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The #AAS2026 preliminary conference program is online ... start browsing the nearly *600 sessions*, planning your schedule, and seeing all that our gathering in Vancouver has to offer!
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“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”
New #AsiaNow post: Neeti Nair talks about her book, HURT SENTIMENTS: SECULARISM AND BELONGING IN SOUTH ASIA, published by @harvardpress.bsky.social and winner of the 2025 AAS Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize.
A boxed quote from Neeti Nair, Professor of History at the University of Virginia reads as follows: “I found working with the editorial board of the Socio-Legal Review a very satisfying experience. The entire team was the embodiment of professionalism—they asked excellent questions at my in-person book discussion and then followed it up with a transcript of the discussion and more questions. They also diligently put together a book roundtable afterwards and ensured that those contributions were reviewed and met their high standards. The students were uniformly impressive in the questions they posed about the craft of history-writing and comparative legal scholarship. I wish the Socio-Legal Review the very best as they celebrate their 20th anniversary. May they continue to work collaboratively and have many more such milestones to celebrate."
Our third testimonial is by Prof. Neeti Nair (University of Virginia) whom we interviewed in-person on her new book Hurt Sentiments, followed by a book roundtable on the SLR Forum. She shares her experience of engaging with the SLR editorial team throughout this process. (3/n)
That time in 2006 when thousands of Black Americans as well as Jamaican, Irish, and Chinese immigrants joined Latinx workers in May Day protests in NYC. It was an extension of transnational social movements. #MayDay #TDIH
Gaza’s Christians ‘heartbroken’ for Pope who phoned them nightly flip.it/L9xbc0
This week on #GrandTamasha: @taravarma.bsky.social of @brookings.edu joins me to discuss the reordering of the Trans-Atlantic relationship and the implications for India and global order. Listen: grand-tamasha.simplecast.com/episodes/ind...
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Honored and grateful that the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy book prize 2025 has been awarded to “Hurt sentiments”. A full list of all books awarded is in the link below.
Many thanks to the members of the jury for this award, and to reader and reviewers for their reception of the book. @harvardpress
We're committed to publishing groundbreaking and informative books on equity, which make excellent resources for teachers and leaders who want to make their schools more inclusive spaces. Find a collection of these books here: https://bit.ly/40Vgcr1
Congratulations to all the incredible authors shortlisted for the Karwaan Book Award 2024! 🎉 Your outstanding works are a true contribution to the history of South Asia. 🏆
The winner will be announced on 8th February 2025 at 9 PM IST. Stay tuned! 👏📚
⭐️⭐️Call for Submissions
Harf, McGill's journal of South Asian Studies, invites essays, poetry, translations & art! Focus: Anthropology, history, lit, religion, & celebrating South Asian voices.
📧 Send to: harfjournal@gmail.com
Was good to be at the AHA last weekend. Met old friends, browsed the book exhibit, presented my work and attended a powerful panel on Palestine.
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Honored to have “Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia” on the long list for the Karwaan Book Award, 2024. @karwaanheritage.bsky.social @harvardpress.bsky.social
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Sharing a review of Daman Singh’s biography of her parents “Strictly Personal: Manmohan and Gursharan” published in the Tribune and remembering the graciousness and leadership of Manmohan Singh. Also, his wishes for India, from a panel in the new PM Museum at Teen Murti. Much kinder times.
Loved Payal Kapadia’s film “All we imagine as light”… it’s a brilliant film. Go see it, people!
Essays by @uttara.bsky.social @akkhan81.bsky.social Antara Datta, Farhana Ibrahim, Mehr Farooqi, Sarah Waheed, Shahla Hussain and Ather Zia.
This is a good time to share that I edited essays for a special issue of Asian Affairs that was published as an edited book by #Routledgehistory this year. Includes essays on #Partition and the war of 1971 to better understand debates on belonging and citizenship in #SouthAsia today.
I’m not really worthy to write anything about beautiful Syria today but they asked me to and so I tried through tears to write some words that are inadequate but here they are anyway: Dawn in Damascus
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Cold War interventions in India by both the British and US agencies proved “largely self-defeating” and actually undermined Western influence, slowed down democracy, & amplified a “national culture of conspiracism and paranoia” in India that still remains. My review foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/29/i...
The European Conference for South Asian Studies (ECSAS) 2025 is being held at the University of Heidelberg, Oct 1-4. The Call for Papers is now open. Please check the list of accepted panels and consider submitting a paper proposal. Details are at ecsas2025.com/call-for-pan... See you in Heidelberg!
This era is strange because it is both socially/culturally regressive, yet technologically accelerationist.
Backward + forward at the same time. With human erasure being the goal.
I think those interested in cultural preservation, archival work— resisting erasure will be *especially* important.
I haven’t read it but there was a long review by Susan Ram in Frontline magazine recently.
