Digital archival research can take you to unexpected places sometimes:

The @EUI's Villa Salviati was on an Allied list of 'Areas to Be Spared Destruction During World War II' (the Badia Fiesolana was not, btw 👀)

finally got to talk about the prophetic herrings!

'Have you got Machiavelli's The Little Prince?'

The final episodes of Shōgun were very different than I assumed & elevated the whole show - or, rather, revealed how subtley clever it was all along. Brilliant performances too (Tadanobu Asano esp). Inevitable historical criticism aside (good names are changed), would recommend.

Let's try this. What do you, reader, think is gonna happen when you die? Feel free to comment if your view doesn't quite capture the 4 very limited options I put out there.

I will be in good company this weekend to present a working paper on Rousseau’s influence in Spanish America. Looking forward to learning from other fantastic scholars researching such a broad range of topics within global political thought

A rose for Sant Jordi, following the Catalan tradition - grazie a tutti
EUI Library

Universities inviting police to intimidate & arrest their peacefully protesting students is unacceptable & undermines the very constitution & purpose of a university. Full solidarity with students & faculty Columbia University & elsewhere protesting genocide & campus authoritarianism.

universities should not get their students arrested for engaging in non-violent protest

Many #concepts , #ideologies and #languages - let‘s meet in Rio to discuss all that and celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 7th HCG conference in Brazil🎉

Looking forward to participating in the Pocockian Moments Symposium Association for Global Political Thought History at EUI. My paper, 'A New British History of an Atlantic Archipelago?: The Case of Ireland in Pocockian Projects', charts the engagement of historians of Ireland with the 'New British History'.

‘Forgetting presupposes something once known, but the general 'we' who have 'forgotten' these women are also the 'we' who were not taught them in the first place.’ Sophie Smith, brilliant, on women in philosophy and intellectual history for the London Review of Books: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

I talked with History at EUI about the anti-utopian utopia of neoliberalism, the libertarian 'self-help novel,' and why the weaponization of liberty against emancipatory politics threatens democracy at its core. 👇👇👇

Look at this beauty, c. 1580s

We are slowly (and at high cost) rebuilding what we sacrificed to cars in the 1950s and 1960s

Firenze, same spot, 120 years later 🚃

Buon compleanno, Roma! Today 2777

Eyüp Murat Kurt Yep