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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. https://eventos.urjc.es/102224/detail/la-boveda-de-la-biblioteca-del-monasterio-de-san-lorenzo-de-el-escorial-como-recurso-didactico-.html?fbclid=IwAR3XgeVCnIwkGxV-bFLq3oxr-389SAT65R-XHSn2BS3l_fol4kI3ZxnzjOs
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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
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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
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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…
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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. CINTER is an interdisciplinary…
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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…
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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?
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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 lectures on the history of freemasonry on…
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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 article analyses his pamphlet and argues that his cosmopolitanism is a way…
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