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Job title: Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877), Employer: University of Agder, Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2026

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I am delighted that an issue I edited on @chloeireton.bsky.social's "Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic" is now online at GIH. Reading this pioneering work and editing these thoughtful papers was valuable, revelatory, and provoking www.tandfonline.com/journals/rgi...

Now out! We've heard of Pan-Asianism, but what about Pan-Farmerism? In this article, Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (University of Oxford) proposes a “transwar nonstate approach” to uncover alternative global intellectual histories. Read the open-access article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Now online! @sylvana-tomaselli.bsky.social (@camhistory.bsky.social) reviews "Tocqueville" by Françoise Mélonio www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Now online! Valentina Altopiedi (Università di Torino) reviews "A Republic of Sympathy: Sophie de Grouchy's Politics and Philosophy, 1785–1815" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2024) by Kathleen McCrudden Illert www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Now online! In "Sovereignty, Circulation, and Argument in a Polycentric Buddhist World", Bhadragee Hewage (Oxford) reviews "Buddhist-Inflected Sovereignties Across the Indian Ocean: The Pali Arena, 1200–1550" (U of Hawai'i, 2024) by Anne M. Blackburn www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Now online! Brian Smith (Nazarbayev University) reviews "The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (@harvardpress.bsky.social, 2025) by John Samuel Harpham www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Out! Ryu Aerim (Kyushu), "Reception, Translation, and Republicanism: Nakae Chōmin in Global Intellectual History", a review article, "Nakae Chômin, la mise en politique d'une philosophie rousseauiste au Japon" by E. Dufourmont (@classiquesgarnier.bsky.social 2024) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Now online! A book forum collection on "Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France" (Tauris & Co, 2025) by @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social. In time the forum will emerge as a print issue - do see her thread on the contributions below ⤵️

Julia Hartley@ritorneropoeta.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It was so intellectually rewarding to work with @global-ih.bsky.social on a special section on my book! The essays by @paulbabinski.bsky.social and @drjoeford.bsky.social extended the reflection temporally, while @saraharens.bsky.social and Richard Hibbitt made me reflect on my critical method.

Published! "[My work has been] in dialogue with two powerful minds, Quentin Skinner and István Hont... Over those six decades, I have made two discoveries that I still think really matter". Read the autobiographical reflections of John Dunn here (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー@tomaashby.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Now online and open access! An autobiographical essay by John Dunn (Cambridge) entitled "The History of Political Thought as Window on the World" @global-ih.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I was very happy to be part of this special issue on Julia's wonderful book, which I used as an opportunity to reflect on the broader history of Persian literature in Europe and the limits of viewing translation and literary history through a national lens.

Julia Hartley@ritorneropoeta.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Read @paulbabinski.bsky.social ‘s view from the early modern www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Now online! Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social (Fondazione 1563) reviews "Réflexions sur le despotisme impérial de la Russie" (@editionspayot.bsky.social, 2025) by Sabine Dullin www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Now online! A book forum collection on "Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France" (Tauris & Co, 2025) by @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social. In time the forum will emerge as a print issue - do see her thread on the contributions below ⤵️

Julia Hartley@ritorneropoeta.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It was so intellectually rewarding to work with @global-ih.bsky.social on a special section on my book! The essays by @paulbabinski.bsky.social and @drjoeford.bsky.social extended the reflection temporally, while @saraharens.bsky.social and Richard Hibbitt made me reflect on my critical method.

Now online and open access! An autobiographical essay by John Dunn (Cambridge) entitled "The History of Political Thought as Window on the World" @global-ih.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

More review sections! Nice to be able to follow up on my book launch talk with a write-up for @global-ih.bsky.social — all thanks to Eddie Hughes who put this together.

Julia Hartley@ritorneropoeta.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It was so intellectually rewarding to work with @global-ih.bsky.social on a special section on my book! The essays by @paulbabinski.bsky.social and @drjoeford.bsky.social extended the reflection temporally, while @saraharens.bsky.social and Richard Hibbitt made me reflect on my critical method.

It was so intellectually rewarding to work with @global-ih.bsky.social on a special section on my book! The essays by @paulbabinski.bsky.social and @drjoeford.bsky.social extended the reflection temporally, while @saraharens.bsky.social and Richard Hibbitt made me reflect on my critical method.

For @global-ih.bsky.social I reviewed Sabine Dullin's new book on the history of Russian despotism. I argue that she offers a valuable insight into the dynamics that produced the latest bout of Russian imperialism in Ukraine, but that we have to apply some of the same lessons to the West as well:

Réflexions sur le despotisme impérial de la Russie

Published in Global Intellectual History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Political theorists and liberal states have reified “democracy” into a platitude, even as it breeds cynicism in the face of deepening inequality and ecological crisis. Our article of the week explores whether democracy can be saved. By John Dunn in @global-ih.bsky.social buff.ly/kfEwHCP

"It is too late to ask who will educate the educators. At this point we must educate ourselves together and heed the lessons of that education or we must and will die - not just each of us one by one, as we were always fated to do, but soon enough all of us and for ever"

Global Intellectual History@global-ih.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Now out in OA: "Can Democracy be Rehabilitated?" by John Dunn (@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social): "[It] will be a heroic challenge... The stakes in meeting it are the possibility of democracy itself, a citizenry that has recovered the capacity to keep itself free" www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Now out in OA: "Can Democracy be Rehabilitated?" by John Dunn (@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social): "[It] will be a heroic challenge... The stakes in meeting it are the possibility of democracy itself, a citizenry that has recovered the capacity to keep itself free" www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Now online! Johan Hjelte (Gothenburg) reviews "The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution" by @jelenasubotic.bsky.social (@academic.oup.com, 2025) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We were very happy to facilitate this forum on "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" by Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social. In due course, the collection will emerge as a print special issue. Huge thanks to all the contributors!

Patricia Owens@whitproject.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social organsied a Special Issue on Erased, including a reply. I'm so grateful to Helen M. Kinsella, Joseph MacKay, Christine Sylvester, Immi Tallgren, and Tarak Barkawi for their commentaries. Links to each below...

Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social organsied a Special Issue on Erased, including a reply. I'm so grateful to Helen M. Kinsella, Joseph MacKay, Christine Sylvester, Immi Tallgren, and Tarak Barkawi for their commentaries. Links to each below...

Online! Elena Yi-Jia Zeng (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) reviews "Martinů and His World" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2025), edited by Aleš Březina and Michael Beckerman, a collection of essays and documents illuminating the work of Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What is planetary politics? My short essay is now published in Global Perspectives, in a really interesting forum. @ucpress doi.org/10.1525/gp.2...

1/6 Across 2025 we have posted highlights to celebrate our approaching 10th anniversary. For our final one we spoke to @saramarzagora.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social), author of "Refashioning the Ethiopian Monarchy in the Twentieth Century" (2022; online 2020). Here are her thoughts:

A special issue that I edited on "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (2025) by Patricia Owens has gone to production – I look forward to seeing the collection published @global-ih.bsky.social! It includes five review articles and a reply article by @whitproject.bsky.social

My review article on R Bourke’s and Q Skinner’s anthology ”History in the Humanities and Social Sciences” is included in the latest issue of @global-ih.bsky.social. Open access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Many thanks to the editor @tomaashby.bsky.social and to the reviewer Laura André Lombard! It’s truly heartwarming to see years of work get noticed and read. Now, more than ever before, we live in dangerous times in great need of cosmopolitan republicanism.

Global Intellectual History@global-ih.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Now online! Laura André Lombard (Université Panthéon Assas) reviews "The Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots: A Proponent of Cosmopolitan Republicanism in the French Revolution (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social, 2023) by @fepoulsen.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1/5 For our monthly highlight in November, approaching our 10th anniversary next year, we spoke with Taushif Kara (Cambridge, now @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) author of “Provincializing Mecca? (1924–1969)”, published in 2022 (online 2021). Here is what he had to say about this work: