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kalramnath @kalramnath.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations Gautham!

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Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social · 12d

For legal historians: did you publish a book recently that won't be represented at the Detroit ASLH conference book sale in Nov.2025? You should bring a copy for this new initiative to showcase your work! Much needed as only a few publishers are represented at the book sale: aslh.net/new-works-in...

New Works in Legal History: Displays at the Detroit Meeting | American Society for Legal History

New Works in Legal History: Many legal historians publish books with presses that are not represented at the conference book sale. In recognition of this fact, the ASLH will host a table to showcase t...

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 12d

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️

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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

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Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social · Sep 7

Very excited that the Asian Legal History Association will be formally launched at 2 events in March 2026--at Chinese University of Hong Kong (March 17-18, 2026) + Oxford (March 23)! Here's the Call for Papers for "Legal History in Asia and Beyond" (due Oct31): www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...

Call for Papers – Legal History in Asia and Beyond: Lessons from the Past for the Present - The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Transnational Legal History Group, part of the Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law within the Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Oxford Programme in Asian Laws of the Faculty Read more…

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kalramnath @kalramnath.bsky.social · Sep 4

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YouTube video by Dulquer Salmaan

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Jacob Katz Cogan @jkatzcogan.bsky.social · Aug 27

Call for Papers: Writing Workshop on "Asian Cities and International Law"

The Indian Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for a writing workshop on "Asian Cities and International Law" for early- and mid-career international law teachers, to be held December 13, 2025, in New Delhi. Details are here.

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kalramnath @kalramnath.bsky.social · Aug 27

<3 Excited for your book @durba.bsky.social !

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kalramnath @kalramnath.bsky.social · Aug 20

mahishan gnanaseharan @mahishang.bsky.social · Aug 18

Spent the day with a wonderful filmmaker/artist named Gogularaajan in Kuala Lumpur who’s doing such important work in reconstructing the voices of indentured Tamil Malaysian laborers obscured by the colonial archive.

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kalramnath @kalramnath.bsky.social · Aug 13

Boats in a Storm gets an India edition with Westland Books @westlandbooks.bsky.social!

Releasing on 18 August.

Book cover of Boats in a Storm in blue, lavender and white with the outline of India's Madras High Court in the background.

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · Aug 10

How a small island nation that produced virtually none of the emissions changing Earth's climate is struggling to move its people and villages uphill amidst USAID and other foreign assistance cutbacks: wapo.st/3JsEao4 [gift link]

Faced with rising seas and falling aid, Fijian villages move uphill

As the effects of climate change are felt across the Pacific, Fiji has become an authority on the logistically and culturally fraught process of community relocation.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Aug 5

"Tamil asylum denial was not only a matter of domestic politics, but one that crucially entailed international and transnational dimensions."

Niro Kandasamy on the complex history and politics of asylum denial.

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Asylum Denial Beyond Borders

Niro Kandasamy explores the international dimensions of asylum denial and its impact on Tamil asylum seekers in the 1980s and beyond.

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kalramnath @kalramnath.bsky.social · Aug 5

My review of Vineeta Sinha's Temple Tracks: Labor, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia.

Absolutely brilliant on history & memory, ruination & revival, the role of labor, gender, kinship & religion, identities that travel, morph & unsettle across oceans.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sinha, Vineeta. (2023). Temple tracks: Labor, piety, and railway construction in Asia. Berghahn Books. 346 pages. ISBN: 978-1-80539-016-9 (Hardcover)

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Jeppe Mulich @jmulich.bsky.social · Jul 30

This is going to be a fantastic book.

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · Jul 25

Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality - Cambridge University Press, August 2025
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Cover of book, with photograph of a group of men with surveying equipment standing in front of a mountain range

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · Jul 19

Taking up the sorry task of trying to AI-proof the syllabus for my research seminar. Please share tips, advice, examples.

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · Jul 11

Really pleased and proud to announce a new @ihr.bsky.social seminar - Migration and Mobility History. We want to cover migration across time and space and speak with colleagues across disciplines. If you're interested in attending/presenting, get in touch: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Migration and Mobility History

The IHR Migration and Mobility seminar provides a space for historians and scholars from other disciplines to come together to discuss migration and mobility in history.

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Guillaume Calafat @gcalafat.bsky.social · Jul 9

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kalramnath @kalramnath.bsky.social · Jun 28

A generous review of Boats in a Storm for readers of Simplified Chinese:

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暴风雨中的船只：南亚与东南亚的法律、移民与去殖民化 | 东南亚地区《区域动态》6月期

本期东南亚区域动态分为“学术动态”及“时事动态”两大板块。

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slr-nlsiu.bsky.social @slr-nlsiu.bsky.social · Jun 25

Our Special 20th Anniversary Issue ends with a Postscript written by Kalyani Ramnath, Editor-in-Chief of SLR in 2007. Ramnath reflects on SLR’s journey, particularly the initial years, placing the question of socio-legal in an institutional context. repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol20/is...

The picture shows the first page of the Postscript, accessible using the link in the post.

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Uttara @uttara.bsky.social · Jun 23

I’m thrilled to finally share my article on citizenship, caste, and exit control at the time of the India-Pakistan partition out now on first view in Modern Asian Studies: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #skystorians

Bonded citizenship: Caste, Partition, and the prevention of exit | Modern Asian Studies | Cambridge Core

Bonded citizenship: Caste, Partition, and the prevention of exit

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kalramnath @kalramnath.bsky.social · Jun 21

A shoutout for Elizabeth Lhost's wonderful essay on the contributions and challenges of socio-legal studies x legal history @slr-nlsiu.bsky.social @lawandhistrev.bsky.social - #History #AcademicSky

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Jun 20

Today is World Refugee Day.

✊🗃 From the archive, a podcast episode by Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social featuring Peter Gatrell, Pual Dudman @paulvdudman.bsky.social, Heather Faulkner and Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social, on creating Refugee Archives.

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#WorldRefugeeDay

Creating Refugee Archives

How can historians and archivists best document, preserve, and make accessible the voices and artifacts of refugee and migration experience?

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Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social · Jun 20

This looks fantastic, with a great line-up of scholars including legal historians Elizabeth Lhost and Kalyani Ramnath (who was there in the early days)! Also includes Anup Surendranath & Maitreyi Misra on death penalty (India) and Maryam Khan on socio-legal studies in Pakistan. Congratulations, all!

slr-nlsiu.bsky.social @slr-nlsiu.bsky.social · Jun 19

SLR's Special 20th Anniversary Issue is out now! Volume 20(2) reflects on two decades of socio-legal inquiry from India, South Asia, and beyond—through legal history, anthropology, mitigation practice, comparative method & institutional memory. Read here: repository.nls.ac.in/slr/

Table of Contents from Socio-Legal Review, Volume 20, Issue 2. The contents include:

Editorial – page vi

Articles:

Fingerprints and Fragments: Reflections on the Challenges and Contributions of Socio-Legal History by Elizabeth Lhost – page 1

Cultivating Attentiveness to Law in India through Legal Anthropology by Deepa Das Acevedo & Jahnavi Chamarthi – page 25

The Meaning and Challenges of an Interdisciplinary Sentencing Exercise: Reflections from a Death Penalty Mitigation Practice by Anup Surendranath and Maitreyi Misra – page 52

Locating Socio-Legal Research in Pakistan: A Reflexive Approach by Maryam S Khan – page 92

Socio-Legal Enquiry on a Global Scale: Legal Intermediation, the Geography of Extraction, and the (Re)Negotiation of Africa’s Relationship with the World Economy by Sara Dezalay – page 120

Postscript by Kalyani Ramnath – page 149

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kalramnath @kalramnath.bsky.social · Jun 20

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slr-nlsiu.bsky.social @slr-nlsiu.bsky.social · Jun 19

SLR's Special 20th Anniversary Issue is out now! Volume 20(2) reflects on two decades of socio-legal inquiry from India, South Asia, and beyond—through legal history, anthropology, mitigation practice, comparative method & institutional memory. Read here: repository.nls.ac.in/slr/

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kalramnath @kalramnath.bsky.social · Jun 19

@slr-nlsiu.bsky.social 20th #anniversary: I was delighted to write a reflective essay on early years of SLR at #NLSIU and interdisciplinary legal research and publishing in #India

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Postscript

As the earliest Editor’s Notes for the Socio-Legal Review (‘SLR’ or ‘Review’) recorded, SLR was established in 2005 with the help of a publication grant from the UK-based Modern Law Review (‘MLR’), an...

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