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The thanks are all ours, Jo!!

Huge thanks to Harvard Social Studies and @DavidRArmitage for inviting me to give the Narayan Lecture this week. We talked about climate change, long term and short term perspectives, text mining and LLMs, democracy and how information can support it. We covered miles and the brilliant students and lecturers were with me the entire way. Gratitude! 🙏

'Catherine Packham leads readers to ask what the “feminist” dimension of Wollstonecraft’s critique of commercial modernity means today.' Eileen M. Hunt (@EileenMHunt) on the exclusion of women through male inheritance and rank #Echobox=1729156415" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">the-tls.co.uk/literature-by-…

We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2024 Snow Book Prize for best book in British Studies dealing with the period prior to 1800. nacbs.org/news/jon-ben-s…

A few production hiccups along the way (first go!), but HEI published a roundtable on @mccormick_ted's Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–1800 (Cambridge, 2022). Introduced by @MillsRJW tandfonline.com/eprint/TW26N6U…

Thank you, Noah. Anya's loss has been a huge blow for all of us in Social Studies

@DavidRArmitage @HarvardSocStds @HarvardUniv @BrownUniversity Just read the thoughtful and moving article on Anya’s passing and her impact on her many students in @thecrimson — perfectly captures what made her so special and how much she will be missed. thecrimson.com/article/2024/8…

Attention recent PhDs and advanced doctoral candidates in the social sciences! Apply to our Academy Scholars Program for a two-year, in-residence postdoctoral fellowship—with stipend. Application deadline 9/20/24. Spread the word! ow.ly/pjcy50SKmxq

@emilykiddwhite [Blushes.] Thank you, Emily!

An extraordinary - totally unforgettable - keynote lecture by @DavidRArmitage on ‘The Law of Nations in Unexpected Places: Or, Diplomatic Immunity at the Opera’. Historicizing Jurisprudence #HartWorkshop

Warmest thanks to @EileenMHunt and @ArtsLettersND for so generously hosting my Niemeyer Lectures on opera and international thought, and to the commentators, singers and accompanist who made them such a uniquely memorable event.

📣 Apply for the 2024-25 Quentin Skinner Lectureship You will spend one term as a Visiting Fellow at CRASSH and are invited to give a lecture on a subject of your choosing in the broad field of intellectual history since 1500 ⏳ Deadline 24 June 2024 bit.ly/3js4P7Z

Chartbook 279: Columbia University's "crisis" - a political economy sketch map. The latest chartbook newsletter just dropped. Check it out and sign up here: open.substack.com/pub/adamtooze/…

@MattBirchy @OlafMerk Thank you, Matthew: that means a lot, coming from you

@OlafMerk @DavidRArmitage This book opened my eyes to the intellectual history of empire when I read it as an undergrad. It's a classic!

One cannot understand British empire without understanding its ideological justification. Inversely, one cannot comprehend much of British philosophy without realising how interwoven it is with empire

@AiredaleDodger @NotreDame @HellTweet @dovecomposer They'll be recorded, I gather.

It's all too real! Greatly looking forward to launching a new opus with a stellar cast of performers and commentators at @NotreDame next week. Come for the Mozart, stay for the Wagner, Smyth, Britten, @HellTweet, Verdi, Menotti, Weinberg and @dovecomposer!

@zeithistoriker By golly, you're right!

JOB: Lectureship in the History of the Modern Political Thought of Africa, the Americas, or Asia, at King's College London. More information: kcl.ac.uk/jobs/084725-le…

Prof. Susan James will deliver the 2024 Rubinstein Lecture in Intellectual History on 15 March "What’s really wrong with fake news? A Spinozist perspective" Register to attend: eventbrite.co.uk/e/whats-really…

The call for papers is still open to submit your abstracts for the London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought 2024. See below 👇…yofpoliticalthoughtblog.wordpress.com/call-for-paper…