Giuseppe Grieco
@giuseppegrieco.bsky.social
Historian of political thought: international law, Two Sicilies and 19th century Mediterranean, Planetary thinking
Lecturer in Modern History @citystgeorges.bsky.social
PhD @qmul.bsky.social alumnus @sns.it
Lecturer in Modern History @citystgeorges.bsky.social
PhD @qmul.bsky.social alumnus @sns.it
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Is there a future for Europe beyond defence, security, and geopolitical competition? The #Humanities can help us build an alternative future for Europe in an age of #planetary challenges.
My article is open access in
Comprendre - Revue de politique de la culture: comprendre.online/index.php/co...
My article is open access in
Comprendre - Revue de politique de la culture: comprendre.online/index.php/co...
October 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Is there a future for Europe beyond defence, security, and geopolitical competition? The #Humanities can help us build an alternative future for Europe in an age of #planetary challenges.
My article is open access in
Comprendre - Revue de politique de la culture: comprendre.online/index.php/co...
My article is open access in
Comprendre - Revue de politique de la culture: comprendre.online/index.php/co...
Is there a future for Europe beyond defence, security, and geopolitical competition? The #Humanities can help us build an alternative future for Europe in an age of #planetary challenges.
My article is open access in
Comprendre - Revue de politique de la culture: comprendre.online/index.php/co...
My article is open access in
Comprendre - Revue de politique de la culture: comprendre.online/index.php/co...
October 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Is there a future for Europe beyond defence, security, and geopolitical competition? The #Humanities can help us build an alternative future for Europe in an age of #planetary challenges.
My article is open access in
Comprendre - Revue de politique de la culture: comprendre.online/index.php/co...
My article is open access in
Comprendre - Revue de politique de la culture: comprendre.online/index.php/co...
So happy that "The Legacy of the Enlightenment", which I co-edited with colleagues in Turin and the wonderful Fondazione 1563, is now available open access. Inside, also my chapter on the Neapolitan Enlightenment's theory of rights and the making of liberalism.
en.olschki.it/libro/978882...
en.olschki.it/libro/978882...
The Legacy of the Enlightenment: Rights, Constitutions, Equality
Recent historiography often portrays the Enlightenment as the intellectual source of modern evils and projects contemporary biases on Enlightenment thinkers. Discussions on the legacy of the Enlighten...
en.olschki.it
October 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
So happy that "The Legacy of the Enlightenment", which I co-edited with colleagues in Turin and the wonderful Fondazione 1563, is now available open access. Inside, also my chapter on the Neapolitan Enlightenment's theory of rights and the making of liberalism.
en.olschki.it/libro/978882...
en.olschki.it/libro/978882...
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Really enjoyed this interview with The Guardian's Philip Oltermann:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
‘Europe is the core – America joined as an offshoot’: the historian challenging what ‘the west’ means
Was the ‘western alliance’ dreamt up to further American and British interests? Georgios Varouxakis argues that the idea is older, quintessentially European, and even anti-imperialist
www.theguardian.com
September 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Really enjoyed this interview with The Guardian's Philip Oltermann:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
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(1/2) The second workshop in the AHRC-funded Rethinking Internationalisms series titled 'New Methods for New Histories' will take place via zoom on 9-10 July – reflective panels followed by an open discussion. Audience-participants can sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...
New Methods for New Histories (Online)
Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
(1/2) The second workshop in the AHRC-funded Rethinking Internationalisms series titled 'New Methods for New Histories' will take place via zoom on 9-10 July – reflective panels followed by an open discussion. Audience-participants can sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...
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👉 Take a look at this CfP for the LSE-Tufts Seminar in Contemporary International History, for those working on "any aspect of 20th or 21st century international history and historical IR, broadly defined" 👇
Organised by @lizingleson.bsky.social, @mjbayly.bsky.social, @emleake.bsky.social #HistIR
Organised by @lizingleson.bsky.social, @mjbayly.bsky.social, @emleake.bsky.social #HistIR
June 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
👉 Take a look at this CfP for the LSE-Tufts Seminar in Contemporary International History, for those working on "any aspect of 20th or 21st century international history and historical IR, broadly defined" 👇
Organised by @lizingleson.bsky.social, @mjbayly.bsky.social, @emleake.bsky.social #HistIR
Organised by @lizingleson.bsky.social, @mjbayly.bsky.social, @emleake.bsky.social #HistIR
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And we're off! Opening remarks from @giuseppegrieco.bsky.social on Ferdinandea, empire, the space of the sea and political imagination.
June 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
And we're off! Opening remarks from @giuseppegrieco.bsky.social on Ferdinandea, empire, the space of the sea and political imagination.
I am very excited to be giving the opening remarks at the annual History of Political Thought Conference this Thursday at LSE.
Thanks to the organisers for the invitation! Check out the programme and come listen to these fantastic papers.
Thanks to the organisers for the invitation! Check out the programme and come listen to these fantastic papers.
We're very pleased to announce the programme for this year's conference on States and Spaces!
The conference will be held at LSE on 19 and 20 June.
Please sign up here for your free ticket - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/16th-annua...
The conference will be held at LSE on 19 and 20 June.
Please sign up here for your free ticket - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/16th-annua...
June 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I am very excited to be giving the opening remarks at the annual History of Political Thought Conference this Thursday at LSE.
Thanks to the organisers for the invitation! Check out the programme and come listen to these fantastic papers.
Thanks to the organisers for the invitation! Check out the programme and come listen to these fantastic papers.
Last few days to apply to this year’s Turin Humanities Programme summer school on “Slavery and Serfdom in Europe and the Americas in the Early Modern Period”. Great opportunity for PhD students to meet amazing scholars and explore Turin
www.fondazione1563.it/progetti/en-...
www.fondazione1563.it/progetti/en-...
June 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Last few days to apply to this year’s Turin Humanities Programme summer school on “Slavery and Serfdom in Europe and the Americas in the Early Modern Period”. Great opportunity for PhD students to meet amazing scholars and explore Turin
www.fondazione1563.it/progetti/en-...
www.fondazione1563.it/progetti/en-...
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We now have a programme for KNOWING INFRASTRUCTURES in and beyond the neoliberal university.
This an open workshop and all are welcome. Please register to receive the circulated pre-reading.
Full programme and registration link is available here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
This an open workshop and all are welcome. Please register to receive the circulated pre-reading.
Full programme and registration link is available here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
May 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
We now have a programme for KNOWING INFRASTRUCTURES in and beyond the neoliberal university.
This an open workshop and all are welcome. Please register to receive the circulated pre-reading.
Full programme and registration link is available here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
This an open workshop and all are welcome. Please register to receive the circulated pre-reading.
Full programme and registration link is available here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Looking forward to tomorrow's workshop on "Global Order and Governance beyond the West" @cityhistory.bsky.social
with Arnulf Becker Lorca, Emma Mackinnon and @mjbayly.bsky.social
Everyone is welcome! There is still time to register (in-person/online) www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
with Arnulf Becker Lorca, Emma Mackinnon and @mjbayly.bsky.social
Everyone is welcome! There is still time to register (in-person/online) www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Global Order and Governance beyond the West - History and International Affairs Workshop | City St George's, University of London
This roundtable conversation will reflect on these historical experiences to reimagine order and governance in today’s multipolar world.
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk
May 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Looking forward to tomorrow's workshop on "Global Order and Governance beyond the West" @cityhistory.bsky.social
with Arnulf Becker Lorca, Emma Mackinnon and @mjbayly.bsky.social
Everyone is welcome! There is still time to register (in-person/online) www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
with Arnulf Becker Lorca, Emma Mackinnon and @mjbayly.bsky.social
Everyone is welcome! There is still time to register (in-person/online) www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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🎉 Time to celebrate! 🎉
My article, “Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian South (1900s–40s),” is now out in open access in the Journal of Global History (@globalhistjnl.bsky.social).
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
My article, “Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian South (1900s–40s),” is now out in open access in the Journal of Global History (@globalhistjnl.bsky.social).
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian south (1900s–40s) | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core
Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian south (1900s–40s)
doi.org
May 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🎉 Time to celebrate! 🎉
My article, “Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian South (1900s–40s),” is now out in open access in the Journal of Global History (@globalhistjnl.bsky.social).
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
My article, “Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian South (1900s–40s),” is now out in open access in the Journal of Global History (@globalhistjnl.bsky.social).
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
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Happening on Thursday this week at City University (London). Free, in person, and online. I’ll be speaking on the Indian independence struggle as a form of world ordering, culminating in the 1947 Asian Relations Conference. www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Global Order and Governance beyond the West - History and International Affairs Workshop | City St George's, University of London
This roundtable conversation will reflect on these historical experiences to reimagine order and governance in today’s multipolar world.
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk
May 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Happening on Thursday this week at City University (London). Free, in person, and online. I’ll be speaking on the Indian independence struggle as a form of world ordering, culminating in the 1947 Asian Relations Conference. www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
I am delighted to share the programme of 'Global Order and Governance beyond the West' (May 29) at @cityhistory.bsky.social. Featuring talks by Arnulf Becker Lorca (EUI), Emma Mackinnon (Cambridge), @mjbayly.bsky.social (LSE).
In person/online registration: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
In person/online registration: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
May 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I am delighted to share the programme of 'Global Order and Governance beyond the West' (May 29) at @cityhistory.bsky.social. Featuring talks by Arnulf Becker Lorca (EUI), Emma Mackinnon (Cambridge), @mjbayly.bsky.social (LSE).
In person/online registration: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
In person/online registration: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Giorgia Meloni dismissed the Ventotene Manifesto as a socialist relic. The left rushed to defend it but both sides risk distorting its meaning. I wrote for The Conversation about the political struggle over one of Europe’s most contested historical texts theconversation.com/ventotene-ma...
Ventotene manifesto: why European politicians are arguing over a 1941 document written by a group of imprisoned Italian antifascists
As European nations discuss closer defence collaboration, a document proposing a federal Europe has become the subject of heated arguments.
theconversation.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Giorgia Meloni dismissed the Ventotene Manifesto as a socialist relic. The left rushed to defend it but both sides risk distorting its meaning. I wrote for The Conversation about the political struggle over one of Europe’s most contested historical texts theconversation.com/ventotene-ma...
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I thoroughly enjoyed writing this review essay on 'The End of Enlightenment' by Richard Whatmore:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Please give it a repost and/or drop me a line to let me know what you think! 😊 #Enlightenment #18thcentury
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Please give it a repost and/or drop me a line to let me know what you think! 😊 #Enlightenment #18thcentury
April 30, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I thoroughly enjoyed writing this review essay on 'The End of Enlightenment' by Richard Whatmore:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Please give it a repost and/or drop me a line to let me know what you think! 😊 #Enlightenment #18thcentury
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Please give it a repost and/or drop me a line to let me know what you think! 😊 #Enlightenment #18thcentury
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"The decisive fact of our time is that, on the whole, we know a lot and yet we can do very little. We are both enlightened and illiterate." – Marina Garcés
How can we know the world in ways that are empowering rather than overwhelming? Where is the future of radical knowledge production?
How can we know the world in ways that are empowering rather than overwhelming? Where is the future of radical knowledge production?
April 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
"The decisive fact of our time is that, on the whole, we know a lot and yet we can do very little. We are both enlightened and illiterate." – Marina Garcés
How can we know the world in ways that are empowering rather than overwhelming? Where is the future of radical knowledge production?
How can we know the world in ways that are empowering rather than overwhelming? Where is the future of radical knowledge production?
On Wednesday, we are hosting Michalis Sotiropoulos at @citystgeorges.bsky.social (in person/Teams)
Join us for a conversation on empire, law, and state-building in the 19th c., with @jmulich.bsky.social @drmargottudor.bsky.social @charlotte-johann.bsky.social
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Join us for a conversation on empire, law, and state-building in the 19th c., with @jmulich.bsky.social @drmargottudor.bsky.social @charlotte-johann.bsky.social
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Liberalism After Empire – Modern History Cluster event | City St George's, University of London
Book roundtable on Michalis Sotiropoulos’s, Liberalism after the Revolution: The Intellectual Foundations of the Greek State, c. 1830-1880 (Cambridge, CUP, 2022)
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk
April 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
On Wednesday, we are hosting Michalis Sotiropoulos at @citystgeorges.bsky.social (in person/Teams)
Join us for a conversation on empire, law, and state-building in the 19th c., with @jmulich.bsky.social @drmargottudor.bsky.social @charlotte-johann.bsky.social
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Join us for a conversation on empire, law, and state-building in the 19th c., with @jmulich.bsky.social @drmargottudor.bsky.social @charlotte-johann.bsky.social
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Make sure you come along to our new event! Dr Michalis Sotiropoulos will be visiting City to discuss his new book ‘Liberalism after the Revolution’ with @jmulich.bsky.social, @charlotte-johann.bsky.social, & @drmargottudor.bsky.social, chaired by Dr Giuseppe Grieco on 9th April 🎉
shorturl.at/QCo9S
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Liberalism After Empire – Modern History Cluster event | City St George's, University of London
Book roundtable on Michalis Sotiropoulos’s, Liberalism after the Revolution: The Intellectual Foundations of the Greek State, c. 1830-1880 (Cambridge, CUP, 2022)
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk
March 31, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Make sure you come along to our new event! Dr Michalis Sotiropoulos will be visiting City to discuss his new book ‘Liberalism after the Revolution’ with @jmulich.bsky.social, @charlotte-johann.bsky.social, & @drmargottudor.bsky.social, chaired by Dr Giuseppe Grieco on 9th April 🎉
shorturl.at/QCo9S
shorturl.at/QCo9S
Liberalism After Empire - 9 April 4 pm @cityhistory.bsky.social
We are hosting a roundtable discussion of Michalis Sotiropoulos’ Liberalism after the Revolution: The Intellectual Foundations of the Greek State, c. 1830-1880
Registration (in-person/online):
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
We are hosting a roundtable discussion of Michalis Sotiropoulos’ Liberalism after the Revolution: The Intellectual Foundations of the Greek State, c. 1830-1880
Registration (in-person/online):
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
March 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Liberalism After Empire - 9 April 4 pm @cityhistory.bsky.social
We are hosting a roundtable discussion of Michalis Sotiropoulos’ Liberalism after the Revolution: The Intellectual Foundations of the Greek State, c. 1830-1880
Registration (in-person/online):
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
We are hosting a roundtable discussion of Michalis Sotiropoulos’ Liberalism after the Revolution: The Intellectual Foundations of the Greek State, c. 1830-1880
Registration (in-person/online):
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Finsbury Institute + Europe Politics Cluster @citystgeorges.bsky.social + @clsisel.bsky.social invite you at lecture by Ambassador Pedro Serrano @eudelegationuk.bsky.social
"The Balancing Power of the EU" tomorrow, Tue 25 Feb,5-6pm, B104, Northampton sq, London
www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
"The Balancing Power of the EU" tomorrow, Tue 25 Feb,5-6pm, B104, Northampton sq, London
www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
EU Ambassador Lecture: The Balancing Power of the EU | City, University of London
The School of Policy and Global Affairs are delighted to host His Excellency Pedro Serrano to give a lecture on the EU-UK relations in a troubled world, with a reception to follow.
www.city.ac.uk
February 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Finsbury Institute + Europe Politics Cluster @citystgeorges.bsky.social + @clsisel.bsky.social invite you at lecture by Ambassador Pedro Serrano @eudelegationuk.bsky.social
"The Balancing Power of the EU" tomorrow, Tue 25 Feb,5-6pm, B104, Northampton sq, London
www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
"The Balancing Power of the EU" tomorrow, Tue 25 Feb,5-6pm, B104, Northampton sq, London
www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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City’s Cluster for Modern History is hosting lots of exciting events this semester! 📣
First up we have a fascinating event on 18th March at 4pm on “Narrating Difficult Histories to a Broad Audience: the @bbcradio4.bsky.social podcast ‘Three Million’”. www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
First up we have a fascinating event on 18th March at 4pm on “Narrating Difficult Histories to a Broad Audience: the @bbcradio4.bsky.social podcast ‘Three Million’”. www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
February 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
City’s Cluster for Modern History is hosting lots of exciting events this semester! 📣
First up we have a fascinating event on 18th March at 4pm on “Narrating Difficult Histories to a Broad Audience: the @bbcradio4.bsky.social podcast ‘Three Million’”. www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
First up we have a fascinating event on 18th March at 4pm on “Narrating Difficult Histories to a Broad Audience: the @bbcradio4.bsky.social podcast ‘Three Million’”. www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...