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Su Lin Lewis is an Associate Professor in Modern Global History at University of Bristol, UK. She works on the social history of globalisation, including cosmopolitan port-cities, transnational activist movements, and post-colonial internationalism, with a focus on modern Southeast Asia. She is the author of Cities in Motion: Urban Life and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia 1920-1940 (2016), which won the Urban History Association’s Prize for Best Book, and co-author, with Carolien Stolte, of The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism (2022). She is currently an AHRC Early Career Leadership Fellow working on a project about Socialist Internationalism in the Afro-Asian World. Nana Osei-Opare is an Assistant Professor of African and Cold War History at Fordham University, USA. A member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, he is also a Fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (2023-2024). He has published articles in the Journal of African History and The Journal of West African History and has a forthcoming article in Comparative Studies in Society and History. He has also published in popular media outlets such as The Washington Post and Foreign Policy.