Asheesh Kapur Siddique

asheeshks.org

21 October 2026 14:39

Liberals were fine with college students reading queer theory or "Orientalism" or Marx in so far as doing so did not actually translate into any social movement. They were horrified to learn that peoples' reading and thinking could not be controlled and that they might act on it politically.

Asheesh Kapur Siddique

asheeshks.org

21 October 2026 14:39

American centrist liberalism's support for higher education after the 1960s was fundamentally elitist: it was conditional on higher ed never again fomenting mass, democratic protest movements but rather disciplining the middle class to accept the benevolence of capitalism and empire.

Kathleen Commons

kabcommons.bsky.social

21 October 2026 14:18

Will be brilliant to hear from Becky Taylor @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social at the next @ihr.bsky.social Migration & Mobility seminar 03/11/2026 at 5.30 (hybrid): How do you displace a Gypsy? Belvedere Marshes and the dangers of a progressive state. Sign up here: forms.gle/qKYgfRFdGcuW...

Francois Soyer

fsoyer.bsky.social

20 October 2026 13:27

Forthcoming book cover (out in early 2027 with Bloomsbury). It will feature a microhistory of the fascinating trial of Antonio/Vitoria, plus an edition of the original 1556-7 Portuguese trial document and an English translation.

Kathleen Commons

kabcommons.bsky.social

17 October 2026 10:30

Less than a week until our (hybrid!) seminar @ihr.bsky.social - 'Race and the Rent Collector' with Jonah Miller: how did social investigators in 2 formative periods of British sociology account for difference in studies of poverty & the working class. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/53xv6j6c