Xinyi Wen (she/they)
@xinyiwenhps.bsky.social
👩🏻💻 Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow @warburginstitute.bsky.social
🎓 PhD @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust
📍 Travelling through possible worlds
🖋️ Writing a reversed long history of the doctrine of signatures
warburg.sas.ac.uk/people/xinyi-wen
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🎓 PhD @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust
📍 Travelling through possible worlds
🖋️ Writing a reversed long history of the doctrine of signatures
warburg.sas.ac.uk/people/xinyi-wen
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Last week, when the BJHS article by @cberiksen.bsky.social and I received the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize at HSS Mérida, I wrote a 🧵 on X sharing our research process.
Now I'll redo it on BlueSky, this time with more images of our archival sources: 🗃️ #HistSci #EarlyModern
Now I'll redo it on BlueSky, this time with more images of our archival sources: 🗃️ #HistSci #EarlyModern
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Enjoy my story of an impossible encounter, where Aby Warburg and Shimomura Toratarō got off linear timelines. Where San Francisco became next-door to Yokohama. Where WWII Japan’s ‘overcoming modernity (近代の超克)’ reworked #Astrology in #EarlyModern Europe. #History #HistoryOfArt #HistSci #PhilHist 🗃️
New blog post: “Modernity as Detour: Aby Warburg and the Kyoto School” by Xinyi Wen.
From Warburg’s unrealised Japan trip (1896) to Renaissance astrology in Japan’s modernity debates (1942).
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#WarburgInstitute #IntellectualHistory #HistoryOfIdeas
From Warburg’s unrealised Japan trip (1896) to Renaissance astrology in Japan’s modernity debates (1942).
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#WarburgInstitute #IntellectualHistory #HistoryOfIdeas
Modernity as Detour: Aby Warburg and the Kyoto School
From a cancelled 1896 voyage to Yokohama to the 1942 “Overcoming Modernity” symposium, Xinyi Wen traces how Warburg’s ideas travelled into twentieth century Japanese debates on modernity.
warburg.sas.ac.uk
February 9, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Enjoy my story of an impossible encounter, where Aby Warburg and Shimomura Toratarō got off linear timelines. Where San Francisco became next-door to Yokohama. Where WWII Japan’s ‘overcoming modernity (近代の超克)’ reworked #Astrology in #EarlyModern Europe. #History #HistoryOfArt #HistSci #PhilHist 🗃️
Enjoy my story of an impossible encounter, where Aby Warburg and Shimomura Toratarō got off linear timelines. Where San Francisco became next-door to Yokohama. Where WWII Japan’s ‘overcoming modernity (近代の超克)’ reworked #Astrology in #EarlyModern Europe. #History #HistoryOfArt #HistSci #PhilHist 🗃️
New blog post: “Modernity as Detour: Aby Warburg and the Kyoto School” by Xinyi Wen.
From Warburg’s unrealised Japan trip (1896) to Renaissance astrology in Japan’s modernity debates (1942).
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#WarburgInstitute #IntellectualHistory #HistoryOfIdeas
From Warburg’s unrealised Japan trip (1896) to Renaissance astrology in Japan’s modernity debates (1942).
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#WarburgInstitute #IntellectualHistory #HistoryOfIdeas
Modernity as Detour: Aby Warburg and the Kyoto School
From a cancelled 1896 voyage to Yokohama to the 1942 “Overcoming Modernity” symposium, Xinyi Wen traces how Warburg’s ideas travelled into twentieth century Japanese debates on modernity.
warburg.sas.ac.uk
February 9, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Enjoy my story of an impossible encounter, where Aby Warburg and Shimomura Toratarō got off linear timelines. Where San Francisco became next-door to Yokohama. Where WWII Japan’s ‘overcoming modernity (近代の超克)’ reworked #Astrology in #EarlyModern Europe. #History #HistoryOfArt #HistSci #PhilHist 🗃️
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“In the late 1960s, Dr. Rossiter was working on her Ph.D. at Yale, when a comment from one of her male professors puzzled her. Who, she had asked, were the women in science? There were none, he said. Another professor mumbled something about Marie Curie being the exception.”🙃
Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️
August 31, 2025 at 8:21 AM
“In the late 1960s, Dr. Rossiter was working on her Ph.D. at Yale, when a comment from one of her male professors puzzled her. Who, she had asked, were the women in science? There were none, he said. Another professor mumbled something about Marie Curie being the exception.”🙃
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Also congratulations 👏 to the two honourable mentions:
Xinyi Wen (Cambridge University) 'Inventing a Healing Tradition across Time and Space - a reversed history of the doctrine of signatures, 1885-1609'
And
Xinyi Wen (Cambridge University) 'Inventing a Healing Tradition across Time and Space - a reversed history of the doctrine of signatures, 1885-1609'
And
August 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Also congratulations 👏 to the two honourable mentions:
Xinyi Wen (Cambridge University) 'Inventing a Healing Tradition across Time and Space - a reversed history of the doctrine of signatures, 1885-1609'
And
Xinyi Wen (Cambridge University) 'Inventing a Healing Tradition across Time and Space - a reversed history of the doctrine of signatures, 1885-1609'
And
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I’m very happy to announce that I’ve been awarded an IRFD Starting Grant for the project “Sovereign Flowers: Flora Danica and the Emergence of the National Flora, 1750–1900.” Hooray! The project allows me to build a small research group of a PhD student and a postdoc at Aarhus University (@au.dk).
June 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I’m very happy to announce that I’ve been awarded an IRFD Starting Grant for the project “Sovereign Flowers: Flora Danica and the Emergence of the National Flora, 1750–1900.” Hooray! The project allows me to build a small research group of a PhD student and a postdoc at Aarhus University (@au.dk).
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RIP #histsci Margaret Rossiter, who coined term Matilda Effect
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...
#philsci #feministsky
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...
#philsci #feministsky
August 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
RIP #histsci Margaret Rossiter, who coined term Matilda Effect
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...
#philsci #feministsky
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...
#philsci #feministsky
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article now published >> artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
August 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
article now published >> artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
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The brilliant @lmbd1418.bsky.social has suggested people write to the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper re: my case. If you could spare five minutes, she's created a draft letter which you can use to send to coopery@parliament.uk. I appreciate everyone's support. ❤️
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
August 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The brilliant @lmbd1418.bsky.social has suggested people write to the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper re: my case. If you could spare five minutes, she's created a draft letter which you can use to send to coopery@parliament.uk. I appreciate everyone's support. ❤️
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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So excited to share my new article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social:
"Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access)
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
"Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access)
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
August 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
So excited to share my new article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social:
"Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access)
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
"Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access)
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
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My next book—The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History—has an official publication date: April 5, 2026! The publisher’s page is up with TOC & a preorder button (no cover yet): press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Look here for more details as they materialize.
Look here for more details as they materialize.
The Genealogy of Genealogy
The book The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History, Jason Ananda Josephson Storm is published by University of Chicago Press.
press.uchicago.edu
August 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
My next book—The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History—has an official publication date: April 5, 2026! The publisher’s page is up with TOC & a preorder button (no cover yet): press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Look here for more details as they materialize.
Look here for more details as they materialize.
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Excited to be part of this great line up of natural history talks and walks at the Forest Learning Centre, Perdana Botanic Gardens, KL later this month!
August 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Excited to be part of this great line up of natural history talks and walks at the Forest Learning Centre, Perdana Botanic Gardens, KL later this month!
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This is getting close to 150K signatures now. It might not do anything, but it will serve as evidence for the future that the UK government were aware of the opposition of its own people to its complicity in the Israeli genocide on Gaza & the fact that it did nothing to stop it.
I shared the link yesterday, but (UK citizens only please) the Gaza petition to UK parliament is here if you're looking for it; just cracked 76k and the rate at which people are signing is creeping up; currently 4500/hour and only needs 347 signatures every hour for the next 3 days to hit 100k
Petition: Urgently fulfil humanitarian obligations to Gaza
Act to ensure deliverer of fuel, food, aid, life saving services etc. We think this shouldn't be dependant/on condition of Israeli facilitation as the Knesset voted against UNWRA access to Gaza. We th...
petition.parliament.uk
July 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This is getting close to 150K signatures now. It might not do anything, but it will serve as evidence for the future that the UK government were aware of the opposition of its own people to its complicity in the Israeli genocide on Gaza & the fact that it did nothing to stop it.
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Following announcement of the Roy Porter Essay Competition winner, two entrants have also been awarded Commended for their essays:
Congratulations to Elena Danieli (Università di Bologna and Université Paris Cité) and Zhilin Chu (University of Cambridge)
#histmed @rebeccawynter.bsky.social
(1/2)
Congratulations to Elena Danieli (Università di Bologna and Université Paris Cité) and Zhilin Chu (University of Cambridge)
#histmed @rebeccawynter.bsky.social
(1/2)
Prizes
2024/5 ROY PORTER STUDENT ESSAY PRIZE COMPETITION The deadline for this year’s competition has now passed. Do look again in the autumn for the 2025/6 competition entry form (the deadline for …
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July 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Following announcement of the Roy Porter Essay Competition winner, two entrants have also been awarded Commended for their essays:
Congratulations to Elena Danieli (Università di Bologna and Université Paris Cité) and Zhilin Chu (University of Cambridge)
#histmed @rebeccawynter.bsky.social
(1/2)
Congratulations to Elena Danieli (Università di Bologna and Université Paris Cité) and Zhilin Chu (University of Cambridge)
#histmed @rebeccawynter.bsky.social
(1/2)
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Bye forever, WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
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Please check the latest post on my page from my sister Aseel’s account.
It’s the eighth time we’ve been forced to flee, and we’re really falling apart.💔
Just… from a place of humanity🙏🏻
It’s the eighth time we’ve been forced to flee, and we’re really falling apart.💔
Just… from a place of humanity🙏🏻
July 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Please check the latest post on my page from my sister Aseel’s account.
It’s the eighth time we’ve been forced to flee, and we’re really falling apart.💔
Just… from a place of humanity🙏🏻
It’s the eighth time we’ve been forced to flee, and we’re really falling apart.💔
Just… from a place of humanity🙏🏻
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Print Matters summer school hard at work at Thin Ice Press amid 3 days of book-making, reading Lucretius, depicting 'chaos', and perusing the Minster Library and Shandy Hall
July 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Print Matters summer school hard at work at Thin Ice Press amid 3 days of book-making, reading Lucretius, depicting 'chaos', and perusing the Minster Library and Shandy Hall
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We're recruiting for a permanent part-time Exhibitions Officer at @rcpmuseum.bsky.social. Come and work with me and some other, much cooler, people. rcp.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
Exhibition Officer - London
Are you enthusiastic about history, objects, and storytelling, with a commitment to creating inclusive, creative and meaningful experiences for museum audiences?
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP)...
rcp.current-vacancies.com
July 9, 2025 at 9:50 AM
We're recruiting for a permanent part-time Exhibitions Officer at @rcpmuseum.bsky.social. Come and work with me and some other, much cooler, people. rcp.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...