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Trafficking, Smuggling and Illicit Migration in International History: A Conference Report

By guest contributor Emma Kluge On April 12-13, scholars from across the world gathered together at the University of Sydney for Trafficking, Smuggling and Illicit Migration in International History: New Geographic and Scalar Perspectives. This workshop and conference was birthed… Continue Reading →

“Why are we still having children?”

By Contributing Editor Cynthia Houng I finished Sheila Heti’s Motherhood over Mother’s Day weekend. In this book, Heti asks herself if she should have a child. If she should be a mother. I hadn’t planned on reading Motherhood over Mother’s… Continue Reading →

Editors’ weekly readings

Nuala Alexandra Alvergne and Vedrana Högqvist Tabor, “Is Female Health Cyclical? Evolutionary Perspectives on Menstruation,” (TREE) Jen Banbury, “The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver” (Atlas Obscura) Jill Lapore, “The Right Way to Remember Rachel Carson”(New Yorker) Jenna… Continue Reading →

Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 29, no. 2

The Spring 2018 edition of the Journal of the History of Ideas. When the Eyes Are Shut: The Strange Case of Girolamo Cardano’s Idolum in Somniorum Synesiorum Libri IIII (1562) by Anna Corrias Pierre Bayle and the Secularization of Conscience… Continue Reading →

What we’re reading this week

Derek Stephanie McCarter, “The Bad Wives: Misogyny’s Age-Old Roots in the Home” (Eidolon) Sam Haselby, “These should be the end times for patriotism” (aeon) Eric Posner and Glen Weyl, “How Economists Became Timid” (Chronicle of Higher Education) Claire Messud, “Wilder… Continue Reading →

What Does it Mean to “Speak”? Postcoloniality, Imperial Exhibitions, and the Martial Arts

By Contributing Editor AJ Hawks I first started studying taekwondo when I was in high school, partially because of the movies (“Can he really do that?!”) and partially to please my Korean grandmother who had handed me a flier about… Continue Reading →

What we’re reading this week

Sundry readings from our editorial team this week: AJ: Alina Cohen, “The Legendary Bars Where Famous Artists Drank, Debated, and Made Art History” (Artsy) Lungisile Ntsebeza, “This Land is Our Land” (Foreign Policy) Ronald Brownstein, “American Higher Education Hits a… Continue Reading →

JHI Blog podcast

The first three editions of our occasional podcast series are now available for download. Hosted by our editorial team, these wide-ranging conversations on intellectual history are available in “Interviews and Podcasts“, or you can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes.

The Philosopher’s Pages

By Contributing Writer Flaminia Incecchi The only existing memorial to the once-famous philosopher Giovanni Gentile is in his native city Castelvetrano, a modest country town in the Sicilian province of Trapani. The memorial was made by a local artist in… Continue Reading →

Weekly reading (and listening)

At the blog this week, don’t miss Professor Shane White on the classic musical and film “The Sting,” and the African American history of the confidence man. And in the third of our occasional podcast series, contributing writer John Handel… Continue Reading →

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