Men studying a dragon
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE
My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
The cover of a book by Peter Stacey entitled "The State in Machiavelli" in the series Ideas in Context
Soon in print! www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
Image of a copy of the book, Astrology and History in Early Islam: Aligning Heaven and Earth, by Antoine Borrut
GUYS GUYS GUYS my incredible colleague, Antoine Borrut, just texted me this pic, the BOOK IS IN HAND, which means you too can have it soon!
Astrology and History in Early Islam, coming out with Edinburgh!
The first event of the semester: a seminar on Machiavelli, organised by the Political Philosophy Student Club at Istanbul University.
The seminar will focus on a comparative study of the dedicatory letters of The Prince, Discourses on Livy, The Art of War, and Florentine Histories.
Very pleasing to talk early modern news, information, and communication (and two excellent books by Rachel Midura & Joad Raymond Wren) with @moonjets.bsky.social on this week's LRB podcast. @lrb.co.uk
Huaping Lu-Adler and I are organizing another Zoom talk series on Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy this semester! It's open to the public; please spread the word / consider attending. The schedule, registration info, and recordings of (most) past talks are linked below. #philsky #academicsky
Update: It is now closer to c.300,000 words of new Pocock
‘The co-founder of Palestine Action has won a legal challenge to the home secretary’s decision to ban the group under anti-terrorism laws’!!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
“What does it mean to not allow a single drop of fuel to reach a country?”..“It affects the transportation of food, food production, public transportation, the functioning of hospitals, institutions of all kinds, schools, economic production, tourism. How do our vital systems function without fuel?”
Henrich was one of the best to do it, and Mulsow is cutting creative paths in early modern intellectual history. love to see them getting love <3 (ofc it's from you!)
‘When he was accused of using Hegel’s name as a “pseudonym” for his own opinions, he agreed enthusiastically: “Bien vu!”’
Jonathan Rée on the philosopher and translator of Hegel Alexandre Kojève.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The cover of the book
A photo of Hont in 1987; he is sitting with a book and gesturing
Forthcoming: Seven hitherto unpublished papers by István Hont in "Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx: Culture, Needs, and Property Rights" (@universitypress.cambridge.org), ed. Lasse S. Andersen with Béla Kapoussy and Richard Whatmore @standrewsiih.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
Foto: Porträt Frantz Fanon, auf dem der Titel des Buches »Denker der Dekolonisation« steht. Darüber gesetzt steht die Unterzeile »Zur Aktualität von Frantz Fanon«.
Nach Fanon fußt Kapitalismus auf militärischer Unterwerfung, rassistischer Entmenschlichung und Ausplünderung der Kolonisierten. Diese Gewalt frisst sich in Körper, Psyche, soziale Beziehungen. Tipp für Samstag: Fanon-Workshop mit Philipp Dorestal in Kiel > stadtteilladen.gaarden.net/2026/01/09/p...
"That’s why I hate New Year’s. I want every morning to be a new year’s for me. Every day I want to reckon with myself, and every day I want to renew myself. No day set aside for rest." 🫡😤
My forthcoming book—
For which I began research in 2006.
Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press.
Cover will be added soon.
The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery
Very interesting talk and cool overall project and a great listen for the holidays, imho. Happy holidays!
2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥
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💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.
#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
When you're trying to outdo your neighbours during the mid-autumn festival...
一份絕妙的中秋節禮物!
Coming next spring!
”The Business of War in the Early Modern Baltic Sea Region 1530–1765”
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My review article on R Bourke’s and Q Skinner’s anthology ”History in the Humanities and Social Sciences” is included in the latest issue of @global-ih.bsky.social. Open access!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The cover of the book
A special issue that I edited on "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (2025) by Patricia Owens has gone to production – I look forward to seeing the collection published @global-ih.bsky.social! It includes five review articles and a reply article by @whitproject.bsky.social
Oh look! Now it has a cover
The ISS will be deorbited in 2031, handing over space station operations to private companies.
How befitting for NASA to have paid SpaceX almost $1 billion to develop a vehicle that will strike the final death blow, dumping the ISS back into Earth.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
Open access book on material aspects of ancient philosophy:
brill.com/display/titl...
#philsky #philosophy #ancientphilosophy #openaccess
The cover of the book, featuring a historic portrait of Cloots
Now online! Laura André Lombard (Université Panthéon Assas) reviews "The Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots: A Proponent of Cosmopolitan Republicanism in the French Revolution (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social, 2023) by @fepoulsen.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Congratulations to Gavin McDowell on his new book The Rewritten Bible in Late Antiquity, which is available open access
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
JOB
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Next Tuesday (5 November 2025, 17:00-18:30): A talk on "The Specificity of the Political: Georg Lukács’s Political Thought in the Post-Stalinist Ferment of Ideas (1956-1971)" @uni-konstanz.de Colloquium of Modern History.
“If human beings would learn to stop insisting on their distinction from animals, perhaps they would no longer need to humble themselves so before the angels.” —Adorno (1944)
