Looking forward to this 👇

Wrote a 3 minute read blog post for the Cambridge Core Blog @Cambridge.org summarizing key results from my open access article on Abraham Bäck, cadaver scarcity, and the racial anatomy of skin @historicaljnl.bsky.social. Read it here👇 www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

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👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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

(Surprise!) Festschrift in honour of Prof. Pertti Ahonen for his 60th birthday, launching the book « Here comes the Sun » (2025) @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social with 15 contributions from colleagues all over the world. Very touching

Very exciting new article by @davidrarmitage.bsky.social 👇

I was recently invited to share some thoughts on my pedagogical approach for the Hela blog series of the history department at JYU 🇫🇮 @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social Thanks for the opportunity! Read it here👇—- www.jyu.fi/en/blog/inge...

Received some great news this past week about a research project I’ve been working on a long time; more soon 🍾 — in the meantime, a restful weekend to you all! ☀️

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

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

Very excited to see this one come out!

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’

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

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 » (@princetonupress.bsky.social) introduced by Christian O. Christiansen (Aarhus)

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

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

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’

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)

László Kontler, president of the @isih-blueskye.bsky.social , 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’

Opening up the session 1 of the @isih-blueskye.bsky.social conference 2025 in sunny Aarhus ☀️ 🇩🇰 with Kaarlo Havu (@helsinki.fi) moderated by Casper Andersen (@au.dk)

There’s been a few updates to the @isih-blueskye.bsky.social 2025 conference programme @au.dk 🇩🇰 starting this Wednesday — I’ll still be presenting on 9 June, session 1 at 13:00 in the Preben Hornung Room, with Kaarlo Havu (@helsinki.fi) & chaired by Casper Andersen (Aarhus) Looking forward to it!👇

Great workshop! Had a great time and fantastic discussions.

I am looking much forward to present today as part of the panel on Improvement & colonialism in early modern Sweden ! I’ll be presenting alongside Patrick Winton (Örebro) and Desislava Dimitriva (Munich) with Göran Rydén (Uppsala) chairing.

Great first day!

Looking forward to this! 📕

Really excited to be attending the @isih-blueskye.bsky.social conference 2025 in Aarhus 🇩🇰 @au.dk next month! It will be my first time; I’ll be talking on the 1rst day, on Sami soldiers in the C17 Swedish army. DM me if you’ll be there too & would like to meet up! | 👇 conferences.au.dk/isih-2025

Attending Magnus Enlund’s PhD disputation på svenska: « Med oro i blodet? – Svenskösterbottniska emigrationserfarenheter under 1890–1970-talen » | www.jyu.fi/en/events/23...

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 @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social 👇

Loved teaching ‘History of political cultures II’ this year at JYU 🇫🇮 we focused on ‘freedom & power in early modern political thought & culture’. Faculty has also now approved 2 new Intellectual History courses (I, foundations & II, advanced) which we’ll be teaching from next year! 🥳

Good morning from the Spring seminar of the department of history & ethnology @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social ☕️ ☀️ 🇫🇮 looking forward to the talks & sauna today 😎

Great lecture in two weeks by one of the leading scholars on 18th century natural history & race 👇

At @helsinki.fi today to attend the PhD defense of @jaakkob.bsky.social ’s thesis, on military entrepreneurship and foreign soldiers in early seventeenth century Sweden, with Prof. Peter Wilson @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social | 👇 helda.helsinki.fi/items/ca7e76...

Fantastic review by Colin Kidd for the LRB 📚

Reading some tasty Swedish-French diplomatic correspondence today to wrap up the week 🤓

Looking much forward to this! Do consider attending if you’re in the Nordics and/or interested in improvement culture!

Many thanks to @roydipiazza.bsky.social for a generous review of 'The Process of Enlightenment' @oxunienl.bsky.social! 'A landmark contribution to the fields of intellectual history and Enlightenment studies [...] timely, nuanced, and rich addition to current debates'. doi.org/10.1080/1749...

Our next volume now has a release date in Fall 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 @degruyterbrill.bsky.social |👇 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

Looking forward to this talk! Do join us if you’re on campus.

Very informative talk from Dr. Áile Aikio on how museums can serve Sami communities.

Looking forward to this today! Hybrid talk, Colonial Legacies in Northern Europe series: 'Sámification of the Museum: Decolonizing Museum Practices through Sámi Perspectives' | Dr. Áile Aikio (Uni. of Lapland). email organizers for a link👇 www.jyu.fi/en/events/sp...

My new book review of ‘The Process of Enlightenment: essays by and inspired by Hand Erich Bödeker’ edited by Jonas Gerlings & Ere Nokkala (Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment series, 2024) @livunipress.bsky.social @voltaire.ox.ac.uk | DOI: doi.org/10.1080/1749...

Got a review article accepted for publication today! It’s on an exciting piece of Enlightenment scholarship & should be coming out in online access pretty soon.

Coming home at the end of the day in 🇫🇮. Springtime is (note quite yet) there ! But what a light.

Fantastic PhD opportunities at a great department 👇

Today in 🇫🇮 is Kalevala Day, the official Finnish Culture Day! It celebrates the national epic ‘Kalevala’ published by Elias Lönnrot in two editions (1835 & 1849) & so influential to Tolkien. As a child I first learned about it via Don Rosa’s great Scrooge McDuck version👇🦆🥲

Teaching today on the economic roots of the French Revolution 🇫🇷; readings incl. L. Clay’s chapter on the historiography of the Rev., capitalism & the bourgeoisie (2015)+extracts from S. Schama’s ‘Citizens’ (1989) & Tocqueville’s classic ‘L’ancien régime et la Révolution’ (1856)

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

More lecturing today on the joint histories of political economy, institutionalization of science & religious dissent in early modern Sweden 🇸🇪 with readings from Charlotta Wolff’ ‘Aristocratic Notions of Liberty’ (2011) & Carl Wennerlind’s ‘Atlantis Restored’ (2022). Good way to round up the week!

There’s still time (6 more days!) to apply for one of these exciting new fellowships — hosted at beautiful Wadham College.

Excited to be back lecturing! Discussing religion, the reformation and political thought in class today, with some texts from Sarah Mortimer and Lyndal Roper.