Wednesday, June 26, 2024

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Revisiting Tropical Modernism: Why Now?

by Rukmini Swaminathan Earlier in 2023, a seventy-five-year relationship between India and Sri Lanka was celebrated. It culminated in an exhibition on architect Geoffrey Bawa titled "It is Essential to Be There." It was the first time material from the... Continue Reading →

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

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Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: An Interview with Kei Hiruta

by Jonas Bakkeli Eide Kei Hiruta is a political theorist working at the intersection of normative philosophy and intellectual history and is a lecturer in philosophy at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He is a co-founder and consulting editor... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, June 19, 2024

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Fog From Harlem: Recovering a New Negro Renaissance in the American Midwest

by Sam Thozer In the mid-1920s, the luminaries of the New Negro Renaissance placed public faith in Harlem as the unique reserve of intellectual, cultural, and financial power for Black America. They hailed the Upper Manhattan neighborhood as "the Mecca... Continue Reading →

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

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Broadly Speaking: An Interview with Daniel Luban

by Alexander Collin Daniel Luban is an assistant professor of political science at Columbia University specializing in political theory. Luban is completing a book on early modern social theory entitled Children of Pride, under contract with Cambridge University Press. He is also... Continue Reading →

Monday, June 17, 2024

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The Solidarity Economy: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Tehila Sasson

by Disha Karnad Jani In this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Tehila Sasson, Assistant Professor of Britain and the World in the Department of History at Emory University. In this interview, the author discusses her new book The Solidarity Economy:... Continue Reading →

Thursday, June 13, 2024

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Broadly Speaking: An Interview with Ruby Lowe on "The Speech Without Doors," British Print Culture, and Genre

by Grant Wong Ruby Lowe completed a postdoctoral fellowship at The University of California, Berkeley and is commencing a John Emmerson Research Fellowship at The State Library of Victoria. She spoke with Grant Wong about her recent article in JHI's... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

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Cicero's Appeal to Natural Law in 43 BC

by Reece Edmends After Julius Caesar's assassination on the Ides of March, 44 BC, the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero delivered a series of speeches before the Senate and People. These speeches, known as Philippics in honor of Demosthenes' orations... Continue Reading →

Monday, June 10, 2024

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Reflecting on the Evolution of the Humanities: An Interview with John Guillory

by Beatrice Fazio John Guillory is a Professor of English at NYU. He specializes in early modern literature, the history and sociology of criticism, the problem of canon formation, the theory of pedagogy, and graduate education. He is the author... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, June 5, 2024

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Black Scare/Red Scare: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Charisse Burden-Stelly

by Disha Karnad Jani In this interview, Charisse Burden-Stelly discusses her new book, Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 2023). Her book explores how related panics about Black political power and communism... Continue Reading →

Monday, June 3, 2024

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The Concepts that Made Prehistory: An Interview with Stefanos Geroulanos

by Benjamin Diehl Stefanos Geroulanos is the Director of the Remarque Institute and Professor of History at New York University. At the center of Geroulanos's work has been an interest in how the concept of the human has been made... Continue Reading →

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