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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

1 year

publication day I can’t believe how long this thing took me to make

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

1 year

In ten short weeks (after ten long years), my book, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF STATES: CENTRAL EUROPE AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF MODERN SOVEREIGNTY will be published by @PrincetonUPress 1/3

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Natasha Wheatley

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this kid's had a bumpy path into material existence (imprint says 2020, but I saw her first only weeks ago), so there's all the more reason to welcome her warmly-- on the ends of empire in Central Europe, & the close entanglement of international orgs & post-imperial sovereignty

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In a hard winter, inside what has felt like a longer life-winter, this little spark just dropped— our book — POWER AND TIME Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History — is now out ! (20% off with code UCPNEW !) (thread)

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a little in love with our cover featuring the gorgeous notational drawing of German artist Jorinde Voigt Power and Time Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History -- out this spring with Chicago

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my book *The Life and Death of States* is out in less than a month! Princeton UP are offering 30% off with the discount code P321

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Natasha Wheatley

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4 years

coming soon with OUP.... **Remaking Central Europe: The League of Nations & the Former Habsburg Lands** ed. Peter Becker & me exploring how the interwar international order took shape amid the wreckage of empire & packed full with exciting new work

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2 years

Martti Koskenniemi: We are bound by the structures of language, but there are “moments when the frame breaks, the context breaks” — moments “like love”

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Decolonization and International Law conference organized by @samuelmoyn and me Princeton March 8-9 featuring @Umut_Ozsu , @SurabhiRanganat , @CRWDietrich , Adil Hasan Khan, Teresa Davis, Miranda Johnson, Sam Klug, Idriss Fofana & Priyasha Saksena

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6 years

HIS 550 Law and Legalities is go!

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9 months

Grateful to @zeithistoriker for the shout out in the @NewStatesman Books of the Year 2023 @PrincetonUPress @PrincetonHist

The New Statesman

@NewStatesman

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Nicola Sturgeon, Bernardine Evaristo, Theresa May, Ali Smith, Gary Younge, Lisa Nandy, Rebecca Solnit and many more choose their favourite books of 2023.

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Natasha Wheatley

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3 years

good morning moon, good morning world (I submit this manuscript today)

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

2 months

I’m very grateful to David - the perfect mentor - and so many other teachers, colleagues, students, and friends. Looking forward to paying this forward

David A. Bell

@DavidAvromBell

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In a bleak moment for academia, one truly good piece of news this year was that several wonderful younger colleagues at Princeton achieved tenure. Congratulations to @xwen0113 , @natasha_wheat , Michael Blaakman, @peterw536 , Basile Baudez, Flora Champy, and Greg Conti!

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Natasha Wheatley

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delighted that this symposium on my book is now out in History of European Ideas @HEIjournal , ever so generously curated by @AnneSchult w reviews by Charles Maier, Nathaniel Berman, Kathryn Ciancia, & Clara Maier Thanks to @RemarqueNYU for crucial support

Symposium on Natasha Wheatley’s The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation...

Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2024)

www.tandfonline.com

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

6 years

I have an essay in the London Review of Books on Pieter Judson's The Habsburg Empire: A New History @LRB @Harvard_Press

Samuel Moyn 🔭

@samuelmoyn

6 years

On the Hapsburg empire, by ⁦ @natasha_wheatl ⁩

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Natasha Wheatley

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"Law and the Time of Angels: International Law's Method Wars and the Affective Life of Disciplines" --I have a new piece in History&Theory that takes off from the "anachronism" debate to explore the relationship of law, time, and method more broadly

History and Theory

@histandtheojrnl

3 years

📢 Our June issue is out now! Coming soon: this issue's #ArticleSnapshots . Read the issue here: #Twitterstorians #TheoryOfHistory #PhilosophyOfHistory

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Ahead of my book's formal birth day next week, I have an essay in Austria's Die Presse today on the place of the Habsburg Empire in the state-ification of the world @diepressecom

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Natasha Wheatley

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4 years

Having spent the week reading @AdomGetachew @GKBhambra @j_e_s_s_whyte @ntinatzouvala @SurabhiRanganat @leverhulmewhit +others as I put together a new syllabus on the History of International Order: a) full of trembling excited admiration for these extraordinary women, and b)...

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Natasha Wheatley

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7 years

I am delighted to be joining the Princeton faculty as an Assistant Professor of Modern European History

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“In 1917, Lenin declared that he thought of borders and states as transient but necessary expedients…” ⁦ @lsehistory ⁩’s Dina Gusejnova, brilliantly, on changing conceptualisations of sovereignty in Russian socialist thought

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

4 years

“In short, our leaders have lost sight of an essential truth: A university exists for values different from those that dominate the for-profit world” François Furstenberg channeling the rage and sadness we all feel at how universities have lost their way

University Leaders Are Failing

The pandemic reveals ineptitude at the top. Change is needed.

www.chronicle.com

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

2 months

my book is one year old! thrilled about this new review by Tara Zahra @UChicagoHistory , whose own work has been such an inspiration @PrincetonUPress

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@natasha_wheatl

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publication day I can’t believe how long this thing took me to make

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Natasha Wheatley

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very surprised, and very grateful --especially for the reminder of all the unexpected communities writers and readers make, more precious than ever in this cavernous year

ASIL_ILTIG

@asilorg_iltig

3 years

Come join us at 5:30pm ET THIS Wednesday for the ILTIG meeting at @asilorg Annual Meeting and help us toast the WINNER of this year's International Legal Theory Scholarship Prize: @natasha_wheatl , for: ! 1/

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Natasha Wheatley

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We’re hiring in modern / early modern European history at Princeton — review of files to begin October 1 ~ ~ ~ Assistant Professor. Early Modern or Modern European History. Tenure Track in Princeton, NJ for Princeton University

Assistant Professor. Early Modern or Modern European History. Tenure Track in Princeton, NJ for...

Exciting opportunity in Princeton, NJ for Princeton University as a Assistant Professor. Early Mo...

careers.historians.org

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

4 years

eek just a little excited about this generous review Ann Laura Stoler has written for our volume, *Power and Time: Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History* ---which is out sooooonnnn 🤩🙏

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@natasha_wheatl

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Library Patron X survived a mere 14 lines of Kelsen before indignation irrupted over the page in a blaze of exclamation marks

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Natasha Wheatley

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This spring, Dirk Hartog & I are co-teaching a Princeton grad seminar called "Law and Legalities," traversing a range of topics, debates, and methods in legal history inclu legal pluralism, law&capitalism, law& difference/race, empire, human rights, custom, settler colonialism..

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Natasha Wheatley

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5 years

Hallo Berlin! Feeling very lucky to be setting up at the Wissenschaftskolleg for the new academic year @wiko_berlin ✨

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from tomorrow, small stores in Germany will be allowed to open again - the first stage of a gradual reopening. seemed like a good day to ride all the way in, and record the passing of this, or something of this, whatever this is

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@natasha_wheatl

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this meant the world huge thanks to Lea, Lisa, Coel, and everyone who came out

Alexandre Lefebvre

@alex_usyd

1 year

A homecoming for @natasha_wheatl at Sydney Law School to celebrate her truly impressive The Life and Death of States, published by @PrincetonUPress . @JSI_Sydney , @lea_ypi

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

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New in the Journal of Modern History: "Trieste and Danzig after the Great War: Imperial Collapse, Narratives of Loss, Reconfigured Globalization" by Marco Bresciani and Klaus Richter port cities, sovereignty, commerce...

Trieste and Danzig after the Great War: Imperial Collapse, Narratives of Loss, Reconfigured...

Abstract This article reconstructs the consequences of the loss of hinterlands for the port cities of Trieste and Danzig after the Great War, as well as the consequences of the (often conflict-ridd...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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@natasha_wheatl

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hi hi Vienna

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11 months

Look what arrived in the post! Our teeny tiny little book, my first in German Macht und Zeit, now available from August Verlag

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Sydney friends! I’m so excited to bring this book back where it all started — and with the dream line up of LEA YPI and LISA FORD, too. Reception to follow. It would be lovely to see you — Huge thanks to the fabulous Coel Kirkby and @JSI_Sydney

JSI Sydney

@JSI_Sydney

1 year

Delighted to host @natasha_wheatl to discuss her new book, The Life and Death of States, with @lea_ypi and @LisaFHistory at the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence @SydneyLawSchool on 10 August

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There will be a panel on the book with Tara Zahra, Charles Maier, and Nathaniel Berman at the Remarque Institute at NYU on Friday April 21 – please join us in New York or on zoom! It would be wonderful to see you 3/3

The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty

as.nyu.edu

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

4 years

Grateful to be part of this blockbuster volume — with a chapter on largely forgotten intl jurist Krystyna Marek — alongside so many wonderful scholars including Keisha Blain, Or Rosenboim, Glenda Sluga, Helen Kinsella + many more @KeishaBlain @IntHist @Hkinsella6 @OrRosenboim

Women and the History of International Thought

@leverhulmewhit

4 years

sneaky preview of something coming in early 2021... @KatHistory @RobbieShilliam @cambUP_History @leverhulmewhit

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5 years

“Central Europe as Ground Zero of the New International Order” —and a workshop for post-imperial sovereignty more broadly I have a new essay in Slavic Review

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4 years

What might happen if we told the history of International law from a coral atoll in the western Pacific? From trading post to protectorate to colony to mandate to trust territory to sovereign state, @CaitStorr brilliantly reveals Nauru as symptom -not anomaly-of intl legal order

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5 years

berlin, tomorrow with bonus blumenberg

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4 years

good day at the bookshop 😋

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hiiiiiii australia see you in 14days “you will not be given a room key, because you are not allowed to leave your room” thinking about the borders of this island state, the modes of their opening&closing, & all those who experience them as indefinite detention

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4 years

"Presentism used to be so simple." Marcus Colla of @OxfordHistory has written a thoughtful review article @ContEuroHistory on new books about time, incl Jenny Andersson's The Future of the World, Aleida Assmann's Is Time Out of Joint?, & our Power&Time

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

3 years

Miranda Johnson on indigenizing self-determination! @SurabhiRanganat on the ocean& decolonization! @ssklug on Republic of New Afrika! Priyasha Saksena on India, territorial sovereignty, Hyderabad! @Umut_Ozsu on hydrocarbon humanitarianism! + + --you know, just all the good things

Kevin Jon Heller

@kevinjonheller

3 years

This special issue of the Journal of the History of International Law, co-edited by @natasha_wheatl and @samuelmoyn , on the history of the decolonisation of international law looks fantastic.

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6 years

This year’s Davis seminar at Princeton with the theme Law and Legalities — all welcome! As “Davis serf,” I’ll also be organizing, with @samuelmoyn , a conference on International Law and Decolonization in March 2019

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@samuelmoyn

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@natasha_wheatl

4 years

I still remember Dan's discovery, some years ago, of a stash of Nazi identity documents sewn into the upholstery of a Czech armchair -- irresistible bait for the historical imagination. He set off to uncover the world of those documents, & Penguin has just published the tale

Penguin Books Aus

@PenguinBooksAus

4 years

A historical detective story and a gripping account of one historian’s hunt for answers, THE SS OFFICER'S ARMCHAIR by Daniel Lee ( @daniellee550 ) is a unique addition to our understanding of Nazi Germany. Read an extract here:

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oh hello, you I knew you when you were but a twinkle in your brilliant author's eye —a vague but exciting future tense lingering in the stairwells of fayerweather hall what a pleasure to meet your spined, papery self

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Perry Anderson(Lineages) suggesting that the plurality of pre-capitalisms requires a correlate analytical plurality,in which law+politics carry an interpretive weight they lose in capitalism’s wake.Does someone pick this up explicitly?Grateful 4pointers @Umut_Ozsu @ntinatzouvala

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“Wheatley hat eines der anregendsten Bücher der letzten Jahre im Bereich des Rechts, der Politik und Geschichte geschrieben.” The Life and Death of States reviewed in Der Standard — ⁦ @PrincetonUPress ⁩

Von der Monarchie lernen

Plurale Souveränität: Natasha Wheatley erklärt, wie Ideen aus der Habsburgermonarchie das moderne Staats- und Völkerrecht des 20. Jahrhunderts formten

www.derstandard.at

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1 year

For those in Vienna on July 4! Excited to discuss my new book with this fabulous line up

Research Center for the History of Transformations

@recetvienna

1 year

Join @natasha_wheatl , @FillaferFranz , Peter Becker, @ewa_2m and Renata Uitz discussing Central Europe's function as a laboratory of our current world order – moderated by our very own @japvie81 . (July 4, 18:30, @IKT_OeAW , in cooperation with RECET and @CEUDemInst )

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4 years

On how the specter of "genocide" as the ultimate transgression organizes our moral imaginary, blinding us to more systematic forms of violence against civilians, from the bombing of cities to drone strikes @dirkmoses 's important and long-awaited new book is published today!

Cambridge University Press Bookshop

@CUPBookshop

4 years

5/7 New Books: The Problems of #Genocide - Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression, by @dirkmoses

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4 years

quarantine, a diary

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It tells the history of multinational empire and theories of sovereignty, of the end of the Habsburg Empire in the longer 20C history of “decolonization,” of modern legal thought, and the relationship between sovereignty and time 2/3

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4 years

quarantine, an antidote

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11 months

Just cast my referendum vote at the Australian consulate in New York where voting opened today #HistoryIsCalling ! it really is — #VoteYesAustralia @ulurustatement

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2 years

two years was a long time to be away from home

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3 months

Don’t know if I can live up to @FillaferFranz ’s characterisation of the book as “exquisite, stylish and scintillating,” but he gets it just right in describing the empire’s “permanent state of conceptual surgery,” and in this last paragraph too. I’m so grateful 🙃

CEU Review of Books

@CEUReviewBooks

3 months

In The Life and Death of States ( @PrincetonUPress , 2023) Natasha Wheatley reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a laboratory of legal theories that also shaped our contemporary world order. @FillaferFranz reviews the book. Read the review here:

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The NYT can't get enough of Tara Zahra's history of anti-globalism

Globalization’s Discontents Were Baked In From the Beginning (Published 2023)

In “Against the World,” the historian Tara Zahra examines the promise of liberal internationalism in its early days — and the resentments and suffering it continues to incite.

www.nytimes.com

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@natasha_wheatl

10 months

this is a truly extraordinary dissertation. Watch out for the book!

Liane Hewitt

@anticartelhist

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I defended my beast of a dissertation f/t the epic Harold James, Phil Nord, @natasha_wheatl , David Cannadine, Quinn Slobodian, @fred_marty I make myriad arguments. Among them: cartels constitute a powerful, hidden & often anti-democratic governing institution of global capitalism

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oh hejjj Berlin ! ach wie schön, wieder hier zu sein Humboldting til Jan / holla at me europe / grateful to the ⁦ @AvHStiftung ⁩, the FU, ⁦ @SConrad20 ⁩, the world

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A powerful collective tribute to the much loved, much missed Philippa Hetherington (1984-2022) just published in Kritika

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4 years

My mum, a librarian at a small college of further edu, has become a very active union delegate in recent yrs. Today, an online meeting of 200+ librarians resolved to close their libraries in defiance of management instructions. She was so giddy on the ph I’m not sure she’ll sleep

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4 years

That time Albert Bushnell Hart recommended his student WEB Du Bois to Georg Jellinek

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2 years

my first time in Helsinki. tips welcome!

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5 years

reclining light, berlin

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"Capitulations Redux: The Imperial Genealogy of the Post–World War I 'Minority' Regimes" Laura Robson in the AHR --- The history of Ottoman sovereignty again with many secrets to share, especially for the history of international law

Capitulations Redux: The Imperial Genealogy of the Post–World War I “Minority” Regimes

Abstract. Scholars have long considered the post–World War I minorities regime—defined and encompassed by a series of “minorities treaties” with various Ba

academic.oup.com

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“Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.” (Anne Carson)

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found poem

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oh sugar I’ve missed you

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This was a really rich and interesting conversation about the book in Vienna — grateful all over again for these perceptive and often surprising comments

Research Center for the History of Transformations

@recetvienna

1 year

Now online: "From a Multiethnic Empire to a World of Nation States" with @natasha_wheatl , Renata Uitz, Peter Becker, @ewa_2m , @FillaferFranz , moderated by our @japvie81 ( @IKT_OeAW @CEUDemInst )

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7 years

It's only the pre-print copy, but: my new Law and History Review article on metaphors of personality in international law

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5 years

Kudos to United Airlines for this Ferrante synopsis

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6 years

looking forward to the Yale Legal History Forum this Tuesday where I'll be presenting on legal pluralism as temporal pluralism

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6 years

Mira Siegelberg's forthcoming book (now has a gorgeous cover)

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"Yet in a deeper sense the Right’s resort to judicial supremacy is not a sign of strength, but an admission of weakness: a beleaguered regime calls upon the authority of the court only to achieve what it cannot accomplish through electoral politics" ( @karpmj + lincoln again, obv)

Jacobin

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It is not enough to question the decisions, the justices, or even the structure of the current court — we need to challenge, as Abraham Lincoln did, the foundation of its power to determine the law.

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The book offers a deep contextualization of Kelsen and the Pure Theory of Law in Central European political life: first re the Habsburg Empire's legal multiplicity, then its 1918 collapse and the problem of sovereignty after empire

Adil Haque

@AdHaque110

2 years

Magnificent book. Imho Natasha should have called Chapter IV “A New Hope” but otherwise no notes.

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My Letter from Lviv — on place and the history of international law

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@samuelmoyn

7 years

Letter from Lviv @natasha_wheatl

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1 year

this was such a treat!

Research Center for the History of Transformations

@recetvienna

1 year

"From a Multiethnic Empire to a World of Nation States: Central Europe, Crucible of World Order", @natasha_wheatl , Renata Uitz, Peter Becker, @ewa_2m , @FillaferFranz , moderated by @japvie81 – great semester closing with @IKT_OeAW , @CEUDemInst

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“From this perspective, decolonizing political theory is less a recurring critique of Eurocentrism than an effort to shift the terrain of theorizing” itself, to alternative “positive or reconstructive” agendas The always-essential Adom Getachew and Karuna Mantena 👇

Jeanne Morefield

@JeanneMorefiel1

3 years

An important intervention from @AdomGetachew and @KMantena . "Anticolonialism and The Decolonization of Political Theory," Critical Times, Duke University Press

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"Spectral Legal Personality in Interwar International Law: On New Ways of Not Being a State" - now (properly) out:

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On what literary scholars can teach international lawyers -- Anne Orford & others have embraced the role of anachronism in the history of international law. Chris Warren argues that this ultimately brings "international legal method closer to literature & literary scholarship"

Simon Stern

@ArsScripta

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Christopher Warren on "History, Literature, and Authority in International Law" on @humcommons CORE via @humcommons

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On history & the social sciences -- inclu Jennifer Pitts on intl politics @samuelmoyn on law @MiraSiegelberg on IR Susan James on philosophy Joel Isaac on anthropology @DrHannahDawson on feminism Quentin Skinner on political philosophy @adam_tooze & Sheilagh Ogilvie on economics

Samuel Moyn 🔭

@samuelmoyn

2 years

TOC up - and it's spectacular

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4 years

Sad to miss all the lovely Cambridge people in real life, but looking forward to this nonetheless

Modern European History at Cambridge

@MEHcambridge

4 years

🚨🚨🚨 This is not a test 🚨🚨🚨 The programme for the Modern European History Seminar is here. 🇪🇺 Five amazing scholars will present this Michaelmas Term, check out the information below 👇🤯👇

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hello again, america

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@natasha_wheatl

4 years

“The humanities teach us about how we live together & interact, whether historically, in the present day or into the future. The humanities enquire about the fundamental questions of what it is to be human” @thelawcouncil against the new Aust govt policy

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

6 years

In the current AHR ("year one of decolonization"): a forum on Indigenous Agency and Colonial Law, feat. Miranda Johnson on the Million-Dollar Duck & Bending the Settler Contract & Bianca Premo and Yanna Yannakakis on Indian Jurisdiction in Colonial Mexico

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

4 years

Kelsen in his autobiog on how, in wake of WW1, he came to the view (as an “individualist”) that the economic system of liberalism could not provide economic security for the majority, and thus he could not conscionably support it, even if it was good for him and his class

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

2 years

Spectacular paper from Tuuli Talvinko on how the first invocations of EU’s “foundational values” (democracy, dignity, etc) come in the trade + financial agreements accompanying the integration of post soviet states in 1990s — the ideological gloss over brutal marketisation

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

4 months

James Robertson on the spatial projects -- including nonalignment, federalism, and communist Slavism -- of Yugoslav socialism in @MIHJournal

Mediating Spaces: The Scales of Yugoslav Socialist Thought | Modern Intellectual History | Cambri...

Mediating Spaces: The Scales of Yugoslav Socialist Thought

www.cambridge.org

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

6 years

Looking forward to Time, Space, and Violence in Current Histories of International Law today at NYU I’ll be talking about law, time, Orford, Koselleck, and Kantorowicz

Karin Loevy

@karinloevy

6 years

Tomorrow @nyuiilj history & theory in IL workshop w Benton, Ford, Anghie, Simpson, Wheatley, Dyzenhaus, Hulsebosch, Cohen, Howse, Kingsbury, Glass, Schmalz and more; Space, Time & Violence in Current Histories of IL

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

4 years

on theory as poetry I adore this Andrew Zimmerman reflection “History, Theory, Poetry” in the new issue of History of the Present theory, like poetry, reawakens us to the strangeness of language and the world — it disrupts the self-evidence of meaning

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

4 years

A genealogy of the role of the human body in the “two defining political forms of modernity, the state and the subject of rights”

Charlotte Epstein 🇫🇷

@Prof_ch_epstein

4 years

Just out! My book 'Birth of the State: The Place of The Body in Crafting Modern Politics' with Oxford University Press:

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

5 years

aaaand one more exciting opening at Princeton: Associate or Full Professor, Legal History of the United States time period and specialization open review of files begins Oct 7 please share widely!

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

4 years

Meanwhile, Kwame Nkrumah discovers he has a charming fan in Library Patron Y

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

5 years

Proud as punch of my student Ananya Malhotra @ananyaagustinm who will go to Oxford with a Rhodes scholarship to study the critical history of international justice

Princeton University

@Princeton

5 years

Congratulations to #PrincetonU seniors Serena Alagappan ‘20 and Ananya Agustin Malhotra ‘20 who were named @rhodes_trust scholars! 👏 #RhodesScholarships

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

4 years

...marveling at how dramatically our historiography of this subject has changed even in the last 5 years, and how infinitely better it is now

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

6 years

TOMORROW in Princeton: the fabulous @TehilaSasson will be speaking at the Modern Europe Workshop on her book project -- "We Are the World: Markets and Morality at the End of Empire" --a must for those interested in capitalism and humanitarianism

Modern Europe Workshop - "We Are the World: Markets and Morality at the End of Empire"

"We Are the World: Markets and Morality at the End of Empire" Tehila Sasson, Emory University This workshop is free and open to the public. To attend and to rsvp, email Liane Hewitt at lhewitt@prin...

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

3 years

Next Thursday, June 3, we're having a booklaunch hosted by @IntHist @EUI_History , moderated by Patricia Clavin, & featuring a panel with @HeidiTworek , Paul Betts, Pieter Judson, and Madeleine Herren. All welcome!

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

2 years

minor pilgrimages on the Baltic rim

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

8 months

grateful to @boyd_vandijk for this insightful review of my book @PrincetonUPress @PrincetonHist

Boyd van Dijk

@boyd_vandijk

8 months

Mijn bespreking van het boek van @natasha_wheatl in @nrc , nav discussies over de grondwet. Het laat zien waarom Mitteleuropa niet alléén een voedingsbodem is voor illiberale tendensen, maar ook de fundamenten van onze rechtsstaat heeft beïnvloed.

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Natasha Wheatley

@natasha_wheatl

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Ben Mueser @benwlm on territorial rights under empire in the new @IntlStudiesRev

Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire

Abstract. Territory is a distinctive feature of modern international politics, but there is little consensus over what about it is distinctively modern. Re

academic.oup.com

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