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Ateş Uslu

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Istanbul University Faculty of Political Science, professor | global intellectual history | Marxism | Lukács Will not follow back anonymous accounts. atesuslu.com/en

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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Vanessa Mader and I were the only ones present during the panel, unfortunately (many last-minute cancellations). As far as I know, no recording was made. I will try to prepare a written version, though.
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Historical Materialism Istanbul Conference: Three days full of dozens of engaging sessions. In addition to presenting my paper on Lukács, I was very pleased to participate in a panel marking the 25th anniversary of Praksis, a historical materialist social sciences journal published in Turkish.
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Do you happen to be in Istanbul on 2 April, in the wake of the Historical Materialism Conference? You are kindly invited to our book launch "Versuche Lukács umzudenken", with the participation of our editor Hassan Maarfi Poor, at Istanbul University Faculty of Political Science (2 April, 12:30).
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
It is always a good idea to watch and listen to Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia to get myself into the mood for talking about Machiavelli and his time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5rkjZY6uKQ
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The first event of the semester: a seminar on Machiavelli, organised by the Political Philosophy Student Club at Istanbul University. The seminar will focus on a comparative study of the dedicatory letters of The Prince, Discourses on Livy, The Art of War, and Florentine Histories.
Machiavelli - Reading Seminar
25 February 2026
Istanbul Uni. Faculty of Political Science
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A new syllabus: Readings in International Political Thought: Machiavelli in Text and Social Context atesuslu.com/wp-content/u...
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The very last talk of my sabbatical period will be on “Lukács’ Social Ontology: Ontological Emergence and the Specificity of the Political". The background text is a very dense paper that Lukács wrote in 1968, in which he condenses, in 16 pages, the 1,600 pages of his Ontology.
Lukács, Georg. "The Ontological bases of human thought and action" [1968]. The Philosophical Forum 7(1), 1975: 22–37
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Why does every day involve a fight with eduroam?
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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Romila Thapar's Work: A Very Brief Introduction
Romila Thapar is the author of numerous impressive books, and her scholarship — marked above all by a sophisticated application of Marxist methodology to the history of early India — spans the period ...
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
It is particularly ironic that 10 years ago, Kristi Sweet—who now discusses a colleague’s syllabus with College leadership and proposes the censorship of Plato readings—wrote an article that concludes with the paragraph cited above. Now tell us about liberal arts under duress, Dr. Sweet. Ridiculous.
Excerpt from an article by Kristi Sweet: "Kant and the Liberal Arts: A Defense", The Journal of Aesthetic Education , Vol. 49, No. 3 (Fall 2015), pp. 1-14.

"Even though Kant himself does not explicitly announce a defense of the liberal arts along these lines, there are deep resources in his thought to articulate a rich line of inquiry into the matter. In these times, when the university in general and the liberal arts in particular are under duress, we would do well to remember Kant’s analysis. The liberal arts ought not attempt to justify themselves according the logic of utility and economics. We should remember our place as not in service to a particular government and the influence it may seek to have on its citizens, but to ideals that the government must also be subject to. The liberal arts have an independence from the government proper, an independence that allows for relating to the government in a critical—and productive—way. Certainly, the liberal arts may do more than I have articulated here; what they accomplish exceeds what they contribute to our fulfillment of our civic duties. Nevertheless, I believe this analysis may make a good beginning for thinking about how Kant can further our understanding of the pedagogical aims of professors of the liberal arts and how to think about our place in society."
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
2025 in four pictures. In the end, we keep coming back to the beginning - only to realize that the beginning has already been sublated. (Stuttgart, January (x2) - Tübingen, April - Stuttgart, December)
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Nearing the end of a long sabbatical (16 months!), and preparing my return to Istanbul... It seems that I will be focusing on the 14th–18th centuries next semester: a course on political thought in that period,and a series of activities on Machiavelli (including at least a seminar and a conference).
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
2025’s final lecture focused on the early period of Islamic political thought (from its beginnings to al-Farabi). It was, in fact,an online guest lecture at Istanbul University. This gave me the opportunity to read some relatively recent publications on the socio-economic context. 3 wonderful reads:
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Il paraît que le sens figuré de « lettré influent » date au moins du début des années 1830 : www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/m... Il serait intéressant d’en faire une histoire conceptuelle ; je me demande si cet usage a été répandu lors de la colonisation de l’Indochine.
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MANDARIN : Etymologie de MANDARIN
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Good point. Other examples that come to mind: Electra (tragedy) --> Elektra (opera) Salome (play) --> Salome (opera) I don't even like R. Strauss's music, but these are still masterpieces.
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Sandrine Berges @sandrineankara.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World – Online Lecture Series, 2026  The Cultures of Philosophy Team at the University of Exeter is excited to announce our new online lecture series, "Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World". In recent years, the…
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Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World – Online Lecture Series, 2026 
The Cultures of Philosophy Team at the University of Exeter is excited to announce our new online lecture series, "Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World". In recent years, the history of philosophy has been transformed through the recovery of early modern women philosophers, revaluing the forms they used and contexts in which they operated to write philosophy.
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The deadline for next year's HM Istanbul has been extended!!! Due to overwhelming demand, we have decided to extend the deadline for submitting paper/panel proposals to 12 December 2025. Make sure to send us your abstracts, comrades! Further details from the HM Istanbul website below.
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Historical Materialism Istanbul 2026
From Catastrophe to Struggle: Rethinking Capitalism amid Wars and Disasters
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Sounds exciting: **** [...]How could free persons be made into slaves? John Samuel Harpham shows that English authors found answers to this question in a tradition of ideas that stretched back to the ancient world, where they were most powerfully expressed in Roman law. [...]" ****
John Samuel Harpham - The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The true academic method: open 12 papers, read none of them, feel intellectually intimidated
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Now it's funny to see it from that angle.
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Deadline for HM Istanbul extended!!! "Dear all, we are delighted by your interest in our conference. In response to requests, we are pleased to announce that we have extended the deadline by 10 days. The new deadline for paper and panel submissions is 3 December 2025." hmistanbul.org
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Historical Materialism Istanbul 2026
From Catastrophe to Struggle: Rethinking Capitalism amid Wars and Disasters
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
My final academic talk of 2025 is the fourth session in an online seminar series on Lukács’s Aesthetics (held in Turkish). We have been reading the dense text of The Specificity of the Aesthetic paragraph by paragraph, and we have only just reached the end of the first section of the first chapter.
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
A wonderful conference on "Hegel, Woman and Feminism" (20229. I was particularly amazed by Ankica Čakardić's speech. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Hegel, Woman and Feminism (International Conference) - YouTube
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I wonder why there is a frenzy about celebrating Spinoza’s birthday this year.
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
3 The Pavarotti fan Possesses only a vague knowledge of opera, has heard Pavarotti’s most popular recordings, and prefers him to any other male singer, including Heldentenors or basses. 4. The classical-staging enthusiast Tolerates poor singing as long as there are kitschy traditional sets onstage.
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
1. The Callas-fan bot Is obsessed with Callas, systematically compares every singer—soprano, mezzo, or even tenor—to her, and hates'em all. 2. The contemporary-singer hater Despises any singer active today, especially Netrebko, and admires anyone who sang before the 1990s—particularly Callas.
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The comments section of any opera video on YouTube features a few recurring characters: 1. The Callas-fan bot 2. The contemporary-singer hater 3. The Pavarotti fan 4. The classical-staging enthusiast
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Today and tomorrow: “Environmental Humanities Meets the History of Knowledge,” an interdisciplinary workshop organized at the University of Konstanz ( @uni-konstanz.de ). I will speak on “Reconsidering Nature: Lukács’s Ontological Turn and Its Contemporary Relevance,” alongside excellent colleagues.
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The 1981 Stuttgart Hegel Congress—where D. Henrich, R. Spaemann, J. Habermas, and O. Pöggeler were keynote speakers, and where philosophers from the Eastern Bloc (Oizerman, Buhr...) presented alongside Gadamer, Rorty, Labarrière, and D’Hondt... We need to discuss more about the circulation of ideas.
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Unfortunately, no, but some of the articles included in that book have already been published in these languages. You can find some of them on Google Scholar: scholar.google.com/scholar?star... And this one: gyorgylukacs.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I had the chance to attend one of his seminars at the EHESS (Paris) in 2005. He was 76 years old at the time, and I was mesmerized by his energy and enthusiasm - the seminar lasted more than five hours, and he spoke almost without interruption the entire time.
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Nicolas Tertulian was one of the foremost scholars of Lukács. The articles collected in this book are excellent examples of his ability to combine historical methods—marked by an erudite reading and contextualization of a variety of texts, especially those of Heidegger—with philosophical critique.
Nicolas Tertulian, Modernité et antihumanisme. Les combats philosophiques de Georg Lukács, Paris, Klincksieck, 2019
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
On board a Deutsche Bahn train heading to Berlin, in the midst of semi-insomnia, I check my itinerary and suddenly find myself transported to the late 19th- and early 20th-century history of German social democracy.
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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 07/11/2025
Truly and deeply honoured x.com/DeutscherPri...
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The Deutscher Prize on X: "🚨 Prize winner 🚨 The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize committee is delighted to announce that Bruno Leipold’s “Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought” has been awarded this year’s prize 🎉 @BrunoLeipold @histmat" / X
🚨 Prize winner 🚨 The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize committee is delighted to announce that Bruno Leipold’s “Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought” has been awarded this year’s prize 🎉 @BrunoLeipold @histmat
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This evening: A conference organized by the Chair of the History of Knowledge (Prof. Anne Kwaschik) at the University of Konstanz — “Translating Hitler,” by Olivier Mannoni.
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
There might be a problem with the URL, or it could just be my browser.
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
How fascinating that this book was published just a few days before my session on "The Specter of the Haitian Revolution: Kant and Hegel on Slave Labour and the Racial Division of Labour." ☺️ ***** Hegel and Colonialism, by Daniel James and Franz Knappik. Open Access at cup.org/3LqOwGa
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Hegel and Colonialism
Cambridge Core - Ancient Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 31/10/2025
Today is Halloween. On All Hallows' Eve in 1590, Scottish authorities claimed 200 witches tried to prevent King James from reaching his bride in Denmark. Dozens were arrested & tortured, and 1000s killed in an era of sexist witch-hunts. Learn more here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/wit...
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Nobody seems to have noticed, but the event is actually scheduled to Tuesday, *4 November* (and not the 5th).
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Buğrahan Fertellioğlu @bfertellioglu.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Herr Kollege Uslu ist derzeit Gastwissenschaftler an der Universität Konstanz. Sein Forschungsschwerpunkt liegt seit Jahren im politischen Denken Lukács’. Kolleg:innen in und um Konstanz möchte ich das Kolloquium besonders empfehlen.
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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Freely available as a PDF on our website 💕 marxistiskestudier.com/danish-marxi...
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Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future
The Danish Society for Marxist Studies are happy to announce the publication of the anthology Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Copenhagen: Problema, 2025) on the occasion of our 10th annivers…
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Unfortunately not, but the manuscript is in progress:)
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Next Tuesday (5 November 2025, 17:00-18:30): A talk on "The Specificity of the Political: Georg Lukács’s Political Thought in the Post-Stalinist Ferment of Ideas (1956-1971)" @uni-konstanz.de Colloquium of Modern History.
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Georg Lukács Commemoration Day in Heidelberg (Press Release)
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Try these: -Túró Rudi -Pogácsa (avoid the "tepertős" [pork fat] version, if vegetarian) -Zserbó/Gerbeaud Slice (the classical version can be found in Budapest, but you can probably find a good one at a bakery in Debrecen)
Túró Rudi
Túró RudiPogácsaZserbó Slice
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Ali Yalçın Göymen @goymenyalcin.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
We’re excited to announce the launch of our new website and the opening of the Call for Papers for Historical Materialism Istanbul 2026! Please visit our website here: www.hmistanbul.org
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Historical Materialism Istanbul 2026
From Catastrophe to Struggle: Rethinking Capitalism amid Wars and Disasters
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H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Coll: Colloquium Modern History www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-1582… Konstanz, 21.10.2025-03.02.2026, AG Kolář, Universität Konstanz
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The final event of the Lukács Day: roundtable.
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
‘Lukács Day’ has begun in Heidelberg. First stop: Keplerstr. 28, one of his residences in the city during the 1910s.
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Thank you! Week 1's readings are already expanded with further recommendations, by the way.
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