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Thank you! I'm looking very much forward to joining the History dept. in Lund as a Pro Futura Scientia fellow this fall.

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On Francis Bacon on Setler Colonialism and Slavery. open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

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"We must learn to do our own thinking for ourselves."

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Joining us today is Douglas Moggach (Ottawa/Sydney) who will be talking about Post-Kantian Perfectionism, followed by a commentary by Howard Williams (Cardiff)

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On Gramsci and the failure(s) of Italian Liberalism open.substack.com/pub/digressi... with a shout out to @rbellamy.bsky.social

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Machiavelli on Deportation open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

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Cambridge Contemporary Political Thought seminar Katy Wells (Warwick) "Ghosting and Decency" Friday 21st of February 2025 1.00-2.30 Harley Mason Rm, Corpus Christi College @campolis.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

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At the Monday Seminar today with Efthimios Karayiannides (Cambridge) who is presenting about Apartheid Science and American Capitalism from Black-Scholes to the DotCom Boom, followed by comments by Saul Dubow (Cambridge).

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Joining us today at the Monday Seminar is Serena Ferente (Amsterdam) who is presenting on the Body Metaphor and Cross-Cultural Political Theory in Medieval Afro-Eurasia

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The Betty Behrens Seminar resumes at Clare Hall, Cambridge, with works of Quintus Fabius Pictor, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, presented by T. Cornell, J.H. Arnold and K. Harloe @camhistory.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @oxfordcih.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social

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The Global Intellectual History Seminar will take place on Tuesdays at the OCR in Trinity College, Cambridge. See our website for more details: www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/future-event...

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History. Deadline: 14 March 2025. See below for more details: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/ptih-graduat...

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Joining us today at the Monday Seminar is Mikkel Jensen (Halle-Wittenberg) who is presenting on Amthor and the reception of Thomasius’s political thought at the University of Kiel, followed by comments by Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge).

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An excellent new article by Max Fenner: "Murray Bookchin and the Postwar Environmental Moment: The Early Bookchin and the Politicization of Ecology, 1948–1964," Modern Intellectual History (2025) @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social bit.ly/4jwDkEB

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Machiavelli and Spinoza on the origin of Perpetual Peace open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

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On Hartz and the American Liberal Tradition and the Kitschy American elites open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

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It was a great honour to discuss my book with David James, Axel Körner, and all my amazing colleagues and friends in Cambridge who shared with me their insights and comments. Thank you all!

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We begin the year with a roundtable on Fernanda Gallo's new book on Hegel and Italian Political Thought, with comments from Axel Körner (Leipzig) and David James (Warwick)

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So excited to kick off the Cambridge Political Thought and Intellectual History Seminar discussing my book with David James (Warwick) and Axel Koerner (Leipzig) on Monday 27th of January. Please join us if you are around! www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/seminar/lent @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

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Check out this cool new article by Nanna Lilletvedt Sæten - "Between Inevitability and Hindsight: End-Times and the Loss of Agency in the Anthropocene," Political Studies (2025) @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Cambridge Contemporary Political Thought seminar Irit Katz (Cambridge) "Spaces on the Move: Transforming the Politics of Spatial Mobilities in a Changing World" Friday 24th of January 2025, 1.00-2.30 Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

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On Tocqueville's and Einaudi's competing interpretations of the Physiocrats: from Libertarian Authoritarianism to Liberal Bureaucracy and its debts to China. open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

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I’ve shared this before, but was thinking again about Daniel Defert’s memories of Foucault’s working routines in an interview - "Christmas day without writing, that was impossible!" .https://progressivegeographies.com/2024/12/25/foucaults-christmas-2/

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JOB‼️ 4 years postdoc in Politics at our amazing @homertoncollege.bsky.social www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/junior-resea...

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After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂

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We are pleased to announce the first King’s College London (KCL) Political Theory Graduate Conference on April 25, 2025! The call for abstracts is now open.

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<nods sagely>

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It was great fun to write this essay on how I became an intellectual historian for H-Diplo. With shoutouts to @dominiquereill.bsky.social , @samuelmoyn.bsky.social , @orrosenboim.bsky.social , and many others. issforum.org/essays/h-dip...

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It is a special feeling to hold your book in your hands and maybe even more special to find it in the Cambridge University Press bookshop. I could not be happier❤️ 30% discount with the code HIPT2024: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit... @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @homertoncollege.bsky.social

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Across 19th-century Italy, a generation of intellectuals engaged with Hegel’s philosophy while participating in Italian political life. New publication by @fernandag.bsky.social tells the story of these liberals who helped to forge modern Italian political thought. Link below ⬇️

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JOB OPPORTUNITY: One-year postdoctoral fellowships in the Humanities Program at Yale. Each appointment is renewable, conditional upon favourable review, for up to two additional one-year terms. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=http%3A%...

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JOB OPPORTUNITY: 1+3-year lectureships in social and political theory at Harvard. See the following link for more details: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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And it’s out! My book is now available online: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... From the history of knowledge to the practice of censorship, the Republic of Letters, textual criticism, and much else(!), it tells a new story about the Old Testament in #EarlyModern Europe. #Skystorians

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The Bentham Project @transcribe-bentham.bsky.social is hosting a conference entitled ‘Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon penitentiary scheme, and “A Picture of the Treasury”’, at Bentham House, Faculty of Laws, University College London, on 23 and 24 July 2025. CFP is at shorturl.at/iIsRZ

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CFP: See the following poster for details of the Women in the History of Political Thought (WHPT) Conference which will be held in Ghent.

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Richard Bourke's interview on Hegel's Philosophy of History can be viewed via this link: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Joining us today for the final seminar of the year is Muriam Haleh Davis (MECAM-Tunis) who is presenting on decolonisation, translation, and knowledge production in Algerian literature and sociology, with comments by Kaoutar Ghilani (Cambridge).

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FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY at the Remarque Institute and the Hauser Global Law Program at NYU Law, intended to bring scholars working on international law and European affairs. See the following link for more details: as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

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On Burnham's mitigated defense of Free Speech open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

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The new JHI contains the second instalment of Sophie Smith's epic treatment of "Women and Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century".

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Ian Hunter reviews Mike Sonenscher’s After Kant: “This anti-contextual method is responsible for the rich mosaic of intellectual fragments that the reader encounters in this engaging book.” @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social

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#DuncanKelly (@jesuscollegecam.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social) will speak about "Global Intellectual History" at the University of Milan on Wednesday 27 November 2024 | @global-ih.bsky.social @gpolthought.bsky.social | studistorici.unimi.it/it/global-in...

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Joining us today is Kimberly Hutchings (QMUL) who will be presenting about Hegel in the 21st century, with comments by Emma MacKinnon (Cambridge)

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Pleased to be putting on Berkeley's first-ever Graduate Conference on Early Modern Political Thought (1400-1800) Keynote: Alison McQueen (Stanford) @aejm.bsky.social Submission deadline: January 10 Date: May 3 Submission form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1Foy... Please circulate widely!

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Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social : What were the optimist and the pessimist able to do with the idea of a cup that they would not have been able to do without it?

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Forthcoming article: Duncan Bell, "John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization, and Empire," History of Political Thought (2025) @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.academia.edu/110100929/Jo... via @academia

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JOB OPPORTUNITY: The University of Oklahoma is interested in applicants who would “complement existing strengths in the American Founding and Modern Political Thought.” careers.insidehighered.com/job/3259677/...

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Joining us today is Geertje Bol (Ghent) who will be talking about Women's appeals to talent in 17th century England, with commentaries by Sylvana Tomaselli (Cambridge)

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We're movin' on.

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