Of tropics, prisons and bicycles: a conversation with David Arnold

David Arnold who retired this year as the Professor of Asian and Global History at the University of Warwick remains one of the most prolific historians of colonial medicine and modern South Asia. A founding member of the subaltern studies collective, he is considered widely as a pioneer in the histories of colonial medicine, environment, penology, hunger and famines within South Asian studies and beyond. In this interview he recalls his formative inspirations, ideological motivations and reflects critically on his earlier works, explaining various shifts as well as map- ping the possible course of future work. He talks at length about his forthcoming works on everyday technology, food and monsoon Asia. Finally, he shares with us his desire of initiating work on an ambitious project about the twin themes of poison and poverty in South Asian his- tory, beginning with the Bengal famine in the late eighteenth century and ending with the Bhopal gas tragedy of the early 1980s. This conversation provides insights into the ways in which the field of medical history in modern South Asia has been shaped over the past three decades through interactions with broader discussions on agency, resistance, power, everydayness, subal- tern studies, global and spatial histories. It hints further at the newer directions which are being opened up by such persisting intellectual entanglements.

Robots, the internet and teaching history in the age of the NBN and the Australian curriculum

Have you ever wished you were Doctor Who and could pop yourself and your students into a Tardis and teleport them to an historical event or to meet a historical figure? We all know that unfortunately time travel is not (yet) possible, but maybe student and teacher teleportation just might be – sort of. Over the past few centuries and in lieu of time travel our communities have developed museums as a means of experiencing some of our history...

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Na 50 Nachlass Arthur Schopenhauer - 'Schopenhauer-Archiv', 376 - Verlagsvertrag zwischen der Autorin Johanna Schopenhauer und den beiden Verlagen Johann David Sauerländer und Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus

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Gaby Smart, co-founder of Esquire, with David Smart and others in group.

Student Army Training Corps - World War I - Photograph LA XXXII - The Usual Manner of Conducting a Class in Visual Signaling

Gaby Smart, co-founder of Esquire, with David Smart.

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Gaby Smart, co-founder of Esquire, with David Smart in group, November 13, 1940.

Student Army Training Corps - World War I - Photograph LA XXXII - The Usual Manner of Conducting a Class in Visual Signaling