Teaches Modern South Asian History at Lancaster University. Getting ready to go: debssutton@bsky.social
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11 Sep 2025
Dinner is being dined at the end of a brilliant second day at the @BASASofficial Conference 2025 ♥️🥂
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8 Sep 2025
Whoohoo!! We are tote-ally ready for the start of the @BASASofficial Conference on Wednesday!! wp.lancs.ac.uk/basas2025/
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"Digitizing Heritage: Exploring the Transformation of Culture to Data" by Krupa Rajangam (Saythu...linking people and heritage) & @DebsSutton (Lancaster University) casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/krupa…
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14 Jun 2025
We’re back after a short break! Help us grow the #CitiesInFiction archive. If you’ve recently read a book set in South Asia, let us know — we’d love to include it on the site. More info here citiesinfiction.com
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6 Jun 2025
You flush and forget. But someone else deals with the shit.
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A graphics-led investigation uncovers how India’s sanitation system still relies on caste-bound labour—and what happens to waste when the system fails.
By Anirudh A Ashar & Aarefa Johari
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5 Jun 2025
Environmentalism, historian and columnist @Ram_Guha has written, is thought to be a “full-stomach phenomenon” – it’s believed to be a Western concern because people in countries like India are simply too poor to be green.
Watch ⤵️
youtu.be/NGpbAwjqBfM?si=zaTV…
#WorldEnvironmentDay
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5 Jun 2025
Pleased to announce a conference in honour of Richard Grove
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Join us for an exciting Climates of Empire 2025 conference. Registration open. For more details click sussex.ac.uk/cweh/newsandeve…
@SussexUni @SusVinita
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28 May 2025
A job! A one year, 0.8FTE job, but a job in Modern History. 🔥🔥hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.…
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27 May 2025
Replug | Climate change is making salt harder to produce.
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In Gujarat—India’s top salt-producing state—unpredictable, shifting monsoons are threatening the centuries-old livelihoods of salt workers.
Vaishnavi Rathore reports
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27 May 2025
And, just like that, registration opened for @BASASofficial conference 10 - 12 September 2025: wp.lancs.ac.uk/basas2025/
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13 May 2025
Dr Benjamin Dalton is a lecturer in French Studies in the School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University. Ben's research explores how contemporary French philosophy and cultural production engage with biomedical science (2/5)
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10 May 2025
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat. Josep Borrell also criticises EU response to what he calls largest ethnic cleansing operation since second world war
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9 May 2025
Dear Readers of The Wire
In a clear violation of the Constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press, the Government of India has blocked access to thewire.in across India.
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9 May 2025
‘Blatant censorship at a critical time’: ‘The Wire’ says its website blocked by Centre scroll.in/latest/1082179/bla…
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Great postdoc opportunity on a fantastic project I'm involved with in an advisory capacity: "Genealogies of 'humanity' in Islamic charity", based at Leiden University. Kindly circulate!
universiteitleiden.nl/en/vac…
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28 Apr 2025
*@nomhossain will deliver the BASAS Annual Lecture 2025 on 9 May*
Full details available on our website:
basas.org.uk/news-events/bas…
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25 Apr 2025
A tremendous resource developed by University of Leeds School of History's excellent Research Officer, Dr. Joanna Phillips.
Highlights the rich research done within the School, which then feeds into cutting edge, research-led teaching.
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/homepage/450…
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9 Apr 2025
The deadline to submit an abstract for the 2025 BASAS Annual Conference is fast approaching...less than a week to go!
*Submit your abstracts by 15 April 2025*
basas.org.uk/news-events/bas…
@DebsSutton
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6 Apr 2025
Not long now! Remember to send in your @BASASofficial conference paper abstracts before the deadline on 15 April! 🎊🥰 basas.org.uk/news-events/bas…
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