H-Empire seeks to bring together scholars and others interested in sharing resources, research and questions concerning the origin, development, working and decline of empires, rather broadly defined across academic disciplines and professional interests, chronological time periods, and geographical regions.
Transnational and Global History Seminar’s Annual Graduate Conference, June 5-6, 2023
Online and in-person at the University of Oxford
Call for Papers
Abstracts deadline Saturday, 15th April, 2023
The Indigenous Pacific in the Age of Colonialism
Joshua L. Reid
The University of Calabar and the New York African Studies Association invite you to a joint conference on:
Decolonizing Global Hegemonies in Africa and the African Diaspora
Pre-Conference: June 26 - 27
Conference: June 28 to July 1, 2023
Venue: The University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria
Please note that this week’s AKPIA lecture (March 9) must be postponed; further details will be announced on the AKPIA website
Spring 2023 AKPIA LECTURE SERIES
Members of this list may be interested in the following event on Indigenous Temporalities on the West Papuan Plantation Frontier, organised by the Pacific Circle.
PACIFIC CIRCLE ONLINE LECTURE
Ludo De Witte.
The Assassination of Lumumba.
Translated by Renée Fenby and Ann Wright. London: Verso, 2022. 256 pp.
$24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-83976-790-6. 
Reviewed by Matthew G. Stanard (Berry College) Published on H-Empire (March, 2023) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed (Elizabeth City State University)
Katell Berthelot.
Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Illustrations, maps. 552 pp.
$45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-19929-0.
Charlotte Ann Legg. The New White Race: Settler Colonialism and the Press in French Algeria, 1860-1914. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 304 pp. $55.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4962-2523-8; $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-0850-7.
Reviewed by Timothy Roberts (Western Illinois University) Published on H-Empire (December, 2022) Commissioned by Gemma Masson (University of Birmingham)
Caroline Elkins.
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. x + 875 pp.
$37.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-307-27242-3.
Reviewed by Richard N. Price (University of Maryland) Published on H-Empire (December, 2022) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed (Elizabeth City State University)
