Prof. Lawrence Principe (Johns Hopkins University) now giving a plenary lecture on current trends in the history of science, and the evolution of research on alchemy within it.

Our PI Ere Nokkala on decentring and historicizing science; our postdoc @roydipiazza.bsky.social on August Nordenskiöld’s alchemical work & Lauri Ockenström on magical images as scientia in medieval/EM Europe.

Our PI Ere Nokkala and physicist Markus Ahlskog now opening our History of Science workshop around Lawrence Principe

Join us next week on 11 August 2026 at 17:00 room H105 on the JYU campus for an event with Prof. Lawrence Principe (@Johns Hopkins University) one of the world’s leading historians of alchemy along with talks from researchers in physics, our PI Ere Nokkala & postdoc @roydipiazza.bsky.social

Ere Nokkala now delivering closing remarks, followed by a meeting of our international DEPE research network, a presentation from Anna-Mari Vesterinen from Helsinki University Press, then off for our closing buffet 🥂 Thanks to all our speakers!

Last panel of the day with Danila Raskov (Uppsala/JYU fellow) now presenting on the ‘noblest commodity’: copper, money and governance in early modern Sweden, followed by Ella Viteniemi (Tampere) on early modern Finnish forestry & marshlands, chaired by Patrick Winton (Örebro)

James Dobreff (Stockholm) now closing our first panel post lunch with a talk on his on Daniel Rolander´s Diarium Surinamicum, with descriptions and proposals of how to profit of the termite Termes Arbicola and the wasp Vespa Arborea.

First panel of the second day of our 2026 workshop, with Juliane Engelhardt (Copenhagen) on cameralism, prosperity and social mobility & Vincent Roy-Di Piazza (@roydipiazza.bsky.social | JYU) on Swedish colonial expansion and the culture of improvement, chaired by Desislava Dimitrova (Munich)

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)

Second panel with papers from Måns Jansson (Uppsala) on state governance & industrial improvement in C18 Sweden & Joonas Tammela (JYU) on benefit, welfare and estate interests in the Swedish Riksdag, chaired by Jonas Nordin

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

Our PI @EreNokkala now opening our annual summer ERC 2-day workshop « Growth, wealth and welfare in early modern Sweden and beyond »

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.

Join us tomorrow!

DEPE-ERC project@depe-erc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join us next month on Wednesday 03 June at 16:15, room H306 to hear Prof. Jonas Nordin (@lundsuniversitet.bsky.social) give our 9th DEPE seminar lecture, based on his recent book « Monarchy in the Age of Liberty: royal power & public life in C18 Sweden » (@manchesterup.bluesky.social)👇

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 12 papers covering materials from our planned edited volume👇 shorturl.at/Qj4D9

Join us next month on Wednesday 03 June at 16:15, room H306 to hear Prof. Jonas Nordin (@lundsuniversitet.bsky.social) give our 9th DEPE seminar lecture, based on his recent book « Monarchy in the Age of Liberty: royal power & public life in C18 Sweden » (@manchesterup.bluesky.social)👇

We recently submitted & received approval for our first ERC scientific report from the scientific officer! This is a nice milestone for ERC projects & provided us with a welcome opportunity to reflect on our achievements so far 1/2

Our JYU visiting fellow Jonas Gerlings presenting a joint paper at the « In and out of the canon of intellectual history » in Helsinki with Kaarlo Havu (Helsinki) on Machiavelli and Kant’s project for perpetual peace, introduced by Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge)

Had a great time yesterday presenting my paper; got some encouraging feedback. Now attending the 2nd keynote by Banu Turnaoğlu Açan (Istanbul/Cambridge) on rethinking the canon, global intellectual history & boundaries of political thought.

Prof. Lars Magnusson (Uppsala) now speaking on our last ERC seminar session of 2025, presenting in his new history of economic thought in Sweden, a book that distillates 40 years of Lars’ research insights on the topic.

Join us next week on Thursday 04 Dec. at JYU, room D1009, 14:15x for our last DEPE seminar session of the year! Prof. Lars Magnusson (Uppsala) will be presenting his book « A History of economic thought in Sweden » (Routledge, 2025) 👇 www.jyu.fi/en/events/la...

Our PI Ere Nokkala now giving his talk on « police science and cameral sciences: the Swedish case » at the ‘Early Modern Police Science and Cameral Sciences: theory and practice’ conference at the faculty of law of @helsinki.fi

Members of our team are attending workshop « Early modern police science and cameral sciences: theory and practice » at the University of Helsinki’s faculty of law. Fredrik Thomasson (Uppsala) now opening the 2nd day with « policing sex in Sweden St Barthelemy: a libertine colony? »

Our JYU fellow Jonas Gerlings (Halle) giving his paper this afternoon on Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht and Rousseau

Join us today !

DEPE-ERC project@depe-erc.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Join us in person next month for the 7th session of our DEPE seminar series in the history of political & economic thought! Dr Jonas Gerlings (Halle/JYU fellow) will give a lecture on H. G. Nordenflycht, gender, improvement & political thought in the Swedish Age of Liberty 👇

Next week on Friday 14.11 2025 at 12:00, in H320, our project researcher Joonas Tammela will defend (in Finnish) his PhD on political sermons of clergymen in late 18th century Sweden👇https://www.jyu.fi/en/events/14112025-fm-joonas-tammela-faculty-of-humanities-and-social-sciences-finnish-history

Join us in person next month for the 7th session of our DEPE seminar series in the history of political & economic thought! Dr Jonas Gerlings (Halle/JYU fellow) will give a lecture on H. G. Nordenflycht, gender, improvement & political thought in the Swedish Age of Liberty 👇

Our 2nd and final panel today on «rethinking Improvement» at the Finnish conference for history research 2025, featuring our postdocs @roydipiazza.bsky.social and Laura Tarkka, our senior researcher Keith Tribe, chaired by Ere Nokkala and with Margaret Hunt as commentator.

Our team has 2 panels today on «rethinking Improvement» as part of the Finnish conference for history research 2025 in Jyväskylä. Our first panel features our PI Ere Nokkala, our postdoc Joonas Tammela & JYU fellow Jonas Gerlings (Halle) with Keith Tribe as chair & Margaret Hunt as commentator

Now launching our new OA publication « Philosoph, Kameralist, Publizist », an anthology of essays on Johann H.G. von Giusti, edited by our PI Ere Nokkala & Gideon Stiening. 4 contributors to the volume are also present today & responses are provided by our postdoc Laura Tarkka.