Tyson Retz

Yes. Moving from Australia, which means tests, to Norway, where welfare is universal, has made clear to me that means testing only produces bitterness. The constant complaint that others are being given preferential treatment destroys trust in government and democratic institutions.

Proud to become dual Australian-Norwegian citizen! (Norway, I know you dearly protect your fishing industry but these salmon-coloured passports are too much 😘).

Things of the Past Cambridge Core - Global History - Things of the Past

Congratulations to @kreskildsen.bsky.social on the publication of his @universitypress.cambridge.org THINGS OF THE PAST: a modern yearning, in the Elements in Historical Theory and Practice series. Free to download till 13 November at DOI: 10.1017/9781009342988. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

The Department of History at Queen’s University seeks a postdoctoral fellow to start July 1, 2026. Applications are due on January 15, 2026 for the Marjorie McLean Oliver Post-Doctoral Fellowship. The full position description can be found here: www.queensu.ca/history/abou...

My family have never quite grasped my interest in history and now that I've told them about my interest in the Bourbon Restoration they seem truly poised to stage an intervention.

Dual biography, comparative biography, or two separate biographies of the figures concerned. That is the question today.

Norwegians have created a simple solution to everything being shut on Sundays. Go for a walk #lifeinnorway #mosvatnet #stavanger

I used to say my bit in order to 'go on the record' until I learnt that there is no record.

In a week, I’ll be referencing Dilthey, Ranke, Burckhardt, Heidegger, Troeltsch and Benjamin, all in one talk! From historical contemplation as existential consolation to history as a source of existential Angst. Do join!

Stuart Macintyre used say, ‘start the day by picking up a book that inspires you’. Presently, that book for me is Catholicism and Democracy by Emile Perreau-Saussine. It’s the most brilliant book on Catholic political thought with sharp comparative insights into liberal Protestantism.

Well I guess that brings to an end the Long Reformation.

Progress comes with an entire philosophy of history in tow. 'Politics after progress' and 'education after progress' are discourses that contest the validity of this philosophy of history. Nobody as far as I know is contesting the reality of orderly progression 2/2

Progress and the Scale of History Cambridge Core - Global History - Progress and the Scale of History

3 years later and I'd like to stress this:

Orderly progression, cumulative development, incremental improvement. These concepts are not to be confused with the concept of progress. They carry none of the temporal expectations and moral assumptions that progress carries 1/2

📅 Save the date!

The University of Stavanger, invites you to a symposium entitled:

Freedom of Expression in Times of Genocide

🗓 Wed. Nov 12, 5–7:30 pm | Sølvberget, Stavanger & online

Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah & Martin Shaw

More details to follow.

PhD coursework? Come to Stavanger to study my hermeneutics course (5 ECTS). It's about developing a methodological language to communicate your aims as a humanistic researcher. www.uis.no/en/course/DU...

The series grows, and I love Maria's phrase 'iconoclastic activism'.

Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit. Representation: The Birth of Historical Reality from the Death of the Past. Historians should have no more trustworthy a philo­­sophical companion than Frank Ankersmit. For the past five decades, he has been the historicist’s philo

I reviewed Frank Ankersmit's new book for the AHR academic.oup.com/ahr/article-... @historians.org

+ brilliant defence of historicism and how individual representations of historical reality contribute to the growth of historical knowledge

- bogged down in the mysteries of the Leibnizian system