@drkesewa.bsky.social
From widely condemned Sun column to Labour party policy in ten years?
03.05.2025 08:41 — 👍 104 🔁 42 💬 2 📌 0The Overton Window is probably the one concept I didn't anticipate needing to teach Caribbean history, but which constantly comes up.
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It's Publication Day for my article tracing Black women in famous British art.
'Black Modernist Muses in Jacob Epstein's Art'
Read full article here👇🏾
doi-org.eux.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...
image: 'Roma of Barbados' Fitzwilliam Museum/Jacob Epstein
@womenshistoryrev.bsky.social
We're hosting a workshop on 'South Asian Women's Activism and Agency' on Thursday 8th May (draft programme below). We're delighted to have a brilliant group of speakers joining us. Our keynotes will be Amrit Wilson and Samita Sen. If you would like to join us, please get in touch to register.
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Front cover of Vanished featuring an ornate frame around a nineteenth-century natural history print. In the foreground are a fossilized mastodon, Asian elephant with a turbaned man on his back, and a Native and settler figure. In the background is a mountainous landscape with a river running through it. The sky is framed by leaves and features a lone passenger pigeon, as well as the author and book title.
Advance Reviews for Vanished. ‘Illuminating and disturbing in equal measure. A poignant and powerfully written account of the intellectual revolution that birthed the concept of extinction; a concept deployed to both justify and animate colonialism and even extermination. A vital and important book -- David Olusoga A marvellous, troubling, moving and important book lit with hope, Vanished is an intellectually acute history of both the idea and the reality of extinction. In a series of fascinating examples ranging from the fates of entire peoples to the remains of a single bird in a museum, Qureshi illumines how our ideas of extinction have been forged and shaped by myriad things, from the intellectual debates of eighteenth-century naturalists to the brutal history of colonialism and the political context of the Cold War. I learned so much from Vanished and am so grateful for it -- Helen Macdonald A compelling homage to living and extinct beings, Qureshi's masterpiece is a superbly written, urgent and heart racing volume. Unweaving the threads of centuries of teleological explanations, imperial scientific approaches and offering a new path to understanding mass extinction is a stroke of genius. Vanished is enthralling, devastating and yet empowering -- Olivette Otele One of our most innovative historians guides us with grace, humility and conviction through the daunting, tangled thickets of species extinction and human extermination. Qureshi warns us that scientific advancement and enlightenment are not necessarily compatible but encourages us that they can be -- Alan Lester
Launch events now sorted for Manchester, London, and Cambridge, and online in June and July. I have a bit of space to do more so now is a good time to ask. Otherwise, more details about the events and fellow speakers soon. For now, you can preorder Vanished here.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254...
Wednesday, 9 April @soasuni.bsky.social
LONDON CONFERENCE, 125 YEARS LATER: PAN-AFRICANISM & REPARATIONS DIALOGUE
'Let's gather in London to discuss Pan-Africanism and reparations 125 years later!'
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-con...
