Organisers: Ere Nokkala, Pasi Ihalainen, Fredrik Thomasson
Programme
Thursday 24 October 2024
09:00-09:30: Ere Nokkala (Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥)
Introduction: the Multi-sited discourse of improvement
09:30-10:30: Jussi Kurunmäki (Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥)
The Uses of history in political theory: the case of Samuel Moyn
10:30-11:00: Coffee
11:00-12:00: Pasi Ihalainen, Hugo Bonin, & Risto Turunen (Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥)
Parliamentary debates as an analytical nexus for long-term conceptual history
12:00-13:00: Lunch break
13:00-14:00: Zachris Haaparinne (Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥)
Weak signals, strong indications: locating ruptures in political thought through parliamentary debates
14:00-15:00: Anne Engelst Nørgaard (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Analysing political discourse across social classes
15:00-15:30: Coffee
15:30-16:30: Joonas Tammela (Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥)
Negotiating improvements in the Swedish 18th-century Diet (Riksdag): challenges in combining printed and manuscript material
16:30-17:30: Laura Tarkka (Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥)
The Makings of a new era in August Ludwig von Schlözer’s journal Neueste Geschichte der Gelehrsamkeit in Schweden
Friday 25 October 2024
09:00-10:00: Fredrik Thomasson (University of Uppsala)
Swedish colonial legislation between Gustavia and Stockholm
10:00-11:00: Victor Wilson (Ã…bo Akademi University)
Swedish colonial policy, the slave trade and abolitionist pressure, 1813-1830
11:00-11:30: Coffee
11:30-12:30: Vincent Roy-Di Piazza (Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥)
Shadow colonialism: challenges of writing a colonial history in the Swedish Age of Liberty
12:30-13:30: Lunch break
13:30-14:30: Keith Tribe (Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥) & Gauthier Lanot (University of UmeÃ¥)
Improvement and growth: trends, cycles and fluctuations in historical perspectives
14:30-15:30: Jani Marjanen (University of Helsinki)
Six metaphors for digital history: what do we do when we bridge close and distant reading
15:30-16:00: Coffee
16:00-17:00: Adriana Luna-Fabritius (University of Helsinki)
Crisis and innovation: the legacy of Neapolitan academies to early modern natural philosophy
17:00-17:15: Closing remarks
Ere Nokkala, Pasi Ihalainen & Fredrik Thomasson
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DEPE | ERC Consolidator Project 2024-2028
Grant agreement ID: 101088549
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