Join us next week on Thursday 04 Dec. at JYU, room D1009, 14:15x for our last DEPE seminar session of the year! Prof. Lars Magnusson (Uppsala) will be presenting his book « A History of economic thought in Sweden » (Routledge, 2025) 👇 www.jyu.fi/en/events/la...

Our PI Ere Nokkala 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 @helsinki.fi

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

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

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Next week on Friday 14.11 2025 at 12:00, in H320, our project researcher Joonas Tammela will defend (in Finnish) his PhD on political sermons of clergymen in late 18th century Sweden👇https://www.jyu.fi/en/events/14112025-fm-joonas-tammela-faculty-of-humanities-and-social-sciences-finnish-history

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 👇

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

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

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

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👇 www.jyu.fi/en/events/bo...

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)

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

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)

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)

Last panel of the day on Nordic commodities, chaired by Carl Wennerlind, , with papers from Håkon Evju @hakonevju.bsky.social (Oslo), Magdalena Naum (Lund) and Markus Hansen (Lund)

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

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

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)

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 🍸

Next week our PI Ere Nokkala and postdoc @roydipiazza.bsky.social will be taking part in the 3-day international conference on ‘Science, Empire & Political economy in the Nordic Enlightenment’ at @barnardcollege.bsky.social on 09-11 Oct. in collaboration with the Swedish Consulate in New York.

New open access article in The Historical Journal from our postdoc @roydipiazza.bsky.social on the links between 18th century Swedish racial science, slavery, and the medical cadaver trade👇

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...

Our PI Ere Nokkala now closing our workshop, followed by a plenary meeting of our international research network ‘Decentring political economy’. Thank you to everyone who came! We had a great turnout, along with very stimulating papers and discussions.

Our 4th panel on Improvement & the Diet, featuring Sophie Holm (Helsinki), Sara Ekström (Stockholm) & our postdoc Joonas Tammela, chaired by Marie-Christine Skuncke (Uppsala)

And we’re on for the 2nd day of our Gustav Vasa seminar 2025 on Improvement in early modern Sweden! We’re opening our 3rd panel with Patrick Winton (Örebro), our postdoc Vincent Roy-Di Piazza, & Desislava Dimitrova (Munich), chaired by Göran Rydén (Uppsala).

Our PI EreNokkala now closing our first day, with a paper on the science of improvement in the university chairs of Uppsala and Turku.

And we are back after lunch with our 2nd panel on natural history & agricultural improvement, chaired by Danila Raskov (Uppsala). Our postdoc Laura Tarkka is presenting on Lidbeck, followed by our senior researcher Keith Tribe, who’s presenting instead of Hans Erick Bödeker.

Our first panel is now live, with Kari Saastamoinen (@helsinki.fi) moderating in place of Lars Magnusson. Carl Wennerlind (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social) is now presenting on Metaphysics in the Swedish improvement discourse & Marten Seppel (Tartu University) on C17 improvement & cameralism

Our PI Ere Nokkala is now introducing the theme of the workshop, Improvement in early modern Sweden, and how it fits within our project’s larger goal of de-centring 18th century political economy.

And we are on! JYU’s Rector, historian Jari Ojala @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social honours us with opening the proceedings of our Gustav Vasa seminar workshop 2025 on Improvement in early modern Sweden.

It’s tomorrow! 🔥 With a couple of last minute adjustments to our programme’s line up: jyu.fi/en/events/gust…

Our postdoc Joonas Tammela presenting this morning some of his latest research on improvement in the 18th century Swedish Riksdag, at the well-attended PhD internationalization workshop @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social | www.jyu.fi/en/events/ph...

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 👇

Our team is presenting and chairing in two sessions of the annual Spring seminar of the department of history and ethnology @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social featuring 30 researchers & taking place this year in the city of Keuruu 🇫🇮

Our ERC is excited to host this year’s Gustav Vasa seminar 2025 on 05-06 June at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social 🇫🇮 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👇 www.jyu.fi/en/events/gu...

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...

Join us next week on 24 April to hear von Haller’s story of a C15 Mongolian Prince who became emperor of Persia! For this 6th DEPE lecture in the history of political & economic thought, Dr. Laura Tarkka will explore the English reception of VH’s Usong as a text on the culture of improvement👇

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!

Excited to welcome Arendse Wenzel Måge from the University of Oslo 🇳🇴 tomorrow for our fifth DEPE ERC seminar lecture in the history of political & economic thought! Join us at 14:15, room D209 if you’re on campus👇

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...

Hi 🦋! We are a 2M€ international ERC Consolidator project 🇪🇺 carrying innovative research in the history of political economy, based at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social 🇫🇮 2024-28 • PI: EreNokkala. Follow us for posts on our research, calls & events! | Our project & team👇 www.jyu.fi/en/projects/...