Please see the following exciting event, with an absolutely stellar line-up, which is happening next Friday (9 June)!
Rethinking Historical Maps for the 21st Century: A Quantitative Perspective on Japan’s kuniezu
Speaker: Mark Ravina (University of Texas at Austin)
Discussants:
Richard Pegg (MacLean Collection)
D. Max Moerman (Columbia University)
Mario Cams (University of Oslo)
Elke Papelitzky (KU Leuven)
Episode 8 of Past Imperfect features Ulbe Bosma, Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History and Professor of International Comparative Social History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Bosma is the author of The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years (Harvard University Press 2023).
Tecnografias é uma plataforma de debate transatlântico em redor de livros recentes na área da antropologia e das ciências sociais. Cada episódio é uma conversa e um convite para refletir sobre os grandes desafios do mundo contemporâneo na sua complexidade e pluriversalidade.
In this edition of Hagley History Hangout, Hannah Farber discusses her new prize-winning book, Underwriters of the United States, with Roger Horowitz. Her book traces how American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the formation of the United States. During American Revolution, they helped the U.S. negotiate foreign loans, sell state debts, and establish a single national bank. Afterward, they increased their influence by lending money to the federal government and to its citizens.
Even the most favored workers of the New Deal order, white male heads of households with unionized industrial jobs, faced economic uncertainty in the form of irregularity of work and earnings.
Podcasts of interest to Latin Americanists, to 15 May 2023
New Books Network
Aarie Glas--Practicing Peace: Conflict Management in Southeast Asia and South America
Episode 7 of Past Imperfect features Vinayak Chaturvedi, Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine and author of Hindutva and Violence: V. D. Savarkar and the Politics of History (SUNY Press and Permanent Black, 2022).
Dear friends and colleagues,
The "New Wave" in Polish poetry or "Nowa Fala" from around 1968 through the Solidarity years is on the agenda in the latest episode of "Encounters with Polish Literature" with my guest, Katarzyna Zechenter from UCL SSEES in London.
These are poets like Adam Zagajewski, Stanisław Barańczak, Ewa Lipska, Ryszard Krynicki, Julian Kornhauser, and others who were dedicated to pursuit of truth in the face of censorship and newspeak, very much influenced by the work of Czesław Miłosz, Tadeusz Różewicz, and Zbigniew Herbert.
Episode 7 of Past Imperfect features Vinayak Chaturvedi, Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine and author of Hindutva and Violence: V. D. Savarkar and the Politics of History (SUNY Press and Permanent Black, 2022).
The distinctive landscape of south Florida has its roots in the attempt by mid-twentieth century developers to transform the “last frontier” in American into piles of cash.
