Wednesday, September 16, 2026

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Universal Rights and the Specters of Indian Feminism, Part I: A Review by Susan Pedersen

This is Part I of a twentieth-anniversary retrospective on Mrinalini Sinha’s Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire. An interview with Sinha

Monday, September 14, 2026

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Organisms as Technologies in the History of Science

by Kapp Singer There’s a Yiddish saying about the futility of counterfactuals: “If grandma had wheels, she would be a wagon.” A historian of science

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Thursday, September 10, 2026

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André Leroi-Gourhan’s Technological Sequences: An Interview with Nathan Schlanger

by Rae Bruml Norton Nathan Schlanger is Professor of Archaeology at École nationale des chartes, Paris. His research concerns the history and politics of material

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

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Detail of Alexandra Exter, Guardian of Energy, 1924. Costume design for the film Aelita by Yakov Protazanov.

The Engineering of Ideas: Introducing the Forum on the Conceptual History of Technology

Intellectual history and the history of science share common roots, having made a hard split only in the 1970s and 1980s, when the latter largely

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

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By Flesh and Toil: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Mélanie Lamotte

by Disha Karnad Jani On this episode of the In Theory podcast, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Mélanie Lamotte about her recent book By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

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Reintroducing Senghor: An Interview with Doyle D. Calhoun, Alioune B. Fall, and Cheikh Thiam

by Unglid Paul Doyle D. Calhoun is a University Assistant Professor of Francophone Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Peterhouse. He researches African and Caribbean literatures and cinemas, particularly Senegalese literature and film in French... Continue Reading →

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