“‘editorial policy / open as hell’: The dissent and worldliness of Indian little magazines” 31 May 1–2:30pm Dr Laetitia Zecchini's presentation will be based on a wealth of visual documents and focus on several anti-establishment Indian little magazines. ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

for those in London, Pragya Dhital has curated a beautiful exhibition at Brunei Gallery SOAS, 28 April - 3 September ✨

Anyone with any knowledge of urban India would know that demolitions have been routinely used to displace and disenfranchise the poor and the stigmatized. It has never been about legality because that has been arbitrarily extended to the rich and the powerful. Now it has become..

1/ 🧵 of some thoughts from Colombo's first-ever Pride March, held on June 25, 2022. #Pride #PrideMonth #ColomboPride #GotaGoHome2022 #lka

7/ And we are part of this in ways only we can be, with colour and noise and joy, which are missing but so necessary in these times & within protest. Just personally, the feeling when turning into Galle Road with our flags up high was one my gay little self has never experienced.

my ethnographic picture books 'Future Photographs' (on Negatives issuu.com/photodemos/doc…) and 'Picture Palaces' (on framing shops issuu.com/photodemos/doc…) are now online! #PhotoDemos

JOB ALERT! Spread the word! We're delighted to announce five new positions working on the University of Edinburgh’s historical links to African enslavement and colonialism and their racial legacies today: iash.ed.ac.uk/news/now-hirin… 1/8

what we are seeing here is #SriLanka's unelected head of state now wielding the powers of the executive presidency to deploy the military to attack peaceful protesters in the dead of night while blocking media access. #SriLankaCrisis

it is heart-shattering to see generation after generation of young people from #SriLanka subjected to brutal state violence at the behest of vile men fighting for power as complacent supporters clap on.

SSAF and AAA in I are pleased to organise a public presentation on the imbrication of politics and aesthetics during the 1960s Naxalite movement. Speaker Koonal Duggal will examine the historical movement in/of images and ideas in Communist periodicals circulated across Punjab.

this Weds, scholars of the history, anthropology, & sociology of science in South Asia will gather for the STM symposium at the Madison conf. Colleagues in the subcontinent will join us virtually to discuss the future of the field. co-organized by Kiran Kumbhar and Sayori #ceasefirenow

a slightly unconventional visual essay on Jaffna photography studios - Naveena Camera (Modern Camera) hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/dasta… looking back on the loveliest bits of my fieldwork - hanging out in photography studios and talking politics with Jaffna uncles. [Open Access]

We are proud to present the next publication in the ICAS:MP- Cambridge University Press series. 'Evacuee #Cinema: #Bombay and #Lahore in #Partition Transit, 1940–1960' by Salma Siddique (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) studies the entangled histories of #Indian & #Pakistani cinema. 🔗bit.ly/3TvYG7D

It is our pleasure to introduce Imaobong Umoren (Imaobong Umoren) from LSE International History ahead of her #GHIL lecture tonight! There is still time to sign up via this link: ghil.ac.uk/events/lecture…. #intellectualhistory #twitterstorians

Really excited to share with you all the new program for the stories we tell online seminar series. We have a wonderful line up of speakers to discuss work on materialising energy geographies Register bit.ly/3ZWy57v Full program bit.ly/3XRoRqY

Megha's incredible photo essay on "hidden museums" of the everday. The Time of Crochet: Interruption, Plasticity, and the Domestic in Delhi - Sehdev - 2020 - Feminist Anthropology - Wiley Online Library anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fe…

another excellent read by B. Skanthakumar 🇵🇸 on the 1953 Hartal: 'one of the most impressive displays of working-class power in Asia’s modern history' | Sri Lanka Has a Proud Tradition of Revolt Against Leaders Who Trample on Its People jacobin.com/2023/08/sri-la… via Jacobin