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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 →
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 →
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.
Check my New post about methodology for studying privacy in history on the Centre for Privacy's blog.
The Universal Claims of Cosmopolitanism NYUAD Institute March 24, 2010
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.
I am currently unable to find some time to post more on cosmopolitanism. I am dividing my time between my current part-time job, and my job search as I am moving to London on 1 October. I am also looking for an accommodation. As soon as my situation is stabilised, I shall be able to... Continue Reading →
Frank Ejby Poulsen 