Conor Bollins
@ConorBollins
🎓Historian of Political Thought, QMUL and UEA.🚩Activist. 🦊Brother, uncle, etc.
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16-02-2012 04:38:11
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Join Centre for Early Modern Studies at King's next Mon 22 April for a discussion of 'Ideas of Poverty in the Enlightenment', with Anna Plassart (Open University), Alexandra Ortolja-Baird (University of Portsmouth) and Niall O’Flaherty (King’s College London). Details below.
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Join us to celebrate Gareth Stedman Jones's years School of History, Queen Mary University of London on 2 May 2024, 3-6pm. Social history, intellectual history, the history of political thought, history-politics-theory: qmul.ac.uk/history/news-a…… Royal Historical Society Institute of Historical Research Cambridge School Cambridge History @MileEndIn
'To make cuts like this, which are planned for this September, will surely change the face of the university, diminishing the educational offer that many students signed up for, and curtailing much of the activity for which Goldsmiths is famous.' #twitterstorians 1/2
The fact that I maganed to write a research essay on cat history may be one of my greatest accomplishments so far! Thanks to Sandra Swart and all other editors of Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis for accepting the cats.The book 'Gender and Animals in History' can be bought via Amsterdam Univ Press
'New Historical Perspectives' is Royal Historical Society's book series for early career historians, published University of London Press. All books are available free #OpenAccess and in print: bit.ly/3M9uKwx
Earlier this month, the series passed its 100,000th book download #twitterstorians 1/2
We've written to:
⭐️ Staff&Students explaining the lack on financial reason for drastic reorganisation: qmucu.org/2024/03/19/hss…
⭐️ Management with QMUL UNISON 🌵 requesting genuine consultation qmucu.org/2024/03/22/qm-…
⭐️ Council encouraging monitoring strategy qmucu.org/2024/03/28/let…
'Josephine Quinn will join the Faculty on 1 January 2025 and will be the first woman to hold the Professorship of Ancient History in the University.'
(It's Moses Finley's old chair, and it is fantastic news, obvs.)
Save the date, 4 June 2024, 6.15pm for Professor Georgios Varouxakis' Inaugural Lecture: ' What on earth is 'the West'? It's a long story...' QM Political Thought School of History, Queen Mary University of London QMUL School of Law Queen Mary Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Avi Lifschitz Cambridge School eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-le…
delighted to announce that I passed my viva last week 😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️ superlative thanks to my examiners William Purkis 🇪🇺 @williampurkis.bsky.social and Andrew Jotischky for the stimulating discussion and the attention they paid to my thesis, and my supervisors Miri Rubin, Tom Asbridge & Eyal Poleg
One sleep! Honoured to be joined by members from UEA UCU says join a union Sussex UCU Goldsmiths UCU Sheffield UCU Leicester UCU Aberdeen UCU #SaveUoALanguages: so much to learn from organising and advocating for workers and humanity & social sciences.
14 March, 3pm, David Sizer and MS Teams (link in linktree)
Happening this week – Join us to celebrate the publication of Richard Whatmore's new book!
📅 5 pm, 7 March
📍Audit Room, King's College, Cambridge (please note the change of venue)
More info: polthought.cam.ac.uk/future-events/…
Cambridge History Intellectual History St Andrews History Politics and International Studies Cambridge QM Political Thought