1/5 For our monthly highlight in November, approaching our 10th anniversary next year, we spoke with Taushif Kara (Cambridge, now @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) author of “Provincializing Mecca? (1924–1969)”, published in 2022 (online 2021). Here is what he had to say about this work:

Join us on Wednesday for another "Nonreligion Past and Present" webinar, this time on nonreligion and science. In cooperation with @nonreligioncf.bsky.social. As always we have great scholars in the panel. Do not forget to register to get the zoom link: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

har hittat ett spännande glapp i datainmatningens begreppshistoria (typ) – vad kallades det yrke som först hette "stansoperatris" och sen blev "dataregistrerare" däremellan? Nån som har någon aning? (diagrammet visar sökträffar i KBs dagstidningsdatabas 1940–1995)

Does anyone know of a good book on the intellectual history of war (or war and peace)? Like an introduction to and contextualisation of important works in the political thought on war, or similar.

Does anyone know of a good book on the intellectual history of war (or war and peace)? Like an introduction to and contextualisation of important works in the political thought on war, or similar.

Har tecknat prenumeration.

Interesting PhD course on Environmental history in Copenhagen in January, hosted by @erikisberg.bsky.social and Niklas Olsen. phdcourses.dk/Course/135089

Nya Historisk tidskrift ute - tema tro! Perfekt för alla oss som tycker det är kul när vanliga historiker och idéhistoriker sysslar med kristendom. Jag har bidragit med en essä om kristen offentlighet under 1900-talet. www.historisktidskrift.se/index.php/ju...

📢 New publication! ”Animal Mercantilism: Race Smuggling, Sheep Diplomacy, and the Geopolitics of Genetic Capital in Eighteenth-Century France” in @annales.ehess.fr is now available OA🐑🌍 doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

Min vän och fd kollega Peter Karlsson har samlat ett antal teologiska essäer om svensk samtidslitteratur. Rekommenderar starkt; en typ av texter jag inte vet om någon annan kunnat skriva just nu.

Välkommen på disputation i idéhistoria på Stockholms universitet fredag den 26 september. 🎉 Adam Kjellgren lägger fram doktorsavhandlingen Myth and Feminist Theory. Beauvoir, Daly & Haraway. Läs mer här: www.su.se/institutione...

We're delighted to be hosting another interdisciplinary conversation with @nonreligioncf.bsky.social! Join us on Wed 29 October for a discussion of the relationship between science and nonreligion, from the perspectives of historians and social scientists. Sign up: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I am not terribly active in presenting or discussing at conferences/workshops/seminars this year; I am adjusting to new family life and new job, so I am hardly travelling. But two things I am really stoked about being part of in September/October 👇

We are proud to be a partner in the project European Entangled Atheisms, funded by the German Research Foundation and led by Carolin Kosuch, Göttingen. Next month, the group will meet to discuss the first steps in what will be a digital source edition on the history of atheism. tinyurl.com/38rzwrmk

Theres a postdoc opportunity in gender studies or ethnology available at my university for someone who knows Russian and Ukrainian. In the Horizon Europe project MADnituDe. web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

Vad hände med arbetarklassen? Den 15/9 kan ni få svaret för då släpps min bok. www.bokus.com/bok/97891792...

Bra Streckare om ett bra band: Anton Jansson skriver om Pet Shop Boys i dagens Svenskan.

✨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

Tomorrow is the deadline for submitting an abstract for the conference Biographies and the Secular, held in Brussels 21-22 November. You can find the CfP on this link: ssab.research.vub.be/call-for-pap... Hope to see you there!

Vi söker doktorand i agrarhistoria! Vi söker någon som vill utforska den ekonomiska ojämlikheten i 1500-talets Sverige och Finland. Utifrån förmögenhetsskatteregister kartlägger vi alla hushålls förmögenhet från 1571 och framåt. Sök senast den 17 augusti! www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...

Our book Race & the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820 can now be pre-ordered (publication date is in August). @brucealexb.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... #skystorians #colonialhistory #enlightenment #histsci

Quentin Skinner Lecture 'The Spirit of the Constitution', 6 June 11am-6.30pm Dr Max Skjönsberg (Hamilton School of Classical & Civic Education) will engage with the political debate about reforming parliament between the late 17 & early 19 centuries buff.ly/BHcb7Xo With @camhistory.bsky.social

För tre år sedan förvärvades Historiska Media av Bonnierförlagen. Sedan dess har de (såvitt jag kan se) inte anlitat en enda faktagranskare, vilket de ofta brukade göra tidigare. Och nu detta – som ser ut som ett sätt att mjölka litteraturstöd från Kulturrådet, avsett för nyutgiven litteratur.

Now over 1600 signees.

I am one of over 700 (and counting) faculty and staff from Swedish universities who have signed the Uppsala declaration, made public today, calling for a boycott of complicit Israeli institutions of higher education. Read more: uppsaladeclaration.se

Jag är en av de många undertecknarna av detta upprop mot att samarbeta med israeliska statliga universitet. www.dn.se/sverige/fors...

The Secular Studies Association Brussels announces its call for proposals for an upcoming conference entitled, "Biographies and the Secular." The CFP will be open through 30 June.

New article! On the early biodiversity discussion where scientists warned of genetic erosion in the wake of the green revolution, and presented visions of how the planetary environmental underpinnings of society – including evolution itself – could be governed. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Later today: webinar! Scientific atheism in the GDR. Contact us if you want the link (members: check your inboxes).

Extended deadline for Vol. 5 of the scholarly yearbook ”History of Intellectual Culture” (De Gruyter). The contributions will be peer reviewed and available open access. The deadline for submitting a proposal is now 2 June. You can find the CfP at: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/03/18/c...

"Provincializing Europe Revised": 25 years after the publication of Dipesh Chakrabarty's major work, Richard Bourke (@camhistory.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social) offers a review article critically analysing its context, arguments, & legacy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us on Wednesday! Fascinating topic.

Pleased to be part of this issue of Secular Studies focused on biography, ed @antnlj.bsky.social & J Tyssens. I focus on the affordances of the biographical dictionary to consider how JM Wheeler’s 1889 vol framed freethinker’s sense of themselves as a diverse counterpublic brill.com/view/journal...

Nation, Race, Religion: A Story of Sweden’s Spiritual Vikings. 🌀 That is the title of my book, just now off to the press! It's a little trip where the reader will meet Christian national socialists, fascist bodybuilder influencers, and Pentecostal prayer warriors. Coming soon on Routledge:

ISHASH co-director Anton Jansson has edited a special issue of the journal Secular Studies on what the "biographical turn" in the humanities can contribute to the history of atheism, secularism, and humanism. Read all about it in Anton's thread:

För ett par veckor sedan gick min institutionskollega, litteraturvetaren Jonas Ingvarsson, hastigt och oväntat bort. Humtank har nu publicerat tre fina texter om saknaden efter en på alla håll omtyckt kollega. humtank.se/jonas-ingvar...

Our latest webinar (co-hosted by @ishash.bsky.social) is now available on YouTube. This webinar focuses on how historians and social scientists can use statistics and data in the study of nonreligion. @claregs.bsky.social @hugorabbia.bsky.social @antnlj.bsky.social youtu.be/B0ptsdqQynA

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 👇 brill.com/view/journal... 1/9

The Swedish Research Council incidentally has a new grant out to facilitate for non-European researchers to relocate to Sweden. Interesting times. www.vr.se/english/just...

Jag har recenserat Åsa Linderborgs Tjabo för Aftonbladet Kultur: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/bokre...

Det här var en riktigt bra bok. Mer utförlig recension kommer i Lychnos om sisådär nio månader.

#HCG2025 Many have asked and many more have waited: The CfP for the 26th International Conference on the History of Concepts „Images of Historical Times. Concepts, Metaphors, and Arts“ is open now! 📅 27–29 October 2025 📍 Bologna 🇮🇹 ⏰ Submission deadline: 31 May 2025 eventi.unibo.it/historical-t...

Mycket bra boktips i den här tråden! Ska bläddra i ett par innan jag bestämmer mig, men kom på att jag har två egna kandidater: Dubravka Ugresics Smärtans Ministerium och Natalia Ginzburgs Familjelexikon.

Den svenska debatten om AI:ns materiella grunder har varit väldigt bra, men jag tycker att debatten om dess samhällsförändrande potential har varit mycket sämre. Nästan frånvarande. Har du tankar/idéer/pitchar? Söker med lykta. Mejla mig gärna på [email protected].

I'll try this in English as well: If you were to include a novel in a university course on European history (and European identity), which novel would you choose? I have done this before with Sabrina Janesch - Katzenberge, but can't use that anymore.

Om ni skulle ha ett skönlitterärt seminarium på en universitetskurs om Europas historia och europeisk identitet (typ), vilken roman skulle ni välja då? Jag har tidigare haft Sabrina Janesch - Kattbergen, men den är ej i tryck för tillfället. Fria associationer ok!

My article is out! On how ‘ecosystem services’ went from a word for those aspects of nature that economics cannot express to a word for nature's economic value, and how concerns for planetary habitability disappeared from the environmentalist vocabulary. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Register now for our upcoming webinar, "Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations: Using Statistics," a collaboration with the @ishash.bsky.social April 9, 2025 1pm ET Register here: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Call for papers digital workshop in the History of humanities: Comparing Comparing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Comparative Methods and their Histories 9–11 July 2025, hybrid format. Open to all/free of charge Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2025 www.historyofhumanities.org/2025/02/28/c...

Deadline förlängd till 23 april! Kontakta mig om ni vill veta mer.