My new article has just been published in The Historical Journal (open access)🥳 Very proud of this one, and grateful to everyone who's helped me think through the issues explored here over the past couple of years! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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

BSECS 2026 7-9 January, Pembroke College Oxford We’re so looking forward to attending the BSECS Annual Conference, Europe’s leading event dedicated to the history, culture, and literature of the long eighteenth century. Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/bsecs...

Workshop on Freethinking and Democracy at Jyväskylä on 13 December—come join us if you're around & interested!

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

✨CfP✨ Reading the Readers: Theories, Methods, and Futures in Reception Studies 12–13 February 2026, University of Málaga Please share widely and submit proposals by 22 September 2025 @rosariolopez.bsky.social

Congratulations! Will cite! Here’s an oldie but goodie from AJPS in 2004 on Wollstonecraft’s 19th c. philosophical reception in America. Free PDF: cooperative-individualism.org/botting-eile...

New publication! open access in Analysis: Recent Work on the Reception History of Mary Wollstonecraft's Philosophy including some reflections on reception methods with Martina Reuter, and a shoutout to @eileenmhunt.bsky.social academic.oup.com/analysis/adv...

Only 5 days left to enter the Hobbes Studies Essay Competition—please share!

✨Excited to share ✨ Anticlerical Legacies will be published in paperback in January 2026! Please do recommend it to your students, libraries, and anyone else who might be interested! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195821/

Any historians of political thought based in Barcelona or Madrid on here? If so, please do get in touch!

What a huge privilege it was to welcome philosopher @eladcarmel.bsky.social to my class on queerness at #Eurovision @unibe.ch Thanks for sharing how a utopian reading of the event can yield new interpretations!

We're all set up at the Renaissance Society of America conference 👋 Come and say hello to our editors: @siobhanmup.bsky.social @mlhouston.bsky.social And find out more about our Renaissance History and Literature lists 💌 #RSA

My review of Robin Mills's book, The Religious Innatism Debate in Early Modern Britain, is out now in History of European Ideas: doi.org/10.1080/0191...

CfP! www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

Reminder: Hobbes Studies 2025 essay competition is open!

How do colonial pasts shape racism today? Check out Marta Araujo's interview @martaraujo.bsky.social from our seminar "Acting Democratically: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Politics of Exclusion" hosted in Málaga last Feb @ortproject.bsky.social @koneensaatio.fi shorturl.at/mVLIM

Elad Carmel's presentation (@eladcarmel.bsky.social, @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social) “The Bubble: Utopia, Democracy, and (Contested) Inclusion in the Eurovision Song Contest” opened fascinating perspectives both to democracy and the upcoming @eurovision.tv at Basel. Photo: @houmanauriell.bsky.social

I've spent the morning discussing Montesquieu's views on slavery, gender and climate with @ortproject.bsky.social and @eladcarmel.bsky.social, so this comes at the perfect time!

🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨 The Call for Papers and Symposia for the ISIH 2025 Conference has been postponed to February 1! 🗓️ Theme: Women, Men, and Other Animals 📍 Where: Aarhus University 📆 When: 11–13 June 2025 👉 More info & submissions: is-ih.com/isih-2025-wo...

Our interview with Elad Carmel (@eladcarmel.bsky.social) about his new book, Anticlerical Legacies, is now out on the European Hobbes Society website. A fascinating read for early modernists!👇 europeanhobbessociety.squarespace.com/articles/int...

This is going to be fun!

What an honour! 🙏

Happy to share that Anticlerical Legacies is recommended by CHOICE! 'Drawing from both published works and private writings, Carmel ... shows that sympathetic readings of Hobbes were available at the time while also helping illuminate the value these Deists brought to these discussions'.

Hobbes Studies announces: 2025 essay competition! Essays are particularly welcome from early career researchers Submission deadline: 30 June 2025 Please share!

Interview with Elad Carmel. Hobbes, reception history, deism, enjoy! www.intellectualhistory.net/new-work/ant...

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