Durba Mitra

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Thank you to the International Society for Public Law (
@icon-s.bsky.social), and the prize committee, for this recognition.
@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org

Nurfadzilah Yahaya- "British Hydrocolonialism in Southeast Asia" Wed, Sep 10 2025, 12 - 1pm | Across the British Empire, from the Caribbean to Hong Kong, colonial engineers perfected the art of manufacturing new territories from dredged sand and legal precedent, cr...

I will be speaking on September 10 on my current book project on History of Land Reclamation in the British Empire at the Council on Southeast Asian Studies at Yale. macmillan.yale.edu/southeast-as...

The other thing is that it’s very clear that besides gender theory, a lot of people just need basic gender history 101, of even the last 50 years

Commentators and thought leaders are really struggling to situate 2025’s iteration of patriarchy in historical context

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

The 2025 Cundill History Prize Longlist | Cundill Prize The jurors have chosen 15 exceptional titles to be longlisted for the 2025 Cundill History Prize.

🔥 Manan Ahmed Asif @sepoy.bsky.social on the Cundill History Prize list again, this time for *Disrupted City*!

"...even to a fascinating walk in a postcolonial city as means to understand an unwritten history, centuries old."

www.cundillprize.com/news/the-202...

Johns Hopkins Press will license its books to train AI models Authors at the Johns Hopkins University Press will be able to opt out of the AI licensing agreement until the end of August; if they do not, their work will be used to train AI models.

“Authors have until the end of August to opt out of the licensing agreement. If they do not, their work will be used to help train AI models.”

Columbia Struck a Deal to Save Research Funding. How Do Its Researchers Feel About That? Faculty and others expressed a mixture of relief and frustration over the deal, under which the university will pay over $200 million to have most of its research funding restored.

I said what I said: "Professors are considering leaving Columbia because of the settlement, said Jacoby and Dixon-Román. 'It’s very demoralizing to teach in a university that’s, from my perspective, acceding to authoritarian demands,' Jacoby said."

www.chronicle.com/article/colu...

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Tamale's book is essential. Get it!!

darajapress.com/publication/...

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I am so lucky to have amazing mentees and students who made these stickers for me with the key phrase of my forthcoming book

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

pusillanimity

Landmark Trial Ends, With Court’s Ruling to Come; Record Uncovers New Details on Ideological-Deportation Policy and Its Effects on Academic Life

This has been the first major trial of Trump’s second term. Over eight days of witness testimony, it uncovered a wealth of new detail about the ideological-deportation policy and its effects on college and university campuses across the country.

#AAUPvRubio

The Trump administration is doing everything they can to suppress academic inquiry. We cannot let them succeed.

The future of American higher education & our democracy depends on all of us fighting back together.

#defendhighered

i am lucky to call the fierce @aaup.org chapter president @kirstenweld.bsky.social my friend. today as AAUP bravely stands for targeted students and research, she stands for free academic inquiry as she has done relentlessly for the last year 🔥

A 14% ⬆️ in applications of Americans seeking education abroad, with record numbers of US students turning to UK universities. Meanwhile, international students are avoiding the US due hostility + uncertainty. The current administration's policies are systematically eroding our knowledge ecosystem.

Dana Murphy's fabulous book is out on @dukepress.bsky.social. It's the second book in our series Black Feminism on the Edge (with @samanthapinto.bsky.social) and we are so excited to see it in the world! Congrats to Dana!

"Higher education has customarily influenced people to advocate for a freer, fairer and more peaceful world, even while universities have hesitated and hedged their bets, always with an outstretched hand and a finger to the wind." 🔥

Vincent Brown on the unprincipled capitulation of universities to the powers of their day.

Excited for Professor Mohammed @wunpini.bsky.social's exciting new book, Media, Culture, and Decolonization on media cultures and politics in Ghana, forthcoming soon from Rutgers University Press

just awful

congratulations this looks great

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...

thank you! 🌸

congratulations Katrina so excited to read this

Katrina Forrester · ‘I appreciate depreciation’: Dynastic Capitalism Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer of...

I had the pleasure of writing about the inimitable @melindacooper.bsky.social’s Counterrevolution for @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

congratulations @shreedaisy.bsky.social 🔥