The past is never dead. It's not even past
by David Rahimi Before moving to the final dissertation stage of the PhD, graduate students in History must first pass their comprehensive exams (also known as orals, qualifying exams, or comps). These are designed in part to show mastery of a student’s chosen teaching and research fields. Experiences vary depending on how the student and […]
Institute for Historical Studies – Wednesday, October 20, 2021 A Roundtable Inspired by Sumit Guha’sTribe and State in Asia Through Twenty-Five Centuries(Columbia University Press, 2021) Notes from the Director Every literate person today will encounter the word “tribe” in many settings. What does this word mean? When and how did its use begin? Is it […]
The Climate in Context Conference took place on April 22 & 23, 2021. To view recordings of sessions, visit our virtual conference page. Session I: Emerging Perspectives: A Graduate Student Roundtable The first panel of the conference was a roundtable composed of five graduate students from the University of Texas at Austin’s History Department. Although […]
April 22-23, 2021Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin As the culmination of a year-long series of events, this conference brought together diverse scholars whose work grapples with the challenges that climate change presents to the discipline of history. Participants addressed precedents for this “unprecedented” crisis by uncovering and analyzing the historical roots and analogues of […]
From the editors: Not Even Past joins the wider University of Texas community in our horror at the recent mass shootings in Atlanta. We express our solidarity with the messages and statements below and have included details of important events and workshops focused on confronting anti-Asian racism. The events in Atlanta cannot be separated from […]
by Adam Clulow Digital Humanities is a capacious term that means different things to different people. For me, Digital Humanities is at its best when it emphasizes “making, connecting, interpreting, and collaborating”.[1] When I did my doctorate, Digital Humanities was just emerging as a set of skills and I paid very little attention to it. […]
In 1707, after the death of the last great Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, the power and authority of the Mughals who ruled over the greater part of South Asia for about two hundred years started to disintegrate. The weakening of the imperial center altered the socio-political conditions, which led to the rise of strong regional powers […]
By Adam Clulow This and other articles in Primary Source: History from the Ransom Center Stacks represent an ongoing partnership between Not Even Past and the Harry Ransom Center, a world-renowned humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin. Visit the Center’s website to learn more about its collections and get involved. For more than […]
Professor Guha’s interest in disease history originated in his study of demography. He has published on disease mortality in Victorian England in “The Importance of Social Intervention in England’s Mortality Decline,” Social History of Medicine 7,1 (1994), 89-113. His earlier work on South Asia is compiled in Health and Population in South Asia (2001/2009). This […]
By Adam Clulow, Editor of Not Even Past 2020 has been a difficult year. In March as COVID-19 started to spread, classes across the university were cancelled and moved online. In Fall, the university rumbled to life again but for a semester unlike any other For many of our students at the University of Texas, […]