Sandrine Berges
@sandrineankara.bsky.social
Furious feminist philosopher, author, likes to draw pictures
British Academy Global Professor at University of York till August 2028
British Academy Global Professor at University of York till August 2028
Mary Astell and Slavery in Newcastle
Tuesday I had the great honour of giving the 2025 Antognazza lecture, the annual lecture of the British Society for the History of Philosophy. This took place in Newcastle, in the beautiful Phil and Lit library. My talk was on Mary Astell and her claim that…
Tuesday I had the great honour of giving the 2025 Antognazza lecture, the annual lecture of the British Society for the History of Philosophy. This took place in Newcastle, in the beautiful Phil and Lit library. My talk was on Mary Astell and her claim that…
Mary Astell and Slavery in Newcastle
Tuesday I had the great honour of giving the 2025 Antognazza lecture, the annual lecture of the British Society for the History of Philosophy. This took place in Newcastle, in the beautiful Phil and Lit library. My talk was on Mary Astell and her claim that marriage is a form of slavery (for women), and what that could possibly mean in the context of transatlantic slavery.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Mary Astell and Slavery in Newcastle
Tuesday I had the great honour of giving the 2025 Antognazza lecture, the annual lecture of the British Society for the History of Philosophy. This took place in Newcastle, in the beautiful Phil and Lit library. My talk was on Mary Astell and her claim that…
Tuesday I had the great honour of giving the 2025 Antognazza lecture, the annual lecture of the British Society for the History of Philosophy. This took place in Newcastle, in the beautiful Phil and Lit library. My talk was on Mary Astell and her claim that…
I would say come to my talk but...
Sandrine Berges will be giving the prestigious Antognazza Lecture, at the BSHP on Nov. 11th. Tickets currently sold out, but you can get still a spot on the waiting list! It will be held at the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Library.
More here: bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...
More here: bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I would say come to my talk but...
Today I'm off to Edinburgh for an R&D showing of Toxicodindron, a new play about Olympe de Gouges by Aaron Cass. I go there as a Gouges expert. This has got to be one of the top benefits of my British Academy funded 4 year gig in the UK.
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Today I'm off to Edinburgh for an R&D showing of Toxicodindron, a new play about Olympe de Gouges by Aaron Cass. I go there as a Gouges expert. This has got to be one of the top benefits of my British Academy funded 4 year gig in the UK.
It's 5pm and I'm turning into a pumpkin (carer) but there's still lots on my to-do list. Good thing Netflix hasn't put out its Xmas movies yet so I can work tonight.
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
It's 5pm and I'm turning into a pumpkin (carer) but there's still lots on my to-do list. Good thing Netflix hasn't put out its Xmas movies yet so I can work tonight.
Finished one set of proofs. But before I could congratulate myself and co-editor @alanmsjcoffee.bsky.social I received a new set. #NotWritingAnymoreBooks. Ever.
November 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Finished one set of proofs. But before I could congratulate myself and co-editor @alanmsjcoffee.bsky.social I received a new set. #NotWritingAnymoreBooks. Ever.
tonight I took on two tins of beans with a dodgy tin opener and won - sort of.
November 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
tonight I took on two tins of beans with a dodgy tin opener and won - sort of.
Wrote to the people I bought a bathtub from to arrange delivery on a day when there’s someone home and they say: ‘no worries, just tell us a safe place we can leave it.’ It’s a fucking bathtub! You can’t hide it behind the bin!
November 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Wrote to the people I bought a bathtub from to arrange delivery on a day when there’s someone home and they say: ‘no worries, just tell us a safe place we can leave it.’ It’s a fucking bathtub! You can’t hide it behind the bin!
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New Cambridge Element on Harriet Jacobs, author of 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl' - free to download for the next two weeks
Harriet Jacobs
Cambridge Core - History of Philosophy - Harriet Jacobs
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November 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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For those of you who wanted to read @ferrydanini.bsky.social 's book Pillules Roses but couldn't because it's in French, she now has an article out discussing some of the material from the book www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Highly recommended reading!
Highly recommended reading!
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October 31, 2025 at 6:31 AM
For those of you who wanted to read @ferrydanini.bsky.social 's book Pillules Roses but couldn't because it's in French, she now has an article out discussing some of the material from the book www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Highly recommended reading!
Highly recommended reading!
Call for contributions to the Literary Encyclopedia: eighteenth-century French and Francophone philosophers
Entries on women philosophers and their works would be particularly welcome, although any male figure not currently featuring in the Literary Encyclopedia will also be considered. We are…
Entries on women philosophers and their works would be particularly welcome, although any male figure not currently featuring in the Literary Encyclopedia will also be considered. We are…
Call for contributions to the Literary Encyclopedia: eighteenth-century French and Francophone philosophers
Entries on women philosophers and their works would be particularly welcome, although any male figure not currently featuring in the Literary Encyclopedia will also be considered. We are currently seeking entries on Emilie Du Châtelet's works: Châtelet, Emilie du. Institutions de physique. 1740. Châtelet, Emilie du. La fable des abeilles in Wade, Studies on Voltaire. 1735. Châtelet, Emilie du. “Lettre sur les Éléments de la philosophie de Newton”.
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October 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Call for contributions to the Literary Encyclopedia: eighteenth-century French and Francophone philosophers
Entries on women philosophers and their works would be particularly welcome, although any male figure not currently featuring in the Literary Encyclopedia will also be considered. We are…
Entries on women philosophers and their works would be particularly welcome, although any male figure not currently featuring in the Literary Encyclopedia will also be considered. We are…
Today's exciting discoveries: 1) there is a whole book on Granville Sharp's account of the Zong Massacre, which I read in the British Library last spring, and 2) I have two full bottles of sherry on a shelf in my kitchen.
October 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Today's exciting discoveries: 1) there is a whole book on Granville Sharp's account of the Zong Massacre, which I read in the British Library last spring, and 2) I have two full bottles of sherry on a shelf in my kitchen.
Great series of talks on Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy organised by @juliajorati.bsky.social and Huaping Lu-Adler
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Zoominar series “Slavery and Early Modern Philosophy"
Huaping Lu-Adler and Julia Jorati are hosting a series of talks on 'Slavery and Early Modern Philosophy'. The talks are on zoom, but they are also posting the recordings here . The first two...
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October 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Great series of talks on Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy organised by @juliajorati.bsky.social and Huaping Lu-Adler
www.sandrineberges.com/the-voices-o...
www.sandrineberges.com/the-voices-o...
ENN fellowships – Deadline 1 January
ENN will be hiring two postdocs for the 2026-27 academic year. The position ad is now live on the ENN website: ENN recrutera deux post-doctorants pour l'année universitaire 2026-2027. L'offre d'emploi est désormais disponible sur le site web de l'ENN : …
ENN will be hiring two postdocs for the 2026-27 academic year. The position ad is now live on the ENN website: ENN recrutera deux post-doctorants pour l'année universitaire 2026-2027. L'offre d'emploi est désormais disponible sur le site web de l'ENN : …
ENN fellowships – Deadline 1 January
ENN will be hiring two postdocs for the 2026-27 academic year. The position ad is now live on the ENN website: ENN recrutera deux post-doctorants pour l'année universitaire 2026-2027. L'offre d'emploi est désormais disponible sur le site web de l'ENN : Supported by the SSHRC Partnership Grant Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy, postdoctoral fellows will conduct research related to the retrieval and recognition of philosophical works by women and individuals from other marginalized groups in both the European and non-European traditions.
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October 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
ENN fellowships – Deadline 1 January
ENN will be hiring two postdocs for the 2026-27 academic year. The position ad is now live on the ENN website: ENN recrutera deux post-doctorants pour l'année universitaire 2026-2027. L'offre d'emploi est désormais disponible sur le site web de l'ENN : …
ENN will be hiring two postdocs for the 2026-27 academic year. The position ad is now live on the ENN website: ENN recrutera deux post-doctorants pour l'année universitaire 2026-2027. L'offre d'emploi est désormais disponible sur le site web de l'ENN : …
A new post about Hannah More and Ann Yearsley's anti slavery poems, or how to engage with the slave trade if you're a white woman from Bristol in the 1780s.
The Voices of the Abolition
Activists in Bristol have been working hard at obtaining reparations for the heirs of the city’s victims during its time as the English hub of the slave trade. While researching traces of an...
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October 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A new post about Hannah More and Ann Yearsley's anti slavery poems, or how to engage with the slave trade if you're a white woman from Bristol in the 1780s.
www.sandrineberges.com/the-voices-o...
A new post on Mary Prince and Anna Maria Falconbridge, where I try to understand some stuff about why people (particularly oppressors or those complicit in oppression) choose not to believe that the oppressed suffer.
A new post on Mary Prince and Anna Maria Falconbridge, where I try to understand some stuff about why people (particularly oppressors or those complicit in oppression) choose not to believe that the oppressed suffer.
October 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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A new post on Mary Prince and Anna Maria Falconbridge, where I try to understand some stuff about why people (particularly oppressors or those complicit in oppression) choose not to believe that the oppressed suffer.
A new post on Mary Prince and Anna Maria Falconbridge, where I try to understand some stuff about why people (particularly oppressors or those complicit in oppression) choose not to believe that the oppressed suffer.
Woke up to a malfunctioning boiler this morning. Decided to be a responsible adult and called the boiler people. A man called Garfield helped me fix it over the phone, put the boiler on guarantee and book servicing for it! Feeling very responsible and grown up. And warm. Thank you Garfield.
October 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Woke up to a malfunctioning boiler this morning. Decided to be a responsible adult and called the boiler people. A man called Garfield helped me fix it over the phone, put the boiler on guarantee and book servicing for it! Feeling very responsible and grown up. And warm. Thank you Garfield.
Last spring I went to read some fascinating stuff in the British Library. I am just now beginning to share it. Hope it was worth the wait!
Lafayette to Clarkson on Abolition: a letter and some context
In the mid 1780s, Lafayette, having read Condorcet’s book on abolition, asked his friend Washington to join him in a project designed to show the world how slavery could be abolished. They would...
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October 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Last spring I went to read some fascinating stuff in the British Library. I am just now beginning to share it. Hope it was worth the wait!
Things that went missing in our move last week: trivets, clothes dryers, cat bowls, media player controls, pecorino. Things that have been found: cat bowls, trivets. Things that were found after they were replaced: clothes dryers. Pecorino and controls still missing.
October 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Things that went missing in our move last week: trivets, clothes dryers, cat bowls, media player controls, pecorino. Things that have been found: cat bowls, trivets. Things that were found after they were replaced: clothes dryers. Pecorino and controls still missing.
Sitting in my newly unpacked study in new house, thinking how pleasant it will be to start working again once everything else is unpacked, I looked at my to do list and saw I have to prepare two indexes next... Will unpack slowly then.
September 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Sitting in my newly unpacked study in new house, thinking how pleasant it will be to start working again once everything else is unpacked, I looked at my to do list and saw I have to prepare two indexes next... Will unpack slowly then.
Little flowers
September 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Little flowers
Reposted by Sandrine Berges
Free speech absolutists
September 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Free speech absolutists
On a scale of 1 to 13.5, how acceptable would it be to use 'Lol' to paraphrase Mary Astell in a big lecture? Asking for a friend.
September 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
On a scale of 1 to 13.5, how acceptable would it be to use 'Lol' to paraphrase Mary Astell in a big lecture? Asking for a friend.
Really hating that even the word counter app I'm using (to count words not on word docs) is trying to get me to use AI. 'Your text might contain writing issues! Check now!' WTF is a writing issue. And what does it have to do with the number of words?
September 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Really hating that even the word counter app I'm using (to count words not on word docs) is trying to get me to use AI. 'Your text might contain writing issues! Check now!' WTF is a writing issue. And what does it have to do with the number of words?
One reason I find analytic moral philosophy difficult is the examples given, or case studies. They never really convey anything significant. Just read one feat. Turkish (fictional) people. It's a bit racist. And the authors get the names wrong.
September 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
One reason I find analytic moral philosophy difficult is the examples given, or case studies. They never really convey anything significant. Just read one feat. Turkish (fictional) people. It's a bit racist. And the authors get the names wrong.