Political Survivors. In conversation with Prof. Emma Kuby
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,...
View ArticleIn Theory: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Priyamvada Gopal on Insurgent Empire
In Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani speaks with Priyamvada Gopal (Reader in Anglophone and Related Literature, University of Cambridge) about her new book, Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance...
View ArticleIn Theory: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Durba Mitra about Indian Sex Life and...
In Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Durba Mitra, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard...
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Agneta Block’s Pineapple: Colonial Botany and the Europeanization of Knowledge
By Cindy Kok Look closely at the lower left corner of Jan Weenix’s 1693 group portrait: a pineapple grows amidst a cluster of exotic plants (Fig. 1). At first glance, Weenix’s depiction of this family...
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Catalogue Now!: Professional Anthropology and Making the Northeast United States
By guest contributor Morgan L. Green Mid-twentieth-century anthropology was in crisis. Already influenced by World War II, anthropologists in the 1960s encountered a variety of dramatic changes. The...
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Divi filius: The Comet of 44 BCE and the Politics of Late Republican Rome
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...
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