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Empire and the Insect-Enemy: Towards a Global History of Agro-Capitalism

by Minke Hijmans

Broadly Speaking: An Interview with Ana Antić

Ana Antić in discussion with Tom Furse about her review essay, “Psychiatry and Decolonization: Histories of Transcultural Psychiatry in the Twentieth Century,” published in the January 2024 issue of the journal.

Plague and Contagion in Mughal South Asia

by Khushboo Rashid

Broadly Speaking: An Interview with Joyce E. Chaplin, Part Two

Alec Israeli interviews Joyce E. Chaplin about her review essay considering recent books on the concept of the Anthropocene. (Part two of a two-part interview.)

Broadly Speaking: An Interview with Joyce E. Chaplin, Part One

Alec Israeli interviews Joyce E. Chaplin about her review essay considering recent books on the concept of the Anthropocene. (Part one of a two-part interview.)

The Concept as a Struggle of Parts

by guest contributor Ruben Verkoelen

Remembering MERS in South Korea: Mobilizing Experience of Epidemic Disease

by guest contributor John DiMoia

French Symbolism and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy

by contributing editor David Kretz

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 authority of a ruler. The comet of 44… Continue Reading →

Watts in Water

By guest contributor Nicole Welk-Joerger In September 2016, Sadie Frericks, a Minnesota dairy farmer, recounted a moment in Hoard’s Dairyman when she and her husband noticed their heifers were trying to tell them something. She noted that the heifers “wouldn’t stop… Continue Reading →

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