Please join our experimental workshop @warburginstitute.bsky.social on the global history of science this Thursday: Beyond Strategic Essentialism: Reimagining Global Knowledge through Asian Universalities 🕑 4 Jun 2026 14:00-17:00 British Summer Time  📍London & Online 🗃️ #C19th #History #HistSci

Thrilled that my @jhideas.bsky.social article ‘When Jupiter Meets Saturn: Aby Warburg, Karl Sudhoff, and Astrological Medicine in the Age of Disenchantment’ has received the prestigious Förderpreis! Read my article here: muse.jhu.edu/article/926151 (OA link below) 🗃️ #history #HistMed #HistSci

The Warburg Institute@warburginstitute.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🎉 Congratulations to Xinyi Wen for receiving the 2026 Förderpreis des Fachverbands Medizingeschichte award from the German Association for the History of Medicine for the best article on the #historyofmedicine published in the past two years by an early-career scholar. Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/QNTOEon

Thank you so much @americanstudier.bsky.social for the kind words about my recent blog post @warburginstitute.bsky.social! Link to the blog: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Modernity as Detour: Aby Warburg and the Kyoto School

From a cancelled 1896 voyage to Yokohama to the 1942 “Overcoming Modernity” symposium, Xinyi Wen traces how Warburg’s ideas travelled into twentieth century Japanese debates on modernity.

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Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

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! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

#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...

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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 🗃️

The Warburg Institute@warburginstitute.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New blog post: “Modernity as Detour: Aby Warburg and the Kyoto School” by Xinyi Wen. From Warburg’s unrealised Japan trip (1896) to Renaissance astrology in Japan’s modernity debates (1942). warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #WarburgInstitute #IntellectualHistory #HistoryOfIdeas

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).

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.

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.

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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!

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

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

Thrilled to be joining some amazing scholars this year as a Linda Hall Library research fellow! www.lindahall.org/research/lin... @mfeagan.bsky.social @manhattanscientist.bsky.social @dorisvickers.bsky.social @xinyiwenhps.bsky.social @swom.bsky.social @bhgross144.bsky.social

I’m thrilled to announce that from September I’ll be joining @warburginstitute.bsky.social as a Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow. It’s a position I’ve aspired to since 2019, when I studied Warburg for an MPhil essay. Can’t wait to meet such an exciting group of scholars!

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs

In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...

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Happy to note that my article on learning botany in the early nineteenth century has now been published. I think I started work on it as long ago as 2018. #HPS #STS #bryology dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000...

I am thrilled to share that I have been awarded the Royal Asiatic Society Bayly Prize for the best doctoral thesis in Asian Studies completed at a British or Irish university in 2023/2024! www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-luis... @royalasiaticsoc.bsky.social @clarehallcambridge.bsky.social

How did #almanacs provide orientation for a "New World"? I'll be talking about Spanish-American almanacs in this fantastic workshop in Fribourg, Switzerland organised by Vitus Huber. If you are interested in #earlymodern uses of #time take a look at the programme #histsci