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Vincent Roy-Di Piazza

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Historian of early modern science, religion, & political economy • Postdoc @DEPE-ERC.bsky.social @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social (JYU🇫🇮) • PhD Oxford (2022) • website: www.roydipiazza.com

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Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · Feb 19

Hi! I am Vincent, new to Bluesky, early modern academic historian based in Finland (previously 🇫🇷🇮🇹🇩🇰🇬🇧🇸🇪). Follow for posts on early modern history, history of science, religion, & political economy. Consider also following the ERC project (2024-28) I am part of: @DEPE-ERC.bsky.social

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Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · 2h

New York, New York

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

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Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · 8d

Looking forward to this 👇

DEPE-ERC project @depe-erc.bsky.social · 8d

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.

Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · 12d

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...

How cadaver scarcity shaped the racial science of skin in Enlightenment Europe « History# « Cambridge Core Blog

This blog post is based on the article ‘Abraham Bäck, scarcity, and the racial anatomy of skin’ published in The Historical Journal: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X25101039 In February 1744, the Swe...

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Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · 21d

Félicitations Jens!

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Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · 23d

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...

Abraham Bäck, Scarcity, and the Racial Anatomy of Skin | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core

Abraham Bäck, Scarcity, and the Racial Anatomy of Skin

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Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · Sep 8

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...

Enlightening the king: French-Swedish relations in the letters of Gustaf Philip Creutz with Gustav III

intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk

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Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · Sep 3

(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

Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · Aug 15

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

John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Aug 15

A very exciting new John Locke find by @davidrarmitage.bsky.social now published in the @historicaljnl.bsky.social!

The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · Aug 15

📣John Locke’s Forgotten Manuscript

We are thrilled to announce that @davidrarmitage.bsky.social's
article on his discovery of a new John Locke manuscript is out now👇

It sheds new light on Locke's practical involvement in political economy & his engagement with Ireland 📜🗃️

Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · Aug 6

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...

Ingenium Docendi: seven pedagogical rules for teaching history

Vincent Roy-Di Piazza's blogtext from August 2025

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Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · Aug 1

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! ☀️

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Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · Jun 26

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

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Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · Jun 20

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

Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · Jun 17

Very excited to see this one come out!

MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Jun 17

In "The First and Last Bank," Gustav Peebles and Benjamin Luzzatto offer a groundbreaking approach to currency and community that may allow us to seize carbon from the atmosphere, and offer a new tool in the fight against climate change: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204964...

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Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · Jun 13

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’

Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · Jun 13

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

Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · Jun 13

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)

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Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · Jun 12

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

Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · Jun 12

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

Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · Jun 12

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’

Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · Jun 12

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)

Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · Jun 11

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’

Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · Jun 11

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)

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Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · Jun 9

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!👇

Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · Jun 6

Great workshop! Had a great time and fantastic discussions.

DEPE-ERC project @depe-erc.bsky.social · Jun 6

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.