📢 Announcement!

Hobbes Studies 2026 Essay Competition

Deadline: 1 August

Details in the link 👇

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📣Out now on #firstview!

Elad Carmel (@eladcarmel.bsky.social) (@uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social) on 'George Wallace and Britain’s First Abolitionist Publication (1760)'

#Abolition #Slavery #Law #Scotland 18thc 🗃️

👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Thank you Vincent!

My new article has just been published in The Historical Journal (open access)🥳 Very proud of this one, and grateful to everyone who's helped me think through the issues explored here over the past couple of years!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Manchester University Press - Anticlerical legacies Anticlerical legacies - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Anticlerical legacies by Elad Carmel

🍾🍾The paperback edition of Anticlerical Legacies is out today!

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195821/

BSECS 2026
7-9 January, Pembroke College Oxford

We’re so looking forward to attending the BSECS Annual Conference, Europe’s leading event dedicated to the history, culture, and literature of the long eighteenth century.

Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/bsecs...

@david-guerrero.bsky.social

Workshop on Freethinking and Democracy at Jyväskylä on 13 December—come join us if you're around & interested!

Join us to rethink the transformations and afterlives of ideas! #CfP

Thanks Anton, nice to hear from you! Yes, I'm in Finland now :) hope all is well with you!

✨CfP✨

Reading the Readers: Theories, Methods, and Futures in Reception Studies

12–13 February 2026, University of Málaga

Please share widely and submit proposals by 22 September 2025

@rosariolopez.bsky.social

Congratulations! Will cite! Here’s an oldie but goodie from AJPS in 2004 on Wollstonecraft’s 19th c. philosophical reception in America. Free PDF: cooperative-individualism.org/botting-eile...

Recent Work on the Reception History of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Philosophy Reception history may focus on the reception of a specific philosopher, such as Baruch Spinoza, a particular work, such as his Ethics (1677), or a specific

New publication!

open access in Analysis: Recent Work on the Reception History of Mary Wollstonecraft's Philosophy

including some reflections on reception methods

with Martina Reuter, and a shoutout to @eileenmhunt.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/analysis/adv...

Only 5 days left to enter the Hobbes Studies Essay Competition—please share!

Manchester University Press - Anticlerical legacies Anticlerical legacies - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Anticlerical legacies by Elad Carmel

✨Excited to share ✨

Anticlerical Legacies will be published in paperback in January 2026!

Please do recommend it to your students, libraries, and anyone else who might be interested!

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195821/

Any historians of political thought based in Barcelona or Madrid on here? If so, please do get in touch!

What a huge privilege it was to welcome philosopher @eladcarmel.bsky.social to my class on queerness at #Eurovision @unibe.ch

Thanks for sharing how a utopian reading of the event can yield new interpretations!

We're all set up at the Renaissance Society of America conference 👋

Come and say hello to our editors:

@siobhanmup.bsky.social
@mlhouston.bsky.social

And find out more about our Renaissance History and Literature lists 💌

#RSA

The Religious Innatism Debate in Early Modern Britain: Intellectual Change Beyond Locke Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2025)

My review of Robin Mills's book, The Religious Innatism Debate in Early Modern Britain, is out now in History of European Ideas:

doi.org/10.1080/0191...

In and Out of the Canon in Intellectual History | Centre for Intellectual History | University of Helsinki The Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History devotes its 2025 conference to exploring the question of being in and out of the canon of intellectual history. We welcome proposals for panels and individ...

CfP!

www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

Reminder: Hobbes Studies 2025 essay competition is open!

Colonial Histories and Contemporary Racism: An Interview with Marta Araújo - Koneen Säätiö Prof. Malin Grahn-Wilder interviewed Prof. Marta Araújo about addressing colonialism and enslavement in history education, ethno-racial discrimination, and Islamophobia.

How do colonial pasts shape racism today? Check out Marta Araujo's interview @martaraujo.bsky.social from our seminar "Acting Democratically: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Politics of Exclusion" hosted in Málaga last Feb @ortproject.bsky.social @koneensaatio.fi shorturl.at/mVLIM

Elad Carmel's presentation (@eladcarmel.bsky.social, @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social) “The Bubble: Utopia, Democracy, and (Contested) Inclusion in the Eurovision Song Contest” opened fascinating perspectives both to democracy and the upcoming @eurovision.tv at Basel.

Photo: @houmanauriell.bsky.social

I've spent the morning discussing Montesquieu's views on slavery, gender and climate with @ortproject.bsky.social and @eladcarmel.bsky.social, so this comes at the perfect time!

🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨
The Call for Papers and Symposia for the ISIH 2025 Conference has been postponed to February 1!

🗓️ Theme: Women, Men, and Other Animals
📍 Where: Aarhus University
📆 When: 11–13 June 2025

👉 More info & submissions: is-ih.com/isih-2025-wo...

Interview with Elad Carmel on Anticlerical legacies: The deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes — European Hobbes Society Elad Carmel (University of Jyväskylä) has recently published Anticlerical legacies. The deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes, c. 1670-1740 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024),...

Our interview with Elad Carmel (@eladcarmel.bsky.social) about his new book, Anticlerical Legacies, is now out on the European Hobbes Society website. A fascinating read for early modernists!👇

europeanhobbessociety.squarespace.com/articles/int...

This is going to be fun!

What an honour! 🙏

Thank you! :)

Happy to share that Anticlerical Legacies is recommended by CHOICE!

'Drawing from both published works and private writings,
Carmel ... shows that sympathetic readings of Hobbes were available at the time while also helping illuminate the value these Deists brought to these discussions'.