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New book release I Mimetic Lives

Oct. 12, 2021

Book cover: a partial view a female sculpture with a blue background.

New book release | Intimate States

Sept. 27, 2021

Leonard Barkan's new book "The Hungry Eye" featuring a still life painting of food including an artichoke, cherries, bread, and cheese on platters.

New book release | The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance

Sept. 21, 2021

New book release | How Literatures Begin: a Global History

Sept. 21, 2021

Three boys pose around a sewing machine while working at a tailoring shop in Madurai, 1920s.

How Colonial History Contributed to the Socio-Economic Marginalization of Indian Tailors

Sept. 11, 2021

Wendy Belcher (left) and (right) detail of an illustrated manuscript from the Täˀammərä Maryam.

Wendy Belcher awarded two major NEH grants

Aug. 25, 2021

Five men sitting on the ground carving wood columns and panels in a British-run workshop in Allahabad, c. 1903.

What the Colonial History of Indian Carpentry Tells Us About the State's Role in Nurturing Professions

Aug. 17, 2021

A book cover with a silhouette of a bird and bunny and black and white photographs of the author's family

New book release | Magical Habits

Aug. 11, 2021

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An Uyghur Poet's Account of the Xinjiang Crisis

July 21, 2021

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Society of Fellows welcomes 2021-24 Cotsen Fellows

July 1, 2021