Really enjoying @zacendter.bsky.social & @jonasknatz.bsky.social's brilliant forum on "The Conceptual History of Technology" @jhideas.bsky.social . Fantastic stuff so far. My essay on ideas of invention in American patent law will come out later this fall in the series.

Journal of the History of Ideas@jhideas.bsky.social · 3w ago

JHI Blog editors Zac Endter and Jonas Knatz introduce their forum on "The Conceptual History of Technology." Contributions will be published weekly through December. @zacendter.bsky.social @jonasknatz.bsky.social

JHI Blog editors Zac Endter and Jonas Knatz introduce their forum on "The Conceptual History of Technology." Contributions will be published weekly through December. @zacendter.bsky.social @jonasknatz.bsky.social

The Engineering of Ideas: Introducing the Forum on the Conceptual History of Technology

The editors of the forum on "The Conceptual History of Technology" introduce its goals and contributions....

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There are twelve days left to submit a proposal to the JHI’s fall graduate symposium. You can find the call and recommended reading here: www.jhiblog.org/2026/05/07/j...

Hot off the press! 🔥 Danke an @mortenpaul.bsky.social und an Stefan Höhne für die Organisation des spannenden Workshops am @kwi-essen.bsky.social, auf den dieses Buch zurückgeht.

Morten Paul@mortenpaul.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Jetzt im Buchhandel und im Open Access verfügbar. Mit Beiträgen von u. a. @cccccca.bsky.social @yanaraschmacks.bsky.social @mariamuhle.bsky.social @tatjanasoeding.bsky.social Mit großem Dank an den @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social, das @kwi-essen.bsky.social und partner-in-crime Stefan Höhne.

We put together what I think is a great reading list on histories of the future, but we will keep updating it until the fall, so please send me any suggestions, especially if you’re familiar with a region that isn’t yet well-represented here.

Journal of the History of Ideas@jhideas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The primary editors of the JHI Blog have prepared an extensive bibliography on "Prophecy, Prediction, and the Politics of Futurity," the theme of the upcoming JHI Graduate Symposium (see our open call for proposals).

Our annual JHI Graduate Symposium will be held virtually on October 17. The theme is "Prophecy, Prediction, and the Politics of Futurity.” Members of the journal’s editorial board will offer constructive feedback on students’ papers. Proposals are due June 22.

JHI Graduate Student Symposium, 2026: “Prophecy, Prediction, and the Politics of Futurity,” Call for Proposals

The Journal of the History of Ideas and the JHI Blog invite graduate students to propose papers for our eighth annual Graduate Student Symposium, to be held via Zoom on October 17, 2026.

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One week to submit! The JHI Blog welcomes pitches for a forum on the conceptual history of technology. Submit a proposal by May 7. Read the call for complete information: www.jhiblog.org/2026/03/18/c...

📣Open call: Forum on the Conceptual History of Technology The Journal of the History of Ideas Blog is seeking essays that discuss the concept of technology, intersecting intellectual history and the history of technology. Calls are open until 7 May More info @ www.jhiblog.org/2026/03/18/c...

Call for Submissions: Forum on the Conceptual History of Technology

by Zac Endter and Jonas Knatz

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CFA: JHI Blog Forum on the Conceptual History of Technology https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-161275 Philadelphia, 07.05.2026, Journal of the History of Ideas Blog JHI Blog Forum on the Conceptual History of Technology

The JHI Blog has released a call for submissions to its forum on the “Conceptual History of Technology.” Pitches are due on May 7.

Call for Submissions: Forum on the Conceptual History of Technology

by Zac Endter and Jonas Knatz

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Der Band »Was ist Faschismustheorie?« – hervorhängen aus einem Workshop am @kwi-essen.bsky.social im September 2024– erscheint im April im @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social – mit Beiträgen von u.a. @yanaraschmacks.bsky.social. Alle Informationen unter: www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/was-war...

Inklusive einem Essay von mir, in dem ich ost- und westdeutsche Ideen zur Kindererziehung international einordne und das Nachleben der (Idee von der) “DDR-Mutter” und der DDR-Krippe im bundesrepublikanischen Diskurs analysiere

Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin@wiko-berlin.bsky.social · 11mo ago

"Weltmacht DDR": Die Winterausgabe der @ideengeschichte.bsky.social spürt den globalen Ideen einer provinziellen Diktatur nach. wiko-berlin.de/wikothek/zei... @chbeckliteratur.bsky.social #ZIG

The new issue of the JHI includes a discussion of the lexicon project, “The Twentieth Century in Basic Concepts: A Dictionary of Historical Semantics in Germany,” by Ernst Müller, Barbara Picht, and Falko Schmieder. Access is free for the next few weeks on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Ich durfte ein Kapitel zur Rezeption von Wilhelm Reich beisteuern, in dem ich die Relevanz von produktiven Missverständnissen und illusionären Hoffnungen betone. Danke @mortenpaul.bsky.social für die Zusammenarbeit!

Morten Paul@mortenpaul.bsky.social · last yr.

Jetzt erschienen als Band 103 der Buchwissenschaftlichen Beiträge! Mit Texten von @yanaraschmacks.bsky.social, @hannaboege.bsky.social uvm. – ich habe über Jürgen Habermas‘ unwahrscheinlichen Erfolg »Erkenntnis und Interesse« geschrieben. @harrassowitz-v.bsky.social @sfb1472.uni-siegen.de

The JHI Blog is seeking additional contributing editors. Learn more about the opportunity here.

Call for Contributing Editors

We are seeking additional contributing editors to join our editorial collective within the next three months.

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The JHI’s Board of Editors is delighted to announce a new award for graduate students. The Martin Jay Prize recognizes the best article by a graduate student-author accepted for publication in the journal each year. The editors welcome your submissions!

Announcing the Martin Jay Article Prize for Graduate Students

Celebrating the profoundly influential historian Martin Jay and his contribution to graduate education, this new award recognizes the best graduate student-authored article accepted for publication in...

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Leif Weatherby (@leifw.bsky.social‬) discusses his new book, Language Machines, with Robin Manley (@robinmanley.bsky.social‬). The interview covers similarities between structuralism and Large Language Models, Saussure's relationship to Marxism, and theories versus histories of the present.

“Language and Image Minus Cognition”: An Interview with Leif Weatherby

by Robin Manley

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Check out the newsletter to catch up on new scholarship and announcements from the blog and journal—including a round-up of recent posts and a CFP for the upcoming, seventh annual Grad Student Symposium. mailchi.mp/178e0d922e4a...

JHI Blog Newsletter: Spring 2025

Catch up on new scholarship from the Blog & the Journal

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April 25-26 I’m hosting the workshop “New Directions in Modern German History” at U. of Rochester, ft. keynotes by Anne Berg on Nazi trash and recycling and @schuneke.bsky.social on lesbian experiences in the Third Reich, plus papers by many more. Please join us! events.rochester.edu/event/new-di...

JHI Blog welcomes submissions for a forum on the relationship between new work in intellectual history and political economy. Submit a proposal by May 15. Read the call here:

Call for Submissions, JHI Blog Forum: “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”

Inspired by a panel at the 2025 American Historical Association annual conference, this JHI Blog Forum will collect and publish short reflections on the relationship between new work in intellectual h...

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In a stirring tribute to an influential mentor, Stefanos Geroulanos reflects on the life and work of Anson Rabinbach.

In Memoriam: Anson Rabinbach (1945–2025)

by Stefanos Geroulanos

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Jacob Saliba and Zac Endter interview Elías Palti about his recent book, Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change. web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...

Writing Intellectual History after the “Age of Forms”: An Interview with Elías J. Palti (Part I)

by Jacob Saliba and Zac Endter

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The new issue of the JHI is now available online. This issue includes terrific articles by Quentin Skinner, Peter A. Morton, Thomas Matthew Vozar, Diego Pirillo, Charlotte Ann Legg, Matthias Neuber, Chunjie Zhang, and Cathy Gere. Have a look: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54142

Looks great: "Beyond Neoliberalism and Fracture: Rewriting the End of the 20th Century in the Transatlantic World" organized by @jonasknatz.bsky.social and Daniel Judt at the Remarque Institute (NYU) as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

Daniel Judt & I are organizing a day-long workshop on the last decades of the 20th century to explore narratives that go beyond the paradigmatic notions of neoliberalism and fracture, hosted at Remarque Institute (1/31). With Anin Luo, Christina Morina, Angus Burgin, Sophina Clark, (1/2)

Our newsletter includes round-up of recent JHI Blog posts and a some of the year’s most-read journal articles, which are freely available for the next few weeks: mailchi.mp/742b2d4d8001... Have a look—and resolve to submit an article or blog post to the journal or JHI Blog in the new year!

Journal of the History of Ideas Virtual Issue: Recent Work in French Intellectual History www.jhiblog.org/2024/12/04/v... @jhideas.bsky.social

Virtual Issue: Recent Work in French Intellectual History

This virtual issue highlights recent publications in the JHI of relevance to French intellectual history since the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The reason for compiling it is relatively sim...

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The new issue of the JHI is now available online, featuring terrific articles by Sophie Smith (open access), Mia Korpiola and Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde (open access), Alexander D. Batson, Tyler J. Thomas, Niccolò Valmori, Giuseppe Bianco, and Sarah Shortall. web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2024...

JHI 85.4 now available!

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas (volume 85, issue 4) is now live on Project MUSE. Women and Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century, Part Two: Activists, Academics, ...

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We regularly update our Starter Pack of the German-speaking community in political theory and history of ideas as well as a number of international accounts, mostly from institutions. So take a look at who has been added here in the last 3 weeks. We welcome suggestions for further suitable accounts.

I made a #history of #philosophy starter pack. Have I missed anyone? Do you object to being on the list? Let me know. #WorldPhilosophyDay #philsky #academicsky