for my take on decolonizing the curriculum: blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio…

So excited for you, so well-deserved! Congrats Murad!!

Although there’s reason to fear for the long-term future of historical studies in the US in general, one shorter-term cause for alarm is the chronological flattening of departments to concentrate overwhelmingly on the period after 1900. There are several reasons for this.

A distinctive feature of history as a discipline is that training requires specialization for languages, sources, and context. Social sciences may emphasize universal methodologies, but historian of Japanese history would require years of retraining to shift to China or Russia.

One of the most seductive wrong ideas in history that there are recent “modern” developments that "changed everything" and made earlier periods of merely antiquarian interests. If pre-20th C history fades out, there will be fewer voices to argue against this idea.

#Pluralism within the LIMITS of #Reason: #Hume to #Berlin - C. Kukathas academia.edu/12297067/Plura… via Academia #Philosophy #PoliticalTheory

Free workshop tomorrow>Researching Chinese Legal History in Europe: The State of the Field>4-5 June>Register today ow.ly/NhGQU

Changing Referents: my new book on methods of cross-cultural learning in China and West, out in September ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/978019…

10 Most Under Appreciated Chinese Inventions thecolporteur.com/the-10-most-un…

I just added 'Chinese Thought as Global Theory: Diversifying Knowledge Production in the Social …' to Academia! academia.edu/25722516/Chine…

Watch Leigh Jenco on ‘Changing Referents: Learning Across Space & Time in #China & the West’ goo.gl/9DesOK