uttara.bsky.social
Uttara
@uttara.bsky.social
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Historian of borders, migration, and refugees in Modern South Asia and the British Empire. Sindhis.
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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
www.cambridge.org
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 1d
Delighted to see the open access publication of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms -- a superb volume featuring artists, poets, scholars, and a short essay by me on Dutch- and French-speaking women in 16th-century London telling their stories of migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...
Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms – punctum books
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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 16h
I'm sure Du Bois scholars know about this already but was not aware of this online resource of Bu Bois' papers at Umass Amhearst. Absolutely amazing stuff in here. credo.library.umass.edu/view/collect...
W. E. B. Du Bois Papers Overview
credo.library.umass.edu
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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 14d
Call for Papers! @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social x @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar special edition - we want papers on all types of migration and mobility history from ECRs and PGRs. Abstracts to kabcommons [@] gmail.com by 15th November. Pls spread the word & DM with any questions
Call for papers for a seminar for ECRs and PGRs on migration and mobility history
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Uttara @uttara.bsky.social · 3d
Article seems to suggest lack of the required skills + just no desire to do this job.
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Uttara @uttara.bsky.social · 3d
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Foreign staff have ‘changed our lives’: Scottish farmers fear for future after changes to skilled workers visas
Locals say staff from the Philippines and elsewhere have made life better, and plan to take their case to a government body
www.theguardian.com
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 16d
I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Historical Journal Call for Special Issues
Welcome to Cambridge Core
www.cambridge.org
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Esmat Elhalaby @esmat.bsky.social · 8d
out today from @ucpress.bsky.social comes with words and a map. can be displayed and/or read.
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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 7d
📣 Quentin Skinner Lectureship 2025–26

Are you an early-career scholar in modern intellectual history since c.1500? Join our research community as a Visiting Fellow and deliver the Quentin Skinner Lecture 2026 with @camhistory.bsky.social

Apply by 1 October 2025
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Quentin Skinner Lectureship - CRASSH
A Visiting Fellowship at CRASSH
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Uttara @uttara.bsky.social · 8d
Just bought a litter picker for my niece who requested it for her 9th birthday. Taking it back for my voluntary contribution so my ILR is not cancelled.
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 9d
Looking forward to the European Conference on South Asian Studies in Heidelberg, October 1-4. In case you are in town, please join us for our double panel on Thursday, October 2, starting at 08.30 am:
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Uttara @uttara.bsky.social · 10d
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Partition, Passport and the Documentary Life of Belonging | Critical Pakistan Studies | Cambridge Core
Partition, Passport and the Documentary Life of Belonging
www.cambridge.org
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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 ☀️

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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Aditya Balasubramanian @abalasub.bsky.social · 16d
Beyond ridiculous decision

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
A Surprise Tenure Denial in Harvard’s Gender Studies Program Leaves Some Faculty Shaken | News | The Harvard Crimson
Durba Mitra’s colleagues thought she was a near-perfect tenure candidate. When her bid was shot down in June, they were left questioning the process.
www.thecrimson.com
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · 19d
Come and work with our fab Americanists - a dynamic (and super nice!) group within @camhistory.bsky.social. We're hiring for a permanent position in twentieth century US history.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920
The Faculty of History is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in post-1920 U.S. political history and/or the history of the United States in the World since 1920, beginning 1 October, 2026. The
www.cam.ac.uk
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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 16d
It would be great if even one genuine journalist in a live broadcast interview could challenge Farage on the entirely fictitious £234 billion 'saving' that even the right wing think tank that made it up has now withdrawn because it's b******s
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Florian Stadtler 🦀 @flostadt.bsky.social · 19d
To mark the centenary of the 1925 Special Restriction (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order, a wrote a blog for @britishlibrary.bsky.social Untold Lives: blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/... find out more on the digital resource South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories @remakingbritain.bsky.social
The 1925 Special Restrictions (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order
2025 marks the centenary of the passing of the ‘Special Restriction (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order, requiring maritime workers of colour to register with the police and forcing them to bear a Certifica...
blogs.bl.uk
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Saima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social · 21d
I reviewed Rob Waters’ ‘Colonised by Humanity’ for American Historical Review. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-.... It is an excellent, timely monograph!
Rob Waters. Colonized by Humanity: Caribbean London and the Politics of Integration at the End of Empire
In Enoch Powell’s often quoted 1968 “Rivers of Blood” speech, the Conservative Party politician warned against the dangers of rising immigration from Brita
academic.oup.com
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Di Volpe @dianavolpe.bsky.social · 20d
I shared some of my thoughts on the relationship between the EU, search and rescue NGOs, and the so-called Libyan coast guard in a conversation with Frey here:
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Frey Lindsay @freylindsay.bsky.social · 20d
Everybody knows the Libyan Coast Guard is involved in the mass abuse/torture/murder of people in Libya. Over the years this hasn't been enough for the EU to break off its partnership. The LCG is now targeting NGOs - apparently that used to be a Commission red line, but we'll see if it still is.
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Beyond Slavery @beyondslavery.bsky.social · 20d
The Libyan Coast Guard fired hundreds of bullets at a rescue ship. The European Commission had suggested direct fire would be a ‘red line’. Now the line has been crossed, they show no signs of ending the partnership with Libya. ✍️ @freylindsay.bsky.social

www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
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Refugee Studies Centre @refugeestudies.bsky.social · 20d
This @thetimes.com article quotes @catbriddick.bsky.social extensively on the implications of a possible UK withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights:

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Is the European Convention on Human Rights to blame in migrant crisis?
Reform UK and now the Tories to step away from the European convention, but a different international treaty might be a bigger headache for Britain
www.thetimes.com
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Uttara @uttara.bsky.social · 22d
I live in England. The allegedly perennial varieties die at my hands. Yes, I think types of Rudbeckia are a good idea.
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Uttara @uttara.bsky.social · 22d
What plants look like coreopsis but aren’t coreopsis? I am an abject failure at growing coreopsis.
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Ian S. Pumpkins @icpetrie.bsky.social · 28d
JOB: Oliver-McCourtney Professor of History, Penn State

"The Department is searching for an innovative and highly accomplished scholar whose research emphasizes connections or movements across political and/or regional boundaries."

www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
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Uttara @uttara.bsky.social · Sep 6
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Law and History Review: A Call for an Editor
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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Refugee Studies Centre @refugeestudies.bsky.social · Sep 3
'...my concerns with these are the safety of separated children if they can't make applications to join family members'.

@catbriddick.bsky.social was quoted in @thetimes.com on the UK government's decision this week to halt the family reunion route for refugees:

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Mandatory digital IDs considered to crack down on illegal immigration
Sir Keir Starmer has accelerated a range of views of technology that could prove whether job applicants are in the country legally
www.thetimes.com
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Uttara @uttara.bsky.social · Aug 19
Review for Miracle-Gro grass seed.
‘Its growing, howver Jesus only took 3 days to come back to life and its fully come through. So unsure if can be called a miracle’
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