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Patricia Owens

@whitproject.bsky.social

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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) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691266442/erased .. more

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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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Kate Kirkpatrick @philosofemme.bsky.social · 7d

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.
#PhilJobs
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Associate Professorship or Professorship of Philosophy - Philosophy APTFC at University of Oxford

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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 8d

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

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Roots and Branches I The Podcast @rbpodcast.bsky.social · 8d

🔊 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 · 9d

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Please donate today! Your support is vital to sustain and grow Democracy Now!

A daily independent global news hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10d

'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.

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 10d

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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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 10d

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”

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 11d

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 · 12d

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!

Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 12d

is hollowing out the very institutions meant to safeguard democratic government and diplomatic norms (as fragile and compromised as they always were).

Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 12d

"If we extended Eileen Power’s critique of pre–World War II Europe to the contemporary scene in D.C., she might view Washington’s diplomatic world as a decadent spectacle. Lavish receptions and constant talk obscure how authoritarian rollback under Trump...

Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 12d

I'm told "Washington Life" is DC's premiere lifestyle magazine. They did a feature on Erased in their "Diplomatic Issue". Surprising, but okay...

They edited out some stuff from the original Q&A...

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13d

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

www.nytimes.com

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 15d

Oxford Political Thought Speaker Series 👇

Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 17d

Southwest friends: tomorrow at 3pm, I'm speaking in Exeter on the Erased tour, followed by reception. Do come by. @exeter.ac.uk @profalexp.bsky.social

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 18d

“In twenty-three years at Harvard and fifteen as a tenured professor, I have seen a lot of tenure cases.... I have never been at such a total loss to explain Harvard’s decision,” said History professor Mary D. Lewis.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 18d

🥂 www.arsenal.com/news/arsenal...

Arsenal win Ballon d’Or’s Women’s Club of the Year

We have been crowned the Women’s Club of the Year at the 2025 Ballon d’Or awards

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 18d

Politics doesn’t have to stay broken. Inequality doesn’t have to win.
We’ve got something better to offer — but we need you with us.

Join the Green Party today at join.greenparty.org.uk

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 21d

It was such a fun trip. Thank you so much!

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 22d

Podcast of the week! Thanks so much... 🎙️👇

The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 22d

The field of international relations has always relied on the intellectual labor of women. Yet as our podcast of the week shows, misogyny, racism, and marginalization worked to systematically exclude women’s contributions.

With @whitproject.bsky.social & @javiermejiac.bsky.social

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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 22d

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 23d

and/or Paddystinian merch.

Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 23d

Amy Goodman and Judith Butler chatting about Hannah Arendt 🔥🎙️
www.democracynow.org/2025/9/15/ju...

Judith Butler on Gaza Genocide, the Right’s Assault on Trans People, Campus Censorship & More

Part 2 of our conversation with professor and philosopher Judith Butler, whose name was recently shared by the University of California, Berkeley with the Trump administration in response to the admin...

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 23d

On the train from Amsterdam to Groningen tonight for the first of three September "Erased" tour dates.

Will speak to their very cool "Group on the History and Theory of International Relations" tomorrow afternoon @cirr-ug.bsky.social @berytia.bsky.social @jcostalopez.bsky.social

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 24d

"The Starmer leadership want Reform to do well. It's the strategy that you're going to alight upon if you are a centrist political formation with nothing positive to offer, because the only way you can get people to vote for you is to make it a kind of blackmail." - @leninology.bsky.social

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Silkabelli (mutazione-piromane Edition) @silkabelli.bsky.social · 24d

Queen

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 24d

"The transfer of tens of billions of pounds to the owners of the privatised water, rail, bus, energy and mail services comes as families face soaring bills, polluted rivers and seas, and expensive and unreliable trains and buses".
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation

Analysis reveals ‘privatisation premium’ of £250 per household per year paid to owners of water, rail, bus, energy and mail services since 2010

www.theguardian.com

Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 24d

Does anyone know anyone working on Arthur Creech Jones?

Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 24d

Queen Susan strikes again.

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