Trials of Sovereignty offers the first legal history of mercy and discretion in nineteenth and twentieth-century India. Through a study of large-scale amnesties, the prerogative powers of pardon, executive commutation, […]
Everyday Occupation examines the everyday encounter between American soldiers and Chinese civilians from the end of World War II to the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Drawing upon […]
How does the dancing body hold, transmit, and reimagine history? Join visionary Artistic Director of Hong Kong Ballet, Septime Weber in a free flowing conversation to dance through entanglements of […]
How does one gaze into the past? Join us for a riveting discussion with historian Jay Winter as he illuminates how history is memorialized in curated spaces. Embracing a concept […]
This book probes why ecological instability has time and again emerged as a catalyst for risky development projects along India's south-west coastline. It will do so by examining the genealogy […]
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippine islands. Drawing on the rich archives of Spain’s Asian empire, […]
Emergency Ecology: Birds, Blood, War, and the Figuring of Malaya as Australian-Siberian Borderland, 1947-1974 Jack Greatrex Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Abstract A metal band from the leg of […]
Join us for "RE-MEMBERING HISTORIES REIGNITED: FIRST LOOK AT STUDENT FILMS," presented by the students of HIST2212: Performing History. How do we remember? Students in this course have explored history […]
Feeling stressed about your final assignments in History? We are here to help! Join us for an engaging session where we will share practical strategies for writing an effective history […]
The emergence of archaeology as a scientific pursuit in the nineteenth century significantly altered perceptions of the Ottoman Empire within foreign imaginaries. Cartography, like archaeology, provided a seemingly objective epistemological […]
Registration Now Open The modern world has been and is increasingly shaped by cross-border movements. People of various occupations and diverse gender, race, and national identities, in crossing paths beyond […]
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