Among the permanent artworks here in Tokyo – yes, that's a Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー
@tomaashby.bsky.social
Historian ∙ JSPS Fellow @utokyoofficial.bsky.social via @britishacademy.bsky.social ∙ Reviews Editor @global-ih.bsky.social ∙ Co-org @gpolthought.bsky.social ∙ the English republic, England and Edo Japan, historiography ∙ priorly Firenze, London, Oxford
Among the permanent artworks here in Tokyo – yes, that's a Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1/2 Tomorrow, 10 Sept, 17:00-18:30, @egasmb.bsky.social (Tohoku) will give a talk for us at PoETS @utokyoofficial.bsky.social on "Making sense of world politics through constitutions in nineteenth-century China" - abstract below. If you would like to join us in person or online, you are welcome!
Midnight moon, morning light – today I am back to editing, putting my eyes to reading and commenting upon two historiographical essays on approaches to ntellectual history, conceptual change, and the global turn
Very early in my doctorate I did a six-month exchange @leidenhumanities.bsky.social. Great to be back in Leiden! Obligatory bitterballen
I found another uncited letter by Algernon Sidney today – a dense, political one at a key moment in his life too!
I had a wonderful lunch with one of my old advisors, Quentin Skinner, and then later went for a post-archive walk and strayed into a very summery Gillian Anderson – not on my bingo card
Proofs – The first of my articles on J.G.A. Pocock. This one is 30 pages and forthcoming open access in the "Australian Journal of Biography and History". It introduces and analyses systemically unknown or unpublished material (and WWII Pocock). Lots of historiography. More soon!
Proofs – The first of my articles on J.G.A. Pocock. This one is 30 pages and forthcoming open access in the "Australian Journal of Biography and History". It introduces and analyses systemically unknown or unpublished material (and WWII Pocock). Lots of historiography. More soon!
Calling for Expressions of interest for a one day conference in Florence in November on Breath, Air, Spirit as part of the #culturesofair network. DM me if you'd like to be involved
Delighted to share that my article on Mina Loy's conversion to Christian Science in Florence around 1909 has been published in Feminist Modernist Studies! Thanks to @euilibrary.bsky.social, the article is Open Access so is free to read & download (see below): doi.org/10.1080/2469...
The making of Mina Loy’s Christian Science in Florence, Italy
The poet and painter Mina Loy (1882–1966) maintained a life-long, idiosyncratic belief in Christian Science. However, little is known of her formative introduction to the faith in Florence, Italy, ...
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Last weekend I had a great time at the 20th Conference of the Japanese Society for Locke Studies at Chuo University. Fantastic talks by Kiyoshi Shimokawa on resistance, Shigeyuki Aoki on translations, and Jessica Gordon-Roth (keynote) on misreading Berkeley. Discussion resumed at the izakaya!
David Armitage, Teresa M. Bejan, and Felix Waldmann eds. The Political Thought of John Locke: New Perspectives – Oxford University Press, July 2026 global.oup.com/academic/pro... @academic.oup.com @tmbejan.bsky.social
Enlightenment and (In)equality 17th International Congress for Eighteenth-Century Studies Zaragoza, Spain 12-16 July 2027 The submission period for for thematic sessions and roundtables is now open! All the information is available on the Congress website: www.isecs-zaragoza2027.net/en/
Professorship! The European University Institute (my PhD alma mater) in Florence, Italy, is seeking a new Chair in Intellectual History, 1500–Present. Deadline: 10 September www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
This afternoon I gave a talk on Ming/Qing China within English republicanism @tobunken.bsky.social as part of a workshop on sources and methods. It was great to hear about various new projects and historiographical innovations – and to meet so many people. Appreciate the invite!
1/2 On Thursday, 2 July, 17:00-18:30 (JST) we at PoETS @utokyoofficial.bsky.social will host a talk by Nana Someya (Keio University, Graduate School of Law) on "What is Sovereignty? Meiji Japan's Engagement with J.C. Bluntschli's Theory of the State (Staatswissenschaft)" - in person and online!
"[If] Blair destroyed the historic Labour Party... Thatcher had destroyed the historic Conservative Party... Thatcher and Blair can be presented as part of a process whereby British politics lose all historical meaning" -J.G.A. Pocock, Tōdai Lecture, 2005 (I am editing for print)
Thank you @tomaashby.bsky.social for visualizing this whole issue and for being such a wonderful editor and curator for this, and for shepherding us through to publication. I really enjoyed working with you ! Cc: @uclhistory.bsky.social
Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー@tomaashby.bsky.social · 3mo agoI 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....
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...
