Turning Points, Hidden Treasures and Touchdowns: One month in Ann Arbor
UR historian Timothy Nunan reflects on a month in Ann Arbor and how it enriched his research on Shi’a Islamist transformations of the world in the late 1970s.
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Entries by Timothy Nunan
Congealed Labor, Canned Fish: From the Adriatic towards a global history of the oil sardine
Ulf Brunnbauer takes us on a journey from the Adriatic to the Pacific, tracing the interconnections of human, environmental and animal actors who shape the global history of capitalism on multiple scales
People from the Land: A High school story of the Mapuche Indigenous people in Chile
How are radical high school protests, environmental extractivism and indigenous identities entangled in Chile? Igor Stipić offers insights based on his ethnographic research
Photo Essay | Herbst der Erinnerung. Partizipatives Gedenken an den Großen Terror | The Autumn of Memory: Participatory Remembrance of the Great Terror (Moscow, October 2021)
How did participatory remembrance of the Great Terror, from family memory to civil society endeavours, fit in Moscow’s urban and mnemonic landscape shortly before the war against Ukraine? This photo essay offers moving insights
The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Mormons
How did the attractiveness of the Mormon embodiment of US utopian, spiritual and material ideals shift in the turbulent realities of post-Soviet Russia? U Georgia historian Joseph Kellner investigates
The Return of Narratives | Conference Report: Crisis Narratives and the Pandemic
What can multiscalar area studies tell us about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world? Read more in this report
Commemorating National Martyrdom through Re-Creating the Past: Vukovar, Prijedor, Derry/Londonderry, and Gernika/Guernica
How do performative recreations across European post-conflict societies help antagonistic memories retain a multi-generational appeal? Berkeley doctoral researcher Blaze Joel investigates
Traditionen europäischer Sozialpolitiken und deren Nicht-Berücksichtigung am Ende des Kalten Krieges: Eine Spurensuche entlang von Arbeit und Gender
How were labour and social relations transformed at the end of the Cold War? What did neoliberal models and the effacement of progressive traditions mean for gender relations?
Silent Rebels and the Resurrection of the Polish Nation | Exhibition analysis by Kathleen Wroblewski
Part of the Law and Justice (PiS) government’s soft power agenda, this recent exhibition features artworks that could undermine its efforts to promote a singular, martyrdom-focused politics of history and national identity.
Tadeusz Kościuszko, Poland-Lithuania and the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
How were efforts to secure US and Polish-Lithuanian independence linked in the Age of Atlantic revolution? And in what ways were attempts to free slaves and emancipate peasants connected? Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski takes us on a transatlantic journey with Tadeusz Kościuszko at the helm
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