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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

📩 Send a 300-word abstract and short CV to karrsn@uc.edu by June 15, 2026.

Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Topics might include: ancient tyranny theory & Renaissance reinterpretation; apologist & reason-of-state traditions; tyranny in Islamicate & Ottoman traditions; colonial encounter; visual & juridical dimensions; gender & sovereignty. All disciplines & career stages welcome.

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Tyranny was never simply order's antithesis — it was among its most persistent features, sometimes the force that order strained against, sometimes the force that held it together, and not always distinguishable from either.

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

📜 CFP | Tyranny in Political Thought, Legal Culture & Image in the Renaissance World, ca. 1300–1700. Multiple panels at #RSA2027, sponsored by the RSA Discipline Representative for Legal & Political Thought. Selected papers will be invited to contribute to a co-edited volume.

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

📩 Send a 300-word abstract and short CV to karrsn@uc.edu by June 15, 2026.

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Topics might include: resistance & rights; tyrannicide doctrine; anti-tyranny in Islamicate & Ottoman traditions; colonial encounter; visual & juridical dimensions; gender & sovereignty; modern constitutional legacies. All disciplines & career stages welcome.

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Resistance theory, tyrannicide, & constitutionalism were never simply oppositional — they were generative, and what they generated was not always distinguishable from what they set out to oppose.

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

📜 CFP | Anti-Tyranny in Political Thought, Legal Culture & Image in the Renaissance World, ca. 1300–1700. Multiple panels at #RSA2027, sponsored by the RSA Discipline Representative for Legal & Political Thought. Selected papers will be invited to contribute to a co-edited volume.

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Call for Papers: Renaissance Society of America 2027. Please share widely! Abstracts are invited from all disciplines and career stages. Tyranny in Political Thought, Legal Culture, and Image in the Renaissance World, ca. 1300–1700 www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Call for Papers: Renaissance Society of America 2027. Please share widely! Abstracts are invited from all disciplines and career stages. Anti-Tyranny in Political Thought, Legal Culture, and Image in the Renaissance World, ca. 1300–1700: www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

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Journal of Early Modern History @earlymodhistory.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Our special issue #30.1-2, "Reflections on the Global Early Modern," is now available online! It opens with an introduction by Zoltán Biedermann, Giancarlo Casale, and Molly Warsh, "How Early? How Modern? Reflections on the Global Early Modern (Part 1)." brill.com/view/journal...

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. (1984/4)

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. (1984/3)

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. (1984;2)

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Check this amazing collection of essays, especially by my brilliant co-editor! There’s one the state of nature in there worth checking out, too. 🙂

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

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Ilanit (illy) @imanor.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco #nokings

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

This is a great opportunity for all to share their research on Renaissance war & peace in a fast-paced, interdisciplinary lightning format! Questions? Contact Susan Longfield Karr at karrsn@uc.edu PLEASE pass it on!

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

📅 DEADLINE: July 14, 2025 Submit: ✉️ Title & 200-word abstract 📄 2-page CV To: Susan Longfield Karr (RSA Discipline Rep, Legal & Political Thought) 📧 karrsn@uc.edu Subject: "RSA proposal" Notifications by July 30, 2025

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

📝 Possible areas of investigation: * Legal & political definitions of sovereignty in wartime * Role of diplomacy in peace-building & treaty-making * Rights of individuals & communities in conflict * Confessional, regional, or imperial comparisons

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

...and how peace could be secured. This lightning panel invites 5-to-7-minute presentations that explore how the legal, ethical, and ceremonial frameworks of war and peace were imagined, contested, and enacted during the European Renaissance.

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

CFP for ⚡ Lightning Talk Panel: The Rights of War and Peace 📍 2026 RSA Annual Meeting (Feb 19–21, 2026). From the revival of just war theory to the evolution of diplomatic norms, Renaissance thinkers and institutions engaged deeply with the question of how conflict could be managed...

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Possible topics include: * Legal frameworks & political power * Sovereignty & its legal justifications * Critiques of tyranny in legal/political thought * Impact of legal thought on political rhetoric (& vice versa) * Regional case studies on law & society

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Don't miss this opportunity to contribute to interdisciplinary scholarship on Renaissance legal-political thought! Questions? Contact Susan Longfield Karr at karrsn@uc.edu PLEASE PASS THIS CFP ON :)

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

📅 DEADLINE: July 1, 2025 Submit: ✉️ Title & 200-word abstract 📄 2-page CV To: Susan Longfield Karr (RSA Discipline Rep, Legal & Political Thought) 📧 karrsn@uc.edu Subject: "RSA proposal" Notifications by July 30, 2025

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

📝 Possible topics include: Legal frameworks & political power Sovereignty & its legal justifications Critiques of tyranny in legal/political thought Impact of legal thought on political rhetoric (& vice versa) Regional case studies on law & society

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

The goal is to host three panels bridging disciplinary divides—examining how jurisprudence, sovereignty, governance, and rights influenced each other within and beyond Europe during the Renaissance. Topics welcome across multiple fields!

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

📢 CFP: The Intersections & Influences of Legal and Political Authority in the European Renaissance Seeking papers on the dynamic interplay between legal & political authority during the Renaissance (1300-1700) @ the 2026 RSA Annual Meeting!

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Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

📝 Possible topics include: * Legal frameworks & political power * Sovereignty & its legal justifications * Critiques of tyranny in legal/political thought * Impact of legal thought on political rhetoric (& vice versa) * Regional case studies

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

As a member of the International Advisory Board of LUCK, Lund's Centre for the History of Knowledge, I recommend this job offer: an Assistant Professor at the Department of History devoted to work within a Global History of Knowledge. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #skystorians #histknow

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Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) at the Joint Faculties of Humanities & Theology, Lund University

We are looking for an up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct pioneering research to take up a position as Assistant Professor at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Consumer sentiment is now lower than it was during the Great Recession and the second lowest reading since 1952. The guy who inherited hundreds of millions from his father and squandered it now inherited an economy that was the envy of the world and squandered it.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/04/2025

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This may be the most important thing he's said if only because it's very hard for people to admit they were wrong and seeing someone else do it makes it so much easier

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