first lunch time meet up of the year! Looking forward to film screenings, reading groups, seminars and conferences over the course of the year. Sound like your kind of thing? Sign up for our mailing list here: global-south.group.cam.ac.uk/contact-us

Lost and found: issues of the famous South African magazine, #DRUM, thought to be lost, have been recently recovered. #AfricaCommons now holds the only digitized full run of the magazine! 🗂️ . Click the alt. text of the images to find out more about this exciting re-discovery. 🎉

Starts today!

Thinking of applying for an MPhil? Check out ours here! global-south.group.cam.ac.uk/our-mphil-prog…

Join Cambridge South Asia seminar this wednesday- 18 October - Unlearning #monumentality: Recognising #Malaprabha #river valley as a ‘lived #landscape’, Kuili Suganya (University of Cambridge) 5pm in SG1 and online zoom.us/meeting/regist…

📣 Apply for a The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship at CRASSH Applicants should pursue projects that are interdisciplinary & innovative in their approach, and which may fit better at CRASSH than elsewhere in Cambridge ⏳ Deadline 30 Oct 2023 crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/fello…