Bangalore International Centre is set to screen The Battle Royale by Director & CeMIS faculty member, Lalit Vachani. The film tracks Mahua Moitra's re-election campaign as she fought for political survival & redemption post allegations of accepting cash for queries in Parliament.
Details are below!
Folks in South Asian/Islamic Studies: if you happen to be in Göttingen this weekend, please join us for this workshop I'm co-organizing with Mohammad Nabeel Jafri! (5-7th February)
Detailed abstract and program here: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/workshop%...
Marx's Capital, Vol. 1 is now complete! Congrats to the comrades who've been listening along with the posts. Here's a link to all 35.5 hours of it: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#politics #economy #economics #history #capitalism #socialism #communism #marxism #capital #politicaleconomy #karlmarx
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Applications now invited for the Society's two Centenary Fellowships, 2025-26 to support PhD students complete a doctorate in #history.
The Fellowships are held in conjunction with @ihr.bsky.social and are for £8500 over 6 months. Applications, by 31 May, are via the IHR bit.ly/4mybVDV #Skystorians
This pic could become iconic on the latest unrest in Turkey:
Last night, at the campus of the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara (my old school), snapshot of a student reading Rousseau’s “The Social Contract” in front of of the armoured police vehicles.
For my coursework looking at Gender&Development in #India, I discuss the marital rape exception, violence intervention, and the restitution of conjugal rights w/Taranga, a feminist social worker in SGBV intervention, & Vasudha, a lawyer with the Bombay HC. Do listen!
open.spotify.com/episode/3LDV...
CSS job alert, Computational Social Scientist for Tenure Track faculty position in AI Media at Penn State: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
If you want to watch this doco - seems like in ANZ anyway it is available on Doc play out of Melbourne
www.docplay.com/shows/no-oth...
University folks - anybody see good handouts about rights vs ICE, police, etc floating around that would be good to share?
Sharepic mit dem Zitat: Man muss nüchterne, geduldige Menschen schaffen, die nicht verzweifeln angesichts der schlimmsten Schrecken und sich nicht an jeder Dummheit begeistern. Pessimismus des Verstandes, Optimismus des Willens. - Antonio Gramsci
Heute hat der italienische Philosoph und Kommunist Antonio #Gramsci Geburtstag.
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like please god can we kill that Twitterpilled reply mode where anyone being happy about ANYTHING is a credulous moron who’s taken their eye off the ball who needs you personally to correct them
Time spent reading books this year was time not spent doomscrolling. It was time spent getting to grips with the world anew, amid the shock, the incredulity provoked by Gaza.
Among the books I read this year, here are the most memorable ones.
Book title: The Wrong End of the Telescope Author: Rabih Alameddine
Title: Lootaloot Author: Manav Kambli
These were among my favourites this year. I’ve read different books by some of the authors on your list, and will be adding the Wendy Pearlman book to my TBR for January. Thanks for the unintentional recommendation!
It was a massive celebration in the German capital, Berlin. Everyone was crying with joy.
Reducing all the Syrians pouring out of prisons right now to al qaeda affiliates is actually a racist thing to say just fyi! Hope that's clear!
What Ta-Nehisi Coates is doing, using his standing in the liberal mainstream to enter rarefied mainstream spaces to speak out on behalf of Palestinians, even though those spaces will be invariably hostile and even perhaps subsequently foreclosed to him, is incredible
I do want to force catholic hospitals to perform abortions against their will, actually. If you can't offer full maternal care don't be a hospital. Fuck off.
In Edinburgh for a few days and popped by Spottiswoode Street, where the Indian revolutionary Pandurang Mahadev Bapat lived in 1904. Briefly involved with India House in London, Bapat moved to Paris in 1906 and was involved with the Russian revolutionary Nicolas Safranski.
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Come work with me! We're hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of Early Islam (until ca. 1250). Please share widely!
It'd be nice to have the opposite of an intrusive thought once in a while. Just a really sudden calming thought
Disgusting scenes at amstedam encampemnt - people waking up to bulldozers, riot police, pepper spray, unhinged arrests en masse. Hearing ambulances literally refusing to take injured people. Seems the dutch have been studying the tactics of US and israeli police. Many colleagues arested.
The ideological penetration of Indian science by Hindutva was starkly illustrated by a series tweets [that] praised the Indian Institute of Astrophysics in Bangalore for designing a system that allowed sunlight to shine on the deity in the new temple at Ayodhya on Ram Navami.
The Genocide the U.S. Can't Remember, But Bangladesh Can't Forget - www.smithsonianmag.com/history/geno...
You will fail
