Elad Carmel
@eladcarmel.bsky.social
MSCA postdoctoral fellow at the University of Jyväskylä and author of Anticlerical Legacies https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526168825/
Workshop on Freethinking and Democracy at Jyväskylä on 13 December—come join us if you're around & interested!
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Workshop on Freethinking and Democracy at Jyväskylä on 13 December—come join us if you're around & interested!
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Join us to rethink the transformations and afterlives of ideas! #CfP
✨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 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Join us to rethink the transformations and afterlives of ideas! #CfP
✨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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Congratulations! Will cite! Here’s an oldie but goodie from AJPS in 2004 on Wollstonecraft’s 19th c. philosophical reception in America. Free PDF: cooperative-individualism.org/botting-eile...
cooperative-individualism.org
July 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Congratulations! Will cite! Here’s an oldie but goodie from AJPS in 2004 on Wollstonecraft’s 19th c. philosophical reception in America. Free PDF: cooperative-individualism.org/botting-eile...
New publication!
open access in Analysis: Recent Work on the Reception History of Mary Wollstonecraft's Philosophy
including some reflections on reception methods
with Martina Reuter, and a shoutout to @eileenmhunt.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/analysis/adv...
open access in Analysis: Recent Work on the Reception History of Mary Wollstonecraft's Philosophy
including some reflections on reception methods
with Martina Reuter, and a shoutout to @eileenmhunt.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/analysis/adv...
Recent Work on the Reception History of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Philosophy
Reception history may focus on the reception of a specific philosopher, such as Baruch Spinoza, a particular work, such as his Ethics (1677), or a specific
academic.oup.com
July 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
New publication!
open access in Analysis: Recent Work on the Reception History of Mary Wollstonecraft's Philosophy
including some reflections on reception methods
with Martina Reuter, and a shoutout to @eileenmhunt.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/analysis/adv...
open access in Analysis: Recent Work on the Reception History of Mary Wollstonecraft's Philosophy
including some reflections on reception methods
with Martina Reuter, and a shoutout to @eileenmhunt.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/analysis/adv...
Only 5 days left to enter the Hobbes Studies Essay Competition—please share!
Hobbes Studies announces: 2025 essay competition!
Essays are particularly welcome from early career researchers
Submission deadline: 30 June 2025
Please share!
Essays are particularly welcome from early career researchers
Submission deadline: 30 June 2025
Please share!
brill.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Only 5 days left to enter the Hobbes Studies Essay Competition—please share!
✨Excited to share ✨
Anticlerical Legacies will be published in paperback in January 2026!
Please do recommend it to your students, libraries, and anyone else who might be interested!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195821/
Anticlerical Legacies will be published in paperback in January 2026!
Please do recommend it to your students, libraries, and anyone else who might be interested!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195821/
Manchester University Press - Anticlerical legacies
Anticlerical legacies - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Anticlerical legacies by Elad Carmel
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
June 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
✨Excited to share ✨
Anticlerical Legacies will be published in paperback in January 2026!
Please do recommend it to your students, libraries, and anyone else who might be interested!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195821/
Anticlerical Legacies will be published in paperback in January 2026!
Please do recommend it to your students, libraries, and anyone else who might be interested!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195821/
Any historians of political thought based in Barcelona or Madrid on here? If so, please do get in touch!
June 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Any historians of political thought based in Barcelona or Madrid on here? If so, please do get in touch!
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What a huge privilege it was to welcome philosopher @eladcarmel.bsky.social to my class on queerness at #Eurovision @unibe.ch
Thanks for sharing how a utopian reading of the event can yield new interpretations!
Thanks for sharing how a utopian reading of the event can yield new interpretations!
May 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
What a huge privilege it was to welcome philosopher @eladcarmel.bsky.social to my class on queerness at #Eurovision @unibe.ch
Thanks for sharing how a utopian reading of the event can yield new interpretations!
Thanks for sharing how a utopian reading of the event can yield new interpretations!
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We're all set up at the Renaissance Society of America conference 👋
Come and say hello to our editors:
@siobhanmup.bsky.social
@mlhouston.bsky.social
And find out more about our Renaissance History and Literature lists 💌
#RSA
Come and say hello to our editors:
@siobhanmup.bsky.social
@mlhouston.bsky.social
And find out more about our Renaissance History and Literature lists 💌
#RSA
March 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
We're all set up at the Renaissance Society of America conference 👋
Come and say hello to our editors:
@siobhanmup.bsky.social
@mlhouston.bsky.social
And find out more about our Renaissance History and Literature lists 💌
#RSA
Come and say hello to our editors:
@siobhanmup.bsky.social
@mlhouston.bsky.social
And find out more about our Renaissance History and Literature lists 💌
#RSA
My review of Robin Mills's book, The Religious Innatism Debate in Early Modern Britain, is out now in History of European Ideas:
doi.org/10.1080/0191...
doi.org/10.1080/0191...
The Religious Innatism Debate in Early Modern Britain: Intellectual Change Beyond Locke
Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2025)
doi.org
March 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
My review of Robin Mills's book, The Religious Innatism Debate in Early Modern Britain, is out now in History of European Ideas:
doi.org/10.1080/0191...
doi.org/10.1080/0191...
Reminder: Hobbes Studies 2025 essay competition is open!
Hobbes Studies announces: 2025 essay competition!
Essays are particularly welcome from early career researchers
Submission deadline: 30 June 2025
Please share!
Essays are particularly welcome from early career researchers
Submission deadline: 30 June 2025
Please share!
brill.com
March 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Reminder: Hobbes Studies 2025 essay competition is open!
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How do colonial pasts shape racism today? Check out Marta Araujo's interview @martaraujo.bsky.social from our seminar "Acting Democratically: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Politics of Exclusion" hosted in Málaga last Feb @ortproject.bsky.social @koneensaatio.fi shorturl.at/mVLIM
Colonial Histories and Contemporary Racism: An Interview with Marta Araújo - Koneen Säätiö
Prof. Malin Grahn-Wilder interviewed Prof. Marta Araújo about addressing colonialism and enslavement in history education, ethno-racial discrimination, and Islamophobia.
koneensaatio.fi
March 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
How do colonial pasts shape racism today? Check out Marta Araujo's interview @martaraujo.bsky.social from our seminar "Acting Democratically: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Politics of Exclusion" hosted in Málaga last Feb @ortproject.bsky.social @koneensaatio.fi shorturl.at/mVLIM
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Elad Carmel's presentation (@eladcarmel.bsky.social, @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social) “The Bubble: Utopia, Democracy, and (Contested) Inclusion in the Eurovision Song Contest” opened fascinating perspectives both to democracy and the upcoming @eurovision.tv at Basel.
Photo: @houmanauriell.bsky.social
Photo: @houmanauriell.bsky.social
February 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Elad Carmel's presentation (@eladcarmel.bsky.social, @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social) “The Bubble: Utopia, Democracy, and (Contested) Inclusion in the Eurovision Song Contest” opened fascinating perspectives both to democracy and the upcoming @eurovision.tv at Basel.
Photo: @houmanauriell.bsky.social
Photo: @houmanauriell.bsky.social
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I've spent the morning discussing Montesquieu's views on slavery, gender and climate with @ortproject.bsky.social and @eladcarmel.bsky.social, so this comes at the perfect time!
1/5 For our monthly 10th anniversary highlight in February we hear from Ann Thomson (@eui-history.bsky.social) who wrote "Colonialism, race and slavery in Raynal’s Histoire des deux Indes" with us in 2017 @global-ih.bsky.social. We asked her about this work & the future. Here is her response:
February 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I've spent the morning discussing Montesquieu's views on slavery, gender and climate with @ortproject.bsky.social and @eladcarmel.bsky.social, so this comes at the perfect time!
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🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨
The Call for Papers and Symposia for the ISIH 2025 Conference has been postponed to February 1!
🗓️ Theme: Women, Men, and Other Animals
📍 Where: Aarhus University
📆 When: 11–13 June 2025
👉 More info & submissions: is-ih.com/isih-2025-wo...
The Call for Papers and Symposia for the ISIH 2025 Conference has been postponed to February 1!
🗓️ Theme: Women, Men, and Other Animals
📍 Where: Aarhus University
📆 When: 11–13 June 2025
👉 More info & submissions: is-ih.com/isih-2025-wo...
January 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨
The Call for Papers and Symposia for the ISIH 2025 Conference has been postponed to February 1!
🗓️ Theme: Women, Men, and Other Animals
📍 Where: Aarhus University
📆 When: 11–13 June 2025
👉 More info & submissions: is-ih.com/isih-2025-wo...
The Call for Papers and Symposia for the ISIH 2025 Conference has been postponed to February 1!
🗓️ Theme: Women, Men, and Other Animals
📍 Where: Aarhus University
📆 When: 11–13 June 2025
👉 More info & submissions: is-ih.com/isih-2025-wo...
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Our interview with Elad Carmel (@eladcarmel.bsky.social) about his new book, Anticlerical Legacies, is now out on the European Hobbes Society website. A fascinating read for early modernists!👇
europeanhobbessociety.squarespace.com/articles/int...
europeanhobbessociety.squarespace.com/articles/int...
Interview with Elad Carmel on Anticlerical legacies: The deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes — European Hobbes Society
Elad Carmel (University of Jyväskylä) has recently published Anticlerical legacies. The deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes, c. 1670-1740 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024),...
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January 22, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Our interview with Elad Carmel (@eladcarmel.bsky.social) about his new book, Anticlerical Legacies, is now out on the European Hobbes Society website. A fascinating read for early modernists!👇
europeanhobbessociety.squarespace.com/articles/int...
europeanhobbessociety.squarespace.com/articles/int...
This is going to be fun!
Very excited about the lineup for the seminar "Acting Democratically: Historical & Contemporary Perspectives on the Politics of Exclusion", organised in cooperation with Malin Grahn-Wilder & project Origins of Racializing Thought @koneensaatio.fi @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social
January 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This is going to be fun!
What an honour! 🙏
The moment you secure the participation of two of the most amazing @eurovision.tv scholars - @richmondbridge.bsky.social & @eladcarmel.bsky.social - in your @ipwunibern.bsky.social MA Seminar
The Politics of Eurovision
For a guest appearance🤩🪩
The Politics of Eurovision
For a guest appearance🤩🪩
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January 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
What an honour! 🙏
Happy to share that Anticlerical Legacies is recommended by CHOICE!
'Drawing from both published works and private writings,
Carmel ... shows that sympathetic readings of Hobbes were available at the time while also helping illuminate the value these Deists brought to these discussions'.
'Drawing from both published works and private writings,
Carmel ... shows that sympathetic readings of Hobbes were available at the time while also helping illuminate the value these Deists brought to these discussions'.
December 11, 2024 at 11:39 AM
Happy to share that Anticlerical Legacies is recommended by CHOICE!
'Drawing from both published works and private writings,
Carmel ... shows that sympathetic readings of Hobbes were available at the time while also helping illuminate the value these Deists brought to these discussions'.
'Drawing from both published works and private writings,
Carmel ... shows that sympathetic readings of Hobbes were available at the time while also helping illuminate the value these Deists brought to these discussions'.
Hobbes Studies announces: 2025 essay competition!
Essays are particularly welcome from early career researchers
Submission deadline: 30 June 2025
Please share!
Essays are particularly welcome from early career researchers
Submission deadline: 30 June 2025
Please share!
brill.com
December 10, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Hobbes Studies announces: 2025 essay competition!
Essays are particularly welcome from early career researchers
Submission deadline: 30 June 2025
Please share!
Essays are particularly welcome from early career researchers
Submission deadline: 30 June 2025
Please share!
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Interview with Elad Carmel. Hobbes, reception history, deism, enjoy! www.intellectualhistory.net/new-work/ant...
Anticlerical Legacies — Institute of Intellectual History
In this episode, Robin Mills speaks with Elad Carmel about his new book Anticlerical Legacies - The deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes, c. 1670–1740 (Manchester University Press, 2024). The conversa...
www.intellectualhistory.net
December 1, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Interview with Elad Carmel. Hobbes, reception history, deism, enjoy! www.intellectualhistory.net/new-work/ant...
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I have created a "starter pack" for intellectual history, broadly construed, composed of historians, philosophers, political theorists, literary scholars, & more! Sorry for those I missed & cannot add (limit 150), but do reply, like, & share this post so that people can find you!
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November 8, 2024 at 10:44 AM
I have created a "starter pack" for intellectual history, broadly construed, composed of historians, philosophers, political theorists, literary scholars, & more! Sorry for those I missed & cannot add (limit 150), but do reply, like, & share this post so that people can find you!
go.bsky.app/77uSk3m
go.bsky.app/77uSk3m