Monday, March 30, 2026

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Desire Before Sexuality: An Interview with Selim S. Kuru

by Nilab Saeedi Early modern Ottoman literary culture, particularly the Persianate ġazel (lyric love poem), is renowned for its intricate poetry of love and longing. But beneath its beautiful metaphors and layered spiritual imagery lies a complex world modern readers... Continue Reading →

Monday, March 23, 2026

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What We're Reading: Spring 2026

by the JHI community For our Spring 2026 installment of the JHI Blog's Reading Recommendations, we asked members of the JHI community to recommend a text related to intellectual history, broadly conceived. Responses have been lightly edited for clarity. Oscar... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

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Call for Submissions: Forum on the Conceptual History of Technology

by Zac Endter and Jonas Knatz References to the role of technology, as Eric Schatzberg observes in his critical history of the concept, are ubiquitous in intellectual discourse. Despite its often loose usage, "technology" is imbued with the analytical power... Continue Reading →

Monday, March 16, 2026

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The Future That Was: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Durba Mitra

by Disha Karnad Jani  On this episode of In Theory, Durba Mitra returns to the podcast to talk with Disha Karnad Jani about her new book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (Princeton University Press, 2026). In this canon-expanding... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

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Freedom’s Horizon: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Isadora Moura Mota

Disha Karnad Jani  On this episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Isadora Moura Mota about her recent book, Freedom's Horizon: Black Abolitionism in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025). In shifting the periodization of the history of abolition in Brazil from... Continue Reading →

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

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Monday, March 9, 2026

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Modern International Thought and Southeastern Europe: An Interview with Georgios Giannakopoulos

by Dimitrios Mitsopoulos In The Interpreters: British Internationalism and Empire in Southeastern Europe, 1870–1930 (Manchester University Press, 2025), Georgios Giannakopoulos uncovers a network of British scholars, journalists, and travelers who positioned themselves as mediators between imperial centers and the volatile borderlands... Continue Reading →

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