And last but not least to our generous funders: Ghent University, SSHRC, University of Jyväskylä, and the University of Toronto Scarborough.
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And those not on bluesky: Martina Reuter, Kathleen McCrudden, Elena Gordon, Geneviève Rousselière, Kelsey Gordon, Geertje Bol, Emmanuelle de Champs, Menaka Philips, Delphine Calle, Marguerite Deslauriers, Eleanor Pickford, Kathy Ferguson, Devin Ouellette, Jaby Mathew, Tim Vasko and David Alvarez!
09.05.2025 12:43 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Today we wrapped up our 1st WHPT Conference – a fabulous gathering! Thanks to our wonderful contributors for inspiring papers:
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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!
07.05.2025 11:45 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Very excited to share the program of the upcoming WHPT conference! It promises to be a wonderful couple of days, and we cannot wait!
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New from Mary Jo MacDonald: "Acknowledging Sexual Equality: Hobbes's and Cavendish's Amazons" in Hobbes Studies
brill.com/view/journal...
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‘I Love you Whom the World calls Enemies’: Mary Astel...: Ingenta Connect
"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!
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A philosopher dismissed by men as Voltaire’s mistress
'Inherent to du Châtelet’s rejection of disciples and followers was a suspicion of male geniuses.'
Geertje Bol on a philosopher dismissed by men as Voltaire’s mistress
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The panels for Monday, March 3rd include:
10:30 am - 12:00 pm : “Silencing the female monster: Gournay on slander and public life” Anik Waldow (University of Sydney)
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm “Early Modern English Women on The Politics of Talent and Ambition” Geertje Bol (Ghent University)
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm: “Tyranny begins at home: the housewife/slave analogy put to good use” Sandrine Berges (Bilkent University/ University of York)
The panels for Tuesday, March 4th Include:
10:00 am - 11:30 am :“Macaulay & Wollstonecraft: An Epistemology of Political Resistance”
Elena Gordon (University of Jyväskylä) & Allauren Forbes (McMaster University)
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm :“Margaret Cavendish’s Unreal Estate: Monstrous Properties and Unreal Interiors” Torrey Shanks (University of Toronto)
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm : “Marriage as Slavery: The Influence of Oroonoko on Early English Feminism” Mary Jo MacDonald (University of Jyväskylä)
Delighted to share the programme for the upcoming "Monsters and Domesticity" workshop at the University of Jyväskylä.
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Last chance –– deadline is today!
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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...
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There is still time to apply! Deadline is January 24th.
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Call for papers. Women in the History of Political Thought conference. To be held on May 7th-9th in Ghent Belgium. Submit abstracts to womeninhpt@gmail.com by January 24th for consideration.
Delighted to share our call for papers for the 2025 Women in the History of Political Thought conference. We welcome papers related to women's contributions to political thought. We look forward to receiving your submissions! womeninhpt.com
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Mitchell Center/SNF Paideia Postdoctoral Fellow @ Penn | PhD from Cornell Gov | read, write, teach political theory
AP in political theory at University of Michigan working at the intersection of disability studies, feminist theory, and democratic theory. she/hers.
www.annheffernan.net
Political theorist at UBC. Author of Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy Beyond Sovereign Bounds (OUP 2025).
Thinking about utopia and the history of Yiddish political thought at Oxford. Fond of poetry, pottery, philosophy, and talking politics at the dinner table. linktr.ee/shcardin
Political theory PhD student at the University of Toronto & big fan of vampires!
(She/they)
Political Theorist. Author of Plutarch's Prism (CUP, 2022). History of ideas and moral psychology. Tennis fanatic.
The Times Literary Supplement. Subscribe here: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/buy
Professor Cultural History of the Body at Utrecht University: https://www.uu.nl/staff/WGRuberg. History of law, gender, body, culture. Research Network for Culture, Law and the Body (@culturelawbody.bsky.social).
Intellectual historian, Political theorist | Leader of research project ’The Republic of Newsletters’ | Republicanism, fascism, democracy - from the 18th century to our contemporary condition
Assistant professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of Warwick. Working on the political philosophy of artificial intelligence, public reason, and the digital public sphere.
www.henrikdkugelberg.net
Professor of Politics at King's College London. I work on politics, philosophy & history. My surname rhymes with "flaw". BlauBlog: http://adrianblau.wordpress.com (He/him)
International Relations Theory & History. Junior Research Fellow at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. Oxford Martin Fellow, Changing Global Orders.
www.janeijking.com
Political & Legal Philosophy | Junior Research Fellow at New College, University of Oxford | Department of Politics and International Relations | bylines Haaretz
Historian • JSPS Fellow @utokyoofficial.bsky.social nominated @britishacademy.bsky.social • Reviews Ed @global-ih.bsky.social • Co-org @gpolthought.bsky.social • PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social • the English republic • England & Sengoku/Edo Japan • autistic
Official account of the JHI Blog. Zac Endter, @jacobsaliba.bsky.social, & Rajosmita Roy.
Listen to In Theory: http://soundcloud.com/jhi-blog
JHIBlog.org
Publishing on the history of ideas in global contexts, based @standrewsiih.bsky.social, printed @routledgehistory.bsky.social. Chief Editor, @rosariolopez.bsky.social; Reviews Editor, @tomaashby.bsky.social.
PhD Researcher @EUI & convenor @inthisEUI - early modern political thought & intellectual history - PhDing on the Abbe de Saint-Pierre & confederations - single greatest sponsor of Autan mosquito spray
Antifascist.
Lecturer in British History (https://echelles.u-pariscite.fr/membre/hansson-john-erik-fr/).
Intellectual Hist./William Godwin/Radicalism/Anarchism/18th-20th c.
Reviews ed. - Anarchist Studies (https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/anarchiststudies).
