Thank you Jonathan for this thoughtful and thorough engagement with my book!

What can Southasian scholars gain from Indian Ocean studies?

These recent books on the Indian Ocean provides a new way of looking at the Subcontinent’s pasts. mailchi.mp/himalmag/south… KRamnath Nienke Boer Darshana M. Baruah Pan Macmillan India Yale Univ Press University of Texas Press Duke University Press

And this is the second one: more about teaching and my work more broadly, and also including my fantastic colleagues at USYD. ❤️

Not one but two podcasts released this week! Does this make me cool? I can’t bear to hear my own voice, so I have no idea how these turned out…This one is about my book—do take a listen if you’re curious!

Thrilled to be co-organizing a MLA panel on the continued dominance of the historical novel in African literature with the indomitable Farah Bakaari . Please share widely! mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webpr…

1/5 After three years of editing, annotating, headnote writing, and permissions getting, it is completely thrilling to hold a physical copy of Vol. F of The Norton Anthology of English Literature in my hands! A thread on its new features:

Yay! Always so exciting when someone reads the book…

How do Afro-descendants Siddis in Gujarat & South African Indians preserve ancestral memories through cultural practices? Explore this creolized resistance in 'Performing Memories and Weaving Archives' by Sayan Dey at: newbooksnetwork.com/performing-mem…

📢We are hiring for 3 academic teaching positions! Use the link below to find more information & apply- all apps are due 4 Feb 🗓️

Asst Prof in Gender, Development & Globalisation

Assoc Prof in Gender & Sexuality

Asst Prof in Gender, Peace & Security

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What’s the connxn between contemporary politics & contemporary media? Here’s a timely CFP:

“21st Century Media? Affective Bodies, Crowds and Collectives”

ICAS:MP CSDS, Delhi, Mar 21-23, 2024

Due Dec 10. Travel funds available for local scholars

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I'm excited to share that applications are now open for the 5th annual Colby Summer Institute in Environmental Humanities!

We invite you to join us in beautiful Maine from July 28 – August 4, 2024, for a week of seminars, lectures, workshops, field trips, and other events. 1/3

Call for Papers! 'Decolonising the World Republic of Letters' will take place May 23-24, 2024 in Paris, France. Submit an abstract by November 30. More details on our website:

globalsouthstudies.as.virginia.edu/cfp-decolonisi…

Please join our exciting new Ocean Humanities International Lecture Series at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven or via Zoom. The first lecture takes place on 12 September with Henning Trüper (ZfL Berlin) on sea rescue (in German). dsm.museum/oceanhumanities #oceanhist #envhist

Call for Papers! 'Speaking from the South' will be held at the University of Adelaide from May 31 - June 4, 2024. Submit an abstract by October 1. More details below!
globalsouthstudies.as.virginia.edu/cfp-speaking-s…

Today!!

🐙 Humanities at the Seabed 🐙

This time last year, a multidiscp crew gathered in Rome to think critical seabed humanities. This is the first published outcome of that thinking. Much more to come. Meanwhile, warm thanks to ACU Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences and Edge Effects.

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📖 Join Dr Nienke Boer (@EnglishUsyd) as she explores how voices of the enslaved in the Indian Ocean world are represented in 20th & 21st-century fiction from the region at our International and Comparative Literary Studies seminar.

🗓 Thur 7 Sept, 5:15pm: bit.ly/45rLLK3

Paper submissions are open until Aug 6, 2023 for Australian Anthropological Society 2023 conference! Fantastic panels this year on the theme of Vulnerabilities
28 November to 1 December 2023
Wallumattagal Campus, Macquarie University, Sydney

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I'm honoured to be exhibiting 'Index of Edges' at the Biennale Architettura 2023 in Venice curated by Lesley Lokko .The project draws together global worlds of African coasts, from Cape Town to Port Said gathering watery stories, aqueous drawings and leaky archives La Biennale di Venezia

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Issue 10–The Struggle–is out now!

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