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Patricia Owens
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History, IR, Oxford, Somerville College, and Brighton. 🇮🇪 🌈 Mum of two #AWFC She/her. Author of Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men (Princeton, 2025)

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Patricia Owens is a British-Irish academic, author and professor. She is a Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford and a professor of International Relations at University of Oxford. She is best known for her work on the history and theory of counterinsurgency warfare, women and the history of international thought, the history of social and political thought, and for her earlier work on war and international relations in the thought of the German-American political theorist Hannah Arendt. .. more

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Dec 17
After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 1d
Find books by and about women who have pushed boundaries, effected change, redefined roles, or who have complicated our understanding of what it means to be powerful.

Explore the gift guide and save 30% with code PUP30: press.princeton.edu/collections/...

#ReadUP #GiftGuide #Books #HappyHolidays

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Frances Jones @francesjones.bsky.social · 1d
‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library

Historian Peter Mandler said it was “a sorry state when a major piece of public infrastructure like this is hit so badly and no one in authority even seems to notice, much less care”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library - Research Professional News
Humanities researchers suffer amid “agonisingly slow” recovery from 2023 cyberattack, as strikes cause further delays
www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Tom Ashbyトム ∙ アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 4d
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
The cover of the book

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Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social · 13d
🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford!

We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.

This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”

Deadline: 17 Dec 2025

Please share widely!

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 22d
Thank you, Elspeth. I love Anna Funder's outstanding book. I'm done with all veneration of serial sex-pest and eraser of women "George Orwell"

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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 23d
This week on the podcast, @whitproject.bsky.social, Professor of International Relations at Oxford, tells us about the women of her new book, Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men.
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Transcript: www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/u...
Dr Patricia Owens on the erased women of international thought by Infinite Women
Patricia Owens, Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and author of the new book, Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men, tells us about the women erased fro...
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Nov 9
Edina Paleviq's MUST READ: Patrica Owen's Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men. It debunks the familiar portrayal of male thinkers in IR as only a partial story reflecting a structural distortion in how the discipline remembers its past.

globaleuropejournal.org/2025/10/octo...

Reposted by Jocalyn Clark, Patricia Owens, Leonhard Dobusch

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · Nov 5
Watch his victory speech for how it gives zero time to the nonsense binary of "idpol" vs "class politics". The stars of that speech are the *multi-ethnic* working class. It's a speech grounded in the rich complexity of material reality, not two dimensional caricatures and facile abstractions.

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · Nov 3
Applications are now open for the Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk offering scholars the opportunity to advance research in women’s history.

Find full details: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

#WomensHistory #ResearchFellowship #BodleianLibraries
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Oct 31
Thank you! She did, and brilliantly. I'm so grateful....

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Oct 31
Is anyone else having problems submitting papers/panels for @mybisa.bsky.social on the "Indico" platform??!?
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@simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Oct 30
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Oct 24
"They also raise concerns about the depth of analyses and increased specialization at the expense of broader synthesis".

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Lala Muradova @lalamur.bsky.social · Oct 24
Analysis of references between 1990 to 2024 shows that there is a decline in book referencing (52% to 28%) in polsci journals 😮

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
From Bookworm to Browser: The Decline of Books in Political Science Scholarship | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
From Bookworm to Browser: The Decline of Books in Political Science Scholarship
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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Oct 22
John Ikenberry reviews Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men.
www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/eras...
Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men
Patricia Owens provides a deeply researched and engrossing feminist history of international relations as a discipline in the United Kingdom in the twentieth century.
www.foreignaffairs.com

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Oct 20
1/8 An overview of a recent print issue, a forum on "Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2022) eds. @whitproject.bsky.social, Katharina Rietzler, Kimberley Hutchings, & @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social - the forum was guest ed by @rosariolopez.bsky.social
A black and white photo of a woman (Merze Tate) on a bike outside the Radcliffe Camera on Oxford

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Oct 16
Congratulations, Charlotte. It's a great book (I am half-way through). 🥂

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Oct 16
"many academics from prestigious universities".

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
katherineschof8.bsky.social Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · Oct 16
I'm not a keen follower of the Epstein case. Maybe this is something everyone knows.

But I'm shocked and revolted by the male academics who one after another raped trafficked children. My god I hope you are all found and punished.

Solidarity with the survivors.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Snippet from the linked Guardian article beginning "The second person I was lent out to was a psychology professor"

Reposted by Patricia Owens

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · Oct 16
I'm not a keen follower of the Epstein case. Maybe this is something everyone knows.

But I'm shocked and revolted by the male academics who one after another raped trafficked children. My god I hope you are all found and punished.

Solidarity with the survivors.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Snippet from the linked Guardian article beginning "The second person I was lent out to was a psychology professor"

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Oct 15
OMG, so do I!?!?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Oct 13
On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Kate Kirkpatrick @philosofemme.bsky.social · Oct 3
JOB: Associate Professor or Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, in association with a Tutorial Fellowship at Merton College. AoS Ethics and/or Political Philosophy, with at least an AoC in Feminist Philosophy.
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Associate Professorship or Professorship of Philosophy - Philosophy APTFC at University of Oxford
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · Oct 3
Another excellent piece by Geertje Bol @whpt.bsky.social 👇 www.the-tls.com/philosophy/c...
The erasure of women philosophers
Eileen O’Neill’s foundational article “Disappearing Ink: Early modern women philosophers and their fate in history” (1998) was revelatory for me as a
www.the-tls.com

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Roots and Branches I The Podcast @rbpodcast.bsky.social · Oct 3
🔊 Episode #3 out now!
@whitproject.bsky.social (@politicsoxford.bsky.social) explores how the gender binary shaped the production and reception of international thought and what recovering overlooked voices means for present-day international relations.
open.spotify.com/episode/76f2...

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · Oct 1
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Oct 1
'Oxford’s chief diversity officer has said that universities must not forget their legal obligations relating to equality, diversity and inclusion if there are changes to the research culture element of the 2029 Research Excellence Framework.'

Yes. More people need to say this repeatedly out loud.

Reposted by Patricia Owens, Margot C. Finn

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Sep 30
Universities ‘must not forget EDI obligations’ amid REF 2029 pause.

University of Oxford’s chief diversity officer says most Britons “believe EDI is a good thing”. #Lab25

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Universities ‘must not forget EDI obligations’ amid REF pause - Research Professional News
Labour 2025: Oxford’s chief diversity officer says most Britons “believe EDI is a good thing”
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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Sep 30
Re-upping the link to an online book talk tomorrow at 3pm hosted by SPIN.👇 Please email [email protected] for an invite link.

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Sep 29
She would warn that, as in ancient Rome and interwar Europe, economic elites mistook material abundance for stability, blind to the fact that their own complacency hastened the collapse they thought could not touch them".

Thanks to DC historian @rcturk.bsky.social for letting me know it was out!

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Sep 29
is hollowing out the very institutions meant to safeguard democratic government and diplomatic norms (as fragile and compromised as they always were).