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 ! 🇳🇴

Loved being back in Jyväskylä for my first HITU conference, to present alongside our team members on the role of colonialism in the early modern Swedish discourse on improvement. Now off to the conference dinner !

Margaret R. Hunt (Uppsala), introduced by Pertti Ahonen, now delivering her keynote presentation « Truth, post Truth and history » at the 2025 Finnish history research conference in Jyväskylä

2nd day of the Finnish history research conference opening with a panel on ‘new histories of the idea & concept of democracy’ with Zachris Haaparinne on John Wilkes & the language of scale, Pasi Ihalainen on representative democracy in Northwest Europe, & Hugo Bonin on liberal democracy in FR vs UK

Attending the Finnish history research conference (300+ historians!). Enjoyed the panel ‘New early modern historiographies’ with Kaarlo Havu on Marc Fumaroli’s history of rhetoric, Tupu Ylä-Anttila on queenship & Johannes Huhtinen on the puritan roots of Atlanticism.

Looking forward to this! The book launch is part of four pre-conference events before the 2025 Finnish Conference of History Research — the largest history conference in Finland 🇫🇮. Responses will be provided by my colleague Laura Tarkka followed by drinks & dinner. Join us!

Carl Wennerlind opens the conference’s 2nd day at Barnard, Columbia University, with talks from our PI Ere Nokkala (JYU), Nathalie Le Bouteillec (Amiens), and Sara Ekström (Stockholm)

A real pleasure to present and be part of this panel at Barnard, Columbia!

New York, New York

Finally received my own copy of this classic banger — just in time for the weekend 📚

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...