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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 15d

job alert:

My department is now running a search to fill a newly inaugurated endowed chair in the History of Technology. Please consider applying/share widely. I'm not on the committee, but happy to answer questions or connect you with those who are.

Details here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897

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Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social · 23d

Along the Imperial Spectrum, with Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-hsiu Lin, and Victoria Fomina:

sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/09...

Along the Imperial Spectrum, with Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-hsiu Alice Lin, and Victoria Fomina – Comparative Studies in Society and History

"Center and periphery are never simple facts of imperial geography:" CSSH authors Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Victoria Fomina discuss what can be learned from reading their papers togethe...

sites.lsa.umich.edu

Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social · 24d

CFP: New Perspectives in Environmental History-One Day Conference

Yale University, February 28 (Saturday)
Abstract submission deadline: Nov. 21

Details: environmentalhistory.yale.edu/programs/con...

New Perspectives in Environmental History (2026) | Environmental History at Yale

environmentalhistory.yale.edu

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Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social · Aug 31

Timely piece by Akshay Bhambri given latest "thaw".

indianexpress.com/article/opin...

It is time India made an effort to understand China

India must invest in building a generation that can truly know its neighbour, or risk a future of reactive policies

indianexpress.com

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · Aug 31

New record: The world’s most powerful wind turbine prototype has been installed.

The dimensions of this are mind-boggling: With a blade wheel diameter exceeding 310m and hub height of 185m this turbine represents a significant leap forward in wind power technology.

electrek.co/2025/08/29/c...

China installs the world's most powerful wind turbine

China’s Dongfang Electric has installed a 26-megawatt offshore wind turbine, snatching the "world’s most powerful" title from Siemens Gamesa.

electrek.co

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · Jun 7

Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026)
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Future That Was

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

press.princeton.edu

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Ping-hsiu Alice Lin @alibinglin.bsky.social · Jul 14

From colonial surveys to contemporary gem rushes: how do stones become valuable across geological time? First article from my PhD, "After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan," now out in @csshjournal.bsky.social (open access!)
doi.org/10.1017/S001...

After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core

After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan - Volume 67 Issue 3

doi.org

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · Jun 28

The Cambridge Centre will be awarding a number of Prize Research Grants for the academic year 2025-2026. Applications are now open. Submission deadline is 4 September 2025. Click below for further information, eligibility and how to apply.
www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/prize.html

THE CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS

Prize Research Grants

www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk

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Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social · May 17

Proud to see Ping-hsiu Lin's article out now in
@csshjournal.bsky.social! Open access too!

doi.org/10.1017/S001...

cc @harvard-jchs.bsky.social

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National Committee on U.S.-China Relations @ncuscr.bsky.social · May 1

Applications for the NCUSCR Public Intellectuals Program close in ten days!

Learn more about how you can join the next generation of American China specialists by May 11, 2025: www.ncuscr.org/applications...

Call for Applications: Public Intellectuals Programs Ninth Cohort (2025-2027)

This two-year program is designed to identify outstanding members of the next generation of American China scholars, enrich their understanding of policymaking processes in the United States and Great...

www.ncuscr.org

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Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social · Apr 21

Today!!

Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social · Apr 16

The talk will be live streamed!
Register here: harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social · Apr 16

The talk will be live streamed!
Register here: harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social · Apr 14

The final @fairbankcenter.bsky.social Modern China Lecture of the AY will feature @joseph-w-ho.bsky.social, speaking on:

Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China

April 21 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Details: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/moder...

Modern China Lecture featuring Joseph Ho — Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China – Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

fairbank.fas.harvard.edu

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · Mar 12

Half full or half empty: Solar rose 27% and gas rose 3% in 2024. Solar+wind now generates more power than coal, and overall GHG emissions from the power sector went up.

ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

US Electricity 2025 - Special Report | Ember

The US clean electricity transition continued as wind and solar generated more than coal for the first time. Electricity demand growth sped up and solar generation rose more quickly than gas to help m...

ember-energy.org

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Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social · Mar 7

Walter Johnson and Vince Brown in the Crimson today.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Neither Silence nor Compliance Will Save Harvard From Trump. Resistance Might. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Now is the time for the richest University in the world to live by its principles, to draw a line and stand its ground, while it might still make a difference.

www.thecrimson.com

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Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social · Mar 5

Ram Guha on Sunil Amrith's latest book.

www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews...

How Humans Ravaged the Earth—And Themselves Too

Sunil Amrith's "The Burning Earth" is 'history as literature and history as social science, and occasionally, history as natural history as well. It blends and brings together four great traditions of...

www.theindiaforum.in

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Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social · Mar 4

Today!

Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social · Mar 3

The @fairbankcenter.bsky.social Modern China Lecture is back online! Tomorrow (3/4) at 4 PM:

Famine and Rebellion: The Counterrevolutionary Case of the Chinese People’s Life-Saving Army in the Western Stream Villages, 1959-1960

Chen Yixin (NCU Wilmington)

tinyurl.com/2y87jcp5

Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Yixin Chen — Famine and Rebellion: The Counterrevolutionary Case of the Chinese People’s Life-Saving Army in the Western Stream Villages, 1959-1960. – Fairbank Ce...

tinyurl.com

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Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social · Mar 3

The @fairbankcenter.bsky.social Modern China Lecture is back online! Tomorrow (3/4) at 4 PM:

Famine and Rebellion: The Counterrevolutionary Case of the Chinese People’s Life-Saving Army in the Western Stream Villages, 1959-1960

Chen Yixin (NCU Wilmington)

tinyurl.com/2y87jcp5

Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Yixin Chen — Famine and Rebellion: The Counterrevolutionary Case of the Chinese People’s Life-Saving Army in the Western Stream Villages, 1959-1960. – Fairbank Ce...

tinyurl.com

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Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social · Feb 21

"...the ‘policy paralysed’ Manmohan Singh’s 2009-2014 term recorded 3,175 deportations while the Vishwaguru Narendra Modi’s 2019-2024 term recorded more than double that number at 7,583 deportations. Amritkaal it was indeed."

My dad's latest in @thewire.in.

m.thewire.in/article/dipl...

The Ugly Indians: India’s Cheer-Led Diplomacy

it is well-established international relations theory that foreign policy is an extension of domestic politics, but Modi has taken the logic too far to mean that foreign policy is domestic politics by...

m.thewire.in

Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social · Feb 19

Pleased to share a new article on work points, part of an @isisjournal.bsky.social Focus Section on the "Global Life Histories of Numbers," edited by Andrea Bréard.

"Work Points in the People’s Republic of China, 1950s to the 1980s."

doi.org/10.1086/734001

Work Points in the People’s Republic of China, 1950s to the 1980s | Isis: Vol 116, No 1

Abstract Even though agriculture was not the central thrust of planning in Mao-era China (1949–1976), starting in the 1950s, the party-state progressively nationalized land, reorganized social relatio...

doi.org

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Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social · Feb 16

Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social · Feb 10

Just came across this, and was reminded of Leo Breiman's classic essay in Statistical Science, now over two decades old.

Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures
www.jstor.org/stable/2676681

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Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social · Feb 10

Ravish Kumar interviews Amartya Sen at Pratichi.

youtu.be/xXILL-KEEoc?...

शांतिनिकेतन में प्रो अमर्त्य सेन से बातचीत

YouTube video by Ravish Kumar Official

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Joyce Chaplin @joycechaplin.bsky.social · Feb 5

I am grateful and amazed to get such early, generous praise for my #FranklinStove book from the likes of @amitav.bsky.social @kawulf.bsky.social @charlescmann.bsky.social Alan Taylor, Stacy Schiff, and Philip Deloria. Pinching myself

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Rohit Chandra @rohitreads.bsky.social · Feb 4

About a year and half ago, @sandeeppai.bsky.social , Suravee Nayak, Sree Harica and I started putting together a review article for WIRES Climate Change on India's complicated relationship with its coal industry.

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