Published in Paris 1928 under the leadership of Guadeloupean Maurice Satineau, newspaper La dépêche africaine featured a mélange African diasporic contributors from across French colonies. Chief among them were Afro-Martinican intellectuals and sisters Jane Paulette Nardal. It was here that Nardal published her now famous essay “Internationalisme noir,” introducing idea “black internationalism”...

Within all academic disciplines, researchers typically cluster into informal networks or “invisible colleges” that focus on common questions in common ways (Burt, 1977; Price, 1963). Within these networks, one scholar’s concepts and results may be picked up by another, to be extended, tested, and refined. Through this process, one person’s work builds on that of another. The history of the exch...

in literary histories written in both iran and the west it has generally be assumed that early modern persian literary works are (technically inferior) copies of western literary works. this has been and is still a claim. almost no academically and scientifically sound works has substantiated this claim. while there is no point in denying a european influence on early modern persian literature,...

This paper will present an intellectual history of Americanist historical archaeology as it developed from the 1960s onwards within the context of processual archaeology and the resulting marginalization of studies of the recent past within Americanist archaeology. The paper will explore the intellectual problems and miss-steps caused by the artificial prehistory/history dichotomy prevalent in ...