H-Soz-Kult: „Figures, Methods, and Moments of the Institutionalisation of Legal History in ca. 1500–1900 Europe“. Organisiert von Frank Ejby Poulsen (Universität Bayreuth, Centre of International Excellence „Alexander von Humboldt“) fand die internationale Tagung „Figures, Methods, and Moments of the Institutionalisation of Legal History in ca. 1500–1900 Europe“ hybrid am 12.–13. Juni 2025 im Institut für... Continue Reading →
I had a wonderful few days in Reykjavik at the 31st Congress of Nordic Historians (NHM), perfectly organised by the University of Iceland. It was the first time I attended NHM and it was highly stimulating and inspiring to attend various talks and panels, especially on different topics than mine. It was also the occasion to... Continue Reading →
Ich habe mein Junior Fellowship am University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence 'Alexander von Humboldt' nun abgeschlossen. Angegliedert war ich dem Institut für Fränkische Landesgeschichte der Universitäten Bayreuth und Bamberg. Ich werde „mein Schloss“, den Arbeitsplatz des Instituts im beeindruckenden Schloss Thurnau, und die tolle Atmosphäre, die von den dort arbeitenden Menschen geschaffen wurde, sehr vermissen. In dieser Zeit... Continue Reading →
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I have made a video (on my Youtube Channel) on the two famous paintings representing the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, attributed to Jean-Jacques Le Barbier (and his engraving). https://youtu.be/9wESIPLh7JQ Based on my article published in the art history journal POTESTAS, I combine art history and intellectual history to... Continue Reading →
The symposium "INTELLEX: An Intellectual History of Legal History" I organised on 12-13 June 2025 at the Institute for Franconian Regional History (IFLG) in the Thurnau castle led to many fruitful connections and discussions for the future. The symposium was financed by my Junior Fellowship grant from the University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence... Continue Reading →
Symposium 12-13/06/2025 on an intellectual history of legal history
Friday evening, I went to the vernissage of the temporary exhibition 'Life in upheaval Bavaria 1918 – 1925: Between democracy, self-determination and violence' at the Historisches Museum in Bayreuth. The exhibition is the result of the work of my colleague Julia Eichenberg, at the Institut für Fränkische Landesgeschichte of the University of Bayreuth, who supervised her... Continue Reading →
This January 2025, I have started my Junior Fellowship awarded by the University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence "Alexander von Humboldt". For six months my project on "Hermann Conring's Teaching of Legal History" will be hosted at the Institut für Fränkische Landesgeschichte, located in this enchanting Thurnau Castle. This is part of a larger... Continue Reading →
I am thrilled that my book has been reviewed in Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism by such a prominent scholar and expert on republicanism and early modern political thought, Rachel Hammersley. Do check out her blog, which features many analyses on early modern political thought, republicanism, and James Harrington. My many thanks to the... Continue Reading →
El próximo 16 de noviembre de 2024 realizaremos el taller titulado "Valores y ciencia en la biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial" en el marco de la Semana de la Ciencia y de la Innovación de la Fundación para el Conocimiento Madri+D.
I am organising an international symposium: "Early Modern Private Libraries as Sites of Knowledge Construction and Circulation", at King Juan Carlos University (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos), Faculty of Arts and Humanities, with the research group CINTER (Courts, Images, Nobility, Territory) on 5-6 November 2024. All the information and registration here: http://eventos.urjc.es/go/libraries
Symposium Title: “On an Intellectual History of Legal History: Figures, Disciplines, Methods, and Moments of the Creation and Institutionalisation of Legal History in 1500-1900 Europe” Date: 12-13 June 2025 Location: University of Bayreuth, Germany Symposium Themes The conference aims to gather scholars working on legal history or other aspects related to the teaching of legal disciplines in a... Continue Reading →
Very happy to see this article finally published after being accepted with almost no revision in the journal KNOW (submitted February 2022). With Sanne Maekelberg, we reconstruct the private library of the Cavendish family at Chatsworth House and Hardwick Hall, built and used by Hobbes with the angle of privacy studies developed in the Centre... Continue Reading →
26-04-2024 09:15-13:00 Campus de Madrid-Quintana- AULA 105 Organizado por Silvia Z. Mitchell (Purdue University/URJC) y Frank Ejby Poulsen (URJC) Inscripción: http://eventos.urjc.es/go/sitios Programa 9:15 - 9:30 Bienvenida Silvia Z. Mitchell (Purdue University/URJC) 9:30 - 11:00 Panel 1: Sitios Reales en el reino de Nápoles: edificios y jardines Modera: Frank Ejby Poulsen (URJC) Mariangela Terracciano (Roma La Sapienza):... Continue Reading →
https://www.e-revistes.uji.es/index.php/potestas/article/view/7824 I am very proud of my new article published by Potestas: 'Liberté, Légalité, Souveraineté: Changing Meanings of an Allegory in Le Barbier’s Representations of the Déclaration des droits de l’Homme et du citoyen'. I have been working on it every since winning a small grant generously offered by the University of Halle-Wittenberg's Interdisciplinary Centre... Continue Reading →
Read my report of the conference “Court Culture Exchanges between the Courts of the Iberian Peninsula and the Habsburg Netherlands (15th-16th centuries)” , organised by Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, University of Silesia, and Instituto Moll Centre of Research on Flemish Painting, in October 2023. https://philostrato.revistahistoriayarte.es/index.php/moll/article/view/547
On 18 November 2023, I make a short lecture about the significations of the allegories painted on the ceiling of the library at the Monastery of El Escorial. This event is part of the Week of Science, organised at King Juan Carlos University, Madrid, together with colleagues from the Research Project CINTER. Library of El... Continue Reading →
My latest #article on the first book in #French about #cosmopolitanism with the word "#cosmopolisme" in its title is now in available in print. It was a paper for a #conference on #privacy organised by @privacy_ku The Cosmopolitanism of Freemason Joseph Honoré Rémi
I am excited to have received a Junior Fellowship with a €30.000 grant offered by the University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence "Alexander von Humboldt". I will work with Professor Martin Ott and Professor Astrid Swenson. My project will focus on Hermann Conring's teaching in legal history (Check link below). https://www.humboldt-centre.uni-bayreuth.de/en/fellows-and-grantees/recently-selected-senior-and-junior-fellows/index.html
Call for papers Twitter @MigratingMinds_ Email migratingminds@georgetown.edu Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism is a new peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique, international forum for innovative critical approaches to cosmopolitanism emerging from literatures, cultures, media, and the arts in dialogue with other... Continue Reading →
Better late than never, but it is now official that I have won a María Zambrano grant for the attraction of international talents (€99.500). My project for 2 years (2023-24) on the library of Don Juan José de Austria is hosted at the research group CINTER, King Juan Carlos University, Madrid. https://www.proyectocinter.com/frank-ejby-poulsen/ My presentation on... Continue Reading →
https://jhiblog.org/2023/02/20/cosmopolitanism-in-eighteenth-century-france/ My post for JHI blog has just been published! Credit: An extremely detailed survey of the activities surrounding the building of the tower of Babel. Engraving, c. 1680. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
Back in June 2020, I made this recorded lecture for the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) summer school organised at the Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen. I present a long history of human rights in the history of political thought and legal history leading up to the right to privacy. I uploaded... Continue Reading →
Poster ISIH Conference 2022 Together with my colleague Sanne Maekelberg from the Centre for Privacy Studies, we will present our research on the Devonshire library curated by Thomas Hobbes. It is the story of an architectural room and the increasing social nature of books. Ci vediamo?
https://youtu.be/NxpMxccfrQ0 The Cosmopolitanism of Joseph Honoré Rémy On 29 May 2022, I was invited to give a lecture on my article in Early Modern French Studies, 'Transcending the Public and the Private: The Cosmopolitanism of Freemason Joseph Honoré Rémy'. I am very thankful to the organisers at the Open Lectures on Freemasonry. Check their other... Continue Reading →
Le Cosmopolisme is the first book about cosmopolitanism in the French language Published in 1770, Le cosmopolisme by Joseph Honoré Rémy is the first pamphlet in French to elaborate upon a political philosophy of cosmopolitanism. I first present a biography of Rémy with original elements concerning his membership of the Freemasonic Lodge of the Nine Sisters. This... Continue Reading →
For January-March 2022 I am a research fellow at the Herzog August Bibliothek. Read about my project on Hermann Conring here: https://www.hab.de/stipendiat-frank-ejby-poulsen/
Press Release 10 years of Open Access Books at De Gruyter – 10 Winning Titles! Winning titles of De Gruyter’s Open Access Book Anniversary competition announced Berlin, 27 September 2021 In late 2020, De Gruyter celebrated its 10th open access book anniversary with a call for book proposals and invited scientists and scholars globally to submit... Continue Reading →
https://privacy.hypotheses.org/1563 The rest of my post on this first pamphlet dealing with cosmopolitanism in French
You can here read my post on Hermann Conring's conception of the private when commenting upon his translation into Latin of Machiavelli's The Prince. https://privacy.hypotheses.org/1476 https://privacy.hypotheses.org/1476
https://privacy.hypotheses.org/1446 I wrote a new blog post where I argue that privacy studies and knowledge studies are fundamental new fields for consolidating 21st-century democracies.
Read my blog post on Arendt's views on privacy here.
I wrote a post on Hermann Conring based on Constantin Fasolt's research to form the basis of my research project on the issue of privacy in academic debates in 17th-century Germany.
Check my work in progress on privacy in eighteenth-century Glasgow. I focus on Francis Hutcheson's teaching of moral philosophy.
What's privacy got to do with moral philosophy? I'm glad you asked. An answer is in my new post on the Centre for Privacy Studies blog.
New post on privacy in French Nouveau billet sur Traduire privacy: vie privée ou sphère privée ?
Check my New post about methodology for studying privacy in history on the Centre for Privacy's blog.
Check Centre for Privacy Studies new blog about its research on privacy 1500-1800. Centre for Privacy Studies is a centre of excellence funded by the Danish National Research Foundation at the University of Copenhagen.
The Universal Claims of Cosmopolitanism NYUAD Institute March 24, 2010
Global Intellectual History. Published online 30 May 2018, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23801883.2018.1479976 https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2018.1479976. ABSTRACT This article analyses what Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794) meant when he chose the name Anacharsis and called himself ‘Orator of the human race’. It argues that it was an act of self-fashioning by a foreigner in the French Revolution trying to find his place by representing... Continue Reading →
History of European Ideas. Published online 12 June 2018, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01916599.2018.1477615 https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2018.1477615. ABSTRACT This article examines the education that Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794) received during his stay at the Berlin Académie des nobles (1770–1773). Cloots wrote at several occasions about his education there, notably naming Sulzer as a philosophical influence 10 years later. Examining the pupils’ life at the... Continue Reading →
My PhD thesis from the European University Institute is available on the Open Access Repository Cadmus: A Cosmopolitan Republican in the French Revolution: The Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwj96HsP5Qs&list=PLE094311E2D7A31CD&index=1&feature=plpp_video
Featuring discussions of cosmopolitanism and deliberative democracy; Raymond Williams's model of dominant, residual, and emergent cultures; Puritanism and Jeffersonianism; the horizon of expectations and the aesthetics of reception; canonization; ideology; and American Exceptionalism.
Recorded at the New York Societ Library on Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 6:30 PM.
Books Ngram Viewer Graph these case-sensitive comma-separated phrases: between and from the corpus American English British English Chinese (simplified) English English Fiction English One Million French German Russian Spanish with smoothing of 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 20 30 40 50 . Search in Google Books: 1800 - 1895... Continue Reading →
Frank Ejby Poulsen 