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 →
Review of my Book on Anacharsis Cloots
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 →
Summer course lectures on the history of the right to privacy
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 →
