DEPE-ERC project
@depe-erc.bsky.social
@erc.europa.eu Consolidator project ´DEPE: De-centring 18th century Political Economy: rethinking growth, wealth & welfare in the Swedish Empire’ 2024-28 • PI: Ere Nokkala • based @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social (JYU 🇫🇮) • website: rb.gy/ut8yz0
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DEPE-ERC project
@depe-erc.bsky.social
· Feb 19
De-Centring Eighteenth-Century Political Economy: Rethinking Growth, Wealth and Welfare in the Swedish Empire (DEPE)
This project reassesses the early history of European political economy.
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Hi 🦋! We are a 2M€ international ERC Consolidator project 🇪🇺 carrying innovative research in the history of political economy, based at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social 🇫🇮 2024-28 • PI: EreNokkala. Follow us for posts on our research, calls & events! | Our project & team👇 www.jyu.fi/en/projects/...
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)
December 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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)
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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.
December 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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.
December 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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...
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
November 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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? »
November 19, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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
November 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Our JYU fellow Jonas Gerlings (Halle) giving his paper this afternoon on Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht and Rousseau
Join us today !
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 👇
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Join us today !
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
November 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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 👇
October 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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.
October 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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
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
October 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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
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.
October 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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.
Join us in person tomorrow in Jyväskylä (15:15-17:45, room H105) for our book launch event of « Johann H. G. von Giusti (1717-71): Philosoph, Kameralist, Publizist » with a distinguished panel of 8 speakers from Munich, Halle, Uppsala, Helsinki & JKL👇 www.jyu.fi/en/events/bo...
October 14, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Join us in person tomorrow in Jyväskylä (15:15-17:45, room H105) for our book launch event of « Johann H. G. von Giusti (1717-71): Philosoph, Kameralist, Publizist » with a distinguished panel of 8 speakers from Munich, Halle, Uppsala, Helsinki & JKL👇 www.jyu.fi/en/events/bo...
And that’s a wrap! See you next week for our book launch on von Giusti in Jyväskylä with the whole project’s team, followed by the National Finnish conference for history research (HITU)
October 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
And that’s a wrap! See you next week for our book launch on von Giusti in Jyväskylä with the whole project’s team, followed by the National Finnish conference for history research (HITU)
Closing remarks from Carl Wennerlind & Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, concluding the ‘Northern Lights: science, empire & political economy in the Nordic Enlightenment’ conference at Barnard, Columbia University
October 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Closing remarks from Carl Wennerlind & Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, concluding the ‘Northern Lights: science, empire & political economy in the Nordic Enlightenment’ conference at Barnard, Columbia University
Last panel of the conference (fully hybrid), chaired by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, with a joint paper from Linda Andersson Burnett & Hanna Hodacs (Uppsala) and papers from Hjalmar Fors (Karolinska) and Måns Jansson (Uppsala)
October 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Last panel of the conference (fully hybrid), chaired by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, with a joint paper from Linda Andersson Burnett & Hanna Hodacs (Uppsala) and papers from Hjalmar Fors (Karolinska) and Måns Jansson (Uppsala)
Carl Wennerlind opens the conference’s 2nd day at Barnard, Columbia University, with talks from our PI Ere Nokkala (JYU), Nathalie Le Bouteillec (Amiens), and Sara Ekström (Stockholm)
October 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Carl Wennerlind opens the conference’s 2nd day at Barnard, Columbia University, with talks from our PI Ere Nokkala (JYU), Nathalie Le Bouteillec (Amiens), and Sara Ekström (Stockholm)
Last panel of the day on Nordic commodities, chaired by Carl Wennerlind, , with papers from Håkon Evju @hakonevju.bsky.social (Oslo), Magdalena Naum (Lund) and Markus Hansen (Lund)
October 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Last panel of the day on Nordic commodities, chaired by Carl Wennerlind, , with papers from Håkon Evju @hakonevju.bsky.social (Oslo), Magdalena Naum (Lund) and Markus Hansen (Lund)
Third panel on Sweden and productivity, chaired by Steve Pincus (Chicago), with Anders Ögren (Uppsala), Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social (Chicago) and Carl Wennerlind (Barnard/Columbia)
October 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Third panel on Sweden and productivity, chaired by Steve Pincus (Chicago), with Anders Ögren (Uppsala), Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social (Chicago) and Carl Wennerlind (Barnard/Columbia)
Second panel on Swedish colonialism chaired by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (Chicago) with our postdoc @roydipiazza.bsky.social Fredrik Thomasson (Uppsala) and Leos Müller (Stockholm)
October 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Second panel on Swedish colonialism chaired by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (Chicago) with our postdoc @roydipiazza.bsky.social Fredrik Thomasson (Uppsala) and Leos Müller (Stockholm)
Carl Wennerlind kickstarting the Science, Empire, Political Economy in the Nordic Enlightenment at Barnard College, Columbia University, with talks from Pernille Røge (Pittsburgh), Jón K. Einarsson (Chicago) & Anna Knutsson (Uppsala)
October 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Carl Wennerlind kickstarting the Science, Empire, Political Economy in the Nordic Enlightenment at Barnard College, Columbia University, with talks from Pernille Røge (Pittsburgh), Jón K. Einarsson (Chicago) & Anna Knutsson (Uppsala)
Pre conference talk here at Barnard College, Columbia University from Steve Pincus (Chicago) on ‘India, America & the global political economy of empire’ from his upcoming monograph; up next, reception & dinner at the NY Swedish consulate 🍸
October 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Pre conference talk here at Barnard College, Columbia University from Steve Pincus (Chicago) on ‘India, America & the global political economy of empire’ from his upcoming monograph; up next, reception & dinner at the NY Swedish consulate 🍸
Next week our PI Ere Nokkala and postdoc @roydipiazza.bsky.social will be taking part in the 3-day international conference on ‘Science, Empire & Political economy in the Nordic Enlightenment’ at @barnardcollege.bsky.social on 09-11 Oct. in collaboration with the Swedish Consulate in New York.
September 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Next week our PI Ere Nokkala and postdoc @roydipiazza.bsky.social will be taking part in the 3-day international conference on ‘Science, Empire & Political economy in the Nordic Enlightenment’ at @barnardcollege.bsky.social on 09-11 Oct. in collaboration with the Swedish Consulate in New York.
New open access article in The Historical Journal from our postdoc @roydipiazza.bsky.social on the links between 18th century Swedish racial science, slavery, and the medical cadaver trade👇
Excited to share my article in The Historical Journal on Abraham Bäck, Linnaeus’ best friend, who dissected the skin of an enslaved man. I explore Bäck’s little known research on race and how cadaver scarcity shaped racial science in the European Enlightenment👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Abraham Bäck, Scarcity, and the Racial Anatomy of Skin | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
Abraham Bäck, Scarcity, and the Racial Anatomy of Skin
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September 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
New open access article in The Historical Journal from our postdoc @roydipiazza.bsky.social on the links between 18th century Swedish racial science, slavery, and the medical cadaver trade👇