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Cats, Unexpected Consequences, Derailments

An Essay by SHC Fellow '25 Indra Levy from the Hope: The Future of an Idea Colloquy
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From Dibur: Jewish Ecologies

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Residents from the township of Sharpeville gather during a demonstration against government pass laws as part of a day of protest at Sharpeville in Transvaal, South Africa on 21st March 1960. Members of the police would go on to fire on the crowd resulting in the death of 69 people with 180 injured.

Why Didn’t Hannah Arendt Nominate Nelson Mandela for the Balzan Prize? | Part Three: Hannah Arendt on South Africa and the United States

An Intervention by David D. Kim
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Digital Humanities Quarterly Special Issue: The Politics and Ethics of Naming the Names of Enslaved People in Digital Humanities Projects
by Richard Roberts, Rebecca Wall, and Fatoumata Seck (all former SHC Fellows)
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The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900–2020
by Alice Staveley (SHC Fellow '21)
Joanne Liu
L' Ebola, les bombes et les migrants
by Joanne Liu (Bliss Carnochan International Visitor, '20)
A World Made by Travel
A World Made by Travel: The Digital Grand Tour
by Giovanna Ceserani, Director, CESTA
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Rima Greenhill
Shakespeare, Elizabeth and Ivan: The Role of English-Russian Relations in "Love’s Labours Lost"
by Rima Greenhill (SHC Fellow '20)
Empire of Refugees
Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State
by Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (SHC Fellow '24)
Countering Disposession
Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography
by David Gilbert (SHC Fellow '18)
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Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
by Dylan Penningroth (SHC Fellow '14)
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