Sam Holly-Kline, Alan Covey, and Emilio Ramírez discuss common points of interest, and departures, in their essays on racialization and work.
Category: Under the Rubric
CSSH has a longstanding tradition of juxtaposing essays for comparative effect. Our readers enjoy this ritual, but we often wonder what our authors think of it. Under the Rubric gives CSSH authors a chance to respond directly to each other’s work, drawing additional insight and inspiration from the arguments they’ve made.
Performative Sovereignty: a conversation with Sam Wilby and Rao Mohsin Ali Noor about pyropolitics, animal sacrifice, and cosmic alignments across Indian and Ottoman polities
Sam Wilby and Rao Mohsin Ali Noor discuss the connections across their work on spectacle and displays of sovereignty in India and Ottoman Istanbul.
The Church Militant and Illiberal: Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, Sofía Rodríguez-López, Piotr H. Kosicki, and Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska discuss transnational Catholic movements
Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, Sofía Rodríguez-López, Piotr H. Kosicki, and Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska discuss the alignments and distinctions in their essays on Catholic social movements.
Letters for the immortal dead
Foroogh Farhang, Marlene Schäfers, Maria Kastrinou, Lucie Ryzova, and Stephanie Love discuss intersections of life and death.
Along the Imperial Spectrum, with Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-hsiu Alice Lin, and Victoria Fomina
“Center and periphery are never simple facts of imperial geography:” CSSH authors Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Victoria Fomina discuss what can be learned from reading their papers together.
Submergent histories: Mandana Limbert, Jan Jansen, and Jeffrey Kahn discuss mobility, jurisdiction, containers, and other things that come by sea
A conversation about the movement of people and things across bodies of water.
After Life: Jon Bialecki and Jeanne Kormina discuss Mormon transhumanism, the remains of Tsar Nicholas II, and the multiple temporalities of death
A CSSH conversation between Jon Bialecki and Jeanne Kormina about life after death and death after life.
Anticipatory Expertise: Mary Neuburger, Adam Hanzel, and Omri Elisha discuss prophets, astrologers, and “hybrid architectures of truth”
Neuburger, Hanzel, and Elisha find new potential for their arguments in an expanded space of comparison.
In and out of Persian, with Sumit Guha, Nile Green, Michael Fisher, Farina Mir, and Christine Philliou
Four CSSH authors read and respond to Sumit Guha’s “Empires, Languages, and Scripts in the Perso-Indian World.”
“An Immense Enlargement of Life”
Courtney Handman and Divya Cherian discuss Occult Knowledge, AI, Secret Languages, Interoperability … and Owls