📣 Calling all budding dix-huitiémistes! 📣 Applications are welcome until 1 July to the annual Early Career Seminar of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS/SIEDS) in summer 2026! oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/portail/gscw03…

Exciting new article in Annals of Science on Linnaeus & Montin 👇

Opening up the session 1 of the ISIH conference 2025 in sunny Aarhus ☀️ 🇩🇰 with Kaarlo Havu (University of Helsinki) moderated by Casper Andersen (Aarhus University)

László Kontler, president of the ISIH, provides the 2025 ISIH conference’s welcome address, followed by Anna Becker’s introduction of Gianna Pomata’s keynote lecture on ‘Gender: rise and fall of an epistemic concept’

Starting day 2 of the 2025 ISIH conference in still sunny Aarhus, with a panel on post colonial critique, feat. Isabelle Napier (Oxford), Matthew Birchal (New South Wales) & Vanessa Pastorini (Sao Paulo) chaired by Christian O. Christiansen (Aarhus)

Second keynote lecture of the ISIH 2025 conference by Shruti Kapila (Cambridge) introduced by Casper Andersen (Aarhus), titled ‘Against consent: a History of Sexual Contract from Sati to Gang Rape in India’

László Kontler introducing a rearranged session 4 panel featuring Lewis Ashman (Edimburgh), Rosa-María Mantilla Suárez (Columbia) & Nicolai von Eggers (Copenhagen)

Session 5 of ISIH 2025 with talks from Rachel McVeigh (Harvard), Melisa Durkei (Central European University) & Rithma Kreie Engelbreth Larsen (Aarhus)

Third and last keynote of ISIH 2025, with Patricia Owens (Oxford) giving a lecture based on her book « Erased: a history of international thought without men » (Princeton University Press) introduced by Christian O. Christiansen (Aarhus)

Session 6 with talks from Mads Langballe Jensen (Lund) on pol. thought in pre-colonial Gold Coast, and Ariane Fichtl & Juliane Engelhardt (Copenhagen) on gender in Radical Pietism, Pietist conversion & the liberal turn

Back after lunch for session 7 on gender in intellectual history chaired by Anna Becker (Aarhus), with Hanne Berendse (Innsbruck) on J. Otho’s De Bona Institutione (1616), & Geertje J. Bol (Ghent) on ‘ambitious women in early modern England’

Very exciting new publication!👇

Celebrating midsommar in central Finland this year under the midnight sun, on the year’s longest day☀️ 🇫🇮

For all Linneans this September 👇

Me making cuts to my academic CV so it fits in that 4 pages house template:

28 Fellowships (10 Months) ot the "French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme" at seven Institutes of the Aix-Marseille, Cergy, Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours), Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes and Paris, 2026-2027. fias-fp.eu/fellowships/faq

How were 18thC Germans involved in transatlantic slavery, in the absence of an overseas empire? Morgan Golf-French (Fondazione1563 Turin) writes in our blog on the German Enlightenment's discourses on, and entanglements with, slavery: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/tra…

Interesting read by Clara Collier on the emergence of research within the history of universities 👇

Dr Harris's new article on merchants and the law in the eighteenth-century British empire is out now in the William and Mary Quarterly OIEAHC. Find it online here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/275/articl…

Do consider applying!👇