Association for Global Political Thought

This discussion article is now open access until the end of September! Find it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

"I have always wanted not merely to survey such battlefields but to join the battle myself": This conversation between Quentin Skinner and @tomaashby.bsky.social is full of insights, and I'm thrilled that it has been published @global-ih.bsky.social. Enjoy! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The abstract of the piece

2/2 Themes include freedom (as independence), universal & fundamental rights, chattel slavery, common law, the work of John Pocock, the global turn, contextualism, international relations, the battle & excavation of ideas, the possibilities & perils of AI, & more! www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

After months of back-and-forth drafting, & over 10,000 words of dialogue, I am delighted that this discussion article co-authored with Quentin Skinner (@qmul.bsky.social) is now published @global-ih.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Tenure track professor in Chinese Studies (Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven) The East Asian and Arabic Studies Research Unit of the Faculty of Arts at KU Leuven is seeking a full-time (tenure-track) professor (ZAP) in Chinese Studies.

KU Leuven has just advertised two positions in East Asian Studies. The first is an assistant professorship in modern Chinese thought.
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

The second is an assistant professorship in East Asian art and popular culture (Focus Korea)
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Do check out the wide range of speakers & panels at our annual conference @gpolthought.bsky.social - this year at the American University in Washington D.C. Follow the link in the quoted post for more details & registration!

These four images are images of the programme. This can be found via the link.

The 2025 conference of the Association for Global Political Thought will be held on 25, 26, and 27 April in Washington D.C. We look forward to hosting scholars from around the world on ten panels over three days. Details and registration here globalpoliticalthought.hsites.harvard.edu/2025-confere...

JOB:

Assistant Professor in South Asian Political/ Intellectual History (3-year post) @Cambridge_Uni

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50694/

A photo of the six volumes of the book

4/7 Now reviews! We begin with an article by Charles C. H. Lee (Academia Sinica, Taipei), "Towards a Universal History of Democracy", on the six-volume "A Cultural History of Democracy" (@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, 2021) edited by Eugenio F. Biagini (et. al.) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Alt Text: A Chinese literati, a Japanese gentleman, and a European scholar sit together at a table. The two men at either end have a form of a book in front of them: one a handscroll, the other a bound text. The Japanese man has no book and instead holds a fan while a white snake encircles his wrist.

As we approach our tenth anniversary we thought it was a good moment to update our "Aims and Scope" to better reflect how conversations in the field have developed over the last decade. The new version is now live, read it here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rgi...

The AGPT is now on Bluesky! We are an intercollegiate network for scholarship on political ideas within international society and global contexts, based at Harvard University & partner institutions. For more about us and our seminars and conferences see: globalpoliticalthought.hsites.harvard.edu

🚨The CfP for the London Graduate Conference in History of Political Thought is here! 🚨

This year's theme is 'States and Spaces' with a keynote from Dr Faridah Zaman. Please do consider applying if you're a graduate student working in this area!

Just out: "J. G. A. Pocock: A Life in Letters" by Quentin Skinner @jhideas.bsky.social, a memoir of Pocock derived from his correspondence with Skinner between 1965 & 2020 muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A village tree in Sichuan, photographed by Wilson E. Manly

Village trees used to be the centres of village life in China - and also played a political role in the 1900s. The govt wanted to 'prepare for constitutionalism' by building new-style schools, which required cutting down trees and led to many conflicts. See Xu Yao 徐躍, 新式学校の設立と郷村の慣習・民俗をめぐる文化摩擦, 2010

Off to London for a conference on (dis)order at the @britishacademy.bsky.social looking forward to talk about global constitutionalism as a way to order the world..

There are no pure cultures - we have always been global | Aeon Essays All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history

@berytia.bsky.social writing for Aeon:
"Our culture is cosmopolitan because we are a cosmopolitan species... What has allowed us to thrive, physically and culturally, is not our rootedness but our mobility. Without it, we would already be extinct."
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History is always political, and contest over it is a good thing | Aeon Essays In his work on republicanism as a living idea, J G A Pocock showed that contesting history is part of a robust civic life

Just published! My latest article on John Pocock and how history 'inhabits' us aeon.co/essays/histo...

gloknos director, Inanna Hamati-Ataya @berytia.bsky.social writes for @aeon.co on the deep history of globalisation | There are no pure cultures - we have always been global 👇

'Pocock was criticised for being too American and for not being American enough – all the more intriguing for a New Zealander' - read @rosariolopez.bsky.social on J.G.A. Pocock (1924-2023), partly based on her keynote earlier this year at our symposium on his work and legacy @eui-history.bsky.social

An eighteenth-century of a white cat

Hello all! What were the best books of 2024 that you read on global intellectual history? What did you enjoy reading, what would you suggest reading? It would be great to hear your thoughts, do share! Unrelatedly, enjoy this painting of a cat chasing a butterfly at the Musée Lambinet in Versailles.

The Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory 2025 is now accepting applications! To submit an abstract, visit the website:

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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.

Call for papers. Women in the History of Political Thought conference. To be held on May 7th-9th in Ghent Belgium. Submit abstracts to womeninhpt@gmail.com by January 24th for consideration.

Delighted to share our call for papers for the 2025 Women in the History of Political Thought conference. We welcome papers related to women's contributions to political thought. We look forward to receiving your submissions! womeninhpt.com

Newcomer! The International Society for Intellectual History is now here - welcome @isih-blueskye.bsky.social!

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!

Do you enjoy navigating the intersections between international law, international relations and global intellectual history? You’re in the right place 🧵⬇️

Feel so encouraged! So many friends, colleagues, and mentors have helped and supported me throughout this process—my gratitude is beyond words.
(Embarrassingly, the typesetting of öber-ün durabar is still wrong after I corrected it three times on the proof -- it was correct on my proof lol

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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...