Why is there such a pressure to publish early, and is it always the right thing to do? Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @fredpaxton.bsky.social and @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social discuss their different experiences with the publishing process as ECRs. 👉 Ep 5 #ConfessionsOfAnECR: tinyurl.com/yjkamh2a

Scholarship shapes structure. From the analysis of late colonialism to a mandate for urban change, the Mamdani legacy underscores that ideas do not stay in books and can be reclaimed in practice. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

“May you inspire many and blaze a trail!”

The person who pencilled in personal notes in this out-of-print library book about the liberal party with the word “crap” next to all the wild claims that the author makes: YOU have made my day 😂

Autumn View 🍂 #CambridgeUL

While great effort has been invested in analyzing revolutionary intellectuals, much less attention has been paid to the counterrevolution & its guides. My open access article published by @historians.org's AHR on Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, & Global Counterrevolution 👇🏼 doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...

Writing chaos

I enormously enjoyed this conversation with David Runciman about the history of compulsory voting, how it came to be adopted in countries like Belgium and Australia, and what it could for British politics today.

Archives!

Call for abstracts: Workshop “Recovering Voices, Reimagining Archives” at SOAS next year

*PSA26 Annual Conference* - taking place 30 March - 1 April 2026, Oxford. 📍 Call for papers, registration fees, and FAQs information online. 📆 Paper proposal deadline: 17 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/G6WTB20

Excited to see this in print with Cambridge University Press. A fantastic new volume on Anticolonialism and Social thought (Ed’s): Julian Go and Anaheed Al-Hardan. My contribution includes an intellectual history of Zweledinga Pallo Jordan drawing from archival work and an oral history interview.

Thrilled to have been a part of the British Academy/Leverhulme podcast series!

Confessions of an Early Career Researcher. We've released a new 'warts and all' podcast, in collaboration with @leverhulme.ac.uk which might be of interest to anyone thinking of starting a career in research www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/confess...

Please follow my excellent colleague @humeiraiqtidar.bsky.social! She is new to B-Sky but writes very many interesting (& methodologically innovative) things, including her new piece in @apsrjournal.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @ecpr-nptmethods.bsky.social @ipsa-rc31.bsky.social

...So, please follow the account above, please SHARE this post, & please do also get in touch if you're keen 2 help out or take part in Rome: @biapt.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social @apaphilosophy.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

...It's really important that pol-phi has a substantial & growing place in the only pol-sci organisation devoted primarily to scholars working outside of the 'global north', but to do so we need help & followers, as well as those interested in coming to the beautiful city of Rome in July 2027...

Announcement: I'm now Co-Chair of the IPSA Political Philosophy Research Committee @ipsa-rc31.bsky.social. Working with @humeiraiqtidar.bsky.social. Have joined up partly 2 ensure the group continues but also 2 massively grow its presence, starting with the next biennial conference in Rome (2027)...

Modernity after Alasdair MacIntyre genealogiesofmodernity.org/journal/mode...

We held our first special issue seminar yesterday, hosted by Chris Allsobrook (guest editor) and featuring contributors: Abraham Olivier, Dimpho Maponya, Olerato Mogomotsi, Pedro Tabensky, Jane Gordon, and Andrea Hurst. The recording is available now: youtu.be/89dRcKNB4EY #politicaltheory #theoria

@lassethomassen.bsky.social @camilavergara.bsky.social @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social

Delighted that a book project I was working on will soon be out in print with CUP elements.

Please do not follow the account below, it is a fake/ impersonation account. I have reported it.

The trouble with electronic student evaluation questionnaires is that they eliminate creativity. For example I once saw a hand written questionnaire in which the student objected to the lecturer’s paisley body warmer he always lectured in and drew a helpful illustration to support his complaint.

Advocate Tembeka Ngucakaitobi at the #LSE human rights lecture tonight.

Tonight at the London School of Economics Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi delivers a tour de force lecture on the South African tradition of human rights with its distinct revolutionary genealogy and on South Africa’s ICJ case on the genocide in Gaza. #LSEhumanrights

Next week join Dr Mahvish Ahmad at SOAS! Her talk will build on over a decade of political and intellectual engagement with the Baloch movement against enforced disappearances and state violence by Pakistan.

Look forward to speaking at the University of Coimbra this Friday. ces.uc.pt/pt/agenda-no...

A wonderful experience guest lecturing African intellectual history for the Mphil in African Studies core course at the University of Cambridge today. @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social

Arabic Calligraphy. Joys of a new leisure pursuit . The qalam ( reed pen) might sometime be dipped in ink mid-way of completing a letter and requires a degree like precision. Still a novice but very therapeutic!

Reminder -- York Centre for Political Theory 2025 Book Manuscript Workshop Award (Deadline, 19 December 2024) -- Note that the deadline is in 2024, not 2025 as previously advertised www.york.ac.uk/politics/cpt... @uditbhatia.bsky.social @martinoneill.bsky.social @elsakugelberg.bsky.social

🔔From the Blog Archive | Fitzroy Morrissey (Pembroke) | The Venture of the Islamicate: The History of a Key Concept in Islamic Intellectual History intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/vent...

Already looking forward to 2025 as @global-ih.bsky.social will reach its 10-year milestone!!

The London Political Theory Network is hosting a holiday reception on Friday, November 29 starting at 5:30 pm. It would be lovely to see friends there. Please register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-pol...

Look forward to speaking at Cardiff University this week. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/polir-125-...

From the archive: J.G.A. Pocock's "The cave"! From Plato, Moses, & Laozi through Machiavelli, Hobbes, & Rousseau to Marx, Mao, & Strauss, read the characters he portrays in this witty "short history of philosophy", written in the 1970s & published by us (2016): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I have created a "starter pack" for intellectual history, broadly construed, composed of historians, philosophers, political theorists, literary scholars, & more! Sorry for those I missed & cannot add (limit 150), but do reply, like, & share this post so that people can find you! go.bsky.app/77uSk3m

Finally, some blue skies