Giuseppe Grieco

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...

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...

‘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

Really enjoyed this interview with The Guardian's Philip Oltermann:

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

New Methods for New Histories (Online) Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities

(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...

LSE-Tufts Seminar in Contemporary International History - Call for Papers - The seminar welcomes scholars who have completed their PhD to share work-in-progress on any aspect of 20th or 21st century international history and historical IR, broadly defined. We encourage a wide range of different approaches including research exploring transnational networks, non-state actors, and geographies beyond the Global North. The seminar is open to post-PhD scholars at all stages of their career. - Applicants should submit a provisional title, a brief 250-word abstract, and a CV to e.ingleson@lse.ac.uk by August 22, 2025.

👉 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

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.

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-...

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...

Join us for an inter-disciplinary conversation on international law, IR, and global governance from non-Western perspectives. With @jmulich.bsky.social @diyagupta.bsky.social @daviesthomasr.bsky.social @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social @begumzorlu.bsky.social @drmargottudor.bsky.social

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...

🎉 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...

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...

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.

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...

I thoroughly enjoyed writing this review essay on 'The End of Enlightenment' by Richard Whatmore:

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Please give it a repost and/or drop me a line to let me know what you think! 😊 #Enlightenment #18thcentury

"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?

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...

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

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...

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...

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...