From MIH Archives: The politics of time? Mira L. Siegelberg analyzes J.G.A. Pocock’s debt to Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy in The Machiavellian Moment and examines their disparate responses to the discourse of political crisis during the Cold War bit.ly/4flqh6b

Duncan Bell, “John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization and Empire,” History of Political Thought (2025) go.shr.lc/4mTZyBp

Roundtable: a launch event about Antiliberal Internationalism in the Twentieth Century, a volume to which I contributed. x.gd/P1ZTC

Publication! My book The Colonial Way of War has now appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, with extensive empirical base&case studies from British, German & Dutch Empire. shorturl.at/crWw2

【ご案内】令和 8（2026）年度（2025年度実施）国際社会科学専攻・大学院入試説明会 東京大学大学院総合文化研究科国際社会科学専攻の2025年度（2026年4月入学生向け）入試説明会を以下の通り開催いたします。 kiss.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/graduates/exam… 出願を希望される方は、是非ご参加ください。

【お知らせ】2024年度研究活動報告 本専攻の2024年度活動報告を専攻ウェブサイトに掲載しました。 kiss.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/graduates/rese… 専攻の各種状況の他、個々の教員の研究活動報告も記載されています。

Aziz Rana on “Settler Colonialism”: "If we dismiss concepts because of particular examples of misuse, we encourage the repression of discomforting histories and ideas.": dissentmagazine.org/article/whos-a…

【お知らせ】修了生インタビュー 本専攻相関社会科学コースの佐藤竜人助教のインタビュー記事が掲載されました。研究内容や研究者を志した理由などを語っています。 kiss.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/k_post7/%E4%BD…

My new book The First Right Self-Determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941–2000 is available for pre-order and shipping: global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Excited to see this in print with Cambridge University Press. A fantastic new volume on Anticolonialism and Social thought (Ed’s): Julian Go and Anaheed Al-Hardan. My contribution includes an intellectual history of Zweledinga Pallo Jordan drawing from archival work and an oral

Call For Applications: Toynbee First Book Workshop Competition 2025-26 toynbeeprize.org/posts/call-for… Deadline: November 2, 2025.

着任】鈴木悠 准教授 2025年10月1日より、本専攻に鈴木悠先生が准教授として着任しました。 ご専門は「国際関係史、日英関係史、19世紀」です。

🌊Call for Proposals🌊 festival of ideas: anti-colonial & anti-imperial currents in s.e.a. & oceania We’re seeking workshops, reading circles, public lectures & film screenings. May 2026 • no fees • online+hybrid • decentralised • self-organised southsouthmovement.org/anticolonial-a…

Wow, Match ended. Though in friendlies, Japan beat Brazil!! Brazil was perhaps caught off guard!? bbc.co.uk/sport/football…

New book, coming soon! Duncan Bell & Douglas Mao, Utopia (Oxford UP, 2026) It's a short interdisciplinary volume in the recently launched OUP Literature and Politics series. global.oup.com/academic/produ…

After years in archives, my book The Interpreters: British Internationalism and Empire in Southeastern Europe, 1870–1930 is out with Manchester University Press! It traces how Britain grappled with national questions from the Balkans to Ireland. 🔗 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526160133/

How Has Space Exploration Changed History? historytoday.com/archive/head-h… via History Today

Jane Lyndon, ‘“A Valuable Man” and “One of the Wisest and Best of Mankind”: Jeremy Bentham, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, and Systematic Colonization,’ Modern Intellectual History bit.ly/3WLKRW4

We are pleased to announce that the Center for Transimperial History will hold a roundtable discussion titled 'What is Transimperial History'. 🗓️26 November | ⏰5:15 PM (CET) |📍Leipzig University & online