Su Lin Lewis
@sulinlewis.bsky.social
Professor of Global and Asian History at the University of Bristol. Previously: Cosmopolitan port-cities/ These days: Third World Solidarity and Socialist Internationalism She/her
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Su Lin Lewis
@sulinlewis.bsky.social
· Oct 8
Socialism, Internationalism, and Development in the Third World
In the wake of colonial and racial exploitation, political leaders, technocrats, activists, and workers across the Third World turned to socialism to offer a ne…
www.bloomsbury.com
Very proud that our new volume on Development, Socialism, and Internationalism is now out on Open Access! Many thanks to my wonderful co-editor Nana Osei-Opare and all our contributors, & @jessicareinisch.bsky.social & David Brydan for welcoming us in their series www.bloomsbury.com/us/socialism...
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(1/2) The second workshop in the AHRC-funded Rethinking Internationalisms series titled 'New Methods for New Histories' will take place via zoom on 9-10 July – reflective panels followed by an open discussion. Audience-participants can sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...
New Methods for New Histories (Online)
Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
(1/2) The second workshop in the AHRC-funded Rethinking Internationalisms series titled 'New Methods for New Histories' will take place via zoom on 9-10 July – reflective panels followed by an open discussion. Audience-participants can sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...
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We stand in solidarity with trans women and the trans community and we will always be a space that recognises the importance of trans history.
Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8
Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8
April 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
We stand in solidarity with trans women and the trans community and we will always be a space that recognises the importance of trans history.
Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8
Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8
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@sulinlewis.bsky.social reposted her 2016 essay in Afro-Asian Visions to mark the 70th anniversary of #BandungConference (18 April 2025): tinyurl.com/2t2dkuej. Her final paragraph on reframing the present & future remains inspiring & worthwhile. (1/3)
#connectingimaginaries
#transregionalstudies
#connectingimaginaries
#transregionalstudies
We had a really fun blog for a while about all things #afroasia with wonderful contributions, but to mark the 70th anniversary of the #Bandung conference here's my first post: medium.com/afro-asian-v... 1/2
The Afro-Asian Moment
Before I became a professional historian, I was lucky enough to visit Bandung — a cool, green city in the hills of Java, and a welcome…
medium.com
April 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM
@sulinlewis.bsky.social reposted her 2016 essay in Afro-Asian Visions to mark the 70th anniversary of #BandungConference (18 April 2025): tinyurl.com/2t2dkuej. Her final paragraph on reframing the present & future remains inspiring & worthwhile. (1/3)
#connectingimaginaries
#transregionalstudies
#connectingimaginaries
#transregionalstudies
We had a really fun blog for a while about all things #afroasia with wonderful contributions, but to mark the 70th anniversary of the #Bandung conference here's my first post: medium.com/afro-asian-v... 1/2
The Afro-Asian Moment
Before I became a professional historian, I was lucky enough to visit Bandung — a cool, green city in the hills of Java, and a welcome…
medium.com
April 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM
We had a really fun blog for a while about all things #afroasia with wonderful contributions, but to mark the 70th anniversary of the #Bandung conference here's my first post: medium.com/afro-asian-v... 1/2
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Yesterday’s #esshc2025 panel was such a joy. Talking about anticolonial mobilisation with the global history gang @riakapoor.bsky.social @sulinlewis.bsky.social and @emleake.bsky.social. Thanks to Anne-Isabell Richard for chairing and the audience for great engagement. Feeling inspired!
March 29, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Yesterday’s #esshc2025 panel was such a joy. Talking about anticolonial mobilisation with the global history gang @riakapoor.bsky.social @sulinlewis.bsky.social and @emleake.bsky.social. Thanks to Anne-Isabell Richard for chairing and the audience for great engagement. Feeling inspired!
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The March issue includes the AHR’s first playlist. Jason Gibbs, a leading expert on late 20th Vietnamese popular music, has created a playlist of 12 songs that introduce listeners to Vietnamese soundscapes of the wartime era. 🗃️
Soundscapes of the Vietnam War
As part of a forum on the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, Jason Gibbs to create a playlist of songs from both North and South Vietnam.
www.historians.org
March 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The March issue includes the AHR’s first playlist. Jason Gibbs, a leading expert on late 20th Vietnamese popular music, has created a playlist of 12 songs that introduce listeners to Vietnamese soundscapes of the wartime era. 🗃️
Very important article by Nyi Nyi Kyaw on the shrinking opportunities for young people in #myanmar with forced conscription of both men and women into the military & cancellation of USAID scholarships to study at Asian universities theconversation.com/myanmars-mil...
Myanmar’s military rule is crippling hope for young people like never before
Over the past year, Myanmar’s military junta has been enforcing mandatory conscription, targeting men and women of working age.
theconversation.com
March 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Very important article by Nyi Nyi Kyaw on the shrinking opportunities for young people in #myanmar with forced conscription of both men and women into the military & cancellation of USAID scholarships to study at Asian universities theconversation.com/myanmars-mil...
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Later in March we've publication of 'Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle', by Rachel E. Johnson bit.ly/4hMppbB
Rachel's is the latest book in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' series: available free #OpenAccess and p/back print on Thursday 20th #Skystorians
Rachel's is the latest book in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' series: available free #OpenAccess and p/back print on Thursday 20th #Skystorians
March 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Later in March we've publication of 'Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle', by Rachel E. Johnson bit.ly/4hMppbB
Rachel's is the latest book in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' series: available free #OpenAccess and p/back print on Thursday 20th #Skystorians
Rachel's is the latest book in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' series: available free #OpenAccess and p/back print on Thursday 20th #Skystorians
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Applications for the MA Black Humanities are open @brisblackhums.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social.
You can find more information here: www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Come join us!
Please share widely!
You can find more information here: www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Come join us!
Please share widely!
MA Black Humanities | Study at Bristol | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
February 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Applications for the MA Black Humanities are open @brisblackhums.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social.
You can find more information here: www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Come join us!
Please share widely!
You can find more information here: www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Come join us!
Please share widely!
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Are you in London this afternoon? Make sure to attend this event at birkbeck 2-4pm to launch this incredible new handbook on histories of socialism and development with @sulinlewis.bsky.social @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social and @jessicareinisch.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 online link available too, just lmk!
Another reminder - and correction - that this is tomorrow (TUESDAY not Thursday). Really looking forward to it! If anyone would like to join online, please let @jessicareinisch.bsky.social know, & thanks again to Jessica and Birkbeck's Centre for the Study of Internationalism for hosting us!
Next Thursday (2-4) we'll be launching Development, Socialism, and Internationalism in the Third World (edited with @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social) with a brilliant group of discussants (below)- many thanks @jessicareinisch.bsky.social for hosting us at Birkbeck!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/socialism...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/socialism...
February 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Are you in London this afternoon? Make sure to attend this event at birkbeck 2-4pm to launch this incredible new handbook on histories of socialism and development with @sulinlewis.bsky.social @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social and @jessicareinisch.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 online link available too, just lmk!
Another reminder - and correction - that this is tomorrow (TUESDAY not Thursday). Really looking forward to it! If anyone would like to join online, please let @jessicareinisch.bsky.social know, & thanks again to Jessica and Birkbeck's Centre for the Study of Internationalism for hosting us!
Next Thursday (2-4) we'll be launching Development, Socialism, and Internationalism in the Third World (edited with @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social) with a brilliant group of discussants (below)- many thanks @jessicareinisch.bsky.social for hosting us at Birkbeck!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/socialism...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/socialism...
February 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Another reminder - and correction - that this is tomorrow (TUESDAY not Thursday). Really looking forward to it! If anyone would like to join online, please let @jessicareinisch.bsky.social know, & thanks again to Jessica and Birkbeck's Centre for the Study of Internationalism for hosting us!
Obviously I can't read a calendar 😊 the launch is next TUESDAY, Feb 11.
Next Thursday (2-4) we'll be launching Development, Socialism, and Internationalism in the Third World (edited with @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social) with a brilliant group of discussants (below)- many thanks @jessicareinisch.bsky.social for hosting us at Birkbeck!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/socialism...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/socialism...
February 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Obviously I can't read a calendar 😊 the launch is next TUESDAY, Feb 11.
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If you haven't read it, I'd strongly recommend Amy Kaplan's book OUR AMERICAN ISRAEL on the development of the special relationship between Israel and the U.S. since 1948 - Amy was a fearless and brilliant scholar, and this book is necessary reading right now
February 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If you haven't read it, I'd strongly recommend Amy Kaplan's book OUR AMERICAN ISRAEL on the development of the special relationship between Israel and the U.S. since 1948 - Amy was a fearless and brilliant scholar, and this book is necessary reading right now
Next Thursday (2-4) we'll be launching Development, Socialism, and Internationalism in the Third World (edited with @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social) with a brilliant group of discussants (below)- many thanks @jessicareinisch.bsky.social for hosting us at Birkbeck!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/socialism...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/socialism...
February 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Next Thursday (2-4) we'll be launching Development, Socialism, and Internationalism in the Third World (edited with @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social) with a brilliant group of discussants (below)- many thanks @jessicareinisch.bsky.social for hosting us at Birkbeck!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/socialism...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/socialism...
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The "anniversary" of the coup always brings alot of attention to the situation in Myanmar which is good but alot of people / media / countries who pop up don't really comment the rest of the year. More sustained attention & support is needed.
Tis the reasons I built the #whatshappeninginmyanar feed
Tis the reasons I built the #whatshappeninginmyanar feed
February 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The "anniversary" of the coup always brings alot of attention to the situation in Myanmar which is good but alot of people / media / countries who pop up don't really comment the rest of the year. More sustained attention & support is needed.
Tis the reasons I built the #whatshappeninginmyanar feed
Tis the reasons I built the #whatshappeninginmyanar feed
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I was interviewed for this ... www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
Trump claims there's only '2 genders.' Historians say that's never been true | CBC News
The Trump administration's 'two gender' policy is sparking fear and confusion among trans and non-binary people. The executive order claims it's a return to "biological facts," but experts say it igno...
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February 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I was interviewed for this ... www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
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New article! Open access - ‘Indonesian Tourism Workers on Volcanoes and Geotourism's Colonial Origins: Making a Subaltern History Visible’
#indonesia #photography #volcanoes #labourhistory #colonialism #tourism 🇮🇩📷🌋
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#indonesia #photography #volcanoes #labourhistory #colonialism #tourism 🇮🇩📷🌋
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
New article! Open access - ‘Indonesian Tourism Workers on Volcanoes and Geotourism's Colonial Origins: Making a Subaltern History Visible’
#indonesia #photography #volcanoes #labourhistory #colonialism #tourism 🇮🇩📷🌋
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#indonesia #photography #volcanoes #labourhistory #colonialism #tourism 🇮🇩📷🌋
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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2. 11 February, 2-4pm: book launch & discussion panel for @sulinlewis.bsky.social's Socialism, Internationalism and Development in the Third World - with @riakapoor.bsky.social, @tanyaharmer.bsky.social, Leslie James (QMUL) and @jamesamark.bsky.social (Birkbeck Central Building, Malet St, Room 209)
January 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
2. 11 February, 2-4pm: book launch & discussion panel for @sulinlewis.bsky.social's Socialism, Internationalism and Development in the Third World - with @riakapoor.bsky.social, @tanyaharmer.bsky.social, Leslie James (QMUL) and @jamesamark.bsky.social (Birkbeck Central Building, Malet St, Room 209)
The ❤️ wants what it wants - I asked my co-hosts at Pusat Sejarah Rakyat (the People's History Centre) in Malaysia what I should speak about while here, so it's round 12 of Bandung, with responses from incredible activists on how transnational activism changed in the 70s/80s and beyond...
January 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The ❤️ wants what it wants - I asked my co-hosts at Pusat Sejarah Rakyat (the People's History Centre) in Malaysia what I should speak about while here, so it's round 12 of Bandung, with responses from incredible activists on how transnational activism changed in the 70s/80s and beyond...
Loved seeing this pic of @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social with our book cover at the @historians.org conference - and have major fomo for missing his panel with @emleake.bsky.social @lydiawalker.bsky.social @emmakluge.bsky.social and @erezmanela.bsky.social
January 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Loved seeing this pic of @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social with our book cover at the @historians.org conference - and have major fomo for missing his panel with @emleake.bsky.social @lydiawalker.bsky.social @emmakluge.bsky.social and @erezmanela.bsky.social
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The #FactsFirstPH coalition says fact-checking initiatives need to be strengthened, not scrapped, pointing out the role of disinformation in past Philippine elections
Zuckerberg vilifies fact-checkers at cost of democracy — Philippine fact-checking coalition
The #FactsFirstPH coalition says fact-checking initiatives need to be strengthened, not scrapped, pointing out the role of disinformation in past Philippine elections
www.rappler.com
January 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The #FactsFirstPH coalition says fact-checking initiatives need to be strengthened, not scrapped, pointing out the role of disinformation in past Philippine elections
Very excited to be co-editing this new Bloomsbury handbook on Histories of Internationalism with @jessicareinisch.bsky.social and David Brydan. To allow for the widest possible regional and thematic perspectives we've opened a call for contributions!
Call for proposals for a new Handbook of the Histories of Internationalism, deadline 1 March 2025. Looking forward to your proposals!
More info here:
csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/call-fo...
More info here:
csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/call-fo...
Call for Proposals: Bloomsbury Handbook of the Histories of Internationalism — Centre for the Study of Internationalism
We invite contributions to a new handbook on the Histories of Internationalism, to be published by Bloomsbury.
csi.bbk.ac.uk
January 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Very excited to be co-editing this new Bloomsbury handbook on Histories of Internationalism with @jessicareinisch.bsky.social and David Brydan. To allow for the widest possible regional and thematic perspectives we've opened a call for contributions!