📜 CFP | Tyranny in Political Thought, Legal Culture & Image in the Renaissance World, ca. 1300–1700. Multiple panels at #RSA2027, sponsored by the RSA Discipline Representative for Legal & Political Thought. Selected papers will be invited to contribute to a co-edited volume.

📜 CFP | Anti-Tyranny in Political Thought, Legal Culture & Image in the Renaissance World, ca. 1300–1700. Multiple panels at #RSA2027, sponsored by the RSA Discipline Representative for Legal & Political Thought. Selected papers will be invited to contribute to a co-edited volume.

Call for Papers: Renaissance Society of America 2027. Please share widely! Abstracts are invited from all disciplines and career stages. Tyranny in Political Thought, Legal Culture, and Image in the Renaissance World, ca. 1300–1700 www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

Call for Papers: Renaissance Society of America 2027. Please share widely! Abstracts are invited from all disciplines and career stages. Anti-Tyranny in Political Thought, Legal Culture, and Image in the Renaissance World, ca. 1300–1700: www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

Our special issue #30.1-2, "Reflections on the Global Early Modern," is now available online! It opens with an introduction by Zoltán Biedermann, Giancarlo Casale, and Molly Warsh, "How Early? How Modern? Reflections on the Global Early Modern (Part 1)." brill.com/view/journal...

It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. (1984/4)

The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. (1984/3)

Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. (1984;2)

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

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The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump

The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...

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Check this amazing collection of essays, especially by my brilliant co-editor! There’s one the state of nature in there worth checking out, too. 🙂

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

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So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco #nokings

CFP for ⚡ Lightning Talk Panel: The Rights of War and Peace 📍 2026 RSA Annual Meeting (Feb 19–21, 2026). From the revival of just war theory to the evolution of diplomatic norms, Renaissance thinkers and institutions engaged deeply with the question of how conflict could be managed...

📢 CFP: The Intersections & Influences of Legal and Political Authority in the European Renaissance Seeking papers on the dynamic interplay between legal & political authority during the Renaissance (1300-1700) @ the 2026 RSA Annual Meeting!

As a member of the International Advisory Board of LUCK, Lund's Centre for the History of Knowledge, I recommend this job offer: an Assistant Professor at the Department of History devoted to work within a Global History of Knowledge. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #skystorians #histknow

Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) at the Joint Faculties of Humanities & Theology, Lund University

We are looking for an up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct pioneering research to take up a position as Assistant Professor at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University.

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Framing Devices and Global Legal Traditions: From the Ancient World to the Modern Nation State

This collection explores prefaces, prologues, paratexts, and other types of framing devices. Across world history, these devices have introduced the law, articulated its context and audience, identifi...

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Consumer sentiment is now lower than it was during the Great Recession and the second lowest reading since 1952. The guy who inherited hundreds of millions from his father and squandered it now inherited an economy that was the envy of the world and squandered it.

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

This may be the most important thing he's said if only because it's very hard for people to admit they were wrong and seeing someone else do it makes it so much easier

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

Karoline Leavitt has the boundless self-confidence of someone unaware of and disinterested in reality.

I'm sorry to be a broken record, but this is exactly what we warned about during the 23 years (so far) of rights violations at Guantanamo Bay.

Ian Gordon@idgordon.bsky.social · last yr.

"If we accept that the executive branch can simply deport anyone they call a 'foreign alien terrorist,' then none of us has any rights." snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil-a...

Protesters are out in Budapest, Hungary today demanding the resignation of pro-Putin Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Love it!

A little bit of Cicero for the weekend.

A very happy Ides of March to all the dictators and would-be dictators out there.

Woman next to me at Hamlet: ‘There’s a LOT of famous quotes in this, aren’t there?!’