Participatory Crisis Archiving: The Japan Disasters Digital Archive
On 29 February 2024, Dr Nick Kapur from Rutgers delivered an important and fascinating talk at the Institute for Historical Studies. The talk was entitled “Participatory Crisis Archiving: The Japan Disasters Digital Archive”. The origins of The Japan Disasters Digital Archive lie in the catastrophic events of March 2011. On the afternoon of 11 March […]
Alexei Navalny’s Legacy and Anti-Putin Resistance
Moscow’s southeast neighborhoods of Maryino and Lyublino always seem to be where the authorities locate controversial events. On March 1, 2024, it was Maryino who hosted the funeral of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. The church that held the ceremony is a post-Soviet building and dominates the center of a neighborhood otherwise filled with high-rise apartments, […]
In Pursuit of Europe: An Interview with Anthony Pagden (Part I)
By Fernando Gomez Herrero This is the first half of a two-part article. To read the second part, click here. Anthony Pagden is a Distinguished Professor in the History Department at the University of California-Los Angeles. England-born and Oxford-trained, but based on the West Coast of the United States, he is emotionally and intellectually invested in […]
Bridging the Gap over Uncharted Waters: An Interview with Kyle Balzer
From the editors: Through our “Uncharted Waters” article series, Not Even Past has been exploring the history of U. S. international relations, examining understudied historical episodes in an accessible, engaging manner. Uncharted Waters taps into the wealth of knowledge produced by scholars affiliated with the University of Texas at Austin’s Clements Center for National Security. […]
NEP Author Spotlight – John Gleb
The success of Not Even Past is made possible by a remarkable group of faculty and graduate student writers. Not Even Past Author Spotlights are designed to celebrate our most prolific authors by bringing together all of their published content across the site together on a single page. The focus is especially on work published by UT […]
Crises as Catalysts: The Case for Optimism in Future US-Russia Arms Control Negotiations
Commentators and scholars have long represented the United States as the supreme guarantor of a well-tempered international order. Today, however, agents of American international relations find themselves confronting uncertainty both at home and abroad. Nevertheless, as they navigate the uncharted waters of contemporary global politics, representatives of the United States and its international interlocutors can […]
Putin’s Effort to Make Conquest Acceptable Again
By Jeremi Suri September 30, 2022 marked the abrupt end to a long era of world history. In a dark, threatening, and bombastic speech to his cowering, hand-picked apparatchiks, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his country was annexing almost one-fifth of Ukrainian territory – the eastern provinces of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson. Russian […]
Not Even Past – looking back at 2021-22
It’s been another busy year for Not Even Past with more than 130 articles published across the academic year. To celebrate all this incredible academic content we have compiled everything in one page below. Not Even Past‘s reach also continues to grow, and we just broke a million page views over the past 12 months, […]
Introducing “Uncharted Waters,” a New Article Series from Not Even Past and the Clements Center for National Security
Commentators and scholars have long represented the United States as the supreme guarantor of a well-tempered international order. Today, however, the picture looks far murkier. Agents of American international relations find themselves confronting uncertainty both at home and abroad. New and unpredictable threats to national security, public health, and the global environment loom large on […]