Alison McQueen

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I have been working over the last 8 months to bring Jamaica Osorio, esteemed scholar & kanaka maoli activist, to speak at Stanford. Osorio's timely and powerful lecture is entitled, "E Mau ke Ea: Sovereignty, Sanctuary, and Collective Liberation." Please join us in person or on zoom! (RSVP below)

This was so fun to write!

This was a joy to write! Thanks for the wonderful book that occasioned it, @eileenmhunt.bsky.social !

Another compelling way to think about politics and time. Gratitude to @polphilpod.bsky.social for all his great interviews.

That’s so kind! Thank you!!!

This was such a fun and interesting conversation!

This is such a service to the discipline!

The second day of the HCAS Symposium Theoretical Foundations for Interdisciplinarity was opened by @aejm.bsky.social (Stanford University) with her inspiring talk "Text-as-Data in the History of Political Thought".
Program: blogs.helsinki.fi/interdiscipl...

Thrilled if this is useful for others! It’s the product of years of experience with what students (understandably!) find strange or baffling about writing political theory essays.

Goodreads reviews of Machiavelli's The Prince: (1) "Ewww self-serving theories of tyranny for personal gain are sooo not hot." (2) “Some fine points, but it's basically the most boring fucking cover letter you'll ever read.” (3) “Rather useful if you get the urge to invade a small country.”

Love that you wrote the book! Love that you went on the podcast!

I really like it. The selections are generally workable (I sometimes supplement with some extra material). The introductions are almost uniformly good. And the (Canadian!) publishers went out of their way during COVID to help my students get access to the text.

I use the excerpt in the Broadview Anthology, supplemented in lecture with some extra passages. But I focus a lot on the challenge JSM has to meet in trying to show that we can’t infer the naturalness of subjection from tradition, custom, and the fact that women have gone along with it.

Huge congratulations to @matthewblongo.bsky.social for his starred review in Kirkus for The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain - so excited to read the book!

Also not a cat…