Happy to hear from you and thanks for your interest, Howard!
02.03.2026 11:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@janvoemel.bsky.social
Global History, History of Modern Turkey and Indonesia, Islamism, nativist movements, religions, gender, intellectual history Occasionally: golden age rap, food, travel, and other fun things PDFs of my articles: https://inalco.academia.edu/JanVomel
Happy to hear from you and thanks for your interest, Howard!
02.03.2026 11:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New publication: An essay on the Turkish state's attempts to depoliticize Islam, why they failed, different criticisms, and possible alternative scenarios for the religious bureaucracy / state-managed Islam...
Let me know if you don't have access.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
8 visits to Kremlin.
0 visits to Kyiv.
Registration: framaforms.org/inscription-...
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Tomorrow - open to all
📑 "Civilisation” as a Concept of Power: Genealogies of Modernity and the Politics of Universalism in Nineteenth-Century Arabic
Dr. Wael Abu 'Uksa
Programme DÉCRIPT @inalco.fr Seminar Series Near and Middle East
17/02/2026 14:00 Paris Time
www.inalco.fr/en/events/ci...
DÉCRIPT in dialogue | with Amitav Acharya
"The Once and Future World Order"
@inalco.fr @fondationmsh.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-de...
Two opportunities (research funding and short-term stays) to work on #civilizationism in different regions of the world with a great team @ Programme DÉCRIPT, @inalco.fr, Paris... ⤵️
Feel free to get in touch if interested. For details, see the PDF here ➡️ www.inalco.fr/en/job-offer...
La @fondationmsh.bsky.social et le Programme DÉCRIPT lancent un nouveau RDV consacré aux grandes voix de la recherche internationale. Le politologue Amitav Acharya inaugurera ce cycle le 22/01 avec une discussion animée par Catherine Porter (NYT).
Infos et inscription : https://swll.to/tsqIu
Job opportunity with the LSE Middle East Center @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPT377/r...
Two opportunities (research funding and short-term stays) to work on #civilizationism in different regions of the world with a great team @ Programme DÉCRIPT, @inalco.fr, Paris... ⤵️
Feel free to get in touch if interested. For details, see the PDF here ➡️ www.inalco.fr/en/job-offer...
The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back. They were not defending a universal right to freedom of speech; they were defending a right to monologue. They could say what they want, and you could shut up and like it. The cynicism of the effort can be known by its fruits: an administration that issues executive orders “protecting” free speech while engaging in the most sweeping campaign of state censorship since the Red Scare.
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Hi All, Timothy Snyder and I held
a Substack Live a little while ago, and ranged widely on the Russo-Ukraine war. It ended up being divided into two parts. Here is part one where we talk about views of Russia, Ukraine and war in 2022. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Wie Paris in 10 Jahren seine Luft um 40% verbesserte und so vorzeitige Todesfälle durch Smog halbieren konnte, ist so eine krasse Erfolgsgeschichte. 2019 litten 400.000 Menschen an schlechter Luft. 2023 nur noch 5.000 und nächstes Jahr sollen es Null sein. Für eine 🇪🇺 Großstadt ist das beispiellos❤️
17.12.2025 07:33 — 👍 2236 🔁 667 💬 45 📌 36Though I do like this response on US attacks regarding 'freedom of speech' in Europe.
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I re-read the 2017 Trump I National Security Strategy and the differences to the 2025 strategy are really striking. This reads like a document from different times
trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/u...
Zu sehen ist ein Screenshot der Webseite mit dem Titel der Rezension sowie dem Buchcover und weiteren bibliografischen Angaben.
In „Zerstörungslust“ fragen @camlinger.bsky.social und @onachtwey.bsky.social nach den Ursachen für die destruktiven Tendenzen der Gegenwart, die Wut auf die liberale Demokratie und den Vormarsch rechter Bewegungen. @jensbisky.bsky.social hat das Buch rezensiert:
www.soziopolis.de/einladung-zu...
📣 Publication alert!
"Writing Conceptual Histories" ed. by Jani Marjanen and Pasi Ihalainen offers a great sample of theories, methods, and case studies. It also demonstrates the many ways to write conceptual histories and encourages scholars to experiment with new approaches! bit.ly/wch_25
The indictment of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu is a textbook example of how hybrid regimes operate: elections continue, but the field is tilted beyond recognition.
It’s a sobering signal for Turkey — and for other democracies, including the US - that is under threat.
apnews.com/article/turk...
Consider this
Reformation of Science Publishing
The Stockholm Declaration
sciii-it.org/stockholm-de...
Pathbreaking study of the Cold War's position in Turkish Studies by @cangulornek.bsky.social and Alp Yenen. Also the most important outcome of our pandemic workshop on Turkey's Cold War.
06.11.2025 14:03 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
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Turkey’s Narco-Authoritarian Turn: A Mafia Playground
www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publicati...
By @hakkitas.bsky.social for @giga-hamburg.de
Gefühle und ästhetische Theorien im Angesicht der Gewaltgeschichte #infoclioevent
06.10.2025 07:22 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"the Postcolonial Left’s relentless attacks on the “epistemic violence” of Western norms of rationality and modernity are providing the conceptual vocabulary for the Hindu Right’s project of “decolonizing the Hindu mind.”"
m.thewire.in/article/book...
🚨🚨 #Denmark aims to ban #socialmedia for children under 15. PM Mette Frederiksen says "We have unleashed a monster" to Danish lawmakers. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-mette-frederiksen-partially-ban-social-media-children-under-15/
08.10.2025 07:54 — 👍 398 🔁 136 💬 29 📌 27
Suddenly #Schmitt is everywhere, popping up in current affairs and employed to explain them...
When we had to read him in introduction to political thought / history of ideas classes, we used to think of his ideas as an artifact from a long gone era...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Nice, many thanks for both, I have a literature review forthcoming and I'll feature Topal's book which I had missed until your blog post.
18.09.2025 17:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last month I rode my motorbike in the depths of (Western) Turkey and I half-joked that I crossed villages where people haven't heard of the Republic yet. As on cue @selimkoru.bsky.social analyzes the politics of that visceral feeling in the current context
kulturkampftr.substack.com/p/we-are-des...
interesting thx; reading this, I thought of Banu Turnaoğlu's book - I had the feeling that it didn't get the attention it deserved.
18.09.2025 10:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0