Exciting news! Applications are now open for three Doctoral Research Fellowships in History at the University of OsloThe call is open to historians from all periods, in the subjects of Knowledge, Rights, Democracy and Migration. #Callforapplications jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

A new year brings with it a new term of our #EnlightenmentWorkshop, from Robespierre to Kant and from Berlin to East Asia! Join us Magdalen College every other Wednesday at 5pm: voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/research-…

Delighted to resume our DEPE seminar in the history of political & economic thought. Join us in person next week on 05 March 2025, 14:15-15:45, room D209 with Arendse Wenzel Måge (Univ. Oslo 🇳🇴) on economic improvements & temporal change in C18 DK-Norway : jyu.fi/en/events/aren…

We were delighted to welcome Arendse Wenzel Måge to speak about her doctoral research at our DEPE seminar today. Thanks to everyone who attended for a lively and stimulating discussion!

Pleased to announce the return of the Online Enlightenment Club for another season with an exciting line up of 9 speakers from across Europe and the United States, beginning on 24th April. To find out more about the club, do have a look at our website. jyu.fi/en/humsoc/hela…

Our next volume now has a release date in the Fall of 2025 🍁! Our PI Ere Nokkala (JYU) & Gideon Stiening (LMU)’s edited volume on Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi (1717-71) will come out on 14 October 2025, fully OA & in print with De Gruyter Brill ➡️ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social |👇 degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/…

Many thanks for this thorough and generous review, Vincent Roy-Di Piazza! The OxUniStEnlightenment volume is a 'landmark contribution to the fields of intellectual history and Enlightenment studies [...] timely, nuanced, and rich addition to current debates'. Get a copy here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.38…

Our ERC is excited to host this year’s Gustav Vasa seminar 2025 on 05-06 June at University of Jyväskylä 🇫🇮 on the theme of ‘improvement in early modern Sweden 🇸🇪’ with 18 scholars from 9 different universities — Register for free to attend in person by 22 May👇 jyu.fi/en/events/gust…

48h left to register for attending our 2-day international conference on Improvement in early modern Sweden / Gustav Vasa seminar 2025, in person on Thursday 05-Friday 06 June 2025 University of Jyväskylä 👇

🔊 Episode #1 out now! Intellectual Historian Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews) explains why the Enlightenment, 18th century republicanism and the history of free states matter for today’s global politics. Listen and subscribe on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

Forthcoming: A History of Economic Thought in Sweden,by Lars Magnusson buff.ly/7FRvKjm

How have politicians been imagined, criticised or idealised across modern European history? We tackled this question in The Figure of the Politician in Modern and Contemporary Europe. Finally materialising, out December 2025! Berghahn History berghahnbooks.com/title/Ihalaine…

Revived and revamped my 'intellectual history blog'. Info about recent and new projects, including: Rembrandt Radiert Exhibition + catalogue, a glorious one, exploring how Rembrandt engraved 'him Self, his Town, his Time'. With Göttinger Verlag der Kunst. erasmianmartin.world/2025/09/01/rem…

The European Society for the History of Political Thought, in partnership with Brill Publishers, invites submissions for the ESHPT ~ Brill First-Book Manuscript Prize in the History of Political Thought. europoliticalthought.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/bri…

Happy to share my new blog post on C18 French-Swedish relations for the blog of the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Oxford Centre for Intellectual History. French-Swedish diplomacy back then treated cultural alignment as a powerful vehicle for political change in Sweden👇 intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/enligh…

Excited to share my article in The Historical Journal on Abraham Bäck, Linnaeus’ best friend, who dissected the skin of an enslaved man. I explore Bäck’s little known research on race and how cadaver scarcity shaped racial science in the European Enlightenment👇 doi.org/10.1017/S00182…

Delighted to announce the new programme of the Online Enlightenment Club with an exciting line up of 7 speakers, beginning on 6th Nov. To find out more about the club and our new convenors Dorinda Outram and Jonas Gerlings, do have a look at our website: jyu.fi/en/humsoc/hela…

And that’s a wrap! See you next week for our book launch on von Giusti in Jyväskylä with the whole project’s team, followed by the National Finnish conference for history research (HITU)

Our new book "J.H.G von Justi: Philosoph - Kameralist - Publizist" has been published in De Gruyter's Werkprofile series. The book has chapters in German and in English and they are openly available here doi.org/10.1515/978311… Join us tomorrow for our book launch in Jyväskylä!👇

Jonas Gerlings’ on H. C. Nordenflycht on 17th November! According to him, Nordenflycht,did not only argue for the rights and equality of women, but also that the improvement of women’s rights, such as the right to education and to hold office, was equally beneficial to society.