Arunabh Ghosh

Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026)
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

From colonial surveys to contemporary gem rushes: how do stones become valuable across geological time? First article from my PhD, "After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan," now out in @csshjournal.bsky.social (open access!)
doi.org/10.1017/S001...

THE CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS Prize Research Grants

The Cambridge Centre will be awarding a number of Prize Research Grants for the academic year 2025-2026. Applications are now open. Submission deadline is 4 September 2025. Click below for further information, eligibility and how to apply.
www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/prize.html

Proud to see Ping-hsiu Lin's article out now in
@csshjournal.bsky.social! Open access too!

doi.org/10.1017/S001...

cc @harvard-jchs.bsky.social

Call for Applications: Public Intellectuals Programs Ninth Cohort (2025-2027) This two-year program is designed to identify outstanding members of the next generation of American China scholars, enrich their understanding of policymaking processes in the United States and Great...

Applications for the NCUSCR Public Intellectuals Program close in ten days!

Learn more about how you can join the next generation of American China specialists by May 11, 2025: www.ncuscr.org/applications...

Today!!

The talk will be live streamed!
Register here: harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The final @fairbankcenter.bsky.social Modern China Lecture of the AY will feature @joseph-w-ho.bsky.social, speaking on:

Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China

April 21 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Details: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/moder...

US Electricity 2025 - Special Report | Ember The US clean electricity transition continued as wind and solar generated more than coal for the first time. Electricity demand growth sped up and solar generation rose more quickly than gas to help m...

Half full or half empty: Solar rose 27% and gas rose 3% in 2024. Solar+wind now generates more power than coal, and overall GHG emissions from the power sector went up.

ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Walter Johnson and Vince Brown in the Crimson today.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

How Humans Ravaged the Earth—And Themselves Too Sunil Amrith's "The Burning Earth" is 'history as literature and history as social science, and occasionally, history as natural history as well. It blends and brings together four great traditions of...

Ram Guha on Sunil Amrith's latest book.

www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews...

Today!

The @fairbankcenter.bsky.social Modern China Lecture is back online! Tomorrow (3/4) at 4 PM:

Famine and Rebellion: The Counterrevolutionary Case of the Chinese People’s Life-Saving Army in the Western Stream Villages, 1959-1960

Chen Yixin (NCU Wilmington)

tinyurl.com/2y87jcp5

The Ugly Indians: India’s Cheer-Led Diplomacy it is well-established international relations theory that foreign policy is an extension of domestic politics, but Modi has taken the logic too far to mean that foreign policy is domestic politics by...

"...the ‘policy paralysed’ Manmohan Singh’s 2009-2014 term recorded 3,175 deportations while the Vishwaguru Narendra Modi’s 2019-2024 term recorded more than double that number at 7,583 deportations. Amritkaal it was indeed."

My dad's latest in @thewire.in.

m.thewire.in/article/dipl...

Work Points in the People’s Republic of China, 1950s to the 1980s | Isis: Vol 116, No 1 Abstract Even though agriculture was not the central thrust of planning in Mao-era China (1949–1976), starting in the 1950s, the party-state progressively nationalized land, reorganized social relatio...

Pleased to share a new article on work points, part of an @isisjournal.bsky.social Focus Section on the "Global Life Histories of Numbers," edited by Andrea Bréard.

"Work Points in the People’s Republic of China, 1950s to the 1980s."

doi.org/10.1086/734001

Just came across this, and was reminded of Leo Breiman's classic essay in Statistical Science, now over two decades old.

Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures
www.jstor.org/stable/2676681

YouTube video by Ravish Kumar Official शांतिनिकेतन में प्रो अमर्त्य सेन से बातचीत

Ravish Kumar interviews Amartya Sen at Pratichi.

youtu.be/xXILL-KEEoc?...

I am grateful and amazed to get such early, generous praise for my #FranklinStove book from the likes of @amitav.bsky.social @kawulf.bsky.social @charlescmann.bsky.social Alan Taylor, Stacy Schiff, and Philip Deloria. Pinching myself

About a year and half ago, @sandeeppai.bsky.social , Suravee Nayak, Sree Harica and I started putting together a review article for WIRES Climate Change on India's complicated relationship with its coal industry.

CSSH is excited to join @bsky.app! Because sometimes, X doesn't mark the spot.....

Don't miss our latest issue, with articles grouped under the rubrics: Questioning Dualism; Spatial Projects; Nation “Building”; and Anticipatory Expertise.

sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/02...

This Wednesday at the @fairbankcenter.bsky.social! @tonglam.bsky.social speaking on Extractivism and China's early Cold War Mobilization.

Details here: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/moder...

Re-upping this, now that it is has a volume (67) and an issue (1) number.

My dad writing in @thewire.in on the return of Trump.

thewire.in/world/donald...

"There is little new in Donald Trump’s slogans such as ‘America First’ or ‘Make America Great Again (MAGA)’...Any reading of America’s history...would show that every American president...sponsored these goals."

black on white circular logo for Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism

I'm excited to announce a new 2-year postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins to advance research in historical & contemporary intersections of empire, migration, & racial hierarchy and help support our new major Critical Diaspora Studies. Pls share! apply.interfolio.com/162692

Admissions rant: Schools should should get rid of the academic performance metric in Letters of Rec. Letter writers clearly don't take it seriously. Almost every file I have read this year (nearly 200 in all) has a top 2% billing, which is a statistical impossibility.

I did. My WeChat was giving me all kinds of trouble, since it hadn't been used since 2019. But AliPay proved easy to update, link to a foreign CC, and use. Once that was set up, it was quite easy to navigate public and private transportation. I did all this on a separate China specific phone.

Guest post: How ‘super pollutants’ harm human health and worsen climate change - Carbon Brief In this article, we unpack what super pollutants are and why they have an outsized impact on the climate and public health.

Why is it so important to focus on "super-pollutants", like methane?

"They are responsible for around 45% of global warming to date, as well as millions of premature deaths each year."

More from @carbonbrief.org:
www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...

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erratum: Tong Lam's talk is on February 5 (not 4).