In conversation with CSSH editors past (Andrew Shryock) and present (Jatin Dua), Matei Candea makes a strong case for experimentation, for comparison’s scalar potential, and for the need to build larger, collectivist frames that will connect arguments across time and space.
Category: In Dialogue
A good CSSH essay generates ample commentary, both before publication (in the form of peer review) and after (in patterns of citation and classroom use). In this forum, we invite authors to talk about the work they have placed in CSSH, how intellectual trends associated with the journal are changing, and new analytical problems and approaches that should receive more attention than they currently do.
From “Mad Slaves” to the Mind Politic: A Conversation with Nana Osei Quarshie, Winner of the 2024 Goody Award.
CSSH interviews 2024 Goody Award winner Nana Osei Quarshie.
New Secular Formations. A Conversation with Isaac Friesen, Aymeric Xu, Usmon Boron, and Gregory Starrett
We asked four CSSH authors what has changed in the study of secularism over the last decade or so, and what remains the same.
Meticulous Sleuthing. A conversation with Koh Choon Hwee.
Koh Choon Hwee discusses her Goody Award-winning essay, “The Mystery of the Missing Horses: How to Uncover an Ottoman Shadow Economy,” with CSSH.
The Hindu/Han Letters: Audrey Truschke and Gina Anne Tam discuss the prospects for new India-China comparisons
Audrey Truschke and Gina Anne Tam exchange letters comparing their scholarship on “Hindu” and “Han,” subjects of their recent CSSH essays.
Going Underground with Matthew Shutzer, Winner of the 2022 Goody Award
CSSH interviews author Matthew Shutzer about his 2022 Goody Award winning article, “Subterranean Properties: India’s Political Ecology of Coal, 1870-1975.”
Parallel Pilgrimage: Reflections on the Space/Time of Shrines, with Bruce Grant, A. Azfar Moin, Catherine Wanner, Wei-ping Lin, Ismail Fajrie Alatas, and Michael Christopher Low
CSSH authors Bruce Grant, A. Azfar Moin, Catherine Wanner, Wei-ping Lin, Ismail Fajrie Alatas, and Michael Christopher Low put into conversation their work on pilgrimage, shrines, and sovereignty.
Is it OK to Laugh? Pooyan Tamimi Arab, Konstantinos Kalantzis, and Rihan Yeh discuss the analytical power of jokes
CSSH asks Pooyan Tamimi Arab, Konstantinos Kalantzis, and Rihan Yeh: What is humor doing for you, and what are you doing with it?
Fascist Afterlives: Thoughts on Dictators, Dead Bodies, and Bodies Politic
CSSH discusses the death and resurrection of fascist leaders in Spain and Italy with Francisco Ferrándiz, Paolo Heywood, and Nitzan Shoshan.
The Work of Retrieval
CSSH author Krishan Kumar tells us why returning to earlier generations of scholars is a worthwhile endeavor and which forgotten classics have shaped his intellectual development.