The Rausing Professorship at the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University is now open for applications (deadline 30 April). Great department; lovely city.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez doing what UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has chosen not to do, criticise the US and Israel for their attack on Iran which breached international law
The entire millennial identity is being prepared and groomed for a version of the world that stopped existing by the time we reached it
we slammed into a horizon painted on a brick wall like fucking looney tunes
The first set of postdocs for our ERC project on popular government have just been advertised. These 3 postdocs will be based at UC Louvain with my co-PI Pierre-Etienne Vandamme and focus on contemporary democratic theory. Apply! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...
I dag udkommer Michel Foucault ‘Om sex’ - en rigtig fin antologi der samler en række af Foucaults tekster og interviews om sex og seksualitet. Det er både fascinerende og ubehagelig lekture og bestemt en læsning værd. Jeg har haft æren af at anmelde bogen for Atlas.
atlasmag.dk/kultur/filos...
"Europas ledere har selv været med til at undergrave den retsorden, de påberåber sig i mødet med Trump".
Jeg er tilbage i Information. Med USA's ageren bør europæiske politikere også af kyniske, egoistiske grunde støtte op om international ret. Også når det gør ondt. Også i Venezuela. Også i Gaza.
CfP: Women’s Contributions to Political Economy During the 19th Century Vol. 5 Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists
Editors: Karen Green (University of Melbourne) & Ruth Edith Hagengruber (Paderborn University) By the beginning of the nineteenth century, political thought…
My essay on the first Haitian revolutionaries was published during the holidays. If you're interested in knowing more about the political differences between the protagonists who in 1791 launched the world's only truly succesfull slave rebellion, it’s here:
ageofrevolutions.com/2025/12/29/j...
Some professional news: I'm now hiring two postdocs to be part of the research project I'm leading on global republicanism and the making of democratic cultures in the early 19th century. If you know someone for whom this may be relevant, don't hesitate to let them know.
www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
Some professional news: I'm now hiring two postdocs to be part of the research project I'm leading on global republicanism and the making of democratic cultures in the early 19th century. If you know someone for whom this may be relevant, don't hesitate to let them know.
www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
A sharp new look at Jeannot Bullet and the early Haitian Revolution—far more complex than the usual “villain” narrative. A fascinating rethink of power, violence, and revolutionary vision in 1791. @nicolaivoneggers.bsky.social
👉 ageofrevolutions.com/2025/12/29/j...
Aside from the human consequences, this is a complete waste of ressources and makes our world a worse place. So, full solidarity with everyone trying to make it, hang on, and make ends meet.
Some have it better and some have it worse than me. But whatever the case too many talented, passionate, creative, and in every way brilliant people burn out.
For me, it’s been ten years of precarity and the new position also is not permanent (but it’s four years with good condition so I’m not complaining). I known what the consequences are in terms of mental health and the ability to have and maintain social relations.
Happy to report that I have taken up a position as associate professor at History at Aarhus University. Here, I will be leading a project on international republican movements.
Full solidarity with everyone out there trying to make it in this brutal job market of ours - academic or otherwise.
Three presenters and a chair seated at a table at an academic conference
Brilliant presentation about women writing histories of women in the Age of Revolutions by @nicolaivoneggers.bsky.social at ISIH 2025: Women, Men, and other Animals in Aarhus @isih-blueskye.bsky.social
New book just arrived. Learning more about the rise of fascism to understand the present
Photo of the cover of Slagmark’s special issue on "The People, Democracy, and Populism." The cover contains an image of a crowd storming a palace. The picture is titled "The Storming of the Winter Palace" and is from a 1920 reenactment of the storming of the Winter Palace that occurred during the October Revolution in 1917 and was, from 1922 and onwards, presented as an image of the original events. It illustrates both the victory of popular sovereignty over medieval privilege and the virtual and performative aspects of the people and popular sovereignty so central to modern politics.
Slagmark #85: "The People, Democracy, and Populism," which I co-edited, is now available open access (tidsskrift.dk/slagmark/iss...).
It contains an introduction, 10 articles, and an enquete, exploring these three concepts, their historical development, and contemporary relevance. 1/7
Det er helt bevidst, når Trump opfører sig totalt utilregneligt og som en galning. Spørgsmålet er hvordan vi skal forholde os til det. Jeg har en kronik i dagens Politiken om hvordan vi skal forstå Trumps udenrigspolitik. Link nedenfor.
On my way home after having discussed Donald trump and fascism on DR (Danish National broadcast). Link in the comments
Så længe du ikke starter med at belære ham om prisen på linned
Så tæt på 100% klassebevidsthed og så stopper du samtalen! Al magt til din søn! 😉
On my way home after having discussed Donald trump and fascism on DR (Danish National broadcast). Link in the comments
The carbon budget of the super-rich for 2025 is going to be exhausted by the end of today
Tweet from Jason Hickel on Jan 6 2022 saying: "The climate crisis reveals that our civilization has never really been organized around science, contrary to the usual Enlightened narrative. It is organized around capital. Science is embraced when it serves the interests of capital, and is often ignored when it does not."
found this @jasonhickel.bsky.social screenshot on FB
Donald Trumps flirt med fascistisk retorik og forkærlighed for autoritære ledere præsenteres ofte som noget nyt i amerikansk historie. Men i virkeligheden er han en del af en lang amerikansk tradition. Jeg har en længere artikel i morgendagens Information om USA’s autoritære tradition.
