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Q&A with Imaobong Umoren and Sumi Madhok on the International Studies Book Series
Imaobong Umoren (LSE International History) and Sumi Madhok (LSE Gender Studies) are in conversation with the LSE Review of Books on their role as editors of the International Studies Book Series. They discuss the series's aims, why transdisciplinary and transnational research matters, and books to look out for in 2025.
Read the interview here: Q&A with Imaobong Umoren and Sumi Madhok
Dr Sajjan M .Gohel publishes article in Foreigh Policy
In the power vacuum following the fall of Assad, groups fighting for dominance in Syria include a faction with a draconian approach to women's rights. Modern history is replete with examples of misogyny as the ideological cornerstone of oppressive regimes. In his article Dr. Sajjan M. Gohel argues that if Syria does not prioritize women’s rights the country's security and stability risks regressing further, which could have regional and global consequences. History is replete with examples where misogyny became the cornerstone of emerging draconian regimes and militant groups operating in ungoverned spaces.
Read the full article here: Without Women’s Rights, Syria Risks Failed-State Status
LSE Fellow in Early Modern International History
The Department of International History at LSE invites applications for an LSE Fellow in Early Modern International History, for the academic session commencing September 2025.
Expertise in the expertise Early Modern International History; Historical Methods and Historiography is essential as the Fellow will be required to primarily teach HY118 Faith, Power and Revolution: Europe and the Wider World, c.1500-c.1800, and HY120 Historical Approaches to the Modern World
Read the job description, person specfication and how to apply here: LSE Fellow in Early Modern International History
Dr Alex Mayhew speaks at the National Army Museum
On Friday 7 February, Dr Mayhew will be giving a public lecture at the National Army Museum. He will discuss the ways in which First World War soldiers navigated the crises that confronted them and crafted meaningful narratives about their service.
Sign up for the event here: Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness and Morale | National Army Museum
You can read more about this in Dr. Mayhew’s recent book 'Making Sense of the Great War'. It is due to be released in paperback in the coming months.
Link: Making Sense of the Great War
Dr David Motadel publishes an article in The Guardian
Dr Motadel's piece "Are we at the turning point in world history" has been published in The Guardian.
David writes how political leaders increasingly caution that we are facing a historical ‘inflection point’, but among historians the idea of turning points is contested.
Read the article HERE
Dr Ron Po speaks at the University of Cambridge
Dr Ron Po will be giving a talk at Cambridge this Thursday 30 January for the China Research Seminar Series.
The lecture, entitled “From Sea to Splendour: Shark Fin and the Rise of Marine Luxuries in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century China”, is open to all. Please feel free to attend if you're in the area and help spread the word.
More details on the event HERE
Dr Tanya Harmer's book "Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America" released in Spanish
Dr Tanya Harmer's biography of Beatriz Allende - the revolutionary doctor and daughter of Chile's socialist president, Salvador Allende - has been released in Spanish.
This is an important step in ensuring her work is more accessible to those in Latin America, as this biography sheds light on a major period in Chilean and wider Latin American history.
You can view the Spanish edition here and the English editon here.
Our Alumni Achieve Big Things!
Dana Denis-Smith, who completed her BSc in the Department between 1997 - 1999, has been awarded Officer of Order of the British Empire in the King's New Years Honours List. This was in recognition of her services to women in law.
Dana is the founder of The First 100 Years and the Next 100 Years campaigns and is CEO of outsourced legal services provider Obelisk Support.
Dr Qingfei Yin publishes new book, "State Building in Cold War Asia: Comrades and Competitors on the Sino-Vietnamese Border"
We are delighted to announce that Dr Qingfei Yin has recently published he new book!
Her work looks to depart from conventional studies of border hostility in inter-Asian relations, exploring how two revolutionary states – China and Vietnam – each pursued policies that echoed the other and collaborated in extending their authority to the borderlands from 1949 to 1975.
Link to the book HERE
The Friends of the Women's Library Prize for 2024
Congratulations to Sarah Engelman (one of our current Masters students) who has won the The Friends of the Women's Library Prize for 2024.
The Women’s Library is the oldest and largest library in Britain devoted to the history of women’s campaigning and activism.
She won this prize for her masters dissertation, "The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Question of Conscription and Conscientious Objection in Great Britain and the United States, 1915-1945".
Dr David Motadel co-edits new book
We are thrilled to announced the publication of UNCONQUERED STATES (Oxford University Press), co-edited by David Motadel. In the heyday of empire, most of the world was ruled, directly or indirectly, by the European powers. The book explores the ways in which non-European powers such as China, Ethiopia, Japan, the Ottoman Empire, Persia, and Siam managed to keep European imperialism at bay.
Join the book launches in Honolulu (Wednesday, 28 February 2025, 5pm, Imin Conference Center, University of Hawai'i) and London (LSE, tba) later this year.
Link to book HERE
Ryoya Mizuno publishes new work in the Historical Journal
One of our PhD students, Ryoya Mizuno, has published a new article in the Historical Journal (Cambridge University Press) titled "Reconsidering Arnold J. Toynbee’s World History in Mid-Twentieth-Century Japan".
Read the article HERE