New review: @milesogborn.bsky.social on 'Tropical Leviathan: Slavery, Society, and Security in Jamaica, 1770–1840', by Aaron Graham. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.003
Miles Ogborn
@milesogborn.bsky.social
Historical geographer at Queen Mary University of London | writes books | reads books | working on working on the 1831-2 Uprising in Jamaica | picture from Keith Piper (2007) Lost Vitrines.
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Remember to register for next week's online-only seminar: a panel discussion of 'Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination,' by Chris Philo. Featuring @milesogborn.bsky.social, @stuartelden.bsky.social, and @feli-k.bsky.social. Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/a-pan...
![27 May 2025, 5:30 p.m. BST
[online only via Zoom]
A panel discussion of Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination (2025), by Chris Philo (University of Glasgow), involving:
Stuart Elden (University of Warwick)
Felicitas Kübler (Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oxvnhf4dxolhngks654sysna/bafkreidfgf6vasx3pyf25e6ac5k3tovjdteifwa5k7m5tplz7ed7ro74rq)
17.15 on 28 January 2025: Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton), ‘In Search of Francis Williams’ Queen Mary University of London, Mile End, Francis Bancroft Building Room 1.01.1. *IN-PERSON ONLY* Please read www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... or view (www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZEA... before the seminar.
Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
lrb.co.uk
17.15 on 28 January 2025: Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton), ‘In Search of Francis Williams’ Queen Mary University of London, Mile End, Francis Bancroft Building Room 1.01.1. *IN-PERSON ONLY* Please read www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... or view (www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZEA... before the seminar.
Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
lrb.co.uk
The Edward Long Reading Group has been writing.
Edward Long and Other Animals: The Orangutan and Race-Making in the Late Eighteenth Century | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Edward Long and Other Animals: The Orangutan and Race-Making in the Late Eighteenth Century
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New review article! 'Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism': A roundtable with @milesogborn.bsky.social, Herman L. Bennett, Kennetta Hammond Perry, Bill Schwarz and Catherine Hall. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh... @lghgseminar.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
Welcome to Blue Sky to Queen Mary's Centre for Modern British Studies. First conference coming in May next year... @qmcbs.bsky.social
Very pleased to have been part of this roundtable on Catherine Hall’s Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (CUP, 2024) With Herman L. Bennett, Kennetta Hammond Perry, Bill Schwarz and Catherine Hall herself www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Lucky Valley: A roundtable
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Got to love A Level Sociology. Althusserian ‘Odd one out’, and Ideological State Apparatus is so familiar it’s an abbreviation.
Very pleased that this is now published open access: “Fire in Jamaica, 1831-32” in Journal of British Studies doi.org/10.1017/jbr.... The politics of fire and habitation in the largest uprising in the British Caribbean colonies.
We are delighted to share details of our summer seminar programme; please save the date(s): mailchi.mp/588bf032e477...
Happy ALCS Distribution Day to all who celebrate. 🎉 www.alcs.co.uk/about-alcs/
Looking for some history the Tuesday before American Thanksgiving? (Who wouldn’t be?) Register to attend; registration is free but closes 24 hours before the talk! www.history.ac.uk/events/slave...
Going to see Calexico tonight. Thank you to @ericlaurier.bsky.social for introducing us to Feast of Wire twenty years ago! #alt-mariachi
On Zoom too: QMCECS Seminar 1 November 17.15 Ryan Hanley (Exeter) Aged Mother, "Obeah Witch", Higgler Woman, Smuggler's Agent: Talkee Amy and her Grandson at the Margins of Eighteenth-Century Kingston, QMUL Mile End Campus Graduate Centre GC222 Zoom at qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Queen Mary Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies 5.15pm Wed 1st Nov 2023, GC222 Graduate Centre, Mile End @qmcecs Ryan Hanley (Exeter): 'Aged Mother, “Obeah Witch”, Higgler Woman, Smuggler’s Agent: Talkee Amy and her Grandson at the Margins of Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica'