Xinyi Wen (she/they)

Thank you so much @americanstudier.bsky.social for the kind words about my recent blog post @warburginstitute.bsky.social!

Link to the blog:
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#ScholarSunday Thread 263 (2/15/26) – Black and White and Read All Over Celebrating Presidents in 2026? Fraught as hell, but what’s not is celebrating all the great public scholarship in my 263rd #ScholarSunday thread of writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books. Add mor...

Celebrating Presidents in 2026? Fraught as hell, but what’s not is celebrating all the great public scholarship in my 263rd #ScholarSunday thread of writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +

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Enjoy my story of an impossible encounter, where Aby Warburg and Shimomura Toratarō got off linear timelines. Where San Francisco became next-door to Yokohama. Where WWII Japan’s ‘overcoming modernity (近代の超克)’ reworked #Astrology in #EarlyModern Europe. #History #HistoryOfArt #HistSci #PhilHist 🗃️

Of course! Sorry just saw it — wasn’t very online over the past months!

“In the late 1960s, Dr. Rossiter was working on her Ph.D. at Yale, when a comment from one of her male professors puzzled her. Who, she had asked, were the women in science? There were none, he said. Another professor mumbled something about Marie Curie being the exception.”🙃

Thank you Lisa! It’s an experiment of mine and I’m hoping to develop this approach further.

Also congratulations 👏 to the two honourable mentions:

Xinyi Wen (Cambridge University) 'Inventing a Healing Tradition across Time and Space - a reversed history of the doctrine of signatures, 1885-1609'

And

I’m very happy to announce that I’ve been awarded an IRFD Starting Grant for the project “Sovereign Flowers: Flora Danica and the Emergence of the National Flora, 1750–1900.” Hooray! The project allows me to build a small research group of a PhD student and a postdoc at Aarhus University (@au.dk).

RIP #histsci Margaret Rossiter, who coined term Matilda Effect
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#philsci #feministsky

article now published >> artreview.com/what-isnt-at...

The brilliant @lmbd1418.bsky.social has suggested people write to the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper re: my case. If you could spare five minutes, she's created a draft letter which you can use to send to coopery@parliament.uk. I appreciate everyone's support. ❤️

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first page of the article

So excited to share my new article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social:
"Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access)
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The Genealogy of Genealogy The book The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History, Jason Ananda Josephson Storm is published by University of Chicago Press.

My next book—The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History—has an official publication date: April 5, 2026! The publisher’s page is up with TOC & a preorder button (no cover yet): press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Look here for more details as they materialize.

Excited to be part of this great line up of natural history talks and walks at the Forest Learning Centre, Perdana Botanic Gardens, KL later this month!

This is getting close to 150K signatures now. It might not do anything, but it will serve as evidence for the future that the UK government were aware of the opposition of its own people to its complicity in the Israeli genocide on Gaza & the fact that it did nothing to stop it.

Prizes 2024/5 ROY PORTER STUDENT ESSAY PRIZE COMPETITION The deadline for this year’s competition has now passed. Do look again in the autumn for the 2025/6 competition entry form (the deadline for …

Following announcement of the Roy Porter Essay Competition winner, two entrants have also been awarded Commended for their essays:
Congratulations to Elena Danieli (Università di Bologna and Université Paris Cité) and Zhilin Chu (University of Cambridge)
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WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Please check the latest post on my page from my sister Aseel’s account.
It’s the eighth time we’ve been forced to flee, and we’re really falling apart.💔
Just… from a place of humanity🙏🏻

Print Matters summer school hard at work at Thin Ice Press amid 3 days of book-making, reading Lucretius, depicting 'chaos', and perusing the Minster Library and Shandy Hall

Aww I was just thinking about requesting a scan! Thank you for thinking of me! I love the line of research that you suggested, which directly connects to another project of mine that involves botany in C19 colonial India 🤩

This is fascinating! Are there illustrations like this in other volumes? (Which is also extra-illustration!

We're recruiting for a permanent part-time Exhibitions Officer at @rcpmuseum.bsky.social. Come and work with me and some other, much cooler, people. rcp.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...