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Rosario López @rosariolopez.bsky.social · Aug 28

Join us to rethink the transformations and afterlives of ideas! #CfP

Elad Carmel @eladcarmel.bsky.social · Aug 5

✨CfP✨

Reading the Readers: Theories, Methods, and Futures in Reception Studies

12–13 February 2026, University of Málaga

Please share widely and submit proposals by 22 September 2025

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Elad Carmel @eladcarmel.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thanks Anton, nice to hear from you! Yes, I'm in Finland now :) hope all is well with you!

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Elad Carmel @eladcarmel.bsky.social · Aug 5

✨CfP✨

Reading the Readers: Theories, Methods, and Futures in Reception Studies

12–13 February 2026, University of Málaga

Please share widely and submit proposals by 22 September 2025

@rosariolopez.bsky.social

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𝕰𝔦𝖑𝔢𝖊𝔫 𝔐. 𝕳𝔲𝖓𝔱 @eileenmhunt.bsky.social · Jul 16

Congratulations! Will cite! Here’s an oldie but goodie from AJPS in 2004 on Wollstonecraft’s 19th c. philosophical reception in America. Free PDF: cooperative-individualism.org/botting-eile...

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Elad Carmel @eladcarmel.bsky.social · Jul 15

New publication!

open access in Analysis: Recent Work on the Reception History of Mary Wollstonecraft's Philosophy

including some reflections on reception methods

with Martina Reuter, and a shoutout to @eileenmhunt.bsky.social

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Recent Work on the Reception History of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Philosophy

Reception history may focus on the reception of a specific philosopher, such as Baruch Spinoza, a particular work, such as his Ethics (1677), or a specific

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Elad Carmel @eladcarmel.bsky.social · Jun 25

Only 5 days left to enter the Hobbes Studies Essay Competition—please share!

Elad Carmel @eladcarmel.bsky.social · Dec 10

Hobbes Studies announces: 2025 essay competition!

Essays are particularly welcome from early career researchers

Submission deadline: 30 June 2025

Please share!

brill.com

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Elad Carmel @eladcarmel.bsky.social · Jun 10

✨Excited to share ✨

Anticlerical Legacies will be published in paperback in January 2026!

Please do recommend it to your students, libraries, and anyone else who might be interested!

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195821/

Manchester University Press - Anticlerical legacies

Anticlerical legacies - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Anticlerical legacies by Elad Carmel

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Elad Carmel @eladcarmel.bsky.social · Jun 2

Any historians of political thought based in Barcelona or Madrid on here? If so, please do get in touch!

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Dr Leandra Bias 💙💛 @openlybiased.bsky.social · May 15

What a huge privilege it was to welcome philosopher @eladcarmel.bsky.social to my class on queerness at #Eurovision @unibe.ch

Thanks for sharing how a utopian reading of the event can yield new interpretations!

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Mar 20

We're all set up at the Renaissance Society of America conference 👋

Come and say hello to our editors:

@siobhanmup.bsky.social
@mlhouston.bsky.social

And find out more about our Renaissance History and Literature lists 💌

#RSA

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Elad Carmel @eladcarmel.bsky.social · Mar 14

My review of Robin Mills's book, The Religious Innatism Debate in Early Modern Britain, is out now in History of European Ideas:

doi.org/10.1080/0191...

The Religious Innatism Debate in Early Modern Britain: Intellectual Change Beyond Locke

Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Elad Carmel @eladcarmel.bsky.social · Mar 13

CfP!

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In and Out of the Canon in Intellectual History | Centre for Intellectual History | University of Helsinki

The Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History devotes its 2025 conference to exploring the question of being in and out of the canon of intellectual history. We welcome proposals for panels and individ...

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Elad Carmel @eladcarmel.bsky.social · Mar 11

Reminder: Hobbes Studies 2025 essay competition is open!

Elad Carmel @eladcarmel.bsky.social · Dec 10

Hobbes Studies announces: 2025 essay competition!

Essays are particularly welcome from early career researchers

Submission deadline: 30 June 2025

Please share!

brill.com

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Rosario López @rosariolopez.bsky.social · Mar 11

How do colonial pasts shape racism today? Check out Marta Araujo's interview @martaraujo.bsky.social from our seminar "Acting Democratically: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Politics of Exclusion" hosted in Málaga last Feb @ortproject.bsky.social @koneensaatio.fi shorturl.at/mVLIM

Colonial Histories and Contemporary Racism: An Interview with Marta Araújo - Koneen Säätiö

Prof. Malin Grahn-Wilder interviewed Prof. Marta Araújo about addressing colonialism and enslavement in history education, ethno-racial discrimination, and Islamophobia.

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Origins of Racializing Thought @ortproject.bsky.social · Feb 17

Elad Carmel's presentation (@eladcarmel.bsky.social, @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social) “The Bubble: Utopia, Democracy, and (Contested) Inclusion in the Eurovision Song Contest” opened fascinating perspectives both to democracy and the upcoming @eurovision.tv at Basel.

Photo: @houmanauriell.bsky.social

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Rosario López @rosariolopez.bsky.social · Feb 12

I've spent the morning discussing Montesquieu's views on slavery, gender and climate with @ortproject.bsky.social and @eladcarmel.bsky.social, so this comes at the perfect time!

Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Feb 12

1/5 For our monthly 10th anniversary highlight in February we hear from Ann Thomson (@eui-history.bsky.social) who wrote "Colonialism, race and slavery in Raynal’s Histoire des deux Indes" with us in 2017 @global-ih.bsky.social. We asked her about this work & the future. Here is her response:

An image with a picture of the journal cover (a green world map on a white background) with a quotation from Thomson's response to your questions this year: "The persistence of both sweeping claims about ‘Enlightenment anticolonialism’ and indignant denunciations of 18th-century thinkers’ colonialism and racism demonstrates that in order to face Europe’s colonial and slave-trading past in as clear-sighted and informed a way as possible, the critical study of past writings remains as important as ever".

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ISIH @isih-blueskye.bsky.social · Jan 23

🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨
The Call for Papers and Symposia for the ISIH 2025 Conference has been postponed to February 1!

🗓️ Theme: Women, Men, and Other Animals
📍 Where: Aarhus University
📆 When: 11–13 June 2025

👉 More info & submissions: is-ih.com/isih-2025-wo...

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Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social · Jan 22

Our interview with Elad Carmel (@eladcarmel.bsky.social) about his new book, Anticlerical Legacies, is now out on the European Hobbes Society website. A fascinating read for early modernists!👇

europeanhobbessociety.squarespace.com/articles/int...

Interview with Elad Carmel on Anticlerical legacies: The deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes — European Hobbes Society

Elad Carmel (University of Jyväskylä) has recently published Anticlerical legacies. The deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes, c. 1670-1740 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024),...

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Elad Carmel @eladcarmel.bsky.social · Jan 17

This is going to be fun!

Rosario López @rosariolopez.bsky.social · Jan 10

Very excited about the lineup for the seminar "Acting Democratically: Historical & Contemporary Perspectives on the Politics of Exclusion", organised in cooperation with Malin Grahn-Wilder & project Origins of Racializing Thought @koneensaatio.fi @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social

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Elad Carmel @eladcarmel.bsky.social · Jan 17

What an honour! 🙏

Dr Leandra Bias 💙💛 @openlybiased.bsky.social · Jan 13

The moment you secure the participation of two of the most amazing @eurovision.tv scholars - @richmondbridge.bsky.social & @eladcarmel.bsky.social - in your @ipwunibern.bsky.social MA Seminar

The Politics of Eurovision

For a guest appearance🤩🪩

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Elad Carmel @eladcarmel.bsky.social · Dec 11

Thank you! :)

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Elad Carmel @eladcarmel.bsky.social · Dec 11

Happy to share that Anticlerical Legacies is recommended by CHOICE!

'Drawing from both published works and private writings,
Carmel ... shows that sympathetic readings of Hobbes were available at the time while also helping illuminate the value these Deists brought to these discussions'.

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Elad Carmel @eladcarmel.bsky.social · Dec 10

Hobbes Studies announces: 2025 essay competition!

Essays are particularly welcome from early career researchers

Submission deadline: 30 June 2025

Please share!

brill.com

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Institute of Intellectual History @standrewsiih.bsky.social · Dec 1

Interview with Elad Carmel. Hobbes, reception history, deism, enjoy! www.intellectualhistory.net/new-work/ant...

Anticlerical Legacies — Institute of Intellectual History

In this episode, Robin Mills speaks with Elad Carmel about his new book Anticlerical Legacies - The deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes, c. 1670–1740 (Manchester University Press, 2024). The conversa...

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Tom Ashbyトム ∙ アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · Nov 8

I have created a "starter pack" for intellectual history, broadly construed, composed of historians, philosophers, political theorists, literary scholars, & more! Sorry for those I missed & cannot add (limit 150), but do reply, like, & share this post so that people can find you!
go.bsky.app/77uSk3m

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