The JHI's Graduate Student Symposium, "Between the Text and Material History," will be held this Saturday, October 4, on Zoom! Events kick off at 10:00 am Eastern. Check out the complete schedule and register here:

Today on the blog, Jon Catlin interviews Kathryn Brackney on her latest, award-winning book, "Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness" @joncatlin.bsky.social @uwiscpress.bsky.social

A new issue of the journal is now available, with articles by Daniel Sutton, Craig Martin, Nayeli L. Riano, Hugo Bonin, Wojciech Engelking, Ian Merkel, and Ernst Müller, Barbara Picht, and Falko Schmieder. Have a look, here on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55549 @pennpress.bsky.social

In a new think piece for the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Marek Maj discusses how, before the Soviet Union's détente with the West, Polish scientists attempted to render intellectual labor more efficient by adapting and revising the Western managerial turn to motivation.

Today’s think piece explores how life insurance—often seen as a dry, technical instrument—became a surprising site for negotiating modernity in the colonial world.

Are you dying to know if Hegel hated ersatz coffee? Then boy do I have the piece for you. Very happy to be part of the JHI blog forum on political economy in intellectual history!

As part of the JHI Blog forum on political economy, Marie Louise Krogh examines Hegel's rare reflections on the 19th century international coffee industry as an entry point into the theoretical stakes of political economy in the midst of European imperialism.

Benjamín Gaillard-Garrido interviews Beverley Best about her book, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx's Capital (Verso, 2024), which dissects the third volume of Marx's Capital to reveal capital's means of appearance. web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...

Officially marking the first of many pieces in the Blog's forum "The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History," Mikkel Flohr offers a novel reading of Marx's historical materialism for a "political economy of ideas." @mflohr.bsky.social

On today's episode of In Theory, the JHI Blog podcast, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Quentin Skinner on his new book, "Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal." @universitypress.cambridge.org

Registration is now open for the JHI Graduate Student Symposium, to be held on Saturday, October 4 via Zoom. Peruse the program and register to attend:

For the blog, Lilia Endter interviews Mikko Immanen about his most recent book, Adorno's Gamble ( @cornellupress.bsky.social ), which reconstructs and analyzes Adorno's integration and overcoming of the ideas of Weimar-era “conservative revolutionaries” like Klages and Spengler.

In the journal, Victoria Smolkin and Daniel Peris examine how the interactions between two secularist organizations shaped the meaning, direction, and fate, of secularism in interwar Europe. Read the article here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

In today’s think piece, Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa analyzes how historian Sylvia Murr’s discovery of plagiarism in “the most celebrated work of nineteenth-century Indology” led her to develop an approach to historical discourse that challenges received genealogies of the ‘global’ turn.

Rolf Strøm-Olsen explores how patterns of musical consumption were shaped by the authority of music-critical journalism in "Applied Aesthetics and the Musical Public on the Threshold of Romanticism." Read it here in the latest issue of the JHI: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... @rstromolsen.bsky.social

Alyssa Battistoni discusses her book, Free Gifts, a value-theoretical study of capitalism's appropriation of nature, with Jochen Schmon. They cover the "new materialism," reproductive labor, existentialism, and activism. @alybatt.bsky.social, @jochenschmon.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social

The JHI newsletter is full of announcements and updates about the journal and blog. Have a quick scroll through the latest here, and subscribe to receive these quarterly newsletters via email: mailchi.mp/115a72d9d762...

In today's think-piece, Sam Chian discusses Immanuel Wallerstein alongside W.E.B. Du Bois as a theorist of decolonization and Pan-Africanism.

The recent issue of the JHI includes an article by Ingrid Schreiber: "Egoism and Sociability in the Kantian Public Sphere" muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

The recent issue of the JHI includes an article by Kaarlo Havu: "Rhetoric, Ambivalence, and Dissension in Renaissance Catholic Europe During the Sixteenth Century": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

In today's think piece, Niels Lee analyzes the deeper complexities of Japanese nationalism and settler colonialism within the Pan-Asianist movement at the turn of the century.

The new issue of the JHI includes an article by Luuk de Boer: "The Abstract King: Hellenistic Royal Wills and the Immortal State": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

The JHI Blog is seeking additional contributing editors. Learn more about the opportunity here.

The latest issue of the JHI includes an article by Sophie Scott-Brown: "'A Real WEA Tutor': G. D. H. Cole, Socialist Democracy, and the Politics of Persona"—free for the next few weeks: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Rose Facchini (@rosefacchini.bsky.social) interviewed Anna Ferrando about the practice of literary agency in Italy before and during World War II, a history that explains the peculiar fact that Fascist Italy ranked among the greatest consumers of foreign literature.

Kirsten Macfarlane's article in the summer issue of the JHI, "Written in the Stars? Alphabets and Angels in Early Modern Europe," is free to read and download for the next few weeks: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

The latest issue of the journal is now available online, including articles by Luuk de Boer, Kaarlo Havu, Kirsten Macfarlane, Ingrid Schreiber, Rolf Strøm-Olsen, Victoria Smolkin and Daniel Peris, and Sophie Scott-Brown. Happy reading!

Today on the blog, scholars Graham Ashurst, Emily Hull, and Sophie Joscelyne discuss the theoretical intricacies and historical perplexities behind neoconservatism.

In today’s podcast, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Sam Klug (@samklug.bsky.social) about his recent book, The Internal Colony (@uchicagopress.bsky.social), which explores how the process of decolonization in the 1940s-70s transformed US debates about the role of race in American life.

Today on the blog, M. Fatih Çalışır discusses the mutual reinforcement of statesmanship and intellectual life in the seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire, which broadened and internationalized its epistemologies under the rule of Fazıl Ahmed Pasha.

In today's think piece on the JHI Blog, Brandon Taylor tracks the emergence of the flattening "commercial gaze" in the earliest British East India Company travelogues.

In this interview, Andrew Hartman (@andrewhartman.bsky.social) discusses how the US was a structuring example in Marx's thought and how conditions in the US shaped the reception of Marx's work from the 19th century to the present. His new book is "Karl Marx in America" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social).

In todays episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Stephen Legg (@stephenlegg11.bsky.social) about his recent @ugapress.bsky.social book, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities.

The JHI’s Board of Editors is delighted to announce a new award for graduate students. The Martin Jay Prize recognizes the best article by a graduate student-author accepted for publication in the journal each year. The editors welcome your submissions!

In today's podcast, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Kevin Pham (@kdpham.bsky.social‬) about his recent book, The Architects of Dignity (Oxford University Press, 2024).

Attention grad students: The deadline for proposals for the JHI's 2025 Graduate Student Symposium has been extended to June 16. There's still time! See here for more information:

Leif Weatherby (@leifw.bsky.social‬) discusses his new book, Language Machines, with Robin Manley (@robinmanley.bsky.social‬). The interview covers similarities between structuralism and Large Language Models, Saussure's relationship to Marxism, and theories versus histories of the present.

Today on the blog, Matias X. Gonzalez chats with Diego Pirillo about his JHI article "How Knowledge Travels: Learned Periodicals and the Atlantic Republic of Letters."

We're delighted to encounter a discussion of Thomas Vozar's recent JHI article in this Chronicle of Higher Education newsletter.

We're still accepting proposals for “Between the Text and Material History,” the 2025 JHI Grad Student Symposium. Submit your proposal by next Friday, June 13. The symposium will explore how historians' engagement with visual and material sources extends the discipline’s intellectual realms.

In the latest issue of the JHI, Mikołaj Ratajczak delineates the genealogy of “biopolitics” in the discourse on the “biology of the state": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Sven Reichardt analyzes the historical and comparative literature on fascism alongside recent research in the social sciences, arguing that we should wield the concept of fascism with far greater sophistication than is often practiced.

The latest JHI includes an article by Myriam Bienenstock, "Assessing Ethical Culture in Germany: Friedrich Albert Lange, Felix Adler—and Hermann Cohen": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

The recent issue of the JHI includes an article by Olga Lenczewska: "Kant on Moral Education and the Origins of Humanity" muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

What's the problem with declarations of a new translation's "authoritative" status? In an interview on her new book, Translation Multiples, Kasia Szymanska (@kaszyma.bsky.social) discusses the idiosyncrasies and possibilities of the practice of translation. @princetonupress.bsky.social

Sam Kennerley contributes the final article on the Greek Fathers in the latest JHI: "A 'Lost Renaissance' of Patristic Scholarship? Unpublished Latin Translations of John Chrysostom Created in Italy Between 1575 and 1585": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

In the latest issue of the journal, Maria Fallica considers the patristic anthologies curated by Herman Hamelmann to understand the early modern reception of the Greek Fathers during the inception of Lutheran confessionalization: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Check out the newsletter to catch up on new scholarship and announcements from the blog and journal—including a round-up of recent posts and a CFP for the upcoming, seventh annual Grad Student Symposium. mailchi.mp/178e0d922e4a...

Today on the blog, Sandipto Dasgupta discusses his new book on the transition from anticolonialism to postcolonialism in the writing of the Indian constitution. He questions narratives of a conflict between singular "indigenous" vs. "Western" political traditions.

In the latest issue of the JHI, Marta Quatrale explores Melanchthon's editions of the Greek Fathers. muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...