Anton Jansson
@antnlj.bsky.social
Historian of ideas, knowledge, religion, political thought, Germany, and Sweden. 19th-20th century. Right now mainly researching Swedish atheism. Ungefär samma på svenska.
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1/5 For our monthly highlight in November, approaching our 10th anniversary next year, we spoke with Taushif Kara (Cambridge, now @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) author of “Provincializing Mecca? (1924–1969)”, published in 2022 (online 2021). Here is what he had to say about this work:
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
1/5 For our monthly highlight in November, approaching our 10th anniversary next year, we spoke with Taushif Kara (Cambridge, now @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) author of “Provincializing Mecca? (1924–1969)”, published in 2022 (online 2021). Here is what he had to say about this work:
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Join us on Wednesday for another "Nonreligion Past and Present" webinar, this time on nonreligion and science. In cooperation with @nonreligioncf.bsky.social. As always we have great scholars in the panel. Do not forget to register to get the zoom link: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Join us on Wednesday for another "Nonreligion Past and Present" webinar, this time on nonreligion and science. In cooperation with @nonreligioncf.bsky.social. As always we have great scholars in the panel. Do not forget to register to get the zoom link: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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har hittat ett spännande glapp i datainmatningens begreppshistoria (typ) – vad kallades det yrke som först hette "stansoperatris" och sen blev "dataregistrerare" däremellan? Nån som har någon aning?
(diagrammet visar sökträffar i KBs dagstidningsdatabas 1940–1995)
(diagrammet visar sökträffar i KBs dagstidningsdatabas 1940–1995)
October 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
har hittat ett spännande glapp i datainmatningens begreppshistoria (typ) – vad kallades det yrke som först hette "stansoperatris" och sen blev "dataregistrerare" däremellan? Nån som har någon aning?
(diagrammet visar sökträffar i KBs dagstidningsdatabas 1940–1995)
(diagrammet visar sökträffar i KBs dagstidningsdatabas 1940–1995)
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Does anyone know of a good book on the intellectual history of war (or war and peace)? Like an introduction to and contextualisation of important works in the political thought on war, or similar.
October 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Does anyone know of a good book on the intellectual history of war (or war and peace)? Like an introduction to and contextualisation of important works in the political thought on war, or similar.
Does anyone know of a good book on the intellectual history of war (or war and peace)? Like an introduction to and contextualisation of important works in the political thought on war, or similar.
October 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Does anyone know of a good book on the intellectual history of war (or war and peace)? Like an introduction to and contextualisation of important works in the political thought on war, or similar.
Har tecknat prenumeration.
Nu kan ni äntligen stötta Djävulsberget! Gå in på djavulsberget.se och teckna en prenumeration så hjälper ni @philipfranzen.bsky.social och mig att fortsätta utveckla podden. I gengäld skruvar vi upp takten med ett nytt, färskt avsnitt varje vecka om allt som rör Deutschland!
Djävulsberget
En podd om Tyskland, från Tyskland. Politik, kultur och samhällsdebatt. Nytt avsnitt varje vecka.
djavulsberget.se
September 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Har tecknat prenumeration.
Interesting PhD course on Environmental history in Copenhagen in January, hosted by @erikisberg.bsky.social and Niklas Olsen.
phdcourses.dk/Course/135089
phdcourses.dk/Course/135089
New Directions in Environmental History: Temporalities, Economies, and Technologies - PhD courses in Denmark
Phdcourses.dk is a national database for PhD-courses offered from the universities in Denmark.
phdcourses.dk
September 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Interesting PhD course on Environmental history in Copenhagen in January, hosted by @erikisberg.bsky.social and Niklas Olsen.
phdcourses.dk/Course/135089
phdcourses.dk/Course/135089
Nya Historisk tidskrift ute - tema tro! Perfekt för alla oss som tycker det är kul när vanliga historiker och idéhistoriker sysslar med kristendom. Jag har bidragit med en essä om kristen offentlighet under 1900-talet.
www.historisktidskrift.se/index.php/ju...
www.historisktidskrift.se/index.php/ju...
Vol 145 Nr 3 (2025)
| Historisk tidskrift
www.historisktidskrift.se
September 20, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Nya Historisk tidskrift ute - tema tro! Perfekt för alla oss som tycker det är kul när vanliga historiker och idéhistoriker sysslar med kristendom. Jag har bidragit med en essä om kristen offentlighet under 1900-talet.
www.historisktidskrift.se/index.php/ju...
www.historisktidskrift.se/index.php/ju...
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📢 New publication!
”Animal Mercantilism: Race Smuggling, Sheep Diplomacy, and the Geopolitics of Genetic Capital in Eighteenth-Century France” in @annales.ehess.fr is now available OA🐑🌍
doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
”Animal Mercantilism: Race Smuggling, Sheep Diplomacy, and the Geopolitics of Genetic Capital in Eighteenth-Century France” in @annales.ehess.fr is now available OA🐑🌍
doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
Animal Mercantilism: Race Smuggling, Sheep Diplomacy, and the Geopolitics of Genetic Capital in Eighteenth-Century France | Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales | Cambridge Core
Animal Mercantilism: Race Smuggling, Sheep Diplomacy, and the Geopolitics of Genetic Capital in Eighteenth-Century France
doi.org
September 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
📢 New publication!
”Animal Mercantilism: Race Smuggling, Sheep Diplomacy, and the Geopolitics of Genetic Capital in Eighteenth-Century France” in @annales.ehess.fr is now available OA🐑🌍
doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
”Animal Mercantilism: Race Smuggling, Sheep Diplomacy, and the Geopolitics of Genetic Capital in Eighteenth-Century France” in @annales.ehess.fr is now available OA🐑🌍
doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
Min vän och fd kollega Peter Karlsson har samlat ett antal teologiska essäer om svensk samtidslitteratur. Rekommenderar starkt; en typ av texter jag inte vet om någon annan kunnat skriva just nu.
September 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Min vän och fd kollega Peter Karlsson har samlat ett antal teologiska essäer om svensk samtidslitteratur. Rekommenderar starkt; en typ av texter jag inte vet om någon annan kunnat skriva just nu.
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Välkommen på disputation i idéhistoria på Stockholms universitet fredag den 26 september. 🎉 Adam Kjellgren lägger fram doktorsavhandlingen Myth and Feminist Theory. Beauvoir, Daly & Haraway. Läs mer här: www.su.se/institutione...
September 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Välkommen på disputation i idéhistoria på Stockholms universitet fredag den 26 september. 🎉 Adam Kjellgren lägger fram doktorsavhandlingen Myth and Feminist Theory. Beauvoir, Daly & Haraway. Läs mer här: www.su.se/institutione...
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We're delighted to be hosting another interdisciplinary conversation with @nonreligioncf.bsky.social! Join us on Wed 29 October for a discussion of the relationship between science and nonreligion, from the perspectives of historians and social scientists. Sign up: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
August 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
We're delighted to be hosting another interdisciplinary conversation with @nonreligioncf.bsky.social! Join us on Wed 29 October for a discussion of the relationship between science and nonreligion, from the perspectives of historians and social scientists. Sign up: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
I am not terribly active in presenting or discussing at conferences/workshops/seminars this year; I am adjusting to new family life and new job, so I am hardly travelling. But two things I am really stoked about being part of in September/October 👇
August 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I am not terribly active in presenting or discussing at conferences/workshops/seminars this year; I am adjusting to new family life and new job, so I am hardly travelling. But two things I am really stoked about being part of in September/October 👇
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We are proud to be a partner in the project European Entangled Atheisms, funded by the German Research Foundation and led by Carolin Kosuch, Göttingen. Next month, the group will meet to discuss the first steps in what will be a digital source edition on the history of atheism. tinyurl.com/38rzwrmk
Workshop des Netzwerkes „European Entangled Atheisms: Concepts of Unbelief and the People Shaping them from the 1860s to the 1940s” 22.-23. September 2025, Alte Mensa und Heyne-Haus, Universität Götti...
Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen
tinyurl.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
We are proud to be a partner in the project European Entangled Atheisms, funded by the German Research Foundation and led by Carolin Kosuch, Göttingen. Next month, the group will meet to discuss the first steps in what will be a digital source edition on the history of atheism. tinyurl.com/38rzwrmk
Theres a postdoc opportunity in gender studies or ethnology available at my university for someone who knows Russian and Ukrainian. In the Horizon Europe project MADnituDe.
web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
Postdoctoral researcher in Ethnology or Gender Studies / Horizon Europe project MAGnituDe
We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. The University works actively to achieve a
web103.reachmee.com
August 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Theres a postdoc opportunity in gender studies or ethnology available at my university for someone who knows Russian and Ukrainian. In the Horizon Europe project MADnituDe.
web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
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Vad hände med arbetarklassen? Den 15/9 kan ni få svaret för då släpps min bok.
www.bokus.com/bok/97891792...
www.bokus.com/bok/97891792...
Vad hände med arbetarklassen? Om svek, makt och ojämlikhet i Sverige av Johan Alfonsson (Häftad)
Vad hände med arbetarklassen? En gång i tiden utmålades arbetarklassen som drivkraften för välstånd och välfärd i vårt land. Idag beskrivs den alltmer som en kvarleva från ett svunnet industrisamh...
www.bokus.com
August 15, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Vad hände med arbetarklassen? Den 15/9 kan ni få svaret för då släpps min bok.
www.bokus.com/bok/97891792...
www.bokus.com/bok/97891792...
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Bra Streckare om ett bra band: Anton Jansson skriver om Pet Shop Boys i dagens Svenskan.
August 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Bra Streckare om ett bra band: Anton Jansson skriver om Pet Shop Boys i dagens Svenskan.
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✨CfP✨
Reading the Readers: Theories, Methods, and Futures in Reception Studies
12–13 February 2026, University of Málaga
Please share widely and submit proposals by 22 September 2025
@rosariolopez.bsky.social
Reading the Readers: Theories, Methods, and Futures in Reception Studies
12–13 February 2026, University of Málaga
Please share widely and submit proposals by 22 September 2025
@rosariolopez.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
✨CfP✨
Reading the Readers: Theories, Methods, and Futures in Reception Studies
12–13 February 2026, University of Málaga
Please share widely and submit proposals by 22 September 2025
@rosariolopez.bsky.social
Reading the Readers: Theories, Methods, and Futures in Reception Studies
12–13 February 2026, University of Málaga
Please share widely and submit proposals by 22 September 2025
@rosariolopez.bsky.social
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Tomorrow is the deadline for submitting an abstract for the conference Biographies and the Secular, held in Brussels 21-22 November. You can find the CfP on this link: ssab.research.vub.be/call-for-pap...
Hope to see you there!
Hope to see you there!
Call for Papers: Biographies and the Secular
ssab.research.vub.be
June 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Tomorrow is the deadline for submitting an abstract for the conference Biographies and the Secular, held in Brussels 21-22 November. You can find the CfP on this link: ssab.research.vub.be/call-for-pap...
Hope to see you there!
Hope to see you there!
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Vi söker doktorand i agrarhistoria!
Vi söker någon som vill utforska den ekonomiska ojämlikheten i 1500-talets Sverige och Finland. Utifrån förmögenhetsskatteregister kartlägger vi alla hushålls förmögenhet från 1571 och framåt.
Sök senast den 17 augusti!
www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...
Vi söker någon som vill utforska den ekonomiska ojämlikheten i 1500-talets Sverige och Finland. Utifrån förmögenhetsskatteregister kartlägger vi alla hushålls förmögenhet från 1571 och framåt.
Sök senast den 17 augusti!
www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...
June 19, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Vi söker doktorand i agrarhistoria!
Vi söker någon som vill utforska den ekonomiska ojämlikheten i 1500-talets Sverige och Finland. Utifrån förmögenhetsskatteregister kartlägger vi alla hushålls förmögenhet från 1571 och framåt.
Sök senast den 17 augusti!
www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...
Vi söker någon som vill utforska den ekonomiska ojämlikheten i 1500-talets Sverige och Finland. Utifrån förmögenhetsskatteregister kartlägger vi alla hushålls förmögenhet från 1571 och framåt.
Sök senast den 17 augusti!
www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...
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Our book Race & the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820 can now be pre-ordered (publication date is in August). @brucealexb.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... #skystorians #colonialhistory #enlightenment #histsci
Race and the Scottish Enlightenment
How colonialism shaped the Scottish Enlightenment’s conception of race and humanity In the decades after 1750, an increasing number of former medical st...
yalebooks.yale.edu
May 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Our book Race & the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820 can now be pre-ordered (publication date is in August). @brucealexb.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... #skystorians #colonialhistory #enlightenment #histsci
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Quentin Skinner Lecture 'The Spirit of the Constitution', 6 June 11am-6.30pm
Dr Max Skjönsberg (Hamilton School of Classical & Civic Education) will engage with the political debate about reforming parliament between the late 17 & early 19 centuries
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With @camhistory.bsky.social
Dr Max Skjönsberg (Hamilton School of Classical & Civic Education) will engage with the political debate about reforming parliament between the late 17 & early 19 centuries
buff.ly/BHcb7Xo
With @camhistory.bsky.social
May 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Quentin Skinner Lecture 'The Spirit of the Constitution', 6 June 11am-6.30pm
Dr Max Skjönsberg (Hamilton School of Classical & Civic Education) will engage with the political debate about reforming parliament between the late 17 & early 19 centuries
buff.ly/BHcb7Xo
With @camhistory.bsky.social
Dr Max Skjönsberg (Hamilton School of Classical & Civic Education) will engage with the political debate about reforming parliament between the late 17 & early 19 centuries
buff.ly/BHcb7Xo
With @camhistory.bsky.social
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För tre år sedan förvärvades Historiska Media av Bonnierförlagen. Sedan dess har de (såvitt jag kan se) inte anlitat en enda faktagranskare, vilket de ofta brukade göra tidigare.
Och nu detta – som ser ut som ett sätt att mjölka litteraturstöd från Kulturrådet, avsett för nyutgiven litteratur.
Och nu detta – som ser ut som ett sätt att mjölka litteraturstöd från Kulturrådet, avsett för nyutgiven litteratur.
”Först efter avslutad läsning fattar jag varför ett sådant förord saknas. Detta är ingen ny bok.” @rsmsflschr.bsky.social är en mkt skarpögd kritiker: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/bokre...
Försöker förlaget lura läsarna att boken är ny?
RASMUS FLEISCHER: Det är rent förbluffande
www.aftonbladet.se
May 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
För tre år sedan förvärvades Historiska Media av Bonnierförlagen. Sedan dess har de (såvitt jag kan se) inte anlitat en enda faktagranskare, vilket de ofta brukade göra tidigare.
Och nu detta – som ser ut som ett sätt att mjölka litteraturstöd från Kulturrådet, avsett för nyutgiven litteratur.
Och nu detta – som ser ut som ett sätt att mjölka litteraturstöd från Kulturrådet, avsett för nyutgiven litteratur.
Now over 1600 signees.
I am one of over 700 (and counting) faculty and staff from Swedish universities who have signed the Uppsala declaration, made public today, calling for a boycott of complicit Israeli institutions of higher education. Read more: uppsaladeclaration.se
May 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Now over 1600 signees.
I am one of over 700 (and counting) faculty and staff from Swedish universities who have signed the Uppsala declaration, made public today, calling for a boycott of complicit Israeli institutions of higher education. Read more: uppsaladeclaration.se
May 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I am one of over 700 (and counting) faculty and staff from Swedish universities who have signed the Uppsala declaration, made public today, calling for a boycott of complicit Israeli institutions of higher education. Read more: uppsaladeclaration.se