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Sushmita Pati Shivani Kapoor Praskanva Sinharay

Help digitise the Cambridge University Herbarium 🌿
Curatrix, Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE) is home to over 1.1m plant specimens collected over 300+ years. The team is looking for online volunteers to transcribe specimen labels & make them accessible to biodiversity researchers.
Join in: bit.ly/44e2UqB

Please join us this Wednesday to attend Prof. Starks' talk!

Conference announcement: Natural History in the Age of Revolutions | 1776-1848
To explore themes connected broadly to the revolution in nature that began to be witnessed on a global scale in the decades around 1800. July 15. book below. Edwin Rose
bit.ly/3Jup7XP

Global Economic History is back! Join us in person or on zoom (sign up to be sent the link) Cambridge History

I'm thrilled to joining U of C South Asian Languages & Civilizations , and looking forward to learning from new colleagues and students in Chicago!

I will miss my community here at Brunel and in London, but hope to continue collaborations for many years to come.

A few days ago a popular Twitter account repeated an oft-cited piece of misinformation: Dilip Mahalanabis 'never patented his' ORS formula.

This is a thread on how science & scientists' work are distorted in the social media jungle these days

kikumbhar.medium.com/dilip-mahalana…

Contributed an essay to the catalog volume that accompanies this exquisite exhibition, if you are in LA or Detroit do consider paying this feast senses a visit!

Are you an academic based in India and looking for short term fellowships in the UK? Are you also prepared to enjoy the beautiful north of England? Uni of Leeds might just have something for you to apply for!

PS. Bring a coat.

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Boosting as I'm (finally!!) organizing my schedule to conduct oral history interviews.

If you're South Asian and have experienced #endometriosis or suspect you have it, I want to learn from you!

#AcademicTwitter #DisHist

Details below 👇🏼

By Matt Haig:

Really looking forward to A R Venkatachalapathy ஆ.இரா. வேங்கடாசலபதி's talk this afternoon at the CSSSC on his new book, Swadeshi Steam.

Woo-hoo! I've just been told by U Pittsburgh Press that the physical copies of my co-edited book *Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences* arrived at the press this week. Can't wait to get my hands on it.

A tremendous thanks to all involved!

Details 👇
upittpress.org/books/97808229…

We are delighted to welcome two fantastic scholars, Amanda Lanzillo Amanda Lanzillo and Gregory Maxwell Bruce to the faculty of South Asian Languages and Civilizations U of C South Asian Languages & Civilizations. I look forward to working together with you both.

Super excited about this distinguished panel Max Planck Institute for the History of Science on “Approaching, Translating, and Engaging Cosmology”. Melissa K. Nelson, Francesca Rochberg, John Tresch, Lisa Onaga and Stamatina (Tina) Mastorakou!
#cosmologies #worldviews #multiverse
mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/approach…

Royal Institution 2 Year Postdoctoral Freer Fellowship in History & Philosophy of Science!

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On Safdar Hashmi's birth anniversary:

His 1984 Hindi interview with Subhash Sharma,where he discusses the 'seriousness' of a nukkad natak held outdoors for working-class ppl,as opposed to theatre for 'sabhya' audience.

He was also wrote & illustrated children's books (left pic)

Happy #InternationalDayofHumanSpaceFlight ! 🚀

Today is the anniversary of the 1961 Vostok 1 spaceflight with cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard.

This magazine from the USA the following year shows a man testing a moon suit mock up on the cover.

for the past months i was trying to trace the multifaith history of muharram in bihar's capital - documenting the stories of shared sorrows from present and the city's past.

this booklet as a result was published by the institute for social democracy - isd.net.in.

📣 The CFP for our upcoming conference “Historicizing the Muslim Sensorium: Toward a Sensory History of Islam in the Early Modern World” Utrecht University is out. Please share widely!

⏰ Deadline for abstracts is June 1, 2024! More info on website.👇 sensis.wp.hum.uu.nl/2024/04/cfp-se…