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Luna: As the question of man-enacted climate change fosters debates over the practices and cultures that cause it, I try – like many other individuals across academia and society at large – to cope with the pressing reality of climate… Continue Reading →
In Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani talks with Professor Emma Kuby about her new work Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945 (Cornell, 2019).
We asked faculty to reflect on an important work of intellectual history that they find neglected in university classrooms and graduate seminars today, and which we might revisit. We’re grateful to Professors William J. Connell, Joyce Chaplin, Samuel Moyn, and… Continue Reading →
by contributing editors Andrew Hines and Jonathon Catlin
Derek: I recommend teaching Ann Fabian’s The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America’s Unburied Dead (Chicago, 2010) in your undergraduate seminars. It’s exemplary in showing, not telling, the history of early racial science in the U.S. within the broad and… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Jonas Knatz
By guest contributor Dora Gao Celestial objects and events have appeared in the historical record for a myriad of reasons, serving as portents of either fortune or doom or asserting the divine authority of a ruler. The comet of 44… Continue Reading →
This is the first installment of a two-part interview with Falko Schmieder about his book Begriffsgeschichte and Historical Semantics (2016). For the second part, see here. Falko Schmieder is a cultural theorist and research associate for the Theory and Concept… Continue Reading →
By Co-Hosts Simon Brown and Disha Karnad Jani In the past few months, we’ve had the opportunity to speak with several scholars on their new and forthcoming work, and we’ve found these conversations surprising, entertaining, and intellectually exciting. Through these… Continue Reading →
In Theory co-host Simon Brown interviews Professor Holly Case on The Age of Questions Or, A First Attempt at an Aggregate History of the Eastern, Social, Woman, American, Jewish, Polish, Bullion, Tuberculosis, and Many Other Questions over the Nineteenth Century,… Continue Reading →
