Wednesday, February 25, 2026

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Constructing Expertise in the Ottoman Empire: An Interview with A. Tunç Şen

by Furkan Elmas Professor A. Tunç Şen is a historian of the early-modern Ottoman Empire at Columbia University whose work occupies the intersection between intellectual history, history of science, and manuscript culture. In his book Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and... Continue Reading →

Friday, February 20, 2026

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Wednesday, February 18, 2026

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Parting Gifts of Empire: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Esmat Elhalaby

by Disha Karnad Jani For this episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Esmat Elhalaby about his first book, Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization (University of California Press, 2025), which offers a pathbreaking perspective on... Continue Reading →

Monday, February 16, 2026

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The Berkeley School: Critical Theory, Political Economy, and the Future of Intellectual History

by Jonathon Catlin Attending Martin Jay's retirement conference at Berkeley in the fateful fall of 2016 (a month before Donald Trump's first election) as a brand-new graduate student, I began to perceive palpable tensions between two factions of some of... Continue Reading →

Friday, February 13, 2026

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JHI 87.1 now available!

Check out the new issue of the journal—volume 87, issue 1—on Project MUSE. Table of Contents The B'rith of Tragedy: Jewish Roots of a Stolen Genre in Early Modern EuropeMicha Lazarus  John Locke's Early Tolerationism: A Critique of the Conversion... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

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Living the Law: An Interview with Jeanne-Marie Jackson

by Tomi Onabanjo Jeanne-Marie Jackson is a Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University and Director of Johns Hopkins' Alexander Grass Humanities Institute. She is the author of The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing (2021)... Continue Reading →

Monday, February 9, 2026

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The Bookseller and the Buddha: Error, Empire, and the Problem of Origins

by Bhadrajee Hewage In 1829, the English bookseller Edward Upham (1776–1834) published The History and Doctrine of Budhism [sic], the first of a series of studies that offered the earliest comprehensive accounts of Buddhism in the English language. Without ever... Continue Reading →

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