Manan Ahmed
@sepoy.bsky.social
historian, walker. Author, *A Book of Conquest*, *The Loss of Hindustan*, and, most recently, *Disrupted City*
https://history.columbia.edu/person/manan-ahmed/
https://history.columbia.edu/person/manan-ahmed/
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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When I think of all the incredibly talented, hardworking, and decent people I know who have had to leave academia for reasons they have no control over, and see shite like this, it does lean me towards the belief that huge chunks of academia are irredeemable.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
When I think of all the incredibly talented, hardworking, and decent people I know who have had to leave academia for reasons they have no control over, and see shite like this, it does lean me towards the belief that huge chunks of academia are irredeemable.
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This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
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my mom is part of an amazing senior group in Minneapolis, which helps low-income ppl access vaccines, food, & transport through SEWA, an org that supports people facing gender violence, food and housing insecurity. We are buying everyone a thanksgiving meal!
Donate if you can:
www.sewa-aifw.org
Donate if you can:
www.sewa-aifw.org
South Asian | SEWA-AIFW | Minneapolis
This is the homepage for SEWA-AIFW, a South Asian nonprofit based in Minneapolis, MN.
www.sewa-aifw.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM
my mom is part of an amazing senior group in Minneapolis, which helps low-income ppl access vaccines, food, & transport through SEWA, an org that supports people facing gender violence, food and housing insecurity. We are buying everyone a thanksgiving meal!
Donate if you can:
www.sewa-aifw.org
Donate if you can:
www.sewa-aifw.org
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"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
lithub.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
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Was feeling blue thinking about Alice so I visited the neighborhood house of worship to pray, which just happens to be the National Mosque of Uganda, the largest mosque in Eastern Africa
November 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Was feeling blue thinking about Alice so I visited the neighborhood house of worship to pray, which just happens to be the National Mosque of Uganda, the largest mosque in Eastern Africa
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This is so on the nose you can scarcely believe it even though it's the most believable thing in India. The regime essentially celebrating 10 years of normalising lynching & saffron nazism in India by dismissing the first lynching case under the current government.
UP govt moves to withdraw all charges against accused in Akhlaq lynching: Report
A decade after Mohammad Akhlaq was lynched to death in his hometown in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri, the state government has moved to drop charges against all Mob Lynching, Mohammed Akhlaq, Uttar Pradesh A ...
maktoobmedia.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
This is so on the nose you can scarcely believe it even though it's the most believable thing in India. The regime essentially celebrating 10 years of normalising lynching & saffron nazism in India by dismissing the first lynching case under the current government.
Congratulations to my esteemed colleague!
HSS's most prestigious award is the Sarton Medal, which honors an outstanding historian of science for a lifetime of scholarly achievement
This year's winner is Pamela Smith, who acknowledges the people who supported her throughout her career & collaborators on the Making & Knowing Project #HSS2025
This year's winner is Pamela Smith, who acknowledges the people who supported her throughout her career & collaborators on the Making & Knowing Project #HSS2025
November 16, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Congratulations to my esteemed colleague!
What a great loss. inna lillahi wa inallah-e-raji'oon. may his memory be a guiding light.
Saddened to learn about the passing of Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid, a pillar of the African-American Muslim community in Harlem and for Muslims across NYC. My heartfelt condolences go out to his family and the community during this difficult time. Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji’un.
November 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
What a great loss. inna lillahi wa inallah-e-raji'oon. may his memory be a guiding light.
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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
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MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
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The Palestine Solidarity Committee student group at Columbia says their event celebrating the olive harvest in Palestine, which was carefully planned and cleared through event review processes, was cancelled at the last minute by senior university leadership. www.instagram.com/p/DRBB6BVkX7...
Columbia Palestine Solidarity Coalition (CPSC) on Instagram: "This decision came directly from Columbia’s senior administration, meaning Claire Shipman and her counsel of advisors including Cass Hollo...
992 likes, 17 comments - columbia.psc on November 13, 2025: "This decision came directly from Columbia’s senior administration, meaning Claire Shipman and her counsel of advisors including Cass Hollow...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
The Palestine Solidarity Committee student group at Columbia says their event celebrating the olive harvest in Palestine, which was carefully planned and cleared through event review processes, was cancelled at the last minute by senior university leadership. www.instagram.com/p/DRBB6BVkX7...
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"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current H...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
11/13 @ 6:30pm at IFA, NYU: *Love, Desire, and Death: Charms from Islamicate Southeast Asia* with Teren Sevea, Harvard University & Faizah Zakaria, National University of Singapore. Come thru!
Public Programming at the Institute | South-East Asian Connections: Art, History, and Archipelagos
ifa.nyu.edu
November 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
11/13 @ 6:30pm at IFA, NYU: *Love, Desire, and Death: Charms from Islamicate Southeast Asia* with Teren Sevea, Harvard University & Faizah Zakaria, National University of Singapore. Come thru!
Some zingers but more insights in this Granta interview of historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam 🗃️
Indian Temptations
‘I understand that there is a temptation to bring everything in India, whether it’s literature, music or art, around to its relationship to nationalism. But as my friends in the art world have always ...
granta.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Some zingers but more insights in this Granta interview of historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam 🗃️
A bit of history from @esmat.bsky.social on Columbia's legacy of hosting colonial administrators on campus.
Colonial and Anti-Colonial Ideas at Columbia University (1970)
David Farhi and Edward Said. From The Spectator . Recently I had the pleasure of sharing my work and meeting people at an exciting event on...
pastandfuturepresents.blogspot.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
A bit of history from @esmat.bsky.social on Columbia's legacy of hosting colonial administrators on campus.
Very sad to hear about the passing of Urdu scholar and feminist Dr. Zehra. May she rest in power and her memory always guide us.
Renowned educationist Arfa Sayeda Zehra passes away in Lahore at 83
President expresses grief over death, calls it "irreparable loss" for Pakistan's academic and literary circles.
www.dawn.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Very sad to hear about the passing of Urdu scholar and feminist Dr. Zehra. May she rest in power and her memory always guide us.
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New in PN: @donmoyn.bsky.social on "Purge, Merge, and Surge"
“The visible presence of overwhelming numbers of troops in the streets has a psychological component. You display dominance & make examples of people who resist — except instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities.”
“The visible presence of overwhelming numbers of troops in the streets has a psychological component. You display dominance & make examples of people who resist — except instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities.”
Don Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge"
"Instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities."
www.publicnotice.co
November 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
New in PN: @donmoyn.bsky.social on "Purge, Merge, and Surge"
“The visible presence of overwhelming numbers of troops in the streets has a psychological component. You display dominance & make examples of people who resist — except instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities.”
“The visible presence of overwhelming numbers of troops in the streets has a psychological component. You display dominance & make examples of people who resist — except instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities.”
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This piece goes hard.
Not one work in the exhibition “Global Fascisms” at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt acknowledges the world burning just beyond the door. In Jara Nassar’s words, “What is the role of art when the world is on fire?”
The Irony of a Fascism Exhibition in Germany
Once a custodian of critical culture, Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt has become a model of capitulation to state control.
hyperallergic.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This piece goes hard.
📣 11/11 @ 6pm: Book panel for Subah Dayal’s *Between Household and State: The Mughal Frontier and the Politics of Circulation in Peninsular India*. Come thru!
buff.ly/pscavXS
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November 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
📣 11/11 @ 6pm: Book panel for Subah Dayal’s *Between Household and State: The Mughal Frontier and the Politics of Circulation in Peninsular India*. Come thru!
buff.ly/pscavXS
buff.ly/pscavXS
Extremely lucky to have seen in person, at The MET, Zarina's *Letters from Home* series. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
November 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Extremely lucky to have seen in person, at The MET, Zarina's *Letters from Home* series. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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We are hiring two editorial assistants at Columbia UP! One for the philosophy/religion/theory editor & @philipleventhal.bsky.social (lit/film), & one for the sociology/Black studies & the editorial director/editor for lit in translation/Asian studies. Apply for both at the link.
Editorial Assistant - Other NYC Locations, New York, United States
Job Type: Support Staff - Non-Union
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Salary Range: $46,400.00-$46,400.00
The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, includi...
opportunities.columbia.edu
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We are hiring two editorial assistants at Columbia UP! One for the philosophy/religion/theory editor & @philipleventhal.bsky.social (lit/film), & one for the sociology/Black studies & the editorial director/editor for lit in translation/Asian studies. Apply for both at the link.