Su Lin LewisinAfro-Asian VisionsAn Interview with Naoko Shimazu, Professor of HistoryThis week, we feature a wonderful interview conducted by Dr. Swapna Kona Nayudu with her colleague Professor Naoko Shimazu at Yale-NUS…Jun 7, 2023Jun 7, 2023
Su Lin LewisinAfro-Asian VisionsThe Ledo Road: African-American Soldiers and Nurses in WW2 BurmaIn the run-up to U.S. Black History Month we feature a post by Geraldine Seay (Phd), author of Call and Response: the Literature of Jim…Jan 19, 2021Jan 19, 2021
Su Lin LewisinAfro-Asian VisionsMatsumoto Jiichiro (1885–1966), “Subaltern Internationalist”This month we feature a special contribution from Professor Ian Neary, an Emeritus Fellow of the Nissan Institute and St. Antony’s College…Apr 17, 2020Apr 17, 2020
Su Lin LewisinAfro-Asian VisionsA Manifesto by the Afro-Asian Networks Research Collective in Radical History Review 131This week we published our ‘manifesto’ in Radical History Review’s Special Issue on the Global South. In it we discuss the need for a…Jun 22, 2018Jun 22, 2018
Su Lin LewisinAfro-Asian VisionsAfro-Asian Threads: Batik and African Print-Fashion, from Vlisco to MandelaAfrican print-fashion and Indonesian batik have long and connected histories. I recently visited UCLA’s Fowler Museum, which currently…Jul 17, 20171Jul 17, 20171
Su Lin LewisinAfro-Asian VisionsSkies That Bind: Air Travel in the Bandung EraIn the 1950s, conferences were essential in creating notions of solidarity and collective purpose among Asians and Africans. In our own…Sep 22, 20161Sep 22, 20161
Su Lin LewisinAfro-Asian VisionsThe Afro-Asian MomentBefore I became a professional historian, I was lucky enough to visit Bandung — a cool, green city in the hills of Java, and a welcome…Mar 3, 2016Mar 3, 2016