It’s publication day and Biopolitics as a System of Thought is now out! Can Agamben, Foucault, Deleuze & Spinoza guide us through the impotence of our present? Are we condemned to be Smart beings? Is the possible unrealisable? Find out here: bloomsbury.com/uk/biopolitics…

Very pleased to have this flop through my letterbox this morning! 'Recipes and Book Culture in England, 1350-1600' edited by master chefs Carrie Griffin 🇵🇸🍉 and Dr Hannah Ryley features many tasty, magical, healing, and starry chapters (including one by me about book-craft recipes).

JOB: South Asian Art History Princeton University puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply…

1/ My review of Stefanos Geroulanos's "The Invention of Prehistory" in Foreign Affairs . Thanks to Kanishk Tharoor for excellent edits. The book is well meant, often fascinating, but, unfortunately, wrong. Partly the result of neglecting earlier work by foreignaffairs.com/reviews/sapien…

My forthcoming book with Columbia Univ Press, 'Impossible Recovery: Julian of Norwich and the Phenomenology of Well-Being', now has a webpage and an exciting blurb! Available to preorder, published January 2025 🎉 cup.columbia.edu/book/impossibl…

Well, this has been a very long time coming. I am so proud of the book I have written, and that Emily Silk has editorially shaped. Forthcoming from Harvard University Press in January 2025, my first monograph THE DISINHERITED: THE POLITICS OF CHRISTIAN CONVERSION IN COLONIAL INDIA!

The Harvard Divinity Women’s Studies in Religion Program 2024-25 has five new research associates working on a range of research projects related to #religion and #gender. wsrp.hds.harvard.edu/news/2024/06/1…

ah! i just noticed that Laura Nasrallah’s exciting new book on “magic” (among other things) is now available on Cambridge University Press’s website! i’ve been waiting eagerly for this one. cannot WAIT to read it and, inevitably, to assign it for my students to read, too. cambridge.org/core/books/anc…

King's India Institute is delighted to host the annual BASAS conference on September 9, 10 & 11, 2024. Over 200 scholars from South Asia will present their research. Find out more below: kcl.ac.uk/events/british…

Very belatedly sharing my article in South Asia: JSAS on caste dynamics in the Indian information technology industry. In the paper, I use the term ‘corporate Brahminism’ to discuss the intersections between caste and capital. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New article on 'Periyarism' by Abhimanyu Arni (Oxford uni) Global Intellectual History. This very interesting intervention sees Periyar's politics as a "transitive universality". I am delighted that the author has critically engaged with and responded to my past work. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Join us in Toronto in July 2025 for the next iteration of Legal Histories of Empires! The conference is a dynamic, welcoming space for legal historians to explore trans-imperial exchanges, legal transplantation, illegalities, &c. Deadline 13 September. lhbe.org/legal-historie…

Recording of my talk at the July 2024 Universität Erfurt symposium,'#Karma, #Nirvāṇa and Social Equality: #Buddhism and the “#Untouchables” (Caṇḍālas/ #Dalits).' Part 1: youtube.com/watch?v=qULHGQ… Part 2: youtube.com/watch?v=_ZHJw7…

Fantastic piece by Monica L. Smith measuring the reach/scale of the premodern South Asian state through the archaeology of fortifications. journalofbigdata.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

Friends - do recommend to people interested in learned Classical #Sanskrit with a Buddhist orientation Prof. Ralph Craig III's (Whitman College) fantastic course via the Mangalam Research! mangalamresearch.org/language-progr…

If you’re teaching a class that deals with premodern slavery this semester: a reminder that I wrote a short, accessible piece to help students wrestle with common myths about it! theconversation.com/dismantling-th…

Reminder! Registration for our 6th International Conference: "Conflicts in Space – Spatial Conflicts" opens on September 12. With keynotes by Atsuro Morita, Arjun Appadurai and Teresa Koloma Beck! 🗓️10/11 Oct. 📍TU Berlin Find the program here: sfb1265.de/veranstaltunge…

My new book, *Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea*, to be published by Viking Penguin in May 2025, is available for pre-order from several outlets. Thanks in advance for your interest. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566407/f…

In ‘Totalitarian Law and Communal Ghettoisation’, Fahad Zuberi and Raphael Susewind explore how legal institutions and frameworks are exploited to cement Muslims’ spatial segregation in contemporary India. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09… (6/8)

📢 Job Opportunity! 📢 The Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University is seeking applicants for a tenure-track/early tenure position at the Assistant or early Associate Professor level in #Tamil humanities. asianstudies.cornell.edu/position-annou…