Ariane Fichtl

Programme is online and registration is open! More than 20 speakers from all over the world are coming to Copenhagen to discuss religious embodiment and conversion practices on the 23rd and 24th of April! 🌸✨

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A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe Debra Kaplan and Elisheva Carlebach book talk at Yeshiva University in New York City on February 22nd, 2026 at 10:00 am EST, Furst Hall 212

Next week, Feb 22 at 10:00am EST, see Debra Kaplan and Elisheva Carlebach at Yeshiva University for a talk on their book, A Woman Is Responsible for Everything. Come hear about their use of previously untapped archival sources to explore the integral role of women in early modern Jewish communities!

My @mihjournal.bsky.social article is now online on first view! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Three more weeks until the deadline! Join us in Copenhagen to discuss religious embodiment and conversion practices in early modern Europe and beyond on the 23rd and 24th of April 2026!

Now on FirstView: The “Woman’s Seed”? Ariane Viktoria Fichtl @threadofariane.bsky.social analyzes the abolitionist cognitive tool “mental metempsychosis” that challenged the concept of the heritability of slavery and was at the heart of immediate abolitionism in Britain

My @mihjournal.bsky.social article is now online on first view! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Thrilled to launch a call for papers for a conference I’m co-organising to take place at the University of Copenhagen from 23-24 April 2026!
The topic is “Religious embodiment and conversion practices in Early Modern Europe and Beyond, 1500-1800”.
Deadline: 26 Nov 2025

See below for more info!
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Had a wonderful time at the @isih-blueskye.bsky.social annual conference @au.dk! Thanks to all who attended my panel for the stimulating questions and to the organizers for your hospitality!

Idea(s) of Dutch Neutrality in the American Debate on Neutral Rights (1793–1807) Since the latter part of the seventeenth century trade and war had become increasingly entangled due to the bellicose commercial rivalry of European colonial powers, who emulated one another in a s...

Perfect time to re-engage with my article on Alexander Hamilton’s vs. Thomas Jefferson’s views on US foreign policy and commercial warfare! 👉🏻 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought: 20th Anniversary Publication Celebration (Part 2) YouTube video by StAndrewsIIH

Part 2 of The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought: 20th Anniversary Publication Celebration is now online on
@standrewsiih.bsky.social YouTube channel!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Q3...

The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought — Rachel Hammersley I am currently co-teaching a module on 'The Scientific Revolution'. Consequently, Isaac Newton's famous comment to Robert Boyle about 'standing on the shoulders of giants' was already in my mind on 15...

What did the Greeks do for us? March’s blogpost reflects on 20 years since the publication of ‘The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought’. www.rachelhammersley.com/new-blog/2025/2/28/the-greek-tradition-in-republican-thought @threadofariane.bsky.social @standrewshist.bsky.social

The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought: 20th Anniversary Publication Celebration (Part 1) YouTube video by StAndrewsIIH

Part 1 of 2 of The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought: 20th Anniversary Publication Celebration is now online on @standrewsiih.bsky.social‘s YouTube channel!
Speakers in that part include:
Quentin Skinner, James Hankins, @rhammersley99.bsky.social, & many more.
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In-person speakers lineup of my first organised conference, Greek Tradition Twenty, which took place on Feb 15th, 2025. The recording is in preparation and will be released soon @standrewsiih.bsky.social!

Thanks to everyone who participated in yesterday's event and made it such a fantastic conference. #GreekTraditionTwenty www.intellectualhistory.net/greek-tradit...

📢 Reminder! Join the thought-provoking Intellectual History Seminar on Eric Nelson’s The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought.
🗓️ 15 Feb | ⏰ 8.30am–6pm |📍Parliament Hall, St Andrews
Discussions on republicanism, democracy, legal traditions & more! To register see details👇

New post in Greek History at Cambridge: please encourage anyone who might be interested to apply. I'd love to get a new colleague who will take us in exciting directions, and I'd be happy to answer questions. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48963/

Registration (in person or online) for #GreekTraditionTwenty ends on Saturday!
Make sure to drop me a message if you’d like to attend! My mail is avf2@st-andrews.ac.uk.

CfP: How Women Shaped the Nordic Enlightenment – University of Copenhagen on 18-20 June 2025

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The event will be a hybrid one! Please message me to receive the Microsoft Teams link!

We've now created a starter pack for those whose work/interests include early modern religious radicalism:

go.bsky.app/ArYba4T

Let me know if you'd like to be added!

#EarlyModern

Yes, please add me!

You still have a week to submit your abstracts - We look forward to reading them!

This @isih-blueskye.bsky.social ‘Women in IH’ seminar had to be cancelled last minute and is now rescheduled for 22nd January! Please join us, the sign-up link in the old post should still work 🥳

I was invited to present on a theme related to my first book today @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social and had chocolat chaud for breakfast! It can’t get any better than that (except for mousse au chocolat for dinner, which I also had 😅).

📣 Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2025

Eric Nelson (Harvard): For the Way Things Are: In Search of a Defensible Conservatism | Hilary Term, 5pm, Tuesdays Weeks 3-8 | more details coming soon...

Alex Long (University of St Andrews) - "Natural Law Theory in Cicero".
Wednesday 20 November 2024
17:15-18:30
Room 1.10 St Katharine's Lodge
www.intellectualhistory.net/events

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Greek Tradition Twenty — Institute of Intellectual History

The official programme for the event I’m currently organizing and which is dedicated to Eric Nelson’s first book #greektraditiontwenty is now online available (and downloadable as PDF)!
www.intellectualhistory.net/greek-tradit...

The event will be recorded and disseminated online!

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@chrisbrooke.bsky.social here a photo of my very smart, very fierce and lucky (lucky because my family adopted her straying mom) tricolor kitty, and one with me in matching white!

I work on abolitionism, please add me!