OTD in 2019 the Easter Attacks led to mob violence and riots against the minority Muslim community in Sri Lanka.
In this piece from the archive, @shamaraw.bsky.social considers the historical roots of these attacks and the genealogy of communal violence in Sri Lanka.
71% of our planet is ocean, but you wouldn’t know it from traditional maps.
Shift your land-based perspective this Earth Week with a story about the Spilhaus Projection map and the WHOI oceanographer who created it: go.whoi.edu/spilhausmap
Cover of Anna O. Law’s book “Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship”
Excited to host @unlawfulentries.bsky.social at @siwpscolumbia.bsky.social this week to talk about her new book!
I'm delighted to share that my book "The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905–1918" (Liverpool UP) has been accepted by JSTOR as part of their Path To Open programme.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
thrilled to share that my article, "The Ghost of Comilla: Authoritarian Biopolitics and Global Development in Rural East Pakistan," is now out in print in the latest issue of @diplomatichistory.bsky.social.
PUB. DAY! Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia is officially out today. Available Open Access: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... #legalhistory Outfit: red for bloodstain testing+flowered shirt for botanical poisons+poisoner's ring (for show only)
A stack of books on a blue surface with the text: "Amplifying voices: The Cambridge Amplify Fund.
The inaugural Cambridge Amplify Grant will support early-career scholars in History and Area Studies in publishing their first book, providing financial and editorial support over 12 months.
⏰ The closing date for submissions is 13 April 2026.
Find out more 🔗 https://cup.org/3NJAd1a
Big news, everyone!! The ASLH has created a new dissertation prize for non-US legal history: the Global Dissertation Prize aslh.net/award/global... Eligible authors for this cycle must have received their doctoral degree in *2025.* Deadline: 1 June 2026. Please spread the word &/or submit your work!
Academics holding signs in a lecture theatre.
Today marked the launch of the Asian Legal History Association, with the secretariat at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Maynooth School of Law and Criminology is one of the founding institutional members. Further details about the Association and its activities here: web.law.cuhk.edu.hk/ALHA/
Happy publication day, @durba.bsky.social !
If you study legal history, please consider submitting a proposal for the 2026 conference of the American Society for Legal History in Banff, Canada in November! The Program Committee accepts proposals until March 24! #ASLH #legalhistory 🗃️
aslh.net/2026-annual-...
It is! Teaching your essay on photographs tomorrow, Su Lin!
We have a zine! Over the past year, I've been working w/ Pusat Sejarah Rakyat and the International Institute of Social History to bring together organisations around Southeast Asia working on archiving and disseminating "people's histories" and the histories of social movements in the region. 1/4
The sinking of the IRIS Dena by a US submarine just 19 nautical miles from Sri Lanka’s shore in its Exclusive Economic Zone has forced Colombo to navigate one of the most complex diplomatic and legal crises in its recent history www.sundaytimes.lk/260308/news/...
I'm excited to be chairing the American Society for Legal History Projects and Proposals Committee this cycle. We look forward to receiving funding applications for conferences, museum exhibits, pedagogical experiments, and more! We are accepting submissions until Sept. 1.
aslh.net/award/projec...
A macro photograph of an abalone shell where the abalone attaches
Macro Photograph of an Abalone Shell
#1143 taken 2:02 pm
Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series presents Professor Tansen Sen professor at NYU Shanghai and NYU, who will provide a talk on “The Buddhist Cosmopolis: Connectivity, Diversity, and Materiality in Global Asia”. Professor Dorothy Wong at University of Virginia will provide comments on Tansen Sen’s talk. The talk will take place on March 11, 2026, 5 PM, at the UBC Asian Centre, Room 604. The lecture webpage is https://frogbear.org/yin-cheng-distinguished-lecture-series-tansen-sen/
Tansen Sen will be in #Vancouver for the 2026 @asianstudies.org conference!
Please join us on Wednesday March 11, 2026, 5pm, where he will present a talk for the Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series at UBC Asian Centre, Room 604
frogbear.org/yin-cheng-di...
Happy publication day to @uobrishistory.bsky.social’s Professor Sumita Mukherjee!
I put on my lawyer hat for this piece on time limits under Indian citizenship legislation, and ongoing constitutional challenges in the Indian Supreme Court for Statelessness and Citizenship Review:
statelessnessandcitizenshipreview.com/index.php/jo...
Vol. 88 (50th Anniversary)
Pt. II: ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ special issue
Introduction by editors @jakehodder.bsky.social and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.018
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a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/
In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
Socio-Legal Review has call for papers for a special issue on Law and History in South Asia:
repository.nls.ac.in/slr/news.html
Excited to be speaking at @UniofExeter's CGS Virtual Seminar Series on "Portuguese Black Serpents Meet Safavid Dragons: The Intellectual World of Indian Ocean Imperialism." 🐉🐍 Register here: universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The trial of 6 Italian officers for a 2023 shipwreck in which at least 94 people died is set to start this week.
The Cutro shipwreck trial is a crucial opportunity to secure truth and justice for survivors and families of victims.
It was a pleasure to review Reeju Ray's Placing the Frontier in British Northeast India: Law, Custom and Knowledge for Law and History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Wonderful, @parhaku.bsky.social !
