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Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA FEA is an English scholar and professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham.… more

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The next round of GHS Small Grant funding is now open!

We support conferences and workshops such as the fantastic colloquium recently held at the University of Oxford with @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social and Thomas Meyer. Read more about it on the GHS Blog here:

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Back in May, Sophie West invited Thomas Meyer and myself to Oxford to talk about writing the life of Hannah Arendt. Our biographies are very different, but the conversation was revealing and - in an Arendtian sense - good fun.

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Colloquium Report: ‘Hannah Arendt: In Conversation with Thomas Meyer and Lyndsey Stonebridge’ – German History Society | Promoting the Study of German History Worldwide
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I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
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Monday feelings with Louise Bourgeois.
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Writing something triggered by @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social's book on Arendt & her arrival in Marburg in 1924. The story includes (ordoliberal) Wilhelm Röpke & the murder of 15 workers by a fascist student militia in Mechterstädt during the days of the Kapp putsch. Interestingly, Röpke was part of >
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I've been to the US 2 times since Trump took office and both times I got ill (norovirus in May, Covid last week) which meant I looked at the country in a state of febrile panic and discomfort, which I think almost makes me American.
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"Imagination alone enables us to see things in their proper perspective." - Arendt.
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Exactly what we need: careful, considered, funny intelligence squaring up to our catastrophic, deadly, age of stupid (with Arendt's help).

Excellent piece @will-davies.bsky.social
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 10d
My essay on stupidology (originally published in N+1) is in today's Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
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Exactly what we need: careful, considered, funny intelligence squaring up to our catastrophic, deadly, age of stupid (with Arendt's help).

Excellent piece @will-davies.bsky.social
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 10d
My essay on stupidology (originally published in N+1) is in today's Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0
If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...
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My essay on stupidology (originally published in N+1) is in today's Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0
If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...
www.theguardian.com
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why do taxi drivers think it's ok to shout at women and when will the patriarchy end.
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Just released in Germany...

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HANNAH ARENDT: Denken ist gefährlich - Offizieller Trailer, ab 18. September im Kino!
YouTube video by PROGRESS Filmverleih
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by Lyndsey Stonebridge — Reposted by Michael Larkin

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Beautiful letter in @theguardian.com from my University of Birmingham colleague, John Fagg, capturing - in the way metrics and league tables never could - the friendship that emerges from shared intellectual endeavour.

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Learning to live with the loss of a friend | Letters
Letters: Readers respond to an article by Justin Myers and share their own experiences of grief
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Gillian Rose was born September 20th, 1947. All of Rose's books are 30% off through the weekend, to celebrate what would have been her 78th birthday
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Gillian Rose (1947–1995) was a British philosopher and sociologist. She is the author of The Melancholy Science, Paradiso, Mourning Becomes the Law, The Broken Middle; Dialectic of Nihilism, Hegel Con...
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Just terrible. Such a clever, funny, generous man.
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Conor Gearty's obit (dammit).

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Conor Gearty obituary
A skilled and persuasive human rights lawyer who fought for civil liberties in the face of over-reaching anti-terror law
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"bourgeois parents" v the Tate brothers.

Whatever will the Spectator be advocating next? Abolition of the propertied classes with their disproportionate wealth? Private ownership of the means of production? Lace tablecloths & scented candles?
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 24d
you know I wouldn't say I had high hopes for "the Spectator interviews the Tate brothers" anyway but somehow the piece is worse than I thought it would be
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you know I wouldn't say I had high hopes for "the Spectator interviews the Tate brothers" anyway but somehow the piece is worse than I thought it would be
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It is possible to support assisted dying without being an unimaginative twat about the condition of old age.
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Oh no - mine still asks if I saw the goal (he's 23). THANK YOU. That means much. (And PP was probably my favourite book ever to write....)
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Hooray (hope you like it....🫣) 🙏
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In between things, with some time to kill, a nice park and an English bookshop in the vicinity … very nice to see this in the shop window (and finally buy it) @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social
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by Michael S. Roth — Reposted by Lyndsey Stonebridge, Mary McAuliffe

Judith Butler:"It is important to refuse the notion that this is just how things are..invoking a feckless realpolitik that justifies complicity with a brutal & rising authoritarianism. It is time to resist the injustice that now threatens to be normalized" www.chronicle.com/article/when...
Opinion | When Universities Become Informants
A practice from the McCarthy era makes an ugly return.
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Rebel nuns breakout of care home & re-occupy their home.

As I've been saying: old women are the future.

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Defiant nuns flee Austrian care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps
Sisters Bernadette, Regina and Rita needed a locksmith to get back into their convent, defying Church leaders.
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It was in just such weeks as this that it was so so good to hear the wise, wonderful & witty voice of Conor Gearty.

He will be missed greatly. Thank you Conor.

Here is that voice again via @prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Are we losing our civil liberties?
Conor Gearty explains what’s at stake if Britain leaves the ECHR, and reacts to the Palestine Action ban
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
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It was in just such weeks as this that it was so so good to hear the wise, wonderful & witty voice of Conor Gearty.

He will be missed greatly. Thank you Conor.

Here is that voice again via @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...
Are we losing our civil liberties?
Conor Gearty explains what’s at stake if Britain leaves the ECHR, and reacts to the Palestine Action ban
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
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No!
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