Vincent Roy-Di Piazza

Historian of early modern science, religion & political economy in northern Europe • Postdoctoral researcher @DEPE_ERC @uniofjyvaskyla • FRHistS • PhD Oxford

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Prof. Elizabeth Lunbeck (@Harvard) now presenting her latest research in Helsinki on the history of psychiatry from Freud to ChatGPT, chaired by Stefan Nygård

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Perm post opportunity for early modernists 👇

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#JobOpportunity 📢 Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800)
🏫 University of Limerick, School of History and Geography
⏰Application deadline: 14 August 2026
🔗 https://t.co/rAYBCSv7DU

#EarlyModernHistory #GlobalHistory #EuropeanHistory

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Had a great time this morning presenting my ongoing work on the discourse of improvement in early modern Swedish colonialism at the 2nd day of our annual @DEPE_ERC workshop. Grateful for the encouragements and the insightful feedback!

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Wonderful first day with 6 strong papers and great discussions. Looking forward to presenting tomorrow !

[DEPE ERC Project @DEPE_ERC]

Last panel of the day with papers from Laura Tarkka (JYU) on J.F. Kryger’s speech ‘the influence of laws and customs on civil trade’ (1767) & Hans Erich Bödeker (Göttingen) on Linnaeus’ disciple Johann Beckmann on natural history and improvement; chaired by Marten Seppel (Tartu)

[DEPE ERC Project @DEPE_ERC]

First panel featuring talks from Keith Tribe on early American trade and Jani Marjanen (@janimarjanen | Helsinki) on patriotism & economic improvement in C18 Europe, chaired by Adriana Luna-Fabritius (@alunafabritius | Helsinki)

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Great turnout yesterday in Jyväskylä for the launch of Jonas Nordin’s @jomanord new open access book « Monarchy in the Age of Liberty » (Lund University Press 2026) . Now attending the first panel of our ERC workshop « Growth, wealth and welfare in early modern Sweden & beyond »

[DEPE ERC Project @DEPE_ERC]

Prof Jonas Nordin (Lund University) now launching his new open access monograph « Monarchy in the Age of Liberty » (Lund University Press in collab. with Manchester University Press, 2026) in our 9th DEPE seminar lecture in the history of political & economic thought.

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In the 16th century, Sweden’s rulers forged a fiscal-military state capable of projecting power across the Baltic Sea, launching a quest for empire that combined national glory with dynastic self-assertion.

Sweden’s age of conquests | Mats Hallenberg

https://t.co/TvrqazSIXS

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Excited to give the inaugural William Bruce Lecture at Barnard College, Columbia at 16:00 on 01 July 2026!
I'll be speaking on Swedenborg and slavery. This public lecture is in-person & free, with Q&A & drinks. Register by 26 June to access the premises👇
https://t.co/UCLnNy2mCs

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Stimulating new book review by our Enlightenment Club co-convenor Dorinda Outram

[Intellectual History Review @IHRjournal]

[🆕NEW REVIEW ARTICLE] Dorinda Outram (University of Rochester), “Not amused by the Enlightenment” IHR 36 (2): 359-366. https://t.co/uVOc2ur0HH

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New OA book for Renaissance scholars! 👇

[Carly Silver Feldman @CarlyASilver]

One of my #openaccess acquisitions!

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3 postdoctoral positions open at the University of Turin within the HumanLaw ERC project — spanning Neo-Latin Philology, Digital Humanities & Legal History. 3-year contracts, starting Oct 2026. Apply by May 27!
https://t.co/Bzx8gIXf79

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Coffee, @TheTLS Hegeliana and some eighteenth century diplomatic correspondence this morning in Helsinki

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Looking forward to this!

[DEPE ERC Project @DEPE_ERC]

Join us next month at JYU for our annual 2-day ERC workshop (04-05 June, room H306) titled "Growth, Wealth, & Welfare in early modern Sweden & beyond". We’ll hear & discuss 12 papers, covering materials to be featured in our planned edited volume👇https://t.co/ndolJ50MTW

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Had a great time last week concluding the Religious embodiment & conversion practices in EM Europe & beyond at @koebenhavns_uni as final talk. Quite a packed programme with 24 papers other 2 days! Congrats to J. Engelhardt & @threadofariane for organizing | 📷 by @ArielHessayon

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Dr Lennart Gard (Free University Berlin) discussing representations of Böhme’s large forehead and their possible meanings, using Lyndal Roper’s 2010 AHR analysis of Luther’s chin and stout portraits as representations of the latter’s break of monastic vows.

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Prof. Emily Michelson (St Andrews) now opening the second & final of the religious embodiment and conversion practices in early modern Europe & beyond, with a keynote on conversion and the body in a multi faith reformation.

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Prof. Joanna Kodzik (Université Paris Saclay / Versailles) closing the day on conversion of the Inuit in Moravian indigenous life stories & the arctic life stories database

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Juliane Engelhardt on communication strategies about feminine Christianity in Germany and Scandinavia

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Ariel Hessayon (@ArielHessayon Goldsmiths, London) on mutable religious identities in early modern England: Judaizing Christians, crypto-Jews and Jewish apostates

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Kickstarting the religious embodiment & conversion practices conference in Copenhagen with a Keynote from Prof. Rebekka Voß (Goethe University, Frankfurt) on
“Conversion and Translation in the Pietist
Mission to the Jews”