Some library / archival research writing today on C18 Swedish political materials at Helsinki Uni @helsinki.fi before heading to Copenhagen next week for the Religious embodiment & conversion in EM Europe conference organized by Juliane Engelhardt and @threadofariane.bsky.social
Prof. Karine Durin @univ-nantes.fr , presenting her research at the Helsinki centre for intellectual history on the early modern scientific knowledge and political reform projects
🌟 Heads up! The review for the Weber Postdoc in European History at #UCLA starts in one week—there’s still time to apply!
Love teaching on JYU’s snowy campus
Back to teaching this week at JYU, with introductory sessions to the history of science and global intellectual history.
We got the maximum amount of registrations for our new introductory course in Intellectual History — great to see so much enthusiasm for the discipline here!
Congrats Elad! 🥳 looks terrific
Looking forward to this !
Super happy and excited to see this new open access monograph now out with OUP by my great colleague John Lidwell-Durnin @johnlidwelldurnin.bsky.social 🌾👏👇
academic.oup.com/book/61892
And that’s a wrap for the In and Out of the canon in int. history conference in Helsinki! Final words from the organizers after a last panel this afternoon on publishing in intellectual history led by Martin Burke (New York)
Now attending the last keynote of the intellectual history conference by Richard Sertjeanson (Trinity College, Cambridge) on Universities and the State, with a case study based on unpublished sources from 16th century Oxford scholar John Case.
Had a great time yesterday presenting my paper; got some encouraging feedback. Now attending the 2nd keynote by Banu Turnaoğlu Açan (Istanbul/Cambridge) on rethinking the canon, global intellectual history & boundaries of political thought.
First keynote of the intellectual history conference in Helsinki, with Prof Alicia Montoya (Radboud University) on « the common reader »: libraries, canon making, and the book trade in the eighteenth century
Excited to attend the In and out of the canon of intellectual history conference for the next three days at the University of Helsinki @helsinki.fi I’ll be giving a talk this afternoon on my research on Sami soldiers in the Swedish imperial army. For now, off to the first keynote!
Interesting read!
Delighted to have been elected a full fellow of the @royalhistsoc.org. The RHS carries vital work in supporting the historical profession, and I am honoured for the chance to contribute to its mission. Congrats to all the new fellows and members!👇
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Looking forward to this ! Closing 2025 with a bang
Our JYU fellow Jonas Gerlings (Halle) giving his paper this afternoon on Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht and Rousseau
Now wrapping the NHSC10 🇳🇴 conference, with final remarks from board chair Annette Lykknes and the general assembly meeting of the newly founded Norwegian association for the history of science / Norsk Vitenskapshistorisk Forening. See you in Oslo in 2027!
Last panel of the day, with Andreas Jüttemann on leprosy in the Baltic, Jenny Sure on yellow fever in early C19 Germany, Shan Jiang & Ulrike Spring on C. P. Thunberg & bloodletting, and Thomas Brandt on ship modelling knowledge in C20 Norway.
Gave a remote talk at Swedenborg House, London (@swedenborghouse.bsky.social) this morning on ‘Swedenborg and slavery’, based on my article on the topic in the Intellectual History Review. Thanks very much to the organizers for their invitation and for accommodating me! Exciting line up and program
Second keynote of NCHS10 in Bergen 🇳🇴 by Staffan Bergwik (Stockholm) on historical time & scientific knowledge.
It was a pleasure to present my paper on Abraham Bäck in the history of medicine panel at NCHS10! Interesting discussions. And kudos to my fellow panelist Camilla Ruud (Uni. of South Eastern Norway) for a fascinating talk — on a rather intriguing case study!
Second panel of the day, with Philip Roth (Aachen, @preprintculture.bsky.social) on preprints in 1960s physics, Hari Sidhar on natural history in ecology+evolutionary biology, and Marius Buning (UiOslo) on printing privileges & power in early modern Europe
First panel of NCHS10’s 2nd day, with Ageliki Lefkaditou and Jon Røyne Kyllingstad on historicizing IQ testing in Norway, and Harriet Palfreyman & Elizabeth Toon on the place of history of science in science communication.
First keynote by Anne Eriksen (UiOslo) at the beautiful Bergen University Museum, on knowledge for the public sphere there in 1825, preceded by a short tour in celebration of the Museum’s 200 years.
Afternoon session on the sciences and the Sami in 19th & 20th century, with Jykka Nyyssönen on the Skolt Sámi, Astri Andersen on scientists, Sámi culture & land use, and Svein Atle Skålevag on Roland Bonaparte & Sami anthropology in 1884
Opening address from Annette Lykknes for the NCHS10🇳🇴 — 50 participants this year, incl. 29 from Norwegian institutions — First panel now chaired by Magnus Vollset, with Vera Schwach, Per Lundin & Ingemar Pettersson on research policy in post-war Norway & Sweden.
Looking forward to this! Very exciting program. I’ll be speaking remotely on Friday morning. Attendance is free! 👇
Now in misty Bergen for the 10th Norwegian history of science conference ! 🇳🇴
