Tuesday, September 8, 2026

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Detail of Alexandra Exter, Guardian of Energy, 1924. Costume design for the film Aelita by Yakov Protazanov.

The Engineering of Ideas: Introducing the Forum on the Conceptual History of Technology

Intellectual history and the history of science share common roots, having made a hard split only in the 1970s and 1980s, when the latter largely

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

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By Flesh and Toil: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Mélanie Lamotte

by Disha Karnad Jani On this episode of the In Theory podcast, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Mélanie Lamotte about her recent book By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

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Reintroducing Senghor: An Interview with Doyle D. Calhoun, Alioune B. Fall, and Cheikh Thiam

by Unglid Paul Doyle D. Calhoun is a University Assistant Professor of Francophone Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Peterhouse. He researches African and Caribbean literatures and cinemas, particularly Senegalese literature and film in French... Continue Reading →

Monday, August 24, 2026

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Featured images, left to right: The Ancient of Days Setting a Compass to the Earth (1794), depicting Urizen. Frontispiece to Europe a Prophecy by William Blake, copy K. Watercolor etching; “Comet of 1811,” fig. 4 in Flowers of the Sky by Edward A. Proctor (1879). Line engraving; “A Torus Colony,” 1970s, unknown artist, NASA.

Registration Now Open for “Prophecy, Prediction, and the Politics of Futurity,” the JHI Blog Graduate Student Syposium

Registration is now open for the 2026 Graduate Student Symposium, "Prophecy, Prediction, and the Politics of Futurity" to be held on Saturday, October 17, 2026, from 11:00 am – 4:00 pm Eastern on Zoom. The Symposium is free and open... Continue Reading →

Saturday, August 22, 2026

Greece Awaits: Join the Global Peace Summit 2026

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

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Death and Enlightenment: An Interview with Joanna Stalnaker

by Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa Modern philosophy, wrote Michel Foucault, can be understood as an ongoing attempt to confront a question raised two centuries ago: what is Enlightenment? In The Rest Is Silence, Columbia Professor of French Joanna Stalnaker reverses the... Continue Reading →

Monday, August 17, 2026

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Spiritual Exercises in Kantian Philosophy: An Interview with Ian Hunter

by Rex Butler Ian Hunter is an emeritus professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is an intellectual historian who has published various studies in the history of philosophical, political, legal,... Continue Reading →

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