Professor Adom Getachew on Worldmaking After Empire
Disha Karnad Jani and Professor Adom Getachew discuss her new book, Worldmaking after Empire The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
Projecting Fears and Hopes: Gay Rights on the German Screen after World War I
By Contributing Writer Sara Friedman On May 28, 1919, the first gay rights film was released in German theaters. Anders
New Scholarship from JHI Vol. 80, No. 2 (April 2019)
Full articles for this season’s Journal of the History of Ideas available through Project Muse Value, Justice, and Presumption in
Should we “just keep swimming”?
By Contributing Editor Luna Sarti Several recent publications in the environmental humanities discuss the need for new ways of experiencing
Contextualizing the Rise of Comparative Political Theory
By guest contributor Josey Tom If the creation of subfields within a discipline indicates its development rather than its demise,
MUL.APIN and the Mesopotamian Canon
By Contributing Writer E.L. Meszaros The concept of “canon” is mired in controversy. Should a canon be defined by the
Seeing the Gothic through the blaze of Notre Dame
By Contributing Editor Cynthia Houng I first encountered Abbot Suger: On the Abbey Church of St.-Denis and Its Art Treasures,
What we’re reading this month
Pranav: Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil’s Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France Ruth Harris’s account of
On Lately Looking Into Twombly’s Homer
By Contributing Writer Jeremy Glazier When John Keats first looked into George Chapman’s rendition of Homer in 1816, he stayed
A ‘Rape’ by Any Other Name: Against Teaching ‘Abductions’ in Greek Art
By Contributing Writer Rebecca Levitan When I began studying ancient Greek art as an undergraduate student, I was initially disturbed
What we’re reading this spring
Simon Commentators in contemporary British politics evoke “The Welfare State” so often that you’d think everyone knew what it meant.