Benjamin Tan

I'm very pleased to say that my article on John A. Hobson, the new-liberal economist and critic of imperialism, is out in @PoliticalTheory -- it's about his conception of race, the limits of modern empire, and global capitalism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

I wrote an idiosyncratic snapshot of the state of political theory. Basically, I don't think the study of decolonization grows out of postcolonial theory. It's the intellectual afterlife of the global financial crisis and the protest decade that followed. doi.org/10.1177/009059…

New article: “Between Inevitability and Hindsight: End-Times and the Loss of Agency in the Anthropocene” now out with @PolStudies @Dept_of_POLIS journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Joining us today is Geertje Bol (Ghent) who will be talking about Women's appeals to talent in 17th century England, with commentaries by Sylvana Tomaselli @sylvana_st (Cambridge)

The 6th workshop on the History and Philosophy of Programming will take place in @Dept_of_POLIS on 25th October 2024! A collaboration between @HaPoComputing and @CamDigHum we have a great program lined up. Register at: cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/38592/

Huge Congratulations to @AlinaUtrata the 2024 Winner of the Lisa Smirl Prize for best PhD. Dr Utrata's PhD dissertation, titled 'Silicon Valley and the State: Towards a Political Theory of Technology Corporations' was the best of the 2023-24 academic year.

What did it mean to be a 'democrat' in 19thC (by contrast to liberal/Jacobin/communist)? How did 'democrats' act the role? Read the intro to a terrific new series of posts on the @OxfordCIH blog, by Joanna Innes @OxfordHistory @SomervilleOx: intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/what-d…

We are delighted to announce that @Mia__Bay has been elected as Paul A. Mellon Professor of American History @CamHistory. This bold, brilliant scholar will advance @Cambridge_Uni’s reputation as a world-leading centre for the study of American history. hist.cam.ac.uk/news/mia-bay-e…

It is evident the administration would rather arrest, silence, and physically assault its own students than confront its enabling of israel’s genocide in Gaza.

New paper on the intellectual transformations that rendered colonialism into a generic name for European rule over Asia and Africa. It is also a study of the fundamental theoretical tension that marked the category's twentieth-century history.

New paper! Duncan Bell & Apolline Taillandier, "Cosmos-politanism: Transhumanist Visions of World Order from the First World War to the Digital Age," Perspectives on Politics (2024, forth.) @BlazeFutures academia.edu/119001032/Cosm… via @academia

STATEMENT [12 MAY 2024]: Hostile Men Attack Oxford Palestine Encampment. We will not be deterred.

2️⃣ years ago, we published our special issue on Race and Imperialism in IR. Today, our guest editors @JasmineKGani & @jennamarshall come together with 7️⃣ authors to reflect on the state of race and imperialism in world politics. Read here 👇 duckofminerva.com/2024/04/introd…

@nazmul_sultan @Harvard_Press @_sen_sharmila Congrats Nazmul!! Can't wait to get my hands on a copy 🎊

I received the first copy of my forthcoming book earlier today! It should be out in the world very soon. And my publisher @Harvard_Press is offering a holiday sale on all their titles. If you’re interested in the book, now would be a good time to preorder it! @_sen_sharmila

Very excited that the most recent episode of @AntiDystopians is now live! @bentan220 guest hosts to ask me about my APSR article on “Engineering Territory” and Silicon Valley’s outer space colonization projects. Take a listen!👇👇👇 open.spotify.com/episode/6xuI6q…

I'm looking for a new Postdoc to join the @invisihist team, details are here. The deadline is 11 December, feel free to share. Postdoc Position The United Nations beyond the West  (0,8FTE) The United Nations beyond the West universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2023…

Very, very excited (but still slightly stunned) to say that my article about Silicon Valley and outer space colonization is now online at @apsrjournal. More—and many more thank yous!—to come, but for now the open access link is here. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Check out this excellent new article by @AlinaUtrata: "Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley," American Political Science Review (2023) @cambridge_cpt @Dept_of_POLIS bit.ly/3QKdFLb