It has been a pleasure to take part in such a stimulating conversation among old firends, fantastic colleagues and a brilliant host! Many thanks Gaby!

Gaby Mahlberg@thehistorywoman.bsky.social · last mo.

If you missed our workshop, here's a brief recap: thehistorywoman.com/2026/09/14/t... With thanks to Mark Hutchinson, Felix Waldmann, Peter Schroeder, @giovlista.bsky.social @ebuchetmann.bsky.social and Katalin Straner for their contributions, and to the @ghilondon.bsky.social for hosting us.

Happy to take part in this exciting workshop! I will be discussing the German translations of Robert Watson’s History of Philip II (1777), come by if you’re around! 🇬🇧🇩🇪

Gaby Mahlberg@thehistorywoman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Looking forward to our workshop on 'Translating Political Thought between Britain and Germany, c.1618-1848' at the @ghilondon.bsky.social on 10 September 2026! Presentations by Mark Hutchinson, Felix Waldmann, Peter Schroeder, Katalin Straner, @giovlista.bsky.social and @ebuchetmann.bsky.social.

September starts with a publication day! 📄 Johann Christoph Gottsched translated Fontenelle, but did he actually agree with him? What happened when Cartesianism, Newtonian science and Wolffian philosophy met in eighteenth-century Germany? Out for IHR in OA👇 doi.org/10.1080/1749...

“Eine Neigung vor die neuere Gelehrsamkeit”: Johann Christoph Gottsched and the translation of Fontenelle’s Entretiens (1726–1751)

This article offers a study of Johann Christoph Gottsched’s translation(s) of Bernard de Fontenelle’s Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (1686). It examines the actions Gottsched performed on a...

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The poster and programme are out! 🎯 With several exciting new volumes on academies and learned societies appearing this year, the timing couldn't be better: find out more here 👇 www.izea.uni-halle.de/veranstaltun...

📖 It's out! Happy to figure alongside amazing scholars in "On the Move. Mobility and Early Modern Translation", eds. Giancarlo Casale and Ann Thomson for Brill! My contribution addresses the Italian translations of Fontenelle's Entretiens (1730-1751) 👉 brill.com/edcollbook/t...

One more month to go!

Giovanni Lista@giovlista.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📣 Dear colleagues and translation studies enthusiasts, The CFP for the international conference 'Translations and Academies in the Eighteenth Century' I am organizing at IZEA @unihalle.bsky.social is officially open! Please RT, circulate and get in touch if interested! Full details below👇

📣 Dear colleagues and translation studies enthusiasts, The CFP for the international conference 'Translations and Academies in the Eighteenth Century' I am organizing at IZEA @unihalle.bsky.social is officially open! Please RT, circulate and get in touch if interested! Full details below👇

Hello London colleagues! As a @ucl.ac.uk visiting fellow, I am very excited to present my research on Fontenelle's translations @centras-ucl.bsky.social on the 28th of October! Come say hi and have a chat if you’re in town!

Dr Giovanni Lista (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) - Translating a Plurality of Worlds

Translating a Plurality of Worlds: What can the processes of translating an astronomical bestseller tell us about the circulation of knowledge in Enlightenment Europe?

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I had a great time talking on J.G.A. Pocock & Japan yesterday at Palazzo Fenzi, UniFi - grazie mille to Emanuele Giusti & @luisdelapej.bsky.social & all who came & commented @laurelinm.bsky.social @giovlista.bsky.social @rosariolopez.bsky.social @arturbanaszewski.bsky.social others - lots to ponder!

Happy new year! Are you looking for a read that challenges long-established paradigms in intellectual history? In this article, I reassess Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun's radical republicanism in relation to the militia issue: free eprints below! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/B3Z2M...

‘A person of greater calmness, but less caution’: Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun’s republican militia (1697–1703)

This article offers a revised interpretation of the Scottish republican thinker and political activist Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun’s views on the issue of militias and standing armies. Reconstructin...

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To kick in my share of academic resources on bluesky, do you know about pre-Union Scottish imperial discourses and justifications surrounding the 1698 Darien venture? Here are some free eprints of an article published a few years ago, in case you are interested! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZAUHG...

‘No more occasion for Puffendorf nor Hugo Grotius’: the Spanish rights of possession in America and the Darien venture (1698–1701)

Set within the framework of international intellectual history, the present article focusses on the propaganda campaign undertaken by the Company of Scotland to prove the legality of its settlement...

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"Intellectual History & Friends Part 3" continues to grow! go.bsky.app/MX1ZBPL

Hello everyone! I thought I should introduce myself after the latest migration: I am a Fritz Thyssen Fellow working on my beloved project “The Plurality of Fontenelle’s Worlds: Translations, Transfers of Knowledge and Natural Philosophy in Europe (1687-1780)”. More about my research interests soon!