Veldig glad for å kunne skrive for ‪@forskerforum.bsky.social roterende Forskerlivet-spalte; denne gangen om #akademia og #filosofi i USA.

This was special. I got to host ABC's The Philosophers' Zone, in celebration of International Women's Day. And - the best part - I interviewed my good friend Kristin Gjesdal. Hear Kristin (and me) talk about IWD and the woman behind it, Clara Zetkin, here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

For more on Zetkin, I highly recommend @kristingjesdal.bsky.social's incisive interview with @herplacepod.bsky.social, especially re Zetkin's analysis of fascism. She died in exile in 1933--she knew what she was talking about. #IWD #IWD2026 #herstory #womenshistory open.spotify.com/episode/3j8Q...

Many thoughts to Clara Zetkin on #InternationalWomensDay. So grateful to be part of this conversation on Zetkin with @juliettemarchant.bsky.social a few weeks back. #philsky #womeninphilosophy #womenshistory podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...)

Supert å være med på den roterende Forskerlivet-serien til @forskerforum.bsky.social. Neste innlegg i april! #Forskerliv #Forskning #Akademia #Universitetet

Excellent conversation between @kristingjesdal.bsky.social and @herplacepod.bsky.social on Clara Zetkin—philosopher, activist, powerful critic of fascism. Highly recommend! #philsky #womeninphilosophy #womenshistory podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

For the first episode of Her Place in Theory (@herplacepod.bsky.social) in 2026, I had the pleasure of talking with @kristingjesdal.bsky.social about the remarkable Clara Zetkin - Marxist theorist, communist activist, and tireless advocate for women’s liberation. open.spotify.com/episode/3j8Q...

Looking for something to read for the rest of this Thanksgiving weekend, if you're in the US? Or for a cozy, regular weekend, in the rest of the Northern hemisphere? Or for a warm weekend outside for those in the Southern hemisphere? Or...? You get the drill... 😉

Ich freue mich, dass ich sie in einem der vielen Büchern über weibliche Vordenkerinnen entdecke: Clara Zetkin "Rebellinnen der Philosophie - Frauen, die das Denken der Moderne geprägt haben." von Kristin Gjesdal; übersetzt von Sarah Schmitt Erschienen im @eichbornverlag.bsky.social #fbm25

Philosophical sighting in the #Berlin wild! Congratulations again to @kristingjesdal.bsky.social and happy day after World Philosphy Day! #angeladavis #zetkin #luxemburg #annajuliacooper #philsky #womeninphilosophy #womenshistory @dalianassar.bsky.social @skyecleary.bsky.social

One of the many virtues of Rebellinnen der Philosophie is that it allows me to continue my series of impressive head gear sighted in Berlin #hume #germainedestael #beauvoir

First episode of a wonderful new podcast--Her Place in Theory--featuring the political #philosophy of Germaine de #Staël in an interview with Helena Rosenblatt. Learned so much and looking forward to more! @juliettemarchant.bsky.social #philsky #womeninphilosophy podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

*Officially* out today: Susan Stebbing: Analysis, Common Sense, and Public Philosophy. I’m grateful to my co-editor, Annalisa Coliva, and all our excellent contributors! Link in bio. (Find the volume’s introduction on my website 😈.)

Congratulations to Associate Professor Eugene Chislenko for winning the Andrew Light Award for Public Philosophy! You can read more about his accomplishment here: iseethics.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/2...

More women philosophers are always welcome: Hilda Oakeley seems particularly erudite & her works include History and Progress (1923); Greek Ethical Thought (1925); A Study in the Philosophy of Personality (1928) and History and the Self (1934). Can't wait to read more! #19C #philsky #womenshistory

Very happy to see that my book is starting to get a life in Germany! #womenshistory #19C #philsky #books

Finally! Rebellinnen der Philosophie is here in a gorgeous translation by Sarah Schmitt. Thanks to the editors at ‪@eichbornverlag.bsky.social‬ for the work they put into this. Next up: the English transl., Unruly Women, @uchicagopress.bsky.social. #philsky #booksky #education #womenshistory

Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!

Philosophy Friends & Fellow Colleagues: I have very exciting news for #TheYoungIdealist Series! This Summer will feature special guests Dr. Catherine Grimm, Dr. Matthew McManus, Dr. Sebastian Luft, @kristingjesdal.bsky.social Dr. Kristin Gjesdal, Dr. Fernando Wirtz, Dr. Daniel Tutt, & Ray Brassier.

My Rebellinnen der Philosophie is out in two weeks’ time! Pre-order available: bastei-luebbe.de/Buecher/Sach... #philsky #booksky #author

How to think about children and education? About learning and learning well? Maria Montessori’s work should not be overlooked. She was a formidable philosopher. Patrick Frierson’s new book on her philosophy of education does her full justice. Summer reading, anyone? #philsky #booksky #education

Very excited to visit Helsinki & looking forward to lots of high-quality talks on art and aesthetics at the Nordic Society of Aesthetics’ annual conference this weekend. www.nsae.fi/conferences/ #philsky #art

Happy Birthday, Margaret #Fuller! A good year for her--wonderful treatment of her importance in both these new publications. More this year in our OUP volume on American women #philosophers. #philsky #womeninphilosophy #americanphilosophy #transcendentalism

The summer conference schedule is off with a bang! Looking so much forward to “The Philosophy of Angela Y. Davis” in Bergen this week. @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social and @franz.knappik.bsky.social have put together an amazing conference program - #philsky #books #norway

George Eliot was an extraordinary gifted novelist. She was also a philosophical thinker. This week, Clare Carlisle’s much-anticipated Stanford Encyclopedia-entry on George Eliot’s philosophy is up online. Do check it out –   #books #philsky #art #history

#19C women philosophers are touring the world! @dalianassar.bluesky.social and my edited volume is already out in English and Norwegian. The Arab translation is going to print today -  @lucyrandall802.bsky.social #philsky #booksky #women #feminism

Looking so much forward to this event! Thanks to ‪@schlawinerkreis.bsky.social and @franzknappik.bsky.social for organizing - #philsky #booksky

A political superpower à la England and Russia! Germaine de Staël was born 04/22/1766. Her philosophy? Humboldt adored her moral psychology; Goethe and Schiller praised her aesthetics. New translations of her philosophy are much overdue. Here, too, she is a superpower -

Ibsen’s “Ghosts,” directed by Jack O’Brian, at the LCT, NYC, is definitely worthwhile. And this comes from somebody who has seen what probably amounts to an unhealthy number of Ibsen stagings, esp. while researching my Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche-book.   #books #performance

Final panel of my #womenshistorymonth tetraptych. A book @lydiamoland.bsky.social has not mentioned: her own! «Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life» is truly inspiring & relevant. We need more Lydias – of the #19C and of the #21C kind. @uchicagopress.bsky.social #philsky #books

For #womenshistorymonth #philsky edition: Bettina Br. von Arnim had won fame with her Goethe-book. How best to use it? A dialogue with her friend Karoline. That’s Günderrode, 1840. On a woman philosopher; by a woman philosopher. Sample Women Philosophers w. @oupphilosophy.bsky.social #19C #booksky

So much work; so much fun. It is exciting that our massive volume is finally here! A big thank you to the 30+ contributors who wrote in-depth chapters on women philosophers -- their ideas and their contributions to key philosophical movements from romanticism to phenomenology. #booksky #philsky

Assuming a book about a woman philosopher – for @lydiamoland.bsky.social’s  #womenshistorymonth-challenge - can be written by the philosopher herself. Mary Midgley’s memoir is a favorite. 230 pages packed with wisdom. Her view of philosophy? Not a luxury but a necessity. #philsky #booksky

In the spirit of @lydiamoland.bsky.social’s philosophical #womenshistorymonth -challenge: Benjamin Lipscomb’s “The Women are Up to Something” is quite a read: so much to learn, written with an abundance of energy – a fitting tribute to the Oxford Quartet. #booksky #philsky

Was Dag Solstad obsessed with a desolate universe? Possibly. His characters are alienated, world-weary, and struggle to fit into the modern world. He was a giant in Norwegian literature. Do read the obituary in today’s NYT. His work deserves more Anglophone readers and translations - #booksky

Happy to see this volume that @dalianassar.bsky.social and I edited be incl. by @lydiamoland.bsky.social. The volume, published by @oxfordunipress.bsky.social, covers 9 #19thC women thinkers & the arch from the French Revolution to WWII. Translations by @annaezekiel.bsky.social. #philsky #booksky

Picking up @lydiamoland.bsky.social's challenge for a philosophical #womenshistorymonth with one of my personal favorites. @philosofemme.bsky.social 's "Becoming Beauvoir" is a true gem: biographically thorough, philosophically deep, and eminently well written! #booksky #philsky

Thanks to ‪@lydiamoland.bsky.social‬ for posting on recent (and forthcoming) books on women philosophers!

Worried about the state of Constitutional Democracy? My colleagues Lee-Ann Chae and @brianhutler.bsky.social have put together an amazing conference next weekend (March 28-30). More info at: sites.temple.edu/crisis/   #philsky #democracy

“Only through inner connectedness does a social formation change into a community.” That’s Gerda Walther (born: March 18, 1897). «Toward an Ontology of Social Communities» will be out with DeGruyter in Sept. For now, do celebrate her b-day with a chapter from Women Philosophers! #philsky #booksky

THANK YOU to everyone who attended the twin-volume Oxford Handbook celebration on Thursday! Want to learn more about #19C women philosophers? The Handbooks are discounted for #womenshistorymonth. @lydiamoland.bsky.social @dalianassar.bsky.social @ennhistphil.bsky.social   #philsky

happy International Women’s Day! @dalianassar.bsky.social and I wrote this piece on Clara Zetkin & IWD a while back; it is no less relevant today! blog.oup.com/2022/03/inte... #philsky #iwd #women

Looking forward to March 13 & the celebration of #19C women thinkers! Three volumes, 2000 pages, some 60+ contributors, and plenty of philosophical awesomeness - #books #philsky

“The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.” That’s the #19C thinker Rosa Luxemburg, whose birthday is March 5. A bold anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist & anti-fascist avant la lettre. Her work is worth revisiting – always.   #philsky #books

So much looking forward to our celebration! Join us if you can : ) #philsky #19C #books #womeninphilosophy

“People who dislike clever women are in a tragic mood.” Hedwig Conrad-Martius (born Feb 27, 1888) won the Göttingen phenomenology prize in 1912. Do celebrate her today! Much more fun to teach phenomenology with Stein, Walther, and C-M on the syllabus.   #Philsky #phenomenology

Happy to announce that we just added a new (and awesome) #19C entry to the Stanford Encyclopedia of #philosophy: Patrick Frierson on Maria Montessori. Do check it out! plato.stanford.edu/entries/mont... #education #womeninphilosophy

Really looking forward to participating in this--our celebration of three new OUP volumes on #19C #womeninphilosophy is March 13, 9pmGMT. Thanks to @ennhistphil.bsky.social for organizing! @kristingjesdal.bsky.social @dalianassar.bsky.social @sandrineankara.bsky.social @alisabokulich.bsky.social

As the head organizer I am happy to announce that there is still time to make the CfP of The Nordic Society of Aesthetics in Helsinki June 7-9. The list of keynotes also expanded: Noël Carroll, @kristingjesdal.bsky.social, Hanne Appelqvist, Andrea Mecacci, Ossi Naukkarinen www.nsae.fi/conferences/

“Practically all the great European philosophers have been bachelors…” Such is the opening of Mary Midgley’s “Rings & Books.” Am I the only one to have missed this long-lost gem of an essay (aka script for a never-aired BBC talk) published online by Raven Magazine?   #philsk #womeninphilosophy