TABLE of CONTENTS

5 THE NEW HUMANITIES • The Editors essays

15 THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY • Scott Spillman

David Brion Davis’s philosophical history

37 SEARCHING FOR SHANGHAI • Moira Weigel

Notes from the city of the future

51 BUILDING STORIES • Merve Emre & Christian Nakarado

How comics can cure architecture

65 MOBILIZING MUTUAL LEARNING • Jonny Thakkar

Bureaucracy and idealism in Tartu, Estonia