We’re looking forward to tomorrow’s webinar on the history of American Freethought. Get in touch if you’re not an ISHASH member and would like to join us 📕

Join us next Thursday (9 April) to hear from David C. Hoffman about his new book ‘American Freethought: The History of a Social Movement, 1794-1948.’ Full details here: atheismsecularismhumanism.wordpress.com/seminars/

Join us next Thursday (9 April) to hear from David C. Hoffman about his new book ‘American Freethought: The History of a Social Movement, 1794-1948.’ Full details here: atheismsecularismhumanism.wordpress.com/seminars/

Our Associate Director Barathy M.G. will be giving what’s sure to be a fascinating talk about global networks of freethought. Full details of the free webinar linked below.

Our Associate Director Barathy M.G. will be giving what’s sure to be a fascinating talk about global networks of freethought. Full details of the free webinar linked below.

Introducing our new Teaching Resources page! Check out the syllabi, reading lists, and assignment ideas shared by ISHASH members. We hope this inspires others to bring the histories of atheism, secularism & humanism into their teaching.

Thanks to generosity of our members, @ishash.bsky.social now hosts a page of teaching resources that bring histories of freethought into cultural and intellectual history, literature and religious studies courses. Check it out! atheismsecularismhumanism.wordpress.com/teaching-res...

Most international academic networks and cooperations are about research, not teaching. Therefore I am very happy that our network now has published a page with teaching resources. Examples from many different contexts.

Introducing our new Teaching Resources page! Check out the syllabi, reading lists, and assignment ideas shared by ISHASH members. We hope this inspires others to bring the histories of atheism, secularism & humanism into their teaching.

Our Recent Books webpage is updated with two fresh titles from February 2026: - Rethinking Atheism in the Early Modern World - P McGhee (ed.) - What God Kept for Himself: Atheism, Sodomy, and Radical Dissent in Renaissance Italy - U Grassi atheismsecularismhumanism.wordpress.com/books/

Our first webinar of 2026 will be a chance to reflect on, discuss, and share experiences of teaching histories of atheism, secularism, and humanism. Join us on Wed 18 February - just get in touch to register, all welcome! atheismsecularismhumanism.wordpress.com/seminars/

Check out the new Fellowship Program for Humanist Thought @americanhumanist.bsky.social for early career researchers working in any discipline on the humanist-secularist-nonreligious spectrum! Deadline 20 March 2026. Details here: americanhumanist.org/about/opport...

We're looking forward to hosting David C. Hoffman for a webinar discussion about his new book on Thursday 9 April! Details here: atheismsecularismhumanism.wordpress.com/seminars/

Our first webinar of 2026 will be a chance to reflect on, discuss, and share experiences of teaching histories of atheism, secularism, and humanism. Join us on Wed 18 February - just get in touch to register, all welcome! atheismsecularismhumanism.wordpress.com/seminars/

🍾🍾The paperback edition of Anticlerical Legacies is out today! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195821/

Having learned of Stephen Weldon’s book at a recent webinar co-hosted by @nonreligioncf.bsky.social and @ishash.bsky.social, I’ve started reading The Scientific Spirit of American Humanism.

Happening this evening - there’s still time to sign up and join us for what promises to be a fascinating conversation!

Happening this Wednesday! Register for the latest webinar in our series, Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations, a collaboration with @ishash.bsky.social. This webinar will focus on science and nonreligion. Oct 29, 1pm ET Register here: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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...

Register now for the latest webinar in our series, Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations, a collaboration with @ishash.bsky.social. This webinar will focus on the relationship between science and the natural world. Oct 29, 1pm ET Register uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Looking forward hearing our newest associate director, Barathy MG, speaking at this webinar!

Join me next Tuesday to discuss a fascinating paper that reconstructs a group biography of twelve women whose commitment to freethought is evidenced through their wills. All are welcome to join this webinar on history of (non)religion, women's lives, and archives - details below!

On Tuesday 30 Sept I’ll be the respondent to Nyala Karla Nauwelaer’s paper ‘The feminization thesis under scrutiny: the case of the freethinking women of Ghent (late 19th - early 20th century)’. Join us for what is sure to be a fascinating conversation! www.aehrc.es/sfm-nyala-ka...

This time last year I co-organised a public history festival on the secular freethought movement at @conwayhall.bsky.social. Great to see that the fascinating panel about the @thefreethinkermag.bsky.social (est. 1881 and still going today) is now online - check it out! m.youtube.com/watch?v=I5KJ...

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...

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...

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

Looking forward to participating in this event tomorrow. It's a great edited volume. Worth attending if you're interested and haven't read it yet.

Welcome all tomorrow to our (earlier postponed) book launch webinar for the volume ”The Non-Religious and the State” (De Gruyter). Non-members: contact us for zoom link.

Deadline today!

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!

New book! David C. Hoffman has written a long history of the American freethought movement. "American Freethought: The History of a Social Movement, 1794–1948" is out now from JHU Press. Read more here: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

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

On Wednesday we’ll be joined by Eva Pazelt, who will present and discuss her new book Scientific Atheism in East Germany (1963-1990): How to Turn a Hare into a Lion. All welcome! atheismsecularismhumanism.wordpress.com/seminars/

Call for Papers: 'Common Sense at 250: Legacies of Democracy from Paine to today' Conference at Sussex University and Lewes, January 9-10 2026: theitps.org/common-sense... Co-organised with the @theitps.bsky.social and Thomas Paine: Legacy Keynotes @gclaeyshistory.bsky.social and Danielle Allen

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

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:

The conversation on "Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations. Using Statistics" with these incredible colleagues was great! Thanks for the [email protected] @ishash.bsky.social @nathgalexander.bsky.social

There is still time to register for our upcoming webinar this week, "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...

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...

Our next seminar will be a fantastic interdisciplinary conversation about how historians and social scientists use statistics to understand the past and present of nonreligion. Hosted with @nonreligioncf.bsky.social. Sign up to join us via Zoom on Wed 9 April: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Announcing the second in our series of Freethought History Webinars, ft. @Eoin_Carter on freethought and evolution - and Darwinian erasure? 15 April, 7pm UK time on Zoom. Register now and don't miss out! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Some dates for your diaries! Our upcoming webinars will be on Wed 9 April, 7 May, and 18 June - sign up to the ISHASH mailing list to get the Zoom links. Full details here: atheismsecularismhumanism.wordpress.com/seminars/

Some dates for your diaries! Our upcoming webinars will be on Wed 9 April, 7 May, and 18 June - sign up to the ISHASH mailing list to get the Zoom links. Full details here: atheismsecularismhumanism.wordpress.com/seminars/

A Sunday archive dive today in the Freethinker: editor @danieljamessharp.bsky.social delves into the life of Charles Watts (1836-1906) and reproduces a fine article of his from 1894 which contains some interesting and relevant reflections for our own time. freethinker.co.uk/2025/02/from...

Across articles spanning Britain, USA, Germany & Greece, we find that various forms of poetry (often in periodicals) functioned as a "testing ground" for a secular worldview based on inner-worldliness, rationality, materialism, the idea of human progress, and rejection of religious authority.

The forum of articles I edited with Carolin Kosuch is out now and open access!“19th-Century Secularist Poetry: Form and Formation of a New Worldview” brings together brilliant contributors to shed new light on the role of poetry in shaping freethought internationally muse.jhu.edu/issue/54115

We've recently added new profiles to our members page. Check it out to see the wonderfully wide range of researchers working on global histories of atheism, secularism & humanism. Membership is free - send us an email to be added to our mailing list atheismsecularismhumanism.wordpress.com/members/