Pratik Chakrabarti

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A possible parallel scenario, far right ideologies have infiltrated the social Democratic parties.

Somehow, the bottle of rum sits very nicely on our kitchen counter. I have no idea why.

There's always hope.

History is not the past, it is the study of the past.

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You look suitably adorned by the setting.

As if people will vote according to what the covid report tells them to.

Can you repost the repost?

The Focus issue I edited in Isis: "Is Deep History White?" is out. With contributions from Amy Way, Linda Andersson Burnett, Elise K. Burton, Emily Kern, and an Afterword by Alison Bashford

Mungo Man, Settler Mythology, and the Contest of Australia’s Deep History | Isis: Vol 116, No 4 Abstract Deep history is at the forefront of a contemporary reorientation of Australian history. It is at once an academic methodology, a period of the ancient past, and an embodied, living history of...

articulated, and what purpose it can or should serve in 'healing' a majority non-Indigenous nation. Check out my exploration of this through the cultural representations of 'Mungo Man,' whose 'Aboriginality' and 'humanity' were often depicted in tension. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Isis Focus Issue: "Is Deep History White?"

Isis | Vol 116, No 4

Enormous thanks to our editor Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social for bringing this incredible volume together. Check it out!!! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/cur...
#intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory

Oh...I didn't know it was out! Thanks

Delighted to get a copy of Unearthing Collections published by UCL Press. I wrote the Afterward "Re-earthing the Past"
uclpress.co.uk/book/unearth...

nothing is permanent. we are historians. have faith

New Orleans!

It has the onerous and self-appointed duty to reflect "both sides".

Quietening Reform is the main or only task for Labour, not showing humanitarianism. Happy days.

Or be nice and effective

Snippets from our amazing inaugural graduate conference in the history of science, technology, and medicine. Organized entirely by UH Graduate students, particularly Katie Truax and Muthuvel Deivendran, these were two intense days of stimulating discussions, camaraderie, and fun

I sometimes wonder why earthosphere is not a word. It nicely and at times necessarily fixes the fact of earth being round and embracing in a single inseparable word.

Can't access it but will try in other ways

Old school history writing.

A History of the Muslim World A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era

Reading Michael Cook’s A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity, I wonder what the reaction would be if a Muslim scholar wrote a similar history of Christianity. None of the praises are by Muslim scholars. I value this diversity, but imagine it reversed…

we should have more gradings to do....Ok, ok, I take it back!

This just popped up on my phone. Can't believe it's been 5 years since Inscriptions of Nature was published.

This is also why, as academics, we need to get better at asking for fees for freelance work - podcasts, public talks, festival events, “just picking your brain for this tv programme”- not b/c we need the money (though many do!) but b/c others do, and if we work for free, we undermine *their* living.

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Did you trick them?