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
🔗https://frankejbypoulsen.net
🎓PhD History, European University Institute
🎓MSc Politics, University of Copenhagen
🎓LLM, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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”.
This is very good and you should read it.
"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
November 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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”.
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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
www.rachelhammersley.com/new-blog/2025/10/28/republican-bodies
November 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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
www.rachelhammersley.com/new-blog/2025/10/28/republican-bodies
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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....
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....
July 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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....
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.
Now 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....
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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.
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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
YouTube video by SocAntiquaries
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October 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Catch up on our lecture from today, all about medievial uni students from @amwillemsen.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ0D...
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
ICYMI 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...
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...
Where now for Britain’s Universities?
UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.
politicalquarterly.org.uk
October 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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
Most likely candidate to become one of the most cited historical sources by future historians studying the comments section.
NEW: 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.
ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.
September 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Most likely candidate to become one of the most cited historical sources by future historians studying the comments section.
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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...
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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September 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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...
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...
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✨What Do We Know About How Printers and Bookworkers Learned Greek in the Sixteenth Century ?
Han Lamers and I are delighted to host Martine Furno (IHRIM / ENS de Lyon) at the second online seminar of the Early Modern Hellenism Colloquia
📆Online on 25 September at 15.00 CET (via zoom)
Han Lamers and I are delighted to host Martine Furno (IHRIM / ENS de Lyon) at the second online seminar of the Early Modern Hellenism Colloquia
📆Online on 25 September at 15.00 CET (via zoom)
September 19, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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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
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
🔎 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
👉 https://loom.ly/i-v1wXM
September 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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
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
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🎉📣 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...
Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
September 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
🎉📣 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...
Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
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🚨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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September 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🚨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...
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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
September 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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
This looks great!
Looking forward to this today #BuiltWithBooks
September 9, 2025 at 8:51 AM
This looks great!
📣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
September 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
📣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…
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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August 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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…
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…
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Editing revised chapters for the forthcoming 2nd edition of our guide to #EarlyModern 🗃️ sources today👌
The revised volume will also include 3 new chapters:
Part 1 'Sources':
- Digitised Sources
Part 2 'Histories':
- Race
- The Body, Mind & Emotions.
The revised volume will also include 3 new chapters:
Part 1 'Sources':
- Digitised Sources
Part 2 'Histories':
- Race
- The Body, Mind & Emotions.
August 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Editing revised chapters for the forthcoming 2nd edition of our guide to #EarlyModern 🗃️ sources today👌
The revised volume will also include 3 new chapters:
Part 1 'Sources':
- Digitised Sources
Part 2 'Histories':
- Race
- The Body, Mind & Emotions.
The revised volume will also include 3 new chapters:
Part 1 'Sources':
- Digitised Sources
Part 2 'Histories':
- Race
- The Body, Mind & Emotions.
Presented at #NHM2025 in Reykjavík! 🇮🇸 My talk explored using digital tools to map the mind of a 17th-c. prince through his library. The findings challenge how we view early modern knowledge. 👇
(1/4) #AcademicSky #HistorianSky #DigitalHumanities
(1/4) #AcademicSky #HistorianSky #DigitalHumanities
August 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Presented at #NHM2025 in Reykjavík! 🇮🇸 My talk explored using digital tools to map the mind of a 17th-c. prince through his library. The findings challenge how we view early modern knowledge. 👇
(1/4) #AcademicSky #HistorianSky #DigitalHumanities
(1/4) #AcademicSky #HistorianSky #DigitalHumanities
Fühlen Sie sich an einem Ort eher als Fremder, weil andere Sie so sehen? In meinem neuen Blogbeitrag erkunde ich die Idee der 'Heimat im Kopf'. #Heimat #Kosmopolitismus #Identität
Heimat bedeutet für mich …
Ich habe mein Junior Fellowship am University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence 'Alexander von Humboldt' nun abgeschlossen. Angegliedert war ich dem Institut für Fränkische Landesgeschichte der Universitäten Bayreuth und Bamberg. Ich werde „mein Schloss“, den Arbeitsplatz des Instituts im beeindruckenden Schloss Thurnau, und die tolle Atmosphäre, die von den dort arbeitenden Menschen geschaffen wurde, sehr vermissen. In dieser Zeit habe ich viel über…
frankejbypoulsen.net
August 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Fühlen Sie sich an einem Ort eher als Fremder, weil andere Sie so sehen? In meinem neuen Blogbeitrag erkunde ich die Idee der 'Heimat im Kopf'. #Heimat #Kosmopolitismus #Identität
The article ends with an optimistic “In fact, while AI can indeed handle the tedium, there should be a new premium on the human — from creativity and emotional intelligence to complex judgment.” But these are precisely the skills that AI is exponentially improving on…
The AI job cuts are accelerating https://on.ft.com/4fkPD4Y | opinion
The AI job cuts are accelerating
Companies are preparing for a time where there might be less work for their employees
on.ft.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The article ends with an optimistic “In fact, while AI can indeed handle the tedium, there should be a new premium on the human — from creativity and emotional intelligence to complex judgment.” But these are precisely the skills that AI is exponentially improving on…
Future of AI
You know who else has a 5-year plan? AI does. AI will achieve AGI in 5 years. And it won't care about YOUR 5-year plan. To better understand this trajectory, consider exploring the free course “The Future of AI” by BlueDot Impact. It requires no more than two hours and offers valuable…
You know who else has a 5-year plan? AI does. AI will achieve AGI in 5 years. And it won't care about YOUR 5-year plan. To better understand this trajectory, consider exploring the free course “The Future of AI” by BlueDot Impact. It requires no more than two hours and offers valuable…
Future of AI
You know who else has a 5-year plan? AI does. AI will achieve AGI in 5 years. And it won't care about YOUR 5-year plan. To better understand this trajectory, consider exploring the free course “The Future of AI” by BlueDot Impact. It requires no more than two hours and offers valuable insights into the evolution of AI—where it stood five years ago, where it is today, and why many experts are sounding the alarm about its exponential growth, driven by unprecedented financial investment.There is an urgent need to accelerate the development of…
frankejbypoulsen.net
July 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Future of AI
You know who else has a 5-year plan? AI does. AI will achieve AGI in 5 years. And it won't care about YOUR 5-year plan. To better understand this trajectory, consider exploring the free course “The Future of AI” by BlueDot Impact. It requires no more than two hours and offers valuable…
You know who else has a 5-year plan? AI does. AI will achieve AGI in 5 years. And it won't care about YOUR 5-year plan. To better understand this trajectory, consider exploring the free course “The Future of AI” by BlueDot Impact. It requires no more than two hours and offers valuable…
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This article is now freely accessible online! www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
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....
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....
July 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
This article is now freely accessible online! www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
If you’re in the USA 🆓📚👇
Big book giveaway at Liberty Fund (w/i the US) including
Constant, Principles of Politics & On Religion
Molesworth, Account of Denmark
de Staël, Considerations/ French Revolution
Guizot, History of Civilization in Europe
Coke, Writings
Tracy, Political Economy
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Constant, Principles of Politics & On Religion
Molesworth, Account of Denmark
de Staël, Considerations/ French Revolution
Guizot, History of Civilization in Europe
Coke, Writings
Tracy, Political Economy
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July 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
If you’re in the USA 🆓📚👇
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Wow - so many people already signed up for our Wills Project Transcribathon later this month! 🙏
If you drop by you can transcribe some lines & help make 25,000 English wills more accessible for all.
In person & online, join us here: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com
#EarlyModern 🗃️ #Palaeography
If you drop by you can transcribe some lines & help make 25,000 English wills more accessible for all.
In person & online, join us here: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com
#EarlyModern 🗃️ #Palaeography
July 7, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Wow - so many people already signed up for our Wills Project Transcribathon later this month! 🙏
If you drop by you can transcribe some lines & help make 25,000 English wills more accessible for all.
In person & online, join us here: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com
#EarlyModern 🗃️ #Palaeography
If you drop by you can transcribe some lines & help make 25,000 English wills more accessible for all.
In person & online, join us here: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com
#EarlyModern 🗃️ #Palaeography