Susan Longfield Karr

It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. (1984/4)

The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall.
(1984/3)

Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. (1984;2)

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...

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Check this amazing collection of essays, especially by my brilliant co-editor! There’s one the state of nature in there worth checking out, too. 🙂

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

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This is a great opportunity for all to share their research on Renaissance war & peace in a fast-paced, interdisciplinary lightning format!

Questions? Contact Susan Longfield Karr at karrsn@uc.edu

PLEASE pass it on!

📅 DEADLINE: July 14, 2025
Submit:
✉️ Title & 200-word abstract
📄 2-page CV
To: Susan Longfield Karr (RSA Discipline Rep, Legal & Political Thought)
📧 karrsn@uc.edu
Subject: "RSA proposal"
Notifications by July 30, 2025

📝 Possible areas of investigation:

* Legal & political definitions of sovereignty in wartime
* Role of diplomacy in peace-building & treaty-making
* Rights of individuals & communities in conflict
* Confessional, regional, or imperial comparisons

...and how peace could be secured. This lightning panel invites 5-to-7-minute presentations that explore how the legal, ethical, and ceremonial frameworks of war and peace were imagined, contested, and enacted during the European Renaissance.

CFP for ⚡ Lightning Talk Panel: The Rights of War and Peace 📍 2026 RSA Annual Meeting (Feb 19–21, 2026).

From the revival of just war theory to the evolution of diplomatic norms, Renaissance thinkers and institutions engaged deeply with the question of how conflict could be managed...

Possible topics include:

* Legal frameworks & political power
* Sovereignty & its legal justifications
* Critiques of tyranny in legal/political thought
* Impact of legal thought on political rhetoric (& vice versa)
* Regional case studies on law & society

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Don't miss this opportunity to contribute to interdisciplinary scholarship on Renaissance legal-political thought!
Questions? Contact Susan Longfield Karr at karrsn@uc.edu

PLEASE PASS THIS CFP ON :)

📅 DEADLINE: July 1, 2025
Submit:
✉️ Title & 200-word abstract
📄 2-page CV
To: Susan Longfield Karr (RSA Discipline Rep, Legal & Political Thought)
📧 karrsn@uc.edu
Subject: "RSA proposal"
Notifications by July 30, 2025

📝 Possible topics include:

Legal frameworks & political power
Sovereignty & its legal justifications
Critiques of tyranny in legal/political thought
Impact of legal thought on political rhetoric (& vice versa)
Regional case studies on law & society

The goal is to host three panels bridging disciplinary divides—examining how jurisprudence, sovereignty, governance, and rights influenced each other within and beyond Europe during the Renaissance.
Topics welcome across multiple fields!

📢 CFP: The Intersections & Influences of Legal and Political Authority in the European Renaissance

Seeking papers on the dynamic interplay between legal & political authority during the Renaissance (1300-1700) @ the 2026 RSA Annual Meeting!

📝 Possible topics include:

* Legal frameworks & political power
* Sovereignty & its legal justifications
* Critiques of tyranny in legal/political thought
* Impact of legal thought on political rhetoric (& vice versa)
* Regional case studies

Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) at the Joint Faculties of Humanities & Theology, Lund University We are looking for an up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct pioneering research to take up a position as Assistant Professor at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University.

As a member of the International Advisory Board of LUCK, Lund's Centre for the History of Knowledge, I recommend this job offer: an Assistant Professor at the Department of History devoted to work within a Global History of Knowledge.

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Framing Devices and Global Legal Traditions: From the Ancient World to the Modern Nation State This collection explores prefaces, prologues, paratexts, and other types of framing devices. Across world history, these devices have introduced the law, articulated its context and audience, identifi...

Coming soon! www.routledge.com/Framing-Devi...

Consumer sentiment is now lower than it was during the Great Recession and the second lowest reading since 1952. The guy who inherited hundreds of millions from his father and squandered it now inherited an economy that was the envy of the world and squandered it.

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.

When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

This may be the most important thing he's said if only because it's very hard for people to admit they were wrong and seeing someone else do it makes it so much easier