The sinking of the IRIS Dena by a US submarine just 19 nautical miles from Sri Lanka’s shore in its Exclusive Economic Zone has forced Colombo to navigate one of the most complex diplomatic and legal crises in its recent history www.sundaytimes.lk/260308/news/...
I'm excited to be chairing the American Society for Legal History Projects and Proposals Committee this cycle. We look forward to receiving funding applications for conferences, museum exhibits, pedagogical experiments, and more! We are accepting submissions until Sept. 1.
aslh.net/award/projec...
A macro photograph of an abalone shell where the abalone attaches
Macro Photograph of an Abalone Shell
#1143 taken 2:02 pm
Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series presents Professor Tansen Sen professor at NYU Shanghai and NYU, who will provide a talk on “The Buddhist Cosmopolis: Connectivity, Diversity, and Materiality in Global Asia”. Professor Dorothy Wong at University of Virginia will provide comments on Tansen Sen’s talk. The talk will take place on March 11, 2026, 5 PM, at the UBC Asian Centre, Room 604. The lecture webpage is https://frogbear.org/yin-cheng-distinguished-lecture-series-tansen-sen/
Tansen Sen will be in #Vancouver for the 2026 @asianstudies.org conference!
Please join us on Wednesday March 11, 2026, 5pm, where he will present a talk for the Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series at UBC Asian Centre, Room 604
frogbear.org/yin-cheng-di...
Happy publication day to @uobrishistory.bsky.social’s Professor Sumita Mukherjee!
I put on my lawyer hat for this piece on time limits under Indian citizenship legislation, and ongoing constitutional challenges in the Indian Supreme Court for Statelessness and Citizenship Review:
statelessnessandcitizenshipreview.com/index.php/jo...
Vol. 88 (50th Anniversary)
Pt. II: ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ special issue
Introduction by editors @jakehodder.bsky.social and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.018
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a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/
In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
Socio-Legal Review has call for papers for a special issue on Law and History in South Asia:
repository.nls.ac.in/slr/news.html
Excited to be speaking at @UniofExeter's CGS Virtual Seminar Series on "Portuguese Black Serpents Meet Safavid Dragons: The Intellectual World of Indian Ocean Imperialism." 🐉🐍 Register here: universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The trial of 6 Italian officers for a 2023 shipwreck in which at least 94 people died is set to start this week.
The Cutro shipwreck trial is a crucial opportunity to secure truth and justice for survivors and families of victims.
It was a pleasure to review Reeju Ray's Placing the Frontier in British Northeast India: Law, Custom and Knowledge for Law and History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social
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Wonderful, @parhaku.bsky.social !
Its publication month for Lindsey Stephenson's Belonging on Both Shores!
@supmktg.bsky.social
www.sup.org/books/middle...
Cover image of Abdulrazak Gurnah's novel By the Sea
Now reading.
"Climate change may be measured in carbon, but its mother tongue is water"
Congratulations, Julia!
Cover of book, The Ethics of Exile: a political theory of diaspora, depicting an airdropped aid box in a bombed out city scape. Original artwork by Houssam Alloum.
A quick introduction to new followers: I am a political and legal philosopher working on diasporas and transnationalism, the ethics of immigration control, victims' duties, and transitional justice.
My first monograph looked at exile politics,
Reading @kalramnath.bsky.social’s incredible Boats in a Storm in Puducherry — history coming alive on and off the page.
So happy to see Boats with you!
I wrote a book, it now has a cover, it's all feeling very real! Coming out (open access) in February, for all those with an interest in, well, religion, gender, and/or politics in Sri Lankan history.
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270309...
Congratulations! This is top of my tbr pile!
