Alongside Elisabeth Leake and Martin Bayly, I’m pleased to share the call for applications for next year’s LSE-Tufts Seminar in Contemporary International History Applicants should submit a title, brief 250-word abstract, and CV to the email address in the image by August 22, 2025

Lethal humanitarianism: why violence at Gaza aid centres should not come as a surprise My short piece at The Conversation I've discussed parts RefugeeStudiesCentre in January Now its more horrific than anyone expected Please share + RT theconversation.com/lethal-humanit…

The spring issue of Modern Intellectual History is now available and is excellent. Pieces by Omnia El Shakry, Joshua L. Cherniss, Alicia Steinmetz, Carl Wennerlind, Gianna Englert, Andrew Hartman, Pablo Soffia and many more: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Lewis Mumford's 1945 article "Gentlemen, you are mad!" Is the appropriate read this morning.

I would have wanted to be in Rome today to protest against the war and against vile attacks on civilians.

17 אלף ילדים. בלתי נתפס. קלון עולם.

Israel's war in Gaza has killed over 17,000 children. These are the stories of 28 of them haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

🚨 2025 HIST prize details Have a look at this thread for all up-to-date information about our prizes (also on our website, histsectionisa.weebly.com) & spread the word! 🙏👇 *All nominations* are due August 1st and should be sent (by email) to the respective committee chair. 🧵

What is the best novel you've read on European immigration post 1945? (any country, any context)

⏰ Reminder! Don't forget to submit your nominations for our 2025 prizes – deadline is **tomorrow** ⬇️ All details below & on our website:

Today would have been my grandma Shulamith's 96th birthday. She died 8 years ago and given the state of the world maybe she exited in time. In Air and Love, I wrote about her resilience and joyfulness, and her fantastic food.

A journalist for 24 years, this is probably the most important article I've ever published. We saw the famine in Gaza with our own eyes. Together with Yarden Michaeli. Yarden Michaeli ירדן מיכאלי يردين ميخائيلي haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Happy that #eisapec25 is coming to Bologna this week! I'll be there, come say hi if you are around. EISA

Arwa Mahdawi: "of course your tweet about Gaza, or the Palestine flag in your window, aren’t going to stop the genocide. But I’ll tell you what these things do: they help stop despair from taking over... it gives hope. It reminds me that not everyone has normalised genocide"

🔜 24.10.2025 ⏳

On Monday I'm giving a talk on planetary politics and Barbara Ward, at the institute for Transnational and spatial history at St. Andrews University. It will be online, all welcome.