Truly and deeply honoured x.com/DeutscherPri...

This evening: A conference organized by the Chair of the History of Knowledge (Prof. Anne Kwaschik) at the University of Konstanz — “Translating Hitler,” by Olivier Mannoni.

How fascinating that this book was published just a few days before my session on "The Specter of the Haitian Revolution: Kant and Hegel on Slave Labour and the Racial Division of Labour." ☺️ ***** Hegel and Colonialism, by Daniel James and Franz Knappik. Open Access at cup.org/3LqOwGa

Today is Halloween. On All Hallows' Eve in 1590, Scottish authorities claimed 200 witches tried to prevent King James from reaching his bride in Denmark. Dozens were arrested & tortured, and 1000s killed in an era of sexist witch-hunts. Learn more here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/wit...

Nobody seems to have noticed, but the event is actually scheduled to Tuesday, *4 November* (and not the 5th).

Herr Kollege Uslu ist derzeit Gastwissenschaftler an der Universität Konstanz. Sein Forschungsschwerpunkt liegt seit Jahren im politischen Denken Lukács’. Kolleg:innen in und um Konstanz möchte ich das Kolloquium besonders empfehlen.

Freely available as a PDF on our website 💕 marxistiskestudier.com/danish-marxi...

Next Tuesday (5 November 2025, 17:00-18:30): A talk on "The Specificity of the Political: Georg Lukács’s Political Thought in the Post-Stalinist Ferment of Ideas (1956-1971)" @uni-konstanz.de Colloquium of Modern History.

Georg Lukács Commemoration Day in Heidelberg (Press Release)

We’re excited to announce the launch of our new website and the opening of the Call for Papers for Historical Materialism Istanbul 2026! Please visit our website here: www.hmistanbul.org

Coll: Colloquium Modern History https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158222 Konstanz, 21.10.2025-03.02.2026, AG Kolář, Universität Konstanz

‘Lukács Day’ has begun in Heidelberg. First stop: Keplerstr. 28, one of his residences in the city during the 1910s.

Upcoming on 4 November: www.geschichte.uni-konstanz.de/fach/vortrae...

The syllabus for my Winter semester course, “Work and Gender in Political Thought (18th–19th c.),” is now online: atesuslu.com/genel/syllab... For now, it includes only the main readings and will be expanded with additional materials throughout the semester.

István Mészáros is an underrated philosopher and this one is his most underrated book.

Very humbled to be shortlisted alongside such an impressive group of scholars

Ateş Uslu (@atesuslu.bsky.social), A Social History of Political Thought, “Demands for Equality Against Abstract Universalism (1789‑1917)”

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

An entire day dedicated to Lukács - complete with conferences, walking tours, and lunch? In Heidelberg? That may sound like a Lukács scholar’s dream, but it’s reality. Heidelberg, October 21, no pre-subscription required. www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/veranstal...

Turkey restricts social media amid police blockade on opposition party bianet.org/haber/turkey...

Police use tear gas outside CHP office as court-appointed İstanbul leadership prepares to take over 🗞️Evrim Kepenek & Gülseven Özkan bianet.org/haber/police...

We are witnessing the destruction of the remnants of Turkey’s already agonizing parliamentary democracy, as police forces occupy the Istanbul headquarters of the main opposition party, firing tear gas and plastic bullets both inside and outside against party members, MPs, and protesters.

I'm finalizing the syllabus for a course on Work and Gender in Political Thought that I will be teaching at Konstanz University. About 75% of the course will consist of a critical analysis of canonical texts, ranging from Rousseau to Mill. Any suggestions for hidden gems in the secondary literature?

Husserl’s essentialist approach can be criticized because it overlooks social, historical, and political contexts, but this critique could offer an opportunity to develop a new methodology that integrates it with contemporary social phenomena.

Join us to rethink the transformations and afterlives of ideas! #CfP

Ok, let me be clear: I am against the use of AI for generating any academic text (whether in whole or in part), just as I am against the use of internet search engines for plagiarism. Personally, I don't even use citation software, because I think handmade bibliographies are part of the craft.

There should be an alternative to both the unquestioning enthusiasm for AI in humanities classes and the "this is an analogous course, just use your brains" kind of neo-Luddism. You can use tools in a toolbox, but you can’t live in it. Let’s remind students that generative AI is just that:a toolbox.

I personally like modernized opera stagings, but this one is obnoxious. Attila as an animalistic, gold-obsessed barbarian fighting against European nations carrying actual contemporary flags? Even the most patriotic Risorgimento supporter was more refined back in the 1840s. youtu.be/1hLqPmFMmi8?...

Mikhail Psellos has an interesting exchange of letters with Leo Paraspondylos on fish and cheese, a pretext for contrasting divine and human modes of creation.

As of today, Volkan Cidam (@volkancidam.bsky.social) has been denied access to the Boğaziçi University campus, where he worked for many years, due to his participation in the protests against the rectorate.

Meanwhile, the entirety of Eastern European philosophy before 1989 is criticized for its rejection of idealism in favor of materialism. I'm not sure whether such a title would have been acceptable in a philosophy journal of the Eastern Bloc.

This is probably the most fascinating thread I’ve read here so far - almost like a lecture, one might say.

One like, one opinion on intellectual history.

📄 Christine de Pizan on Class, by Peter King brill.com/view/journal... #philsky 11/11

📢 HPLA 28.1, Special Issue: New Social Perspectives in Medieval Philosophy (edited by Ana María Mora-Márquez and Jenny Pelletier) published. brill.com/view/journal... #philsky 1/11

Boğaziçi University has refused to renew the contract of my colleague Volkan Çidam (@volkancidam.bsky.social), a prominent scholar of critical theory. The reasons behind this decision are clearly political, as the rectorate is retaliating against academics who resist their arbitrary decisions.

I use two criteria for a preliminary evaluation of works on the intellectual history of modernity: 1. Do the author(s) begin from a total rejection of pre-modernity? 2. Do they idealize pre-modernity? If the answer to either question is "yes," the work’s overall narrative is generally unconvincing.

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!

My excellent colleague and friend, Hasret Dikici Bilgin, has been elected as the new President-Elect of the International Political Science Association.I had the opportunity to witness her dedication during her years as Secretary General of the Turkish Political Science Association. Congratulations!

I'm not really into collector's items or original editions, but it was quite an experience to actually touch the very first edition of Lukács's History and Class Consciousness.

Dudes in their teens through 30s: We should totally start a band. Old academic dads: we should totally write a book together. @nabalkattu.bsky.social and I have approval for an Cambridge Elements "The Formation of Canons and the Mediterranean Iron Age"

Tuesday July 1 at 6pm, in Tübingen at the Villa Köstlin

It seems like I am officially beginning my humble and cautious transition into the field of African history! Stoked to be invited to this very exciting author's workshop organized by Mary A. Owusu and @martinrempe.bsky.social. Looking forward!

“During the Middle Ages in Europe, some sexual and gendered behaviors were labeled ‘sodomitical’ or evoked the use of ambiguous phrases such as the ‘unmentionable vice’ or the ‘sin against nature.’ How, though, did these categories enter the field of vision?” press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Rahel Jaeggi and Robin Celikates @robin-c.bsky.social introduce today's Benjamin Lecture, delivered by Tommie Shelby. @ktbberlin.bsky.social

Tommie Shelby on Richard Wright

PUBLICATION DAY! _I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom_ is now available from @yalepress.bsky.social To celebrate, I am going to post some of the most extraordinary Dessalines quotations below! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

I reviewed Quentin Skinner’s new one www.thenation.com/article/arch...

“The People's Two Powers: Public Opinion and Popular Sovereignty from Rousseau to Liberal Democracy” Arthur Ghins www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

Congrats to all colleagues. Aminah Hasan-Birdwell's article on Ottobah Cugoano was particularly striking to me, as it highlights how our understanding of the history of political thought -including international thought- is limited by the neglect of thinkers who fall outside the traditional canon.