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Tom Vaswani

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Obscurant, channeling his inner Hegel. Purveyor of catchy tag-lines. Projects: the Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture series @ CRMEP; admin of GillianRose.Org Just trying to make sense of things.

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Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · Jun 18

The Gillian Rose Memorial conference. London, 18-19 June. Swedenborg House.

www.kingston.ac.uk/about/events...

The Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture Conference 2025

Rosean Futures: Promise and Perdition in the Thought of Gillian Rose

www.kingston.ac.uk

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · Jun 8

Gillian Rose and the Indo-Europeanists progressivegeographies.com/2025/06/08/g...

Gillian Rose and the Indo-Europeanists

While I’ve been working on my Indo-European thought project, I’ve looked at a few books from the University of Warwick’s library which came from the Gillian Rose collection. Some of the books …

progressivegeographies.com

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Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · Jun 19

And also Louis Hartnoll >> @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social

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Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · Jun 18

Rosean Futures …

Thoughts and recollections on the late Gillian Rose, philosopher.

Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · Jun 18

The Gillian Rose Memorial conference. London, 18-19 June. Swedenborg House.

www.kingston.ac.uk/about/events...

The Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture Conference 2025

Rosean Futures: Promise and Perdition in the Thought of Gillian Rose

www.kingston.ac.uk

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AAUP–Penn @aaup-penn.bsky.social · Jun 12

Inside the Inn at Penn, Trustees are making decisions none of us will ever have a say in. Out here, many of the workers whose research makes Penn a university are reading out their letter calling on Penn to respect their voice and let @rapup-uaw.bsky.social vote for their union

Long line of RAPUP-UAW members marching outside the trustees’ meeting

Many RAPUP members holding a banner and union signs out on the street

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Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · Jun 18

Rosean Futures …

Thoughts and recollections on the late Gillian Rose, philosopher.

Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · Jun 18

The Gillian Rose Memorial conference. London, 18-19 June. Swedenborg House.

www.kingston.ac.uk/about/events...

The Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture Conference 2025

Rosean Futures: Promise and Perdition in the Thought of Gillian Rose

www.kingston.ac.uk

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Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · Jun 18

Day 2, tomorrow

With (inter alia) Robert Lucas Scott, Rebekah Howes, and Prof Kate Schick

Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · Jun 18

Opening panel with Profs. Nick Gane and Nigel Tubbs

This evening's Keynote, with Prof. Elliot Wolfson www.religion.ucsb.edu/people/facul...

#gillianrose #crmep

@nickgane.bsky.social
@swedenborghouse.bsky.social

Elliot Wolfson – Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara

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Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · Jun 18

The Gillian Rose Memorial conference. London, 18-19 June. Swedenborg House.

www.kingston.ac.uk/about/events...

The Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture Conference 2025

Rosean Futures: Promise and Perdition in the Thought of Gillian Rose

www.kingston.ac.uk

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Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · Nov 19

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Chiara Russo Krauss @russokrauss.bsky.social · Nov 17

I'm giving a second chance to Bluesky.
Give me a follow if you're part of former philosophy-Twitter and Il follow you back.
Please repost this message to help me reach more of you.

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Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · Nov 15

👋🏽 fellow philosopher of history ! Wie gehts ?

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Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · Nov 15

Here learning from others. Posts mostly about books, and interesting ideas. And football (both kinds). Barely survived 2016-2020. Will try again.

Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · Nov 15

Guten Morgen. 👋🏽 Penny

I’m Tom, a twitter refugee on a small boat headed for Dover.

This is Obi-Wan Tinker. The force is strong.

Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · Nov 15

I know. It’s great isn’t it? Lots of enthusiasm. Let’s see how it pans out.

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Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · Nov 15

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Nov 5

‘We start life so full of life, with so much in us, so much more than we can ever comprehend. Then life itself knocks it out of us, and philosophy begins.’

In the latest issue, Jenny Turner reflects on the life and work of her former teacher, Gillian Rose:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Jenny Turner · What else actually is there? On Gillian Rose

Love’s Work is the ‘existential drama’ of a postwar Jewish British woman philosopher, born in London in 1947, who...

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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · Nov 13

Jenny Turner's essay on Gillian Rose is excellent. In 1995 I had the somewhat awkward task of 'reviewing' Love's Work for The New Statesman. I still don't quite follow the thinking about the sources of 'power' in her work, esp. late on; glad the early lectures are now published.

Old review of a book -- apologies, on Mastodon I could give you the while text of it.

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Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · Nov 12

Perfectly reasonable grounds for (not) doing so.

IR Thucydides =/= Thucydides

Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · Nov 9

Woah, I didn’t even get a number 😳

Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · Nov 6

👍🏽 any chance we can get him on this platform ? #united

Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · Nov 6

Wife: “this is not dystopia. Yet”

Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · Nov 6

I think it’s what p/s does outside of p/s that matters. There’s a wholesomeness to being unaware in wider culture. That’s the scale of the challenge. (I think)

Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · Aug 4

Building some critical mass on here. #mufc

Si Lloyd @smnllyd5.bsky.social · Aug 4

Three posts a day for the rest of August. See where it goes

Rich @richio.bsky.social · Aug 4

Yeah, I think we just need a good group of people to consciously prioritise posting on here for a bit and I think we’d be away.