The History and International Affairs Workshop will take place on 12 June @cityhistory.bsky.social Join us for a fascinating discussion on "The Politics of Planetary" @orrosenboim.bsky.social @antoniofdo.bsky.social @edjonesc.bsky.social @alinau27.bsky.social www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Looking forward to giving a talk at the new #Planetary Histories Seminar, at the Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social in London. Tomorrow at 5.30 pm (in person and online). All welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Vanishing Volcanic Islands: History and the Planetary beyond the International

Planetary Histories seminar- session 3

history.ac.uk

Is there a future for Europe beyond defence, security, and geopolitical competition? The #Humanities can help us build an alternative future for Europe in an age of #planetary challenges. My article is open access in Comprendre - Revue de politique de la culture: comprendre.online/index.php/co...

Is there a future for Europe beyond defence, security, and geopolitical competition? The #Humanities can help us build an alternative future for Europe in an age of #planetary challenges. My article is open access in Comprendre - Revue de politique de la culture: comprendre.online/index.php/co...

So happy that "The Legacy of the Enlightenment", which I co-edited with colleagues in Turin and the wonderful Fondazione 1563, is now available open access. Inside, also my chapter on the Neapolitan Enlightenment's theory of rights and the making of liberalism. en.olschki.it/libro/978882...

The Legacy of the Enlightenment: Rights, Constitutions, Equality

Recent historiography often portrays the Enlightenment as the intellectual source of modern evils and projects contemporary biases on Enlightenment thinkers. Discussions on the legacy of the Enlighten...

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Really enjoyed this interview with The Guardian's Philip Oltermann: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

‘Europe is the core – America joined as an offshoot’: the historian challenging what ‘the west’ means

Was the ‘western alliance’ dreamt up to further American and British interests? Georgios Varouxakis argues that the idea is older, quintessentially European, and even anti-imperialist

theguardian.com

(1/2) The second workshop in the AHRC-funded Rethinking Internationalisms series titled 'New Methods for New Histories' will take place via zoom on 9-10 July – reflective panels followed by an open discussion. Audience-participants can sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...

New Methods for New Histories (Online)

Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities

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👉 Take a look at this CfP for the LSE-Tufts Seminar in Contemporary International History, for those working on "any aspect of 20th or 21st century international history and historical IR, broadly defined" 👇 Organised by @lizingleson.bsky.social,‬ @mjbayly.bsky.social, @emleake.bsky.social #HistIR

And we're off! Opening remarks from @giuseppegrieco.bsky.social on Ferdinandea, empire, the space of the sea and political imagination.

I am very excited to be giving the opening remarks at the annual History of Political Thought Conference this Thursday at LSE. Thanks to the organisers for the invitation! Check out the programme and come listen to these fantastic papers.

History of Political Thought Graduate Conference@history-thought.bsky.social · last yr.

We're very pleased to announce the programme for this year's conference on States and Spaces! The conference will be held at LSE on 19 and 20 June. Please sign up here for your free ticket - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/16th-annua...

Last few days to apply to this year’s Turin Humanities Programme summer school on “Slavery and Serfdom in Europe and the Americas in the Early Modern Period”. Great opportunity for PhD students to meet amazing scholars and explore Turin www.fondazione1563.it/progetti/en-...

We now have a programme for KNOWING INFRASTRUCTURES in and beyond the neoliberal university. This an open workshop and all are welcome. Please register to receive the circulated pre-reading. Full programme and registration link is available here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Looking forward to tomorrow's workshop on "Global Order and Governance beyond the West" @cityhistory.bsky.social with Arnulf Becker Lorca, Emma Mackinnon and @mjbayly.bsky.social Everyone is welcome! There is still time to register (in-person/online) www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

🎉 Time to celebrate! 🎉 My article, “Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian South (1900s–40s),” is now out in open access in the Journal of Global History (@globalhistjnl.bsky.social). Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

Happening on Thursday this week at City University (London). Free, in person, and online. I’ll be speaking on the Indian independence struggle as a form of world ordering, culminating in the 1947 Asian Relations Conference. www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

I am delighted to share the programme of 'Global Order and Governance beyond the West' (May 29) at @cityhistory.bsky.social. Featuring talks by Arnulf Becker Lorca (EUI), Emma Mackinnon (Cambridge), @mjbayly.bsky.social (LSE). In person/online registration: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Giorgia Meloni dismissed the Ventotene Manifesto as a socialist relic. The left rushed to defend it but both sides risk distorting its meaning. I wrote for The Conversation about the political struggle over one of Europe’s most contested historical texts theconversation.com/ventotene-ma...

Ventotene manifesto: why European politicians are arguing over a 1941 document written by a group of imprisoned Italian antifascists

As European nations discuss closer defence collaboration, a document proposing a federal Europe has become the subject of heated arguments.

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I thoroughly enjoyed writing this review essay on 'The End of Enlightenment' by Richard Whatmore: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Please give it a repost and/or drop me a line to let me know what you think! 😊 #Enlightenment #18thcentury

"The decisive fact of our time is that, on the whole, we know a lot and yet we can do very little. We are both enlightened and illiterate." – Marina Garcés How can we know the world in ways that are empowering rather than overwhelming? Where is the future of radical knowledge production?

On Wednesday, we are hosting Michalis Sotiropoulos at @citystgeorges.bsky.social (in person/Teams) Join us for a conversation on empire, law, and state-building in the 19th c., with @jmulich.bsky.social @drmargottudor.bsky.social @charlotte-johann.bsky.social www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Make sure you come along to our new event! Dr Michalis Sotiropoulos will be visiting City to discuss his new book ‘Liberalism after the Revolution’ with @jmulich.bsky.social, @charlotte-johann.bsky.social, & @drmargottudor.bsky.social, chaired by Dr Giuseppe Grieco on 9th April 🎉 shorturl.at/QCo9S

Liberalism After Empire - 9 April 4 pm @cityhistory.bsky.social We are hosting a roundtable discussion of Michalis Sotiropoulos’ Liberalism after the Revolution: The Intellectual Foundations of the Greek State, c. 1830-1880 Registration (in-person/online): www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Finsbury Institute + Europe Politics Cluster @citystgeorges.bsky.social + @clsisel.bsky.social invite you at lecture by Ambassador Pedro Serrano @eudelegationuk.bsky.social "The Balancing Power of the EU" tomorrow, Tue 25 Feb,5-6pm, B104, Northampton sq, London www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

City’s Cluster for Modern History is hosting lots of exciting events this semester! 📣 First up we have a fascinating event on 18th March at 4pm on “Narrating Difficult Histories to a Broad Audience: the @bbcradio4.bsky.social podcast ‘Three Million’”. www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...