@charusingh.bsky.social
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I'm very excited to share my new book's cover design: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... It is bloodstain-inspired because species-of-origin bloodstain testing is a big part of the story. Out on 15 April 2026 & Open Access as part of the Corpus Juris book series @cornellupress.bsky.social
Fear of the False by Mitra Sharafi | Paperback | Cornell University Press
Fear of the False uncovers colonial South Asia's critical role in the development of forensic science. Around 1900, the government of British India created a web of institutions for the scientific det...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
December 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I'm very excited to share my new book's cover design: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... It is bloodstain-inspired because species-of-origin bloodstain testing is a big part of the story. Out on 15 April 2026 & Open Access as part of the Corpus Juris book series @cornellupress.bsky.social
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The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
press.princeton.edu
December 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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The article I’m writing is about the rise of a commercial lithographic print culture in Pashto, but I also got to check out the oldest Pashto movable type printed book, a copy of the Bible produced by the the Serampore Missionaries in Bengal in 1818. UChicago holds one of the few extant copies.
December 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The article I’m writing is about the rise of a commercial lithographic print culture in Pashto, but I also got to check out the oldest Pashto movable type printed book, a copy of the Bible produced by the the Serampore Missionaries in Bengal in 1818. UChicago holds one of the few extant copies.
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The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
press.princeton.edu
September 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Just discovered that Julia Stephens' new book will be out soon! I've been looking forward to this since a UK train conversation with Julia years ago about jewelry in South Asian history: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... @juliasteph
Worldly Afterlives
The hidden histories of empire, told through the haunted afterlives of colonial migrations
press.princeton.edu
November 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Just discovered that Julia Stephens' new book will be out soon! I've been looking forward to this since a UK train conversation with Julia years ago about jewelry in South Asian history: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... @juliasteph
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The Focus issue I edited in Isis: "Is Deep History White?" is out. With contributions from Amy Way, Linda Andersson Burnett, Elise K. Burton, Emily Kern, and an Afterword by Alison Bashford
Isis Focus Issue: "Is Deep History White?"
Enormous thanks to our editor Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social for bringing this incredible volume together. Check it out!!! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/cur...
#intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory
#intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory
November 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The Focus issue I edited in Isis: "Is Deep History White?" is out. With contributions from Amy Way, Linda Andersson Burnett, Elise K. Burton, Emily Kern, and an Afterword by Alison Bashford
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A new Isis Focus Section asks a bold question: “Is deep history white?”The issue shows how ideas of deep time emerged through European geology, empire, and the dismissal of Indigenous temporal knowledge. Deep history has long carried the imprint of a distinctly white European, extractive worldview.
The Focus issue I edited in Isis: "Is Deep History White?" is out. With contributions from Amy Way, Linda Andersson Burnett, Elise K. Burton, Emily Kern, and an Afterword by Alison Bashford
Isis Focus Issue: "Is Deep History White?"
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
A new Isis Focus Section asks a bold question: “Is deep history white?”The issue shows how ideas of deep time emerged through European geology, empire, and the dismissal of Indigenous temporal knowledge. Deep history has long carried the imprint of a distinctly white European, extractive worldview.
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Launch of Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine at HoMSEA meeting, Yogyakarta, June 25. Book available open access at www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
Dr Sudirman Nasir, public health, Makassar, launched it with aplomb. With @hanspols.bsky.social & @ahlie.bsky.social & me
Dr Sudirman Nasir, public health, Makassar, launched it with aplomb. With @hanspols.bsky.social & @ahlie.bsky.social & me
June 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Launch of Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine at HoMSEA meeting, Yogyakarta, June 25. Book available open access at www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
Dr Sudirman Nasir, public health, Makassar, launched it with aplomb. With @hanspols.bsky.social & @ahlie.bsky.social & me
Dr Sudirman Nasir, public health, Makassar, launched it with aplomb. With @hanspols.bsky.social & @ahlie.bsky.social & me
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Very excited for this event at Cambridge HPS this Friday, co-organised with Mika Hyman, on cross-contextualisation (for more on c-c, see here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....)
June 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Very excited for this event at Cambridge HPS this Friday, co-organised with Mika Hyman, on cross-contextualisation (for more on c-c, see here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....)
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I’m thrilled to announce that from September I’ll be joining @warburginstitute.bsky.social as a Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow. It’s a position I’ve aspired to since 2019, when I studied Warburg for an MPhil essay. Can’t wait to meet such an exciting group of scholars!
May 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I’m thrilled to announce that from September I’ll be joining @warburginstitute.bsky.social as a Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow. It’s a position I’ve aspired to since 2019, when I studied Warburg for an MPhil essay. Can’t wait to meet such an exciting group of scholars!
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“If one is to evaluate both the achievements and the defects of twentieth-century academic moral philosophy, it needs to be understood both from within and from a standpoint that is at once external and radically critical.”
dailynous.com/2025/05/22/a...
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Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025) - Daily Nous
Alasdair MacIntyre, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and Duke University, well-known for his work in moral and political philosophy, has died. Professor MacIntyre wrote...
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May 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
“If one is to evaluate both the achievements and the defects of twentieth-century academic moral philosophy, it needs to be understood both from within and from a standpoint that is at once external and radically critical.”
dailynous.com/2025/05/22/a...
dailynous.com/2025/05/22/a...
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For those in Cambridge and environs, announcement of 29th Annual Hans Rausing Lecture at the Dept of History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, June 5, 3:30 pm. #histsci #histech #sts
www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
May 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
For those in Cambridge and environs, announcement of 29th Annual Hans Rausing Lecture at the Dept of History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, June 5, 3:30 pm. #histsci #histech #sts
www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Yesterday Prof. Frank Rövekamp (Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences) gave an inspiring and lively talk on Shogi, the Japanese cousin of Western chess, in the ASTRA colloquium series "The Ludic Languages of Asia: Sources and Terminologies".
🔗 www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/shogi-...
🔗 www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/shogi-...
May 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Yesterday Prof. Frank Rövekamp (Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences) gave an inspiring and lively talk on Shogi, the Japanese cousin of Western chess, in the ASTRA colloquium series "The Ludic Languages of Asia: Sources and Terminologies".
🔗 www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/shogi-...
🔗 www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/shogi-...
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The Soviet spacecraft that came in from the cold (and fell into the Indian Ocean this morning) -- @nytimes.com on Kosmos-482, the lost Soviet Venus probe from 1972 and its legacy. I'm quoted a few times. (Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/s...
Soviet Spacecraft Crash Lands on Earth After a Journey of Half a Century
www.nytimes.com
May 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The Soviet spacecraft that came in from the cold (and fell into the Indian Ocean this morning) -- @nytimes.com on Kosmos-482, the lost Soviet Venus probe from 1972 and its legacy. I'm quoted a few times. (Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/s...
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Plenary with the authors of an #HistSci classic, and the first time, apparently, that the chair, John Tresch, sees Stephen Shapin and Simon Schaffer in the same room.
May 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Plenary with the authors of an #HistSci classic, and the first time, apparently, that the chair, John Tresch, sees Stephen Shapin and Simon Schaffer in the same room.
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Mark your calendars! 📅
I'm thrilled to share the line-up for the fall 2025 Science and Technology in Asia online seminar series.
Hope you'll be able to join us for one or more of these sessions!
seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histsci #histtech #histmed #sts #envhist #envhum 🧪
I'm thrilled to share the line-up for the fall 2025 Science and Technology in Asia online seminar series.
Hope you'll be able to join us for one or more of these sessions!
seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histsci #histtech #histmed #sts #envhist #envhum 🧪
May 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Our Visiting HPS Seminar tomorrow is the final one of the academic year! We welcome Dr Charu Singh from the University of Cambridge for “Challenging the Tridosha: Elements, humors and an Ayurvedic controversy in British India, c.1935”. Full details here: hpsleeds.wordpress.com/category/vis... #HPS
Visiting Speaker Seminar Series – HPS Leeds
Updated twice a year with seminar programmes for the semester.
hpsleeds.wordpress.com
May 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Our Visiting HPS Seminar tomorrow is the final one of the academic year! We welcome Dr Charu Singh from the University of Cambridge for “Challenging the Tridosha: Elements, humors and an Ayurvedic controversy in British India, c.1935”. Full details here: hpsleeds.wordpress.com/category/vis... #HPS
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Many heatwave experts point out discrepancies in heatwave data because observatories are often located away from urban centres and end up recording lower temperatures, @jeffjosephpaul.bsky.social writes:
How India – and Southasia – fails to count and deal with heat deaths
Reporting for this story was supported by the DataLEADS as part of the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s Open Climate Reporting Initiative. ON 30 APRIL 2024
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May 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Many heatwave experts point out discrepancies in heatwave data because observatories are often located away from urban centres and end up recording lower temperatures, @jeffjosephpaul.bsky.social writes:
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Yes! "Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia" looks at false evidence planted by colonized tricksters to frame rivals + falsity enabled by criminal procedure which increased risk of expert misconduct. More details here: salh.law.wisc.edu/forensic-sci...
History of Forensic Science
I am finishing a book manuscript that sits at the intersection of the history of law, science, and medicine. “Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia” explores...
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May 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Yes! "Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia" looks at false evidence planted by colonized tricksters to frame rivals + falsity enabled by criminal procedure which increased risk of expert misconduct. More details here: salh.law.wisc.edu/forensic-sci...
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I'm finishing up a book manuscript for @cornellupress.bsky.social that includes a section on forensic venomology in colonial India. I worked really hard to get over my snake phobia for that! So this caught my eye. Big news to be on verge of a universal antivenom: www.bbc.com/news/article... (1/2)
'Unparalleled' snake antivenom made from man bitten 200 times
Scientists hope to make a universal antivenom from the extraordinary blood of a man exposed to snake venom for decades.
www.bbc.com
May 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I'm finishing up a book manuscript for @cornellupress.bsky.social that includes a section on forensic venomology in colonial India. I worked really hard to get over my snake phobia for that! So this caught my eye. Big news to be on verge of a universal antivenom: www.bbc.com/news/article... (1/2)
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Meanwhile, we welcome Dr Stavros Ioannidis (online, U. Athens) and Dr Charu Singh (in-person, U. Cambridge) on 30 April and 7 May respectively, for papers in our Visiting Speaker Seminar Series. Details here: hpsleeds.wordpress.com/category/vis... #histsci #histSTM #hps @leedsprhs.bsky.social
Visiting Speaker Seminar Series – HPS Leeds
Updated twice a year with seminar programmes for the semester.
hpsleeds.wordpress.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Meanwhile, we welcome Dr Stavros Ioannidis (online, U. Athens) and Dr Charu Singh (in-person, U. Cambridge) on 30 April and 7 May respectively, for papers in our Visiting Speaker Seminar Series. Details here: hpsleeds.wordpress.com/category/vis... #histsci #histSTM #hps @leedsprhs.bsky.social
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🎉 It's Himal's 38th birthday this May 🎂 and we’re looking for 38 new supporters. For just USD 5 per month, you can be one of 38 special people who step up to help secure the future of independent journalism in Southasia. Click here: buff.ly/3NHN6O1
May 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
🎉 It's Himal's 38th birthday this May 🎂 and we’re looking for 38 new supporters. For just USD 5 per month, you can be one of 38 special people who step up to help secure the future of independent journalism in Southasia. Click here: buff.ly/3NHN6O1
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(1/n) My new (edited) book is out! 'Cosmic Fragments: Dislocation and Discontent in the Global Space Age.' Out from @upittpress.bsky.social, the book has 18 scholars weigh in on aspects of space, esp deleterious phenomena, that rarely get foregrounded in celebratory narratives. Most critically..
April 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
(1/n) My new (edited) book is out! 'Cosmic Fragments: Dislocation and Discontent in the Global Space Age.' Out from @upittpress.bsky.social, the book has 18 scholars weigh in on aspects of space, esp deleterious phenomena, that rarely get foregrounded in celebratory narratives. Most critically..
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Next year I will have two new colleagues. Ahmad Elabbar and Harriet Fagerberg are joining Cambridge HPS as Assistant Professors. What a huge honour and a privilege, congratulations to us all! Send us your postgrad applicants in all areas of #philsci #philmed, including ethics and politics of STEM.
April 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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