And now free to read (I think?) at the link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

New book alert🚨 Geertje Bol's Partisan Virtue is out online! The book offers a timely defence of partisanship by turning to two 18th century women—Astell &Macaulay—for whom parties were a vehicle for political participation. So excited to dig into this! academic.oup.com/book/62949

My big news: I'm going back to the Maritimes! So lucky to be joining Mount Allison

Another inspiring workshop! We explored women’s contributions to liberalism, republicanism, conservatism, and socialism—and how these often marginalized perspectives reshape our understanding of these political traditions. Many thanks to all the wonderful participants!

So looking forward to this next month! @piperls.bsky.social @rkingston.bsky.social @jennieci.bsky.social

This will be excellent — “Partisan Virtue” by Geertje Bol @whpt.bsky.social 👇 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

New Cambridge Element on Harriet Jacobs, author of 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl' - free to download for the next two weeks

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student

Excited to share my new article! I argue that Judith Drake’s (1696) case for women’s inclusion rests less on claims about the "unsexed mind" and more on her keen insight into the sociopolitical transformations of her time. @polityalsberuf.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Geertje Bol on canon construction and history of women philosophers! www.the-tls.com/philosophy/c...

Most depictions of St. Christopher show him holding a child, but in a wooden church in Finland I saw him with an entire pulpit on his head. Patron saint of carrying things, I guess.

Teaching utopia? I’ve started a public Zotero group for sharing syllabi, reading lists, & teaching materials on utopia: www.zotero.org/groups/60695.... Whether you’ve taught More or Morris, Bloch or Bogdanov, Le Guin or Lewinsky—your contributions are welcome! #utopia #teachingresources

Cool study from @bikewaysto.bsky.social detailing a traffic count on Bloor Street taken on June 11 with a camera at 412 Bloor West. During the peak of the afternoon rush, bikes outnumbered cars. I repeat: bikes outnumbered cars. drive.google.com/file/d/1ctd4...

The complete (bilingual) program for our upcoming workshop at McGill University is available here: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/workshops.html Join us in Montreal, Canada, from June 6 to June 8! (registration required) #philsky #womeninphilosophy #africanaphilosophy #historyofphilosophy

Such an encouraging and constructive few days. And how fun to be in a monastery during the election of a new pope!

What a wonderful start to the WHPT conference this morning in Ghent, with panels on Jewish political thought and women and gender in celestial worlds. Excited for what's to come!

Very excited to share the program of the upcoming WHPT conference! It promises to be a wonderful couple of days, and we cannot wait! @maryjomacdonald.bsky.social @sophiecardin.bsky.social @abbsleblanc.bsky.social @rosscarroll.bsky.social @tmbejan.bsky.social

New from Mary Jo MacDonald: "Acknowledging Sexual Equality: Hobbes's and Cavendish's Amazons" in Hobbes Studies brill.com/view/journal...

‘I think of handwriting as a way to organise thought into shapes. I like shapes. I like organising them. But because of recent neurological changes in my brain I find shapes fall apart on me.’ Anne Carson on Parkinson’s, poetry and bad handwriting: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"Before we heed calls for political friendship, then, we would do well to consider the critique of political friendship of an early feminist, and her bold embrace of political enmity." Check out Geertje Bol's new paper 'Mary Astell Against Political Friendship' in History of Political Thought!

A year ago today, I moved from Canada to Finland. At the time, several of my family members expressed concern about my relocation because Finland shares a border with a country whose leader is bent on territorial expansion. Thinking about this for no particular reason today.

Delighted to share the programme for the upcoming "Monsters and Domesticity" workshop at the University of Jyväskylä.

One week left to apply for the 2025 Women in the History of Political Thought conference –– to take place at this lovely monastery in the middle of Ghent (as if you needed more reasons to apply!) For more info and the CfP see womeninhpt.com/call-for-pap...

Another review of my book on slavery in eighteenth-century philosophy just came out (as far as I know, the third one). So far the reception has been encouraging, which is such a relief. It's always nerve-wracking to read reviews of one's work. #philsky #earlymodernphilosophy #slavery #academicsky

Reminded of Smith's LRB article today, in which she argues that we should avoid describing women philosophers as 'forgotten'. She argues that this language may "encourage us to ‘forget’ the writers, usually women themselves, who have fought to correct that record?"

I am trying to wrap up projects and seek closure (still so surreal) and one thing I'd love to see published or taken care of for a wider audience in some shape or form are my illustrations of Margaret Cavendish's (1623-1673) Blazing-world (1666), a proto-SF novel. Here's a summary + my drawings 1/

New on here: follow @whpt.bsky.social for updates on women in the history of political thought & an upcoming conference in May 2025! Share widely and consider adding to your starter packs!

CFP: Women in the History of Political Thought Conference. Do share widely!

Settling accounts Before he was famous, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was Louise Dupin’s scribe. It’s her ideas on inequality that fill his writings. by Rebecca Wilkin via @aeonmag https://aeon.co/essays/inequality-was-a-feminist-idea-before-it-was-rousseaus #books #literature

Fascinating review and discussion of the soundscapes, and forced silence, in female residential institutions in renaissance Italy.

This is brilliant: Fara Dabhoiwala, "A Man of Parts and Learning" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

One thing driving me nuts in the Toronto bike lanes fiasco: the uncritical repetition of Ford's claim about 'gridlock'. Gridlock is a specific type of traffic congestion (when networks of intersecting streets become so full that movement is impossible), and Toronto's major arteries do not have it.

Recently published online! @mollygroarke.bsky.social (@camhistory.bsky.social) investigates heroic anti-slavery portrayals of the Haitian general & revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803) in abolitionist texts in Britain between 1803 and 1863 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Exciting new article by Geertje Bol, which examines the reception of Astell and Macaulay to challenge some basic assumptions about what it means to include women in the canon of HPT. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Jyväskylä appreciation post

I dont think of myself as a technophobe, but then there are days when I realize that propping up pages of handwritten reference notes is probably not the most efficient use of this second monitor.

Did you read (or write) a great feminist political theory paper in 2023? Please nominate it for APSA's Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory! Any paper published in 2023 in any English-language journal is eligible

Congratulations to Dr. @maryjomacdonald.bsky.social Mary Jo Macdonald, RGCS alum BA Honours Philosophy & Political Science 2017, who yesterday defended her dissertation "The Meaning of Equality" in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto!

Thrilled to have my first publication now available in Political Theory! On my favourite 17th century thinker, Gabrielle Suchon, and why she describes women as destructive, frightening wonders. You can read it here: doi.org/10.1177/0090...