tfw you're invited to write an essay for an interdisciplinary special issue on 'empire', then told that "For editorial reasons, the references to empire have been deleted and replaced with the highly specific nested organizational construct to which they refer case by case."
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Still not sure what that means, but in this case, it evidently meant rephrasing all references to the Roman Empire -- you know -- to take that pesky 'Empire' out.
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Reader, I refused, and wanted to read the editors' Introduction before allowing them to use my essay. This, by the way, is a volume with essays from the European classical past to the present day. So you can see why the sudden shyness about referring to 'empire' worries me.
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Silence. Then discovered online that the special issue has been published, but now with the theme, 'Ensemble'.
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Changing the theme of a special issue after commissioning is unprofessional, but perhaps sometimes unavoidable. But this raises so many questions -- both about the intellectual approach, and about entitlement to other researchers' time and energy.
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I've been mulling over whether to give vent to this on twitter. I had the time to write this essay, wanted to do it anyway, and it has been re-submitted elsewhere. Others may not have that luxury. Please can we not do this!
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Thanks for sharing this Nandini. It’s valuable to know that this kind of pushback against critique of empire is pervasive. Moments like this contribute to the historical amnesia that we’re all battling against. 
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