Geertje Bol on canon construction and history of women philosophers! www.the-tls.com/philosophy/c...

Most depictions of St. Christopher show him holding a child, but in a wooden church in Finland I saw him with an entire pulpit on his head. Patron saint of carrying things, I guess.

I was just developing a reading list on women and utopia. I will upload when done!

Teaching utopia? I’ve started a public Zotero group for sharing syllabi, reading lists, & teaching materials on utopia: www.zotero.org/groups/60695.... Whether you’ve taught More or Morris, Bloch or Bogdanov, Le Guin or Lewinsky—your contributions are welcome! #utopia #teachingresources

Cool study from @bikewaysto.bsky.social detailing a traffic count on Bloor Street taken on June 11 with a camera at 412 Bloor West. During the peak of the afternoon rush, bikes outnumbered cars.

I repeat: bikes outnumbered cars.

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Congratulations!!!

The complete (bilingual) program for our upcoming workshop at McGill University is available here:

www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/workshops.html

Join us in Montreal, Canada, from June 6 to June 8! (registration required)

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Such an encouraging and constructive few days. And how fun to be in a monastery during the election of a new pope!

What a wonderful start to the WHPT conference this morning in Ghent, with panels on Jewish political thought and women and gender in celestial worlds. Excited for what's to come!

Very excited to share the program of the upcoming WHPT conference! It promises to be a wonderful couple of days, and we cannot wait!

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New from Mary Jo MacDonald: "Acknowledging Sexual Equality: Hobbes's and Cavendish's Amazons" in Hobbes Studies

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‘I think of handwriting as a way to organise thought into shapes. I like shapes. I like organising them. But because of recent neurological changes in my brain I find shapes fall apart on me.’

Anne Carson on Parkinson’s, poetry and bad handwriting: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"Before we heed calls for political friendship, then, we would do well to consider the critique of political friendship of an early feminist, and her bold embrace of political enmity."

Check out Geertje Bol's new paper 'Mary Astell Against Political Friendship' in History of Political Thought!

A year ago today, I moved from Canada to Finland. At the time, several of my family members expressed concern about my relocation because Finland shares a border with a country whose leader is bent on territorial expansion. Thinking about this for no particular reason today.

Attendance is free and welcome! Please email me ([email protected]), or my co-organizer Elena Gordon ([email protected]), if you would like to attend. We will share location details for in-person attendance or a zoom link for online attendance.

Delighted to share the programme for the upcoming "Monsters and Domesticity" workshop at the University of Jyväskylä.

One week left to apply for the 2025 Women in the History of Political Thought conference –– to take place at this lovely monastery in the middle of Ghent (as if you needed more reasons to apply!) For more info and the CfP see womeninhpt.com/call-for-pap...

Another review of my book on slavery in eighteenth-century philosophy just came out (as far as I know, the third one). So far the reception has been encouraging, which is such a relief. It's always nerve-wracking to read reviews of one's work. #philsky #earlymodernphilosophy #slavery #academicsky

Totally! I was just reading May Hay's entry on Behn in the Female Biography and wondering whether our impressions of Behn might be partly inherited from Hays.

Early modern women writers were (and are) treated as peripheral, but that does not mean they were ever forgotten. Claiming they were works to erase the work of women like Eva. B Dykes—the 3rd Black woman to receive a PhD in the USA—who we should be working to elevate alongside them.

I came across a glaring example of this today. I was reading Eva B. Dykes' book from 1942, which features an excellent discussion Aphra Behn. Dykes is seriously under-cited in the literature on Behn. Rather, we're told that Behn was mostly forgotten until scholarship from the 70s/80s recovered her.

Reminded of Smith's LRB article today, in which she argues that we should avoid describing women philosophers as 'forgotten'. She argues that this language may "encourage us to ‘forget’ the writers, usually women themselves, who have fought to correct that record?"

I am trying to wrap up projects and seek closure (still so surreal) and one thing I'd love to see published or taken care of for a wider audience in some shape or form are my illustrations of Margaret Cavendish's (1623-1673) Blazing-world (1666), a proto-SF novel. Here's a summary + my drawings 1/

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