A great course for PhD students interested in conceptual history and method! The Helsinki Summer School on the History of Concepts was one of the best things I did as a PhD student...great memories, mentors and friends. More info below
My fantastic colleagues Gabriel Entin and Francisco Quijano are hosting the 9th Concepta Summer School in Mexico City this year. If you’re a graduate student working in the field of intellectual or conceptual history and you speak Spanish, this could be the perfect place to spend your summer!
📣 The Figure of the Politician in Modern & Contemporary Europe from @berghahnbooks.bsky.social, edited by Pasi Ihalainen, @rosariolopez.bsky.social, Kari Palonen, & Henk te Velde, launches online on 6 February 👇
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The Figure of the Politician in Modern and Contemporary Europe, edited by Pasi Ihalainen, Rosario López @rosariolopez.bsky.social, Kari Palonen, and Henk te Velde has now been published!
Find out more here: bit.ly/49BK15x
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1/6 Another highlight for our 10th anniversary. @brucealexb.bsky.social (Griffith University) who wrote "Travels in Space and Time: Progress, War, and the Historical Mobilities of Scotland’s Enlightenment" with us in 2022 (print 2023). We asked him about this work and its future. His response:
A few more days to apply!
Join us to rethink the transformations and afterlives of ideas! #CfP
Thanks to @rosariolopez.bsky.social for organising this forum on The Problems of Genocide—and to the commentators.
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1/8 A look into another special issue, a book forum on "The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2021) by @dirkmoses.bsky.social & his reply, guest edited by @rosariolopez.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rgih20/1...
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1/5 Our latest monthly highlight! Stefanie Gänger (@uniheidelberg.bsky.social) reflects on the various questions grappled with in her work since her "Towards a History of Knowledge for Spanish America", a review article of Nicola Miller's "Republics of Knowledge". Here is what she had to say:
"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 painting "La liberté" (c.1793-1794) by Nanine Vallain
1/2 Out now! "Independence, Globality, and the Battle of Ideas: A Dialogue on Liberty" by Quentin Skinner (@qmul.bsky.social) & @tomaashby.bsky.social (@utokyoofficial.bsky.social), a wide-ranging, scholarly, & full-length discussion article - the first at GIH! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How have politicians been imagined, criticised or idealised across modern European history? We tackled this question in The Figure of the Politician in Modern and Contemporary Europe. Finally materialising, out December 2025! @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Ihalai...
The @standrewsiih.bsky.social has launched a fantastic new podcast! It's called Roots and Branches and the first episode with Richard Whatmore is already out! podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/1...
A wonderful conversation about populism and its rhetorical dimension! Malin Grahn-Wilder in conversation with Tomás Pacheco-Bethencourt at the @univmalaga.bsky.social Botanical Garden. @ortproject.bsky.social @koneensaatio.fi
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1/6 Another highlight for our anniversary! Lena Halldenius (@lund-university.bsky.social) offers a reflection on her widely read review article examining "Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World" by @samuelmoyn.bsky.social.
Wonderful to see @global-ih.bsky.social articles growing into full projects. Congratulations @hildedw.bsky.social !
Our special issue "Biography and Secularism" is now out with Secular Studies! It is edited by Jeffrey Tyssens and me, departs from a workshop I hosted last year on biography and the history of atheism, secularism, and humanism, and includes 1+7 articles. Summary 👇
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Just returned from an inspiring and productive conference. So many rich conversations about the future of the global! Thank you @nsultan.bsky.social @shoufuyin.bsky.social. And here's a glimpse of beautiful Vancouver in the spring
Excited to be heading to UBC for the Symposium "Ideas of the Global in the Anticolonial Age"! globalhistoryanticolonialthought.ubc.ca/events/ideas...
We keep celebrating our 10th anniversary by asking our authors to reflect on their research and the field. Thank you, Dag Herbjørnsrud for your insights! @global-ih.bsky.social
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
1-2-3-DEMOCRACY! The seminar 'Acting Democratically: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Politics of the Exclusion' included two days of insightful presentations and inspiring discussions. Thank you again for all participants! Let the good work continue!
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Johannes Sartou's (Aarhus University @au.dk) paper “Our Common Mother: Socialists, Anarchists, and ‘the People of the Revolution’” advocated for a more democratic understanding
of history that recognizes the complexities of class, race, and gender.
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Susanna Jussila (Univ. of Jyväskylä) explored the relationship between democracy and somatic knowledge / practices in her presentation “From Embodying Social Justice to Embodying Democracy – Lessons Learnt from Social Movements”.
@uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social
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Arthur Ghins' (Université Libre de Bruxelles) presentation "‘Liberal Democracy’ versus ‘Colonial Caesarism’" explored how the invention of “liberal democracy” in France was closely linked to an advocacy for settler colonialism.
@arthurghins.bsky.social
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Joel-Anthoney Bossous' (Duke University) presentation “In the Power of the Tongue: Necropower, Knowledge & Liberty” explored power and the extremely topical concept of epistemic injustice.
With @koneensaatio.fi @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social @rosariolopez.bsky.social
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What today could be more topical than analysing democracy against Caesarism? Alexander Jordan (Metropolitan University of Prague) provided a historical perspective in his talk “Exclusion of Elites or Exclusion of the Masses? Or, was Thomas Carlyle a Caesarist?”.
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Senior lecturer Martina Reuter's (Origins of Racializing Thought -project, @koneensaatio.fi @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social) presentation scrutinized debates over the citizenship of Jews in Finland, focusing on newspaper articles from 1872 and 1882.
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In the session "Inclusion/exclusion in the history of political philosophy", Giovanni Battista Soda (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele) discussed the problem of racism in David Hume’s anthropology and politics.
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