Looking forward to discussing my book tomorrow at the @mfoxford.bsky.social with brilliant colleagues @manymanyplies.bsky.social, @lukeosullivan.bsky.social & Emma Claussen. 12.30-2.00 if you happen to be in Oxford! 💚
JOB: Lecturer in Early Medieval History at The Queen's College, Oxford. It's a 6-hour stint, fixed-term 1-year.
www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/st...
I find it very odd that some senior academics take a piece in the "media" as representative of the views of ECRs. You're right that there's a lot of silence because it is very difficult for many of us to really talk about our job situation.
Happy birthday to Montaigne, and to my book! This product of love and errance, now available @academic.oup.com.
OBS / Lincoln College research associate position!
We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position @lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Lincoln -- £500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 27th March
Early modern Frenchies! Oxford Modern Languages/Trinity College is looking for a Departmental Lecturer, a 3 year position to replace me while I'm on secondment my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
WHOOP! #EarlyModern goings-on @qmulhss.bsky.social!
"Francois Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention": book symposium with Raphaële Garrod, Kathryn Banks, Richard Scholar, Adrian Armstrong,Thibaut Maus de Rolley
25 Feb, 4pm
Free but register
cc @frenchhistory.bsky.social #SkyStorians
*correction* I miss the walk "down" the hill
oh I do miss the walk up St Michael's Hill
I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!
Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History
Self and State: Intellectual Histories of Citizenship
Registration is now open for this year’s graduate conference taking place on Tuesday 24 June 2025
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cambridge-...
oh this is great! I will be sharing this with my students
Stopped off at Hardwick Hall on the way down from north Yorkshire today. Unfortunately the excellent portrait of Hobbes has been put into storage but the bust remains in place, staring at Francis Bacon
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
thank you!
would be grateful to be included
📣 Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2025
Eric Nelson (Harvard): For the Way Things Are: In Search of a Defensible Conservatism | Hilary Term, 5pm, Tuesdays Weeks 3-8 | more details coming soon...
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The James Ford Lectures in British History are coming to Examination Schools in January 2025!
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University) will be speaking on French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History, c. 1100-c. 1500 starting Thursday 23rd January.
See you there!
ho ho ho... this is coming up for disciplines this week. Won't be the same without you!
I've begun a starter pack of scholars of the early modern Low Countries. Let me know if you want me to add you. #earlymodern 🗃️
go.bsky.app/VsHZ9xJ
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Is working on late c16 and early c17 education enough to get me in the club?
Welcome to our many new followers! On here we post news about new blogs, events, publications and much more from the community of intellectual historians at the University of Oxford. To discover more visit our constantly updated website: intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk
Our very own Sophie Smith (University College, Oxford) asks about the role of intellectual history in perpetuating the prejudices faced by women in philosophy for the LRB
@londonreview.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
📣NEW BLOG | The Encyclopédie Nouvelle: The 19th Century’s Magnificent Achievement and Glorious Failure - Michael Drolet
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...
📣JOB | 6-year fixed-term The Clive Holmes Fellowship in History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford | US History Post-1776 with core interests in political, religious, or intellectual history | application deadline: March 14
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📣NEW BLOG | ‘Farewell to Treebeard’ - Brian Young (Christ Church, Oxford) reflects upon the life and legacy of J.G.A. Pocock on the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Blog:
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/j.-g...
📣Excited to share this term's programme for the seminar in Early Modern Intellectual History. The sessions will be held in All Souls College, Oxford, on Thursday afternoons. All welcome!
📣NEW BLOG - Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment (2023) is based on his 2019 Oxford Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought. To mark the publication of his book, Whatmore spoke to Richard Bourke @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/rich...