Category: The Blog
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January 2024: What We’re Reading
HMS Black Joke firing on the Spanish Slaver, El Almirante,in the early 19th century. Photo credit: Historic UK Matilde Cazzola, Max Planck Institute for…
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What We’re Reading: December 2023
Damaged archival documents from Réunion examined in Sue Peabody’s Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies (Oxford University Press 2017) Matilde…
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What We’re Reading: November 2023
Asensio Robles López, EUI, History Department Sebastian Conrad, What is Global History? Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. Sebastian Conrad’s What is Global History?…
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What We’re Reading: October 2023
https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/Sydney_Opera_House.html Tiger Zhifu Li, University of Technology Sydney. Helen Pitt, “Why we all won lottery the day the Sydney Opera House opened”, Sydney Morning Herald, September…
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Call For Applications: Toynbee First Book Workshop Competition 2023-24
We are pleased to announce that the First Book Workshop Competition 2023-24 is now open for applications! The Toynbee First Book Workshop Competition aims…
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Toynbee Prize Foundation Call for Editors at Large
The Toynbee Prize Foundation is pleased to announce the 2023-2024 Call for Editors-at-Large. We welcome applications for the position of Editor-at-Large from graduate students and early…
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Discussing the History of International Orders: A Workshop Report
Background This workshop took place on May 11-12, 2023. It was hosted and organized by the Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo…
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Toynbee Prize Foundation names Poorvi Bellur as new Executive Director
The Toynbee Prize Foundation (TPF) is excited to announce the appointment of Poorvi Bellur as the new Executive Director. Poorvi is from Mumbai, India and is…
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What We’re Reading: May 25 2023
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/02/02/canada-experiments-with-decriminalization-of-hard-drugs_6014067_4.html Mirek Tobiáš Hošman, University of Bologna, Paris City University Michael Franczak, Global Inequality and American Foreign Policy in the 1970s. Cornell University Press, 2022.…
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What We’re Reading: May 1 2023
https://www.javeriana.edu.co/pesquisa/con-los-ojos-en-la-bogota-que-imagino-le-corbusier/ Antoney Bell, McGill University James, C. L. R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint Louverture and the San Domingo Revolution. 2nd 8 ed. New York:…