Roz
@rozsro.bsky.social
History ABD at Duke / visiting student at Cambridge
Writing a diss on consumer spaces & material culture in early modern Madras & Pondicherry 🍷🖼️🕰️🪞
Writing a diss on consumer spaces & material culture in early modern Madras & Pondicherry 🍷🖼️🕰️🪞
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Tracing the rise and decline of Chettiar businesses across Asia challenges the idea that caste-based capital can always deliver fortunes. CJ Kuncheria on Raman Mahadevan's 'Fortune Seekers'
www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews...
www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews...
What the Chettiar Story Reveals about Caste and Business
Tracing the rise and decline of Chettiar businesses across Asia challenges the idea that caste-based capital can always deliver fortunes.
www.theindiaforum.in
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Tracing the rise and decline of Chettiar businesses across Asia challenges the idea that caste-based capital can always deliver fortunes. CJ Kuncheria on Raman Mahadevan's 'Fortune Seekers'
www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews...
www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews...
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A US citizen filmed federal agents smashing his car window, as authorities begin a surge of immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina.
The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.
The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.
November 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
A US citizen filmed federal agents smashing his car window, as authorities begin a surge of immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina.
The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.
The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.
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PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C.
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
WETA to cut staff, cancel ‘PBS News Weekend’ and close News Hour West bureau
The restructuring includes the elimination of 34 positions, following another round of cuts made in September.
current.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C.
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
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When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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A post on keeping old blog posts alive, following the news that the British Library is having to come up with a solution for all of its past blogs, following the collapse of the Typepad platform lukemckernan.com/2025/11/11/k...
Keeping posts going
Pity the poor British Library, an institution which simultaneously does such great things, yet at the same time seems to have utterly lost its way. The cyberattack of 2023 has created damage not on…
lukemckernan.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
A post on keeping old blog posts alive, following the news that the British Library is having to come up with a solution for all of its past blogs, following the collapse of the Typepad platform lukemckernan.com/2025/11/11/k...
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Montclair State is getting rid of its humanities departments. 🤬🤬🤬
Sign the Petition
Montclair State is Eliminating All Humanities Departments
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November 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Montclair State is getting rid of its humanities departments. 🤬🤬🤬
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And delighted now to share this new research article by Charlotte Legg and me that explores settler colonial identities, shared affinities, racial politics and transimperial forms of whiteness in New Caledonia and Australia in the early 20th century. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
And delighted now to share this new research article by Charlotte Legg and me that explores settler colonial identities, shared affinities, racial politics and transimperial forms of whiteness in New Caledonia and Australia in the early 20th century. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
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BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is projected to win the New York City Mayoral election, reports @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is projected to win the New York City Mayoral election, reports @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Abigail Spanberger (D) wins governor's race in Virginia - DDHQ
November 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
BREAKING: Abigail Spanberger (D) wins governor's race in Virginia - DDHQ
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A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete High-Resolution Digital Scan
A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete High-Resolution Digital Scan
There’s ahead of its time, then there’s Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau -- or, in its original Dutch title, Klaer Lightende Spiegel der Verfkonst, a 900-page book of paint colors mad...
www.openculture.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete High-Resolution Digital Scan
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Samir Zitouni, 48, remains in critical condition after the LNER rail employee heroically risked his life to save others from the attempts at murder on the Peterborough/Huntingdon train
news.sky.com/story/train-...
news.sky.com/story/train-...
Train company LNER 'extremely proud' of rail worker in critical condition after mass stabbing as family call him 'hero'
Samir Zitouni, 48, was injured while trying to protect passengers during the mass stabbing on Saturday.
news.sky.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Samir Zitouni, 48, remains in critical condition after the LNER rail employee heroically risked his life to save others from the attempts at murder on the Peterborough/Huntingdon train
news.sky.com/story/train-...
news.sky.com/story/train-...
"Multiple studies have... shown brain changes in women who have been repeatedly “choked” during sex, including markers for brain damage...."
"Strangulation is a serious form of violence, often used in domestic abuse to control, silence, or terrify... there is no safe way to strangle."
"Strangulation is a serious form of violence, often used in domestic abuse to control, silence, or terrify... there is no safe way to strangle."
Pornography depicting strangulation to become criminal offence in the UK
Pornography depicting strangulation to become criminal offence in the UK
Legal requirement to be placed on tech platforms to prevent users from seeing such ‘choking’ material
Porn featuring strangulation or suffocation – often referred to as “choking” – is due to be criminalised, with a legal requirement placed on tech platforms to prevent UK users from seeing such material.
Possessing or publishing porn featuring choking will become a criminal offence under amendments to the Crime and Policing bill tabled in parliament on Monday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
"Multiple studies have... shown brain changes in women who have been repeatedly “choked” during sex, including markers for brain damage...."
"Strangulation is a serious form of violence, often used in domestic abuse to control, silence, or terrify... there is no safe way to strangle."
"Strangulation is a serious form of violence, often used in domestic abuse to control, silence, or terrify... there is no safe way to strangle."
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In the midst of political pessimism, this episode on friendship as transformative power gave me some hope.
What if friendship were understood not just on an individual, personal level, but as something political – a radical practice capable of upending hierarchies and producing revolutionary social change?
Laura C. Forster and Joel White reflect on radical friendship and everyday solidarities.
Laura C. Forster and Joel White reflect on radical friendship and everyday solidarities.
Friends in Common
How might we reassess friendship as a transformative, even revolutionary, political resource?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
In the midst of political pessimism, this episode on friendship as transformative power gave me some hope.
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US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say
Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.
www.latimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
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CBS News has reportedly disbanded its race and culture unit, which was formed in the wake of George Floyd's murder in 2020
NBC News eliminated its editorial teams for NBC Asian America, NBC BLK, NBC Latino and NBC OUT earlier this month
NBC News eliminated its editorial teams for NBC Asian America, NBC BLK, NBC Latino and NBC OUT earlier this month
CBS News Cuts ‘Evening News,’ ‘Mornings’ Streaming Shows in Newsroom-Wide Layoffs
The newsroom downsizing comes as Paramount Skydance lays off 1,000 employees throughout the newly merged company
www.thewrap.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:46 AM
CBS News has reportedly disbanded its race and culture unit, which was formed in the wake of George Floyd's murder in 2020
NBC News eliminated its editorial teams for NBC Asian America, NBC BLK, NBC Latino and NBC OUT earlier this month
NBC News eliminated its editorial teams for NBC Asian America, NBC BLK, NBC Latino and NBC OUT earlier this month
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Speaking next Tuesday in Cambridge on #earlymodern pain at the early science and medicine seminar series. talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...
talks.cam : Experiencing and alleviating pain in a settler colony: Jamestown, 1607–1610
talks.cam.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Speaking next Tuesday in Cambridge on #earlymodern pain at the early science and medicine seminar series. talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...
Looks like the National Historic Preservation Act may be on the chopping block, too
savingplaces.org/action-cente...
savingplaces.org/action-cente...
October 29, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Looks like the National Historic Preservation Act may be on the chopping block, too
savingplaces.org/action-cente...
savingplaces.org/action-cente...
“the White House is “preparing to appoint a new slate of members to the commission that are more aligned with President Trump’s America First Policies””
Destroying a truly beautiful city, just like everything else
Destroying a truly beautiful city, just like everything else
October 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
“the White House is “preparing to appoint a new slate of members to the commission that are more aligned with President Trump’s America First Policies””
Destroying a truly beautiful city, just like everything else
Destroying a truly beautiful city, just like everything else
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Nothing to see here? Well, this is a slow moving 🧵 for #skystorians and others about #eyeglasses of the past, about how to read in the past, where to buy eyeglasses, and how to do with them in general. The hashtag is #HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast
Let's roll.
Let's roll.
October 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Nothing to see here? Well, this is a slow moving 🧵 for #skystorians and others about #eyeglasses of the past, about how to read in the past, where to buy eyeglasses, and how to do with them in general. The hashtag is #HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast
Let's roll.
Let's roll.