Frank Ejby Poulsen, PhD
@fepoulsen.bsky.social
Danish/French 🇪🇺 intellectual historian 🇺🇦 🔗https://frankejbypoulsen.net 🎓PhD History, European University Institute 🎓MSc Politics, University of Copenhagen 🎓LLM, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Certificate in Project Management I have recently completed a course (in Danish) on Project Management from Zealand Business College, Denmark. This short-term education for the job market gave me many tools for leading a research project and a team of researchers successfully. Objectives/Goals:·…
Certificate in Project Management
I have recently completed a course (in Danish) on Project Management from Zealand Business College, Denmark. This short-term education for the job market gave me many tools for leading a research project and a team of researchers successfully. Objectives/Goals:· The participant can fulfil the role of project manager through team development driven by motivation and engagement, handling conflicts and communication internally within the project and in relation to the project's other stakeholders.
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Here goes my and many others’ youth as well. This was the place to buy cheaper second hand books as a student, and to sell them after graduation. Many fond memories walking through the floors.
Briony Neilson@brionyneilson.bsky.social · 3mo agoMourning the demise of Gibert bookshops (which also means the demise of the little yellow stickers of book bargain delights...😢)
[ #VeilleESR ] Au CNRS, une coupe budgétaire inédite fragilise un peu plus la recherche : « On va dans le mur » Via https://social.sciences.re/@justinmponcet/116436212684989011
Au CNRS, une coupe budgétaire inédite fragilise un peu plus la recherche : « On va dans le mur »
Le PDG du Centre national de recherche scientifique, Antoine Petit, a annoncé, le 24 mars, une baisse supplémentaire de 20 millions d’euros sur le budget 2026 de l’institution. Les chercheurs et les directeurs d’unité s’alarment.
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English translation of a French essay by a former professor in the USA on the current attack on knowledge. Ironic to ban a book praising authoritarianism, but I get that they don’t want smart philosopher-kings to rule, only one burger-king. booksandideas.net/Plato-Banned...
Plato Banned, American Democracy Threatened
Not only in Texas, where a professor was ordered to remove Plato from his syllabus, but throughout the United States, ideological dictatorship has begun. It amounts to nothing less than an attack on u...
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La Vie des idées@laviedesidees.bsky.social · 4mo agoAux États-Unis, la censure de Platon et la remise en cause de la liberté académique illustrent un assaut sans précédent contre les universités et la démocratie, marqué par l’intolérance et la déconstruction des normes du débat public. #DémocratieEnPéril laviedesidees.fr/Platon-banni...
@economist.com has analysed 1.4m Epstein emails post-conviction and groupped and ranked them by the industry in which correspondents worked: #1 finance (19%); #2 academia (17%); then politics; then media/entertainment. Does that say something about the state of #academia? youtube.com/shorts/Bsv2S...
Who had the most contact with Jeffrey Epstein?
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Seal of Excellence My application for a MSCA-Postdoctoral Fellowship with Lund University received the score of 95,80%. There was a record number of applications, so my project could not be funded. However, it did get a Seal of Excellence.
Seal of Excellence
My application for a MSCA-Postdoctoral Fellowship with Lund University received the score of 95,80%. There was a record number of applications, so my project could not be funded. However, it did get a Seal of Excellence.
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A most chilling weekend read The #USA #2026NDS #National #Defense #Strategy www.linkedin.com/posts/franke...
The 2026 National Defense Strategy is a chilling read. Not just because the opening memorandum, signed by the now Secretary for the Departement of "War", starts with these lines: "Prev...
The 2026 National Defense Strategy is a chilling read. Not just because the opening memorandum, signed by the now Secretary for the Departement of "War", starts with these lines: "Previous administra...
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youtu.be/sex5fVhkalk Video introducing in French a new textbook on legal humanism
Découvrir l’humanisme juridique (XVe-XVIIe siècles)
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Is there still doubt that USA Russia China have carved the world into spheres of influence and that the EU now faces a double territorial threat from Russia (obvious) and the USA (Greenland)?
#Medievalsky Want to present your work in Reykjavík where the sagas take place? There is still time to submit! #CFP @mediumaevum.bsky.social @jaema.bsky.social We hope to read tour submissions soon! Deadline is December 8th!
I seriously wonder why people who are serious scholars keep posting this kind of “I asked AI…” followed by “and all I got was this lousy result” to draw the inevitable conclusion: “AI is overhyped”, “so let’s continue as before”.
Dr Dave Hitchcock@davehitchcock.bsky.social · 9mo agoThis is very good and you should read it.
The notion of an ailing body politic feels sadly relevant today. My November blogpost reflects on a workshop held in September that explored how the notion of the body politic was deployed by republican writers in the C17 and C18. www.rachelhammersley.com/new-blog/2025/10/28/republican-bodies
After months of back-and-forth drafting, & over 10,000 words of dialogue, I am delighted that this discussion article co-authored with Quentin Skinner (@qmul.bsky.social) is now published @global-ih.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Global Intellectual History@global-ih.bsky.social · last yr.1/2 Out now! "Independence, Globality, and the Battle of Ideas: A Dialogue on Liberty" by Quentin Skinner (@qmul.bsky.social) & @tomaashby.bsky.social (@utokyoofficial.bsky.social), a wide-ranging, scholarly, & full-length discussion article - the first at GIH! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Many thanks to the editor @tomaashby.bsky.social and to the reviewer Laura André Lombard! It’s truly heartwarming to see years of work get noticed and read. Now, more than ever before, we live in dangerous times in great need of cosmopolitan republicanism.
Global Intellectual History@global-ih.bsky.social · 9mo agoNow online! Laura André Lombard (Université Panthéon Assas) reviews "The Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots: A Proponent of Cosmopolitan Republicanism in the French Revolution (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social, 2023) by @fepoulsen.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Catch up on our lecture from today, all about medievial uni students from @amwillemsen.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ0D...
Back in college: Daily life of students at European universities, 1200-1600 by Dr A. Willemsen FSA
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Excellent analysis of the state of 🇬🇧 HE. Same crisis in other countries. I think there is a need to regain public support and start engaging more and better in public debates, while embracing the changing role of HE. Question is how… Any suggestion welcome
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 10mo agoICYMI on Tuesday, here's my *new* and *free* short-form summary of what's gone wrong in our universities. This is something of a last word really, because unless the Budget and White Paper do something really radical, the fate of much HE is already sealed. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...
Most likely candidate to become one of the most cited historical sources by future historians studying the comments section.
University of Oxford@ox.ac.uk · 11mo agoNEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year. ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.
And if that's not enough for you, then later the same day, 2) 'Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health' roundtable on 2 new books: Tillmann Taape's 'Crafting Medicine' & Jack Hartnell's 'Wound Man' (free, online CHSTM #histmed working group, also meeting 10 Oct & 14 Nov): www.chstm.org/group/object...
Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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Mobilising knowledge as a political tool Read the interview with our #PhD researcher Müberra Kapusuz on the political role of expertise in #17thcentury Ottoman politics, in relation with today’s debates on expertise and authority 👇 📰 #Fridayreads #Expertise
European University Institute@eui-eu.bsky.social · 11mo ago🔎 In this #MyEUIResearch interview, Müberra Kapusuz @eui-history.bsky.social reflects on how interpreters, scholars & philosophers shaped 17th-c. Ottoman politics, & what this reveals about today’s debates on expertise & authority. 👉 https://loom.ly/i-v1wXM
🎉📣 Announcing the IHR Research Training Courses for October - December 2025. Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Specified Purpose, Department of History and the Arts and Humanities Institute | University Vacancies Ireland
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Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
📣The next CIRICE conference in Naples June 11-13, 2026. The main topic is "Transition Cities," focusing on using digital humanities for the knowledge and conservation of urban heritage. 🔗 www.iconografiacittaeuropea.unina.it/cms/sessioni/ #urbanheritage #digitalhumanities #naples #cirice
Tagungsbericht (H-Soz-Kult): INTELLEX H-Soz-Kult: „Figures, Methods, and Moments of the Institutionalisation of Legal History in ca. 1500–1900 Europe“. Organisiert von Frank Ejby Poulsen (Universität Bayreuth, Centre of International Excellence „Alexander von Humboldt“) fand die internationale…
Tagungsbericht (H-Soz-Kult): INTELLEX
H-Soz-Kult: „Figures, Methods, and Moments of the Institutionalisation of Legal History in ca. 1500–1900 Europe“. Organisiert von Frank Ejby Poulsen (Universität Bayreuth, Centre of International Excellence „Alexander von Humboldt“) fand die internationale Tagung „Figures, Methods, and Moments of the Institutionalisation of Legal History in ca. 1500–1900 Europe“ hybrid am 12.–13. Juni 2025 im Institut für Fränkische Landesgeschichte…
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