As we approach our tenth anniversary we thought it was a good moment to update our "Aims and Scope" to better reflect how conversations in the field have developed over the last decade. The new version is now live, read it here: https://t.co/D8I89QMP3Y

@ekwiecin @SlawistykaPAN @piokuligowski @ih_pan @UAM_Poznan @UniKonstanz 6/9 Banu Turnaoğlu (@sabanciu / @Cambridge_Uni) writes on "Early Socialism and the Impact of the Paris Commune on the Ottoman Political Imagination in the Nineteenth Century" https://t.co/JL38uUeo9g

@ekwiecin @SlawistykaPAN @piokuligowski @ih_pan @UAM_Poznan 5/9 "Owen and the Engineers" - Claudia Roesch (@UniKonstanz) looks into "Cross-Fertilization between Engineering and Early Socialism in the Owenite Tradition" https://t.co/X2GvnrRZxe

@ekwiecin @SlawistykaPAN @piokuligowski @ih_pan 4/9 Next up, Stanisław Knapowski (@UAM_Poznan) explores the phalanstère of Charles Fourier (1772-1837) in "The Social Palace as a Medium for the Transfer and Transformation of Ideas in Early Socialism" https://t.co/tzLbGJqfJj

@ekwiecin @SlawistykaPAN 3/9 @piokuligowski (@ih_pan) offers an article, "Discussing Pauperism in mid-Nineteenth Century Poland and Russia: A Study of Conceptual Transfers to the Imperial Heartland and Peripheries", with a focus on work by Henryk Kamieński and Vladimir A. Milyutin https://t.co/tXCl0NLtJe

2/9 First up, @ekwiecin (@SlawistykaPAN) investigates revolutionary Ukrainian thought: "‘And There Will Be No Russian Tsar and No Polish Lord…’: The Ukrainian Populist Utopia of the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius in a Transnational Perspective" https://t.co/fTbmFnf45r

1/9 A thread on our latest print issue, a special issue on "Wandering Ideas: Circulations of Radical Social Thought in the Long Nineteenth Century" guest edited by @piokuligowski and based on papers presented @ih_pan in 2022. Read the introduction here: https://t.co/D5CMmtATsn

Now online: Eric Loefflad (@UniKent) reviews "Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought (@EdinburghUP, 2024) by @CSAshcroft https://t.co/6DTeqZADCb

Now online! Giulio Talini (@Unibocconi) reviews "Science and Political Economy in Enlightenment Milan, 1760-1805" (@OxUniEnl @LivUniPress, 2024) by @LaviniaMaddalu1 https://t.co/tGP2ymc7Im

Honored to be invited to give this talk at Keio this coming Friday!

5/5 The process of writing deepened my understanding of how the tradition of historical writing continues to influence contemporary views of world order and China’s place within it." Read the original article here:

4/5 This research revealed how intellectuals and the government continue to use historical narratives to justify China’s modern aspirations for global leadership while framing its rise as distinct from Western models. [...]

3/5 [...] to the modern elevation of world history as a first-class discipline, I came to appreciate how historiography has been a vehicle for redefining national identity. [...]

2/5 "Writing this article allowed me to explore how Chinese historiography has long shaped intellectual and political perspectives on China’s role in the world. Tracing the evolution from traditional chronicles, which placed foreign histories as subordinate to China’s own, [...]

1/5 Another archive highlight for our impending 10th anniversary - Q. Edward Wang (@RowanUniversity) reflects on his "World History on a Par with Chinese History? China's Search for World Power in Three Stages", published in 2022 (online 2020). This is what he had to say:

@calstate @MemorialU @DrLauraEsq @RoyalHolloway @leverhulmewhit @KatHistory @sarahcdunstan @degruyter_brill @p_tamimiarab @UniUtrecht 8/8 This issue ends with a review, second, by @SMitra_ (Presidency University, Kolkata) of "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (@CambridgeUP, 2023) by @dr_jehrlich https://t.co/xAc3yieftg

@calstate @MemorialU @DrLauraEsq @RoyalHolloway @leverhulmewhit @KatHistory @sarahcdunstan 7/8 Now for two book reviews, in print issue: First, "Justifying Transgression: Muslims, Christians, and the Law – 1200 to 1700" (@degruyter_brill, 2024) by Gijs Kruijtzer is reviewed by @p_tamimiarab (@UniUtrecht) https://t.co/xGF1JKovbT

@calstate @MemorialU @DrLauraEsq @RoyalHolloway 6/8 Finally, the editors of the volume @leverhulmewhit - Patricia Owens, @KatHistory, Kimberley Hutchings, & @sarahcdunstan - conclude the collection with a response to the aforementioned review articles & some reflections on the future of the field https://t.co/XusNkdJqAA

@calstate @MemorialU 5/8 After a long analysis, @DrLauraEsq (@RoyalHolloway) concludes her review: "Looking back the way that this volume does is an important way of looking forward for IR – for a potentially different IR that is less narrow and less exclusive". Read it here: https://t.co/madLrzneu5

@calstate 4/8 "IR offers a home to those working on the margins, [where] innovative ideas emerge", @lucian_ashworth (@MemorialU) notes, citing Susan Strange (1923-98), & this "is a great step forward in developing and protecting the IR that [she] found so welcoming" https://t.co/GxME8hpZT5

3/8 "[They] have rescued countless female voices from oblivion", reviews Mona L. Siegel (@calstate), & "will no doubt spark untold numbers of future theses [..] as students’ curiosity is roused by the sparkling intellect and unique vision of these women" https://t.co/En1SrSyOS7