Charlotte McCallum

PhD researcher at QMUL. Works on translations of Machiavelli in 16th & 17thc Britain. Translation studies, book history, intellectual history

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Last chance to apply! Abstracts are due TODAY (30th of November). If you have an interesting approach to anything related to pre-modern intellectual history or are exploring neglected material, areas, or anything else that needs more attention, we want to hear from you!

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Do you work on an area that’s been overlooked by intellectual historians? Here’s your chance to talk about it! Set out your ideas in c. 250 words and send it to us by the 30th of November
Only one week left!
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Attention classicists, medievalists, and early modernists: applications for Lost in Time: Intellectual History before the Guillotine are due in 8 days (30th of November). If you study overlooked material or concepts, or even familiar ones in an unusual way, make sure to apply!

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We’ve decided to extend the deadline until the 30th of November! Submit your abstracts (c.250 words) and bios (c.100 words) by then to have a chance to take part!

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The deadline is today! Send your abstract and bio to [email protected] to have a chance to take part in Lost in Time: Intellectual History before the Guillotine!

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The deadline for our cfp is TOMORROW (10th November). Submit asap to have a chance to take part!!

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Don’t forget to submit your applications for Lost in Time: Intellectual History before the Guillotine this weekend! Abstracts (c.250 words) and bios (c. 100 words) are due on Sunday! Send all applications to [email protected]

[Before the Guillotine @lostideasconf]

Only three days left! Abstracts and bio are due this Sunday (10th of November), so send yours in asap! If you’re working on an unusual or neglected topic in intellectual history, then don’t hesitate to apply!

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We’re looking for papers that address themes previously overlooked in intellectual history. This includes sources that have previously been neglected and areas, periods, and cultures that have received little attention

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The conference itself will be held on the 10th-11th of April 2025 at University College London

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We’re also interested in papers that connect intellectual history to other disciplines (literature, theology, philology etc). You don’t have to be based in a history department or see yourself as an intellectual historian to apply

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Time is running out to submit to Lost in Time: Intellectual history before the Guillotine! Send us your abstracts (250 words) and bios (50 words) by the this Sunday (10th of November) to avoid missing out

[Charlotte McCallum @CLLMcCallum]

@DubrowParasite @dieworkwear IIII has been used a lot too, for hundreds of years. Look at old clocks and you’ll probably see it

[Before the Guillotine @lostideasconf]

The first Lost in Time interdisciplinary intellectual history conference devoted to the history of thought "before the guillotine" is looking for abstract submissions!

250 words & 100 word bio by 10th November 2024 to [email protected]

[Charlotte McCallum @CLLMcCallum]

@MattBlaz_02 @BLucky_twt @ArkansasCommie @FreemanLog39721 @Leslieoo7 @DeathMetalV I don’t mind a government that wants to stop people from killing each other. It’s literally part of their job. And I think the nuclear weapons are a much bigger disincentive to invasion, in actual fact

[Charlotte McCallum @CLLMcCallum]

@MattBlaz_02 @BLucky_twt @ArkansasCommie @FreemanLog39721 @Leslieoo7 @DeathMetalV Ok, but despite gun controls in Chicago, guns get in because in the rest of the US, controls are very lax. Just look at other liberal democracies where guns are heavily restricted. Gun control would reduce gun crime

[Charlotte McCallum @CLLMcCallum]

@FreemanLog39721 @Leslieoo7 @DeathMetalV In the UK (for eg) we don’t have anywhere near like the same level of gun crime as you do. Yes, sometimes it can still happen, but there’s comparatively few weapons available, so they’re easier to track and incidents like the past two(!) with Trump would be easier to avoid

[Charlotte McCallum @CLLMcCallum]

@FreemanLog39721 @Leslieoo7 @DeathMetalV By household objects I mean literally things you have in your house right now. You can (dangerously) induce a miscarriage with a coat hanger for example. It doesn’t require specialist knowledge or materials. In much of Europe guns are illegal or heavily restricted.

[Charlotte McCallum @CLLMcCallum]

@A5140Adam @wck47 @David_Challen The bystanders who helped were all women. The men in this situation were aggressive. Obviously we wouldn’t concede more power to men in the hope that they’d protect us when they so rarely do