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...

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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

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

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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