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Giovanni Lista
@giovlista.bsky.social
Fritz Thyssen Fellow at IZEA @ Martin-Luther-Universität Halle
PhD Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ European University Institute
Academic interest: republicanism, intellectual history, history of knowledge, cultural history, translation studies
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📣 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👇
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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?
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Reposted by Giovanni Lista
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!
February 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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...
www.tandfonline.com
January 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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...
www.tandfonline.com
December 17, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Reposted by Giovanni Lista
"Intellectual History & Friends Part 3" continues to grow!
go.bsky.app/MX1ZBPL
November 27, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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!
November 26, 2024 at 4:44 PM