...Vinay Lal 2005 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2005 REFLECTIONS Much Ado about Something: The New Malaise of World History Vinay Lal World history has lately come into vogue. The conference circuit in world history has witnessed rapid growth since the mid...

...Quincy T. Mills 2005 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2005 REFLECTIONS “I’ve Got Something to Say”: The Public Square, Public Discourse, and the Barbershop Quincy T. Mills We have...

...—I demonstrate that the instrumental and preservationist gazes were not so distinct as they are now. The conventions of landscape were utilized to naturalize capitalist domination over nature by presenting the natural world as something external to human society that could be controlled, owned...

... Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), attempted something new: to move beyond professional genealogies and traditions in order to try and critically apprehend the self-proclaimed “new” science of data, which has strong ties to what some might call “scientific entrepreneurship” and which, as part of...

... is seen in a lot of places, by a lot of people, as something wider, not as specific as before. Q: Your parents were both intellectuals and politically active. Did you inherit your political consciousness and your intellectual interests from them? Ginzburg: I CCF- from an...

... even whether that reconciliation would be desirable. I do think that as historians we can have something to offer outside a narrow profes- sional audience. That something is not simply "relevance" or histories of great figures of the past. It is, rather, a way of posing questions and...

.... Above all it was personal as well as political, something rock music has expressed little of since the early seventies. Keep you doped with religion and sex and tv And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see A...

... celebrity. Celebrity is usually defined by starting from fame and subtracting something: fame-minus-merit, or fame-minus- power. The sparest of these definitions by deficiency is Daniel Boorstin’s: being known for being known. Whatever its other deficiencies, however, celebrity cannot be defined...

... activists an object of study, a method of analysis, as well as a living art form — something to be experienced, practiced, enacted. Since the 1980s the terms performance, performative, and performativity have been used in vari- ous academic departments — from speech and communication, theater, art...

.... "Talent like that simply isn't available these days." NOT AVAILABLE? OR YOU HAVEN'T FOUND IT? Think again. Remember that last get-together you attended for top educational executives? Didn't the one with the new $300 alligator shoes mention something about "fantastic...

...” as the physiological body and challenge the naturalness and pri- macy of heterosexuality. They likewise urge students to consider sexuality not just as something pertaining to individual identities or practices, but as a set of dynam- ics that structure political relationships more broadly...

.... Moreover, the shrillness of the spectacle could not be explained sim- ply by the obvious opportunism of the hungry Henry Kissingers, the weepy Bob Doles, the jittery Bill Clintons, or the clueless Pete Wilsons, eager to be bathed in a friendly public spotlight. Something deeper and more...

... seem engaged in revolu- tionising themselves and things, in creating something entirely new, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously con- jure up the spirits of the past to their service and borrow from them names, battle slogans and costumes in order to...

..., Robert Elsasser set up a table soliciting support for his program to do something about the job crisis in the historical profession. In particular, Elsasser asked people to sign a petition to put Elsasser on an AHA committee so he can speak out about the employment crisis. At the conference he...

... Boston,” as she says, wants to write about that decade, should she write something different from a historical monograph, say a personal memoir, or even a personal account of her own feelings as she uncovered documents that bore out or clashed with her memories? I felt similar dilemmas while...

... listings of walking tours in an effort to attract people that ordinarily wouldn’t try something like this. Miller: Niegel, you have been on a path of more “traditional” theater directing, in traditional theatrical spaces. Most recently you were associate director to Bill T. Jones on the musical...

... historical and social dimensions. These are some of the areas of radical history activity. I think it might also be important to say something about the background im- pulses to this work, that might lead you to make either comparisons or contrasts with your situation in America. There has...

... milieu refuse to analyze publicly (or even to acknowledge) their in- volvement with the Party. As a result, the image of the Communist movement as a negative distortion of American radicalism- something best suppressed and forgotten-is reinforced. Mont- gomery’s account, offered from the...

..., especially those who did Marxist and working-class history. I had just read The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, which appeared in 1949, and it impressed me enormously. I asked him if I could do something on feminism. I remember that Labrousse laughed. He agreed that it was a very relevant and impor...

... something my last several books have engaged. In much the same way that heterosexist is really useful for thinking about homophobia, homonormative offers us the potential to see the violence that occurs when gays show unquestioning loyalty to many of the things that at this point are routinely...