Sophie Cardin

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International Fellowships 2026 The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce. Funding status Open for applications Career stage Early-career

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.

We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
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'The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese in the dark, growing stronger, and more interesting. The poor and the weak die with all their anger intact and probably those angers go on growing in the dark of the grave...'

And subscribe to the Utopia Reading Group mailing list by sending a blank email to utopia.reading.group-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk

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Looking forward to reading Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) with the Oxford Utopia Reading Group this Hilary Term

'The point of creating futures is to get people to imagine what they want and don’t want to happen down the road – and maybe do something about it.' ― Marge Piercy

!פּרעכטיק! אַ האַרציקן דאַנק פֿאַר דעם, חבֿר

Yiddish political thought coming to a conference near you! I had a great time presenting on Esther Frumkin's Marxist Yiddishism at BIAPT last week — thanks @biapt.bsky.social for having me!

Call for Papers: BIAJS Conference 2026 (13-15 July, Birkbeck, University of London) CALL FOR PAPERS #BIAJS2026 Space and Place in Jewish Studies British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies Annual Conference 2026 Birkbeck, University of London | July 2026   “there is…

Join us in London in July!

CALL FOR PAPERS NOW LIVE

#BIAJS2026 “Space and place in Jewish studies” 13-15 July Birkbeck

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Please direct any inquiries regarding the conference to the conference email address: OxGradConference@outlook.com

We are able to offer a limited number of small grants to help cover travel costs for attendees without access to institutional funding.

The conference will be held on the 27th and 28th of April 2026, in person at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

Submit full papers (5,000-9,000 words, excluding bibliographic references), a title, and an abstract (up to 200 words). Each selected presenter will be asked to deliver a brief talk to open the discussion of their paper. We will make papers available to attendees shortly before the conference.

CFP: OXFORD GRADUATE CONFERENCE IN POLITICAL THEORY!

Welcoming submissions in any area of political theory—including critical theory, analytic political philosophy, and the history of political thought.

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Very excited for another term of the Utopia Reading Group! Open to all Terrans living in and around Oxford interested in Ursula Le Guin's political thought and fiction

The Left Needs Utopian Thinking Conservative apologists for the status quo often stigmatize their opponents as “utopian.” But socialists and feminists shouldn’t be afraid of the term, since utopian thought can play an important role...

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The brilliant Polina Whitehouse writing in defence of utopia:

"... the Right is already doing a good job of painting pictures of alternatives; the Left needs to compete."

Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund The Story of the Jewish Bund

For all you horrors who have been waiting, “Here Where We Live is Our Country” has a pub date! April 7, 2026

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Preorders mean everything, so get one for all your friends. Haters, get some and have a book burning

it would be nice if the big annual conferences didn't fall on pesach — just a thought

We are accepting applications for the part-time (2-year) role as Network Coordinator until August 10. More info here: shorturl.at/NI9lu Looking forward to hearing from you!

That's wonderful! I'll be waiting eagerly!

Please share with colleagues working on:

🧠 Political Theory
📚 Literary Studies
✍️ Creative Writing
🏛️ History of Ideas
🌍 Critical Theory
🌱 Radical Pedagogy
👾 Speculative Fiction
💥 Activist Scholarship
🌈 Queer Theory
🪐 Feminist SF / Afrofuturism
📖 Utopian Literature
🎓 Higher Ed / Curriculum Design

Teaching utopia? I’ve started a public Zotero group for sharing syllabi, reading lists, & teaching materials on utopia: www.zotero.org/groups/60695.... Whether you’ve taught More or Morris, Bloch or Bogdanov, Le Guin or Lewinsky—your contributions are welcome! #utopia #teachingresources

Marxist theory has done wonders for my complexion

A very good review of a very bad book

Project 2052 — Common Notions Press Project 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072.

We’re launching a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art and poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone! We’re calling it Project 2052. To support author honoraria, subscribe as a sustainer, make a one-time donation, or pitch a story here: www.commonnotions.org/project2052.

Anyone going to #APSA2025 and looking for affordable housing? Me and another grad student have two spots in a lovely 4-bed private dorm, 25-min walk to the Convention Centre. Just $350 for 4 nights! Feel free to DM or share

The Wealth of Freedom: Radical Republican Political Economy Abstract. What is an economy for? The republican tradition in political thought offers a compelling way of exploring this question. The economy is for the

What would an anti-oligarchic, republican economy look like? UBI? Wealth tax? Workplace democracy? Strong trade unions? Investment democracy? I explore a radical republican economics in my new book, 'The Wealth of Freedom', which is now out online. academic.oup.com/book/60075

'What, however, is art? whence does it spring? Art is man’s embodied expression of interest in the life of man; it springs from man’s pleasure in his life;'

-William Morris, 'The Worker’s Share of Art'