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'.
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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/...