Interrupting your regularly scheduled content to announce that today, in 1857, Britain's first Nobel laureate Sir Ronald Ross was born at the foothills of the Himalayan mountains. Read more in this article I wrote for the BMJ last year: go.shr.lc/3UX5Q89 #litsci #medhums

.Royal Historical Society invites applications for its Funded Book Workshops, 2024-25 bit.ly/4bZMNjI Workshops are for mid-career historians writing a 2nd or 3rd monograph. Awards support full day seminars with 6 specialists to discuss a project / text in detail #twitterstorians

To act on this case against Arundhati Roy so soon after an electoral mandate that rejected totalitarian governance, indicates a denial of what the vote meant, as also an attempt at gaslighting.

10 political prisoners in Indian jails, imprisoned without trial, who must be freed. Now! telegraphindia.com/gallery/meet-1…

The workshop brings together historians of medicine in premodern and modern South Asia feat. papers on the body, sex and gender; medical authorship and textuality; authoritative medical canons; and material medical substances.

The highlight of an unusually eventful week for me. David Arnold, one of the finest and most prolific historians of colonial South Asia, gifted me a copy of the 40th year edition of his 1985 book. I will treasure this copy. This edition is now available from Primus.

Let’s make history in Islington North. Vote Corbyn. Vote Independent.

2 books in dept REF submission, 2 publications a yr throughout Covid caring responsibilities & period of leave for cancer treatment = “limited outputs” for redundancy panel 🙄😂. Maybe they wanted a monograph in blood? 🤷🏾‍♀️Goldsmiths UCU Sociology, Goldsmiths

Very excited to kick off our international workshop “Of Species and Specimens: Tracing Non-Human Histories in Times of Imperial Expansion” at the university of Tübingen tomorrow!

Tune in for our keynote by Rohan Deb Roy “Entomo-politics: Termites in colonial India” via zoom or join us in person at 5pm at the Große Senat in the Neue Aula. For a link to the zoom get in touch via [email protected]übingen.de

Delighted. I will be delivering the keynote address at this exciting workshop in Tuebingen later today.

Buzzing after two days at Universität Tübingen with incredible scholars. Flawless organization by Sabine Hanke & Anne-Sophie Overkamp, a super panel with Mona Bieling & Nuala Caomhanach at BoGa Tübingen, & engaging keynote + insights from Rohan Deb Roy. Leaving with lots of new friends & ideas ✨🪷

After three years of hard work I'm elated to announce that our "More-Than-Human Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean" is out University of London Press! You can download it for free: uolpress.co.uk/book/more-than… I can give you a 30% discount code on hard copy purshases - DM me! Enviro Humanities

If this account is true then it is a new low for the social sciences in India. A regular sociology PhD proposal leading to a show-cause notice being served on the student + a disciplinary inquiry against their Supervisor, culminating in his resignation. indianexpress.com/article/cities…

Excited to join University of Oxford Rothermere American Institute in September for the year as a Departmental Lecturer in American History! Already started the important academic task of trying to find the good coffee shops in Oxford ☕️

Your daily reminder that the label 'right-wing thuggery' is designed to class-wash the racism that is so pervasive in Britain today. It is also a terminology with a problematic colonial genealogy...

Vinesh Phogat led the protest against a powerful sexual predator, got assaulted by the police, and harassed by pro-govt shills. Today she just became the first Indian woman wrestler to qualify for the final in Olympic history. What an iconic story—one for the history books 🔥

They don’t. Believe me. Why do you talk such utter shite? And why are you morphing into a sovereign individual anarcho-capitalist narcissist with fascist leanings? Some journey you’ve been on.

Copies of the book have arrived! #PlantationWorlds: what does planetary change and the #Anthropocene look like from colonial hinterlands, from the South within the Global South? dukeupress.edu/plantation-wor…

Found Ravish Kumar's coverage of RG Kar really disappointing, falling over itself trying to blame the IT cell and paint the WB administration in a palatable light. Kumar fails to mention that things came to a head when the principal was simply sent to another college. 1/