I look forward to hosting Vassily Klimentov for a presentation of his @cornellupress.bsky.socialwww.uni-regensburg.de/dimas/englis...
I had the pleasure of reviewing Masha Kirasirova's excellent new book with Oxford University Press "The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire" for the Russian Review. Check out the review (available open access) here: doi.org/10.1111/russ...
A query for historians here, especially of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China – can people recommend to me recent work on Communist regimes and international political economy, especially from scholars based in Europe? Putting together ideas for a grant application ...
Nov 30, 4:30 pm, at Yale: "Empireʻs Others: Alternative Visions & Radical Solidarities," on Palestine, Iraq, South Asia, & Bosnia with Darryl Li, Zeynab Saleh, and Esmat Elhalaby
A brave intervention into Germany’s cultural meltdown from the documenta16 Finding Commission: “In the current circumstances we do not believe that there is a space in Germany for an open exchange of ideas." www.e-flux.com/notes/575919...
Enjoyed speaking to @kevinrothrock.bsky.socialmeduza.io/en/episodes/....
More information about the conference is available here: www.uni-regensburg.de/dimas/crossa...
As this conflict has unleashed large mass protests across the world, (including protests against Netanyahu in Israel), I look forward to a conversation with Vincent about how his reporting from around the world in the 2010s can inform our understanding of the world today.
As a map of reactions to Hamas' attacks on 10/7 and Israel's subsequent invasion of Gaza reminds us, we live in a "polycentric condition" marked by authoritarian aspirations for a “multipolar” world, but also by networked protest movements eager to learn from one another.
Speaking for myself, I am proud that Regensburg and Bavaria host conversations that bring together perspectives from scholarship, journalism and the arts. Such an approach is essential to make sense of a world reeling from Russia's war on Ukraine & Hamas' attacks on Israel.