Pre conference talk here at Barnard College, Columbia University from Steve Pincus (Chicago) on ‘India, America & the global political economy of empire’ from his upcoming monograph; up next, reception & dinner at the NY Swedish consulate 🍸

Carl Wennerlind kickstarting the Science, Empire, Political Economy in the Nordic Enlightenment at Barnard College, Columbia University, with talks from Pernille Røge (Pittsburgh), Jón K. Einarsson (Chicago) & Anna Knutsson (Uppsala)

Second panel on Swedish colonialism chaired by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (Chicago) with our postdoc @roydipiazza, Fredrik Thomasson (Uppsala) and Leos Müller (Stockholm)

Third panel on Sweden and productivity, chaired by Steve Pincus (Chicago), with Anders Ögren (Uppsala), Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (Chicago) and Carl Wennerlind (Barnard/Columbia)

Last panel of the day on Nordic commodities chaired by Carl Wennerlind with Håkon Evju (Oslo), Magdalena Naum (Lund) and Markus Hansen (Lund)

Carl Wennerlind opens the conference’s 2nd day with talks from our PI @erenokkala, Nathalie Le Bouteillec (Amiens), and Sara Ekström (Stockholm)

Last panel of the conference (fully hybrid) chaired by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, with a joint paper from Linda Andersson Burnett & Hanna Hodacs (Uppsala) and papers from Hjalmar Fors (Karolinska) and Måns Jansson (Uppsala)

Closing remarks from Carl Wennerlind & Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, concluding the ‘Northern Lights: science, empire & political economy in the Nordic Enlightenment’ conference at Barnard, Columbia University

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)

Join us in person tomorrow in Jyväskylä (15:15-17:45, room H105) for our book launch event of « Johann H. G. von Giusti (1717-71): Philosoph, Kameralist, Publizist » with a distinguished panel of 8 speakers from Munich, Halle, Uppsala, Helsinki & JKL👇 jyu.fi/en/events/book…

Now launching our new OA publication « Philosoph, Kameralist, Publizist », an anthology of essays on Johann H.G. von Giusti, edited by Ere Nokkala & Gideon Stiening. 4 contributors to the volume are also present today & responses are provided by our postdoc Laura Tarkka.

Our team has 2 panels today on «rethinking Improvement» during the Finnish conference for history research 2025. Our first panel features our PI @erenokkala, our postdoc Joonas Tammela & JYU fellow Jonas Gerlings (Halle) with Keith Tribe as chair & Margaret Hunt as commentator

Our 2nd and final panel today on «rethinking Improvement» at the Finnish conference for history research 2025, featuring our postdocs @roydipiazza and Laura Tarkka, our senior researcher Keith Tribe, chaired by @erenokkala and with Margaret Hunt as commentator.

Join us in person next month for the 7th session of our DEPE seminar series in the history of political & economic thought! Dr Jonas Gerlings (Halle/JYU fellow) will give a lecture on H. G. Nordenflycht, gender, improvement & political thought in the Swedish Age of Liberty 👇

CfP📢Conference of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies : "Reframing the Enlightenment. Intellectual and political disputes today" 📆10-12 June 2026 |🌍Paris ⏰Application deadline: 26 October 2025 🔗sissd.it/wp-content/upl… ISECS/SIEDS

Next week on Friday 14 November 2025 at 12:00, room H320, our project researcher Joonas Tammela will defend (in Finnish) his doctoral dissertation on political sermons of clergymen in late 18th century Sweden👇jyu.fi/en/events/1411…

Join us today !

Our JYU fellow Jonas Gerlings (Halle) giving his paper this afternoon on Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht and Rousseau.

Members of our team are attending the workshop « Early modern police science and cameral sciences: theory and practice » at the Uni. Helsinki’s faculty of law. Fredrik Thomasson (Uppsala) now opening the 2nd day with « policing sex in Sweden St Barthelemy: a libertine colony? »

Our PI @erenokkala now giving his talk on « police science and cameral sciences: the Swedish case » at the ‘Early Modern Police Science and Cameral Sciences: theory and practice’ conference at the faculty of law of University of Helsinki