Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー
@tomaashby
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Historian @UTokyo_News • @JSPS_sns Fellow, nominated @BritishAcademy_ • Reviews Editor @Global_IH • Co-org @gpolthought • Ph.D. @EUI_EU
Tokyo 東京
Joined December 2018
After months of back-and-forth drafting, & over 10,000 words of dialogue, I am delighted that this discussion article co-authored with Quentin Skinner (@QMUL) is now published @Global_IH
1/2 Out now! "Independence, Globality, and the Battle of Ideas: A Dialogue on Liberty" by Quentin Skinner (@qmHPT) & @tomaashby (@UTokyo_News), a wide-ranging, scholarly, & full-length discussion article - the first such piece our journal!
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I had a phenomenal time today @KyotoU_News listening to the talks comprising "Beyond Dejima" – many thanks to the organisers, Maria Florutau & @GYasuhira!
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Back in Kyoto – good to be back, saw a kyomai performance this evening
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RT @ewangibbs: Tonight I finished a complete redraft of my book, An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class. Formatting….
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RT @huwaliyasuntob: Some random thoughts re: my first trip back to China since the pandemic (all observations are Beijing-only, and really….
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RT @bartlebytaco: my policy has become no quarter, scorched earth: not only forbidden, but i tell them if they ever plan to use AI for any….
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My own chapter is on the philosophy of love, aesthetics, & women's equality
@jamie_k_wheeler @rhammersley99 @MyriamDucrocq @TheHistoryWoman Former includes: (un)requited love(rs), desire, & consent, virtue, despair & felicity, liberty & slavery (to Venus), Platonism - esp. aesthetics - Stoicism, Epicureanism, Augustine's saeculum, Tacitus's histories, & women's equality in gov, learning, & war
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Reminder: this collective volume is half in French & half in English
This will be the first ever collection on Algernon Sidney. Chapters in French & English. Merci beaucoup: François Quastana, @jamie_k_wheeler, Alberto de Barros, Luís Falcão, Cesare Cuttica, @rhammersley99, Jean Terrel, @MyriamDucrocq, @TheHistoryWoman, & my co-ed Christoper Hamel
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Publication date news: 17 September!.
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RT @jan_blonski: @tomaashby Great news and congrats, Tom!.There is indeed an urgent need to (re)integrate the Baltic region and its early m….
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Also the Baltic – thinking & debates on the Baltic, Atlantic, & Pacific are often similar & connected (& can be found discussed *together*) – more on this at a later point!.
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My project is an intellectual history of the English (then British) republican / commonwealth tradition in global context, c.1649-1720s – includes close contextual analysis of economic, financial, & racial ideas, slavery, commerce, & writing on Pacific Asia (not just Atlantic).
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RT @kkthomason: @NC_Renic Noticeable. Way more engagement and discussion. And now when I visit classes that allow them, I notice the differ….
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RT @NC_Renic: A question for academics, who's banned devices (laptops and phones) from their lectures? And what have the results been? Noti….
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I am very grateful to have been awarded a KAKENHI grant (2.1 million ¥) for my project @jsps_sns – I plan to use this funding for my research & to facilitate a landmark international conference on "global intellectual history" – let us make it more meaningful, robust, & *global*.
After being nominated by the @BritishAcademy_, I am delighted to have been awarded a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship hosted @UTokyo_News with @Koji_hist by the @jsps_sns. Starting this summer, I look forward to continuing my work on the global English republic & more in Japan!
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RT @fichus_D: Last Saturday, I gave a presentation at the International Colloquium “The Enlightenment in the Global World”(グローバルな世界における啓蒙主義….
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RT @katherineveritt: I’m trying not to despair but it rly seems like by and large ppl today have given up on critical thinking.
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Later this week! I look forward to returning to Kyoto & participating in what promises to be fantastic workshop. Online attendance is also possible.
On 1 Aug, 15:00 - 19:00 JST (08:00 - 12:00 CET), Dr. Maria Florutau (Uppsala) and I will organise a hybrid event 'Beyond Dejima: Dutch and Swedish Perspectives on Japan during the Enlightenment'. Speakers are Maria, Tim Screech (Nichibunken) and Linda Andersson Burnett (Uppsala).
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RT @ANNVYSHINSKY: The thing about Guernica is that, unfortunately, seeing it on your screen doesn’t do it enough justice. Impossible to dis….
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