In January 2026, I am slated to begin a term as editor of the Journal of Southern History at Rice, and the SHA is looking for a New Book Review Editor at another institution to work with me. Please apply! Review of applications begins this month.
Send us your paper proposals on James Baldwin's Istanbul!
I'm happy to be a co-convener of this year's Keyman Modern Turkish Studies conference alongside Δ°pek KocaΓΆmer YosmaoΔlu. We're looking forward to a great conference in Istanbul with the support of SabancΔ± University.
One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, βIβm really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.β
Universities do not exist to 'train', produce 'skills' or generate 'impact'. They exist to create new knowledge and teach about it. Any assertion to the contrary is in error, and is destroying everything it touches.
Call for Papers for the Yale Modern South Asia Workshop, to be held June 7-8, 2025. Travel, accommodation, and meals will be provided to all selected candidates for the duration of the Workshop in South Asia.
macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/mo...
Among my favorite images of all time. Does anyone know where it is actually located? Even the descriptions seem uncertain/unreliable. Bridal procession, Siyah Qalam. Aq Qoyunlu, Tabriz, late 15th century
The key benefit of a humanities education is in all likelihood a person is going to go through several careers over the course of their life because the economy is chaos and a humanities education 1) ideally equips you with a broad basic toolkit and 2) gives you the skills to learn on your own
And for those whose work focuses on South Asia, any culture, tradition, or disciplineβthough likely humanities and social sciences at its core
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This list too is a work in progress; please comment to be added or suggest adds.
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Surah An-Nurβthe verse of Light (24:35):
"God is the Light of the heavens and the earth; the likeness of His Light is as a niche
wherein is a lamp
(the lamp in a glass,
the glass as it were a glittering star)
kindled from a Blessed Tree,
1/
"Evidence is always partial. Facts are not truth, though they are part of it -information is not knowledge. And history is not the past - it is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past."
Hilary Mantel 2017
Most assuredly NOT Nur Jahan, holding a portrait of Jahangir. 1627, attributed to Bishandas. Cleveland Museum of Art 2013 325.
room for a pre-modernist?
Hunting with falcons, Isfahan 1640s, National Museum of Asian Art, F1953.46
The Emperor Jahangir hunting in Kashmir_17th c., Mughal, British Museum 1920,0917,0.1
Thank you for the welcome! This is at the LACMA, from the Mughal Empire, circa 1600-1605. One of my personal favorites. When you look at the whole painting you can see his robe is covered with embroidered hunting scenes.
collections.lacma.org/node/247380
