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Ria Kapoor

@riakapoor.bsky.social

Historian @ QMUL Refugees, Migration, and Rights Author of Making Refugees in India

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Ria Kapoor@riakapoor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Consider applying! This is an incredibly rewarding role both because of the great and friendly team you work with, the ideas people share with you, and the editorial experience. Also fun!

History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · 2mo ago

📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!

History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · 3mo ago

What do frictions in the founding story of a missionary women's college in colonial India reveal about Indian women's struggles for education and internationalism? Sneha Krishnan unpacks the history of the Women's Christian College in Madras.

An Unreliable Archive of Internationalism

What do frictions in the founding story of a missionary women's college reveal about Indian women's struggles for education and internationalism? Sneha Krishnan unpacks the history of the Women's Christian College in colonial India.

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Lydia Walker@lydiawalker.bsky.social · 3mo ago

H-Diplo has released a roundtable for STATES-IN-WAITING- Many thanks to @emleake.bsky.social @riakapoor.bsky.social @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social @adenknaap.bsky.social, Saima Ashipala, + Bérénice Guyot-Réchard for their insightful engagement with the book!

H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum@h-diplo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-39 on Walker, States-in-Waiting On 14 August 2025, a range of student, church, religious, and other organizations representing the Naga community in India celebrated the 78th anniversary of the Naga state’s declaration of independence on 15 August 1947. The date passed…

Andrew WM Smith@smidbob.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I wrote up a blog for this @historyworkshop.org.uk series on internationalisms about how this sketch helped me understand grassroots internationalism. When a French sheep farmer & a Kanak autonomist met at a sheepfold described as a cathedral, handshakes said more than hello ##twitterstorians 🗃

History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · 3mo ago

How do interpersonal encounters shape grassroots internationalism? Andrew Smith on the Larzac struggle.

Ria Kapoor@riakapoor.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Check this out! The introduction to a series that will feature some truly brilliant pieces from @smidbob.bsky.social @carolienstolte.bsky.social @sulinlewis.bsky.social @snehakrishnan.bsky.social and more!

History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · 4mo ago

Today, we launch a new featured series called Rethinking Internationalisms. In this introductory article, Ria Kapoor, Jessica Reinisch, Margot Tudor and Daniel Laqua ask, how can marginalised stories of internationalism be recovered?

Su Lin Lewis@sulinlewis.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We have a zine! Over the past year, I've been working w/ Pusat Sejarah Rakyat and the International Institute of Social History to bring together organisations around Southeast Asia working on archiving and disseminating "people's histories" and the histories of social movements in the region. 1/4

Raphael Samuel History Centre@rshc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

History PhD students and postdocs: join us for ‘How to Publish Your Research: a workshop for Early Career Researchers’ with Profs Stephen Legg, Elisabeth Leake, Matthew Hilton & Erez Manela 18 March, Birkbeck, Bloomsbury More info here www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... @jessicareinisch.bsky.social

How to Publish Your Research: a workshop for Early Career Researchers

With Prof Stephen Legg, Prof Elisabeth Leake, Prof Matthew Hilton and Prof Erez Manela

bbk.ac.uk

Ria Kapoor@riakapoor.bsky.social · 6mo ago

AND IT HAS AN EPIC TITLE! But seriously, if you are keen on international/transnational histories outside of the usual halls of power and some cool methodological wizardry, @smidbob.bsky.social has you covered! Read!

Andrew WM Smith@smidbob.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Farmers refusing to be bought out? Fighting for the right to live and work the land? Choosing cultivation over destruction? Do I have the book for you! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175878/

Ria Kapoor@riakapoor.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join us for the 4th Rethinking Internationalisms conference, 19-20 March, the line up is brilliant. The @rshc.bsky.social memorial lecture will be delivered as part of the proceedings by Prof. Sandrine Kott (link in thread) and there will be an ECR event on 18 (1/3) www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Rethinking Internationalism conference

This conference presents exciting new research on the role and nature of internationalism and international organisations in modern history.

bbk.ac.uk

Ria Kapoor@riakapoor.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It bears constant repetition that expertise is nurtured slowly over a very long time. It doesn’t bounce back like a rubber band with every flex of a spreadsheet. Once it is gone, it can’t be rapidly rebuilt overnight or on demand. P.S. a lot of Research and innovation happens at unis.

Dr Dave Hitchcock@davehitchcock.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink. per this morning's education committee.