Eli Bernstein

*correction* I miss the walk "down" the hill

oh I do miss the walk up St Michael's Hill

I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!

Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History Bringing together emerging scholars to conduct a critical genealogy of modern citizenship.

Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History
Self and State: Intellectual Histories of Citizenship
Registration is now open for this year’s graduate conference taking place on Tuesday 24 June 2025
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cambridge-...

oh this is great! I will be sharing this with my students

Stopped off at Hardwick Hall on the way down from north Yorkshire today. Unfortunately the excellent portrait of Hobbes has been put into storage but the bust remains in place, staring at Francis Bacon

And it’s out! My book is now available online:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

From the history of knowledge to the practice of censorship, the Republic of Letters, textual criticism, and much else(!), it tells a new story about the Old Testament in #EarlyModern Europe.

#Skystorians

thank you!

would be grateful to be included

📣 Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2025

Eric Nelson (Harvard): For the Way Things Are: In Search of a Defensible Conservatism | Hilary Term, 5pm, Tuesdays Weeks 3-8 | more details coming soon...

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The James Ford Lectures in British History are coming to Examination Schools in January 2025!

Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University) will be speaking on French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History, c. 1100-c. 1500 starting Thursday 23rd January.

See you there!

ho ho ho... this is coming up for disciplines this week. Won't be the same without you!

I've begun a starter pack of scholars of the early modern Low Countries. Let me know if you want me to add you. #earlymodern 🗃️
go.bsky.app/VsHZ9xJ

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Is working on late c16 and early c17 education enough to get me in the club?

Oxford Centre for Intellectual History

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Sophie Smith · A Comet that Bodes Mischief: Women in Philosophy Whenever I read claims about ‘forgotten women’, I want to ask: ‘By whom?’ Feminists? Society? The ‘culture...

Our very own Sophie Smith (University College, Oxford) asks about the role of intellectual history in perpetuating the prejudices faced by women in philosophy for the LRB
@londonreview.bsky.social

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The Encyclopédie Nouvelle: The 19th Century’s Magnificent Achievement and Glorious Failure

📣NEW BLOG | The Encyclopédie Nouvelle: The 19th Century’s Magnificent Achievement and Glorious Failure - Michael Drolet

intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...

📣JOB | 6-year fixed-term The Clive Holmes Fellowship in History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford | US History Post-1776 with core interests in political, religious, or intellectual history | application deadline: March 14

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J. G. A. Pocock (1924-2023)

📣NEW BLOG | ‘Farewell to Treebeard’ - Brian Young (Christ Church, Oxford) reflects upon the life and legacy of J.G.A. Pocock on the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Blog:

intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/j.-g...

📣Excited to share this term's programme for the seminar in Early Modern Intellectual History. The sessions will be held in All Souls College, Oxford, on Thursday afternoons. All welcome!

The End of Enlightenment: A Conversation with Richard Whatmore

📣NEW BLOG - Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment (2023) is based on his 2019 Oxford Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought. To mark the publication of his book, Whatmore spoke to Richard Bourke @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/rich...

📣Dr Paul Seaward to deliver the 2024 Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought:

'Clarendon and the Practice of Politics'

First lecture on 23 Jan 17.00 - Exam Schools

▶️ intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/paul-s...

Mark Goldie (Cambridge): 'Intertextual Whiggism: Political Aphorisms, Textual Appropriation, and Pol...

Early Modern Britain Seminar | THURS 23 NOV - 17.00 Mark Goldie (@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social ):
'Intertextual Whiggism: Political Aphorisms, Textual Appropriation, and Political Thought, 1570-1800'

intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/mark-g...

Political Thought and the Welfare State: Jose Harris's History of Social Policy

📣New BLOG

Ben Jackson (Oxford): 'Political Thought and the Welfare State: Jose Harris's History of Social Policy'

intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/poli...

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that we would all like someone else to come along and write our conclusions."

We talked with Catherine Phipps about writing her OA article on 'bordels militaires de campagne' in the BRAND NEW issue out now!
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6080/
🗃️#FRHistory

It's #french #earlymodern seminar no. 2 tomorrow, 12.15 at St John's College - bring your lunch! Jeffrey Peters will discuss 'The Matter of Poetic Air in Early Modern France'

eduroam Wifi went down in the library and I think this was probably the most productive 40mins I've had in a long time

By the way, I am giving a public lecture about my research at Corpus next Wednesday, and you can come if you would like; it will also be livestreamed. Find out more and register here: www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/alumni/event...