Vincent Roy-Di Piazza

New York, New York

Finally received my own copy of this classic banger — just in time for the weekend 📚

Looking forward to this 👇

How cadaver scarcity shaped the racial science of skin in Enlightenment Europe « History# « Cambridge Core Blog This blog post is based on the article ‘Abraham Bäck, scarcity, and the racial anatomy of skin’ published in The Historical Journal: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X25101039 In February 1744, the Swe...

Wrote a 3 minute read blog post for the Cambridge Core Blog @Cambridge.org summarizing key results from my open access article on Abraham Bäck, cadaver scarcity, and the racial anatomy of skin @historicaljnl.bsky.social. Read it here👇 www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Félicitations Jens!

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...

Enlightening the king: French-Swedish relations in the letters of Gustaf Philip Creutz with Gustav III

Happy to share my new blog post on C18 French-Swedish relations for the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History blog @oxfordcih.bsky.social. French-Swedish diplomacy treated cultural alignment as a powerful vehicle for political change in Sweden👇
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/enli...

(Surprise!) Festschrift in honour of Prof. Pertti Ahonen for his 60th birthday, launching the book « Here comes the Sun » (2025) @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social with 15 contributions from colleagues all over the world. Very touching

Very exciting new article by @davidrarmitage.bsky.social 👇

I was recently invited to share some thoughts on my pedagogical approach for the Hela blog series of the history department at JYU 🇫🇮 @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social Thanks for the opportunity! Read it here👇—- www.jyu.fi/en/blog/inge...

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Received some great news this past week about a research project I’ve been working on a long time; more soon 🍾 — in the meantime, a restful weekend to you all! ☀️

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Me making cuts to my academic CV so it fits in that 4 pages house template:

Celebrating midsommar in central Finland this year under the midnight sun, on the year’s longest day☀️ 🇫🇮

Very excited to see this one come out!

Back after lunch for session 7 on gender in intellectual history chaired by Anna Becker (Aarhus), with Hanne Berendse (Innsbruck) on J. Otho’s De Bona Institutione (1616), & Geertje J. Bol (Ghent) on ‘ambitious women in early modern England’

Session 6 with talks from Mads Langballe Jensen (Lund) on pol. thought in pre-colonial Gold Coast, and Ariane Fichtl & Juliane Engelhardt (Copenhagen) on gender in Radical Pietism, Pietist conversion & the liberal turn

Third and last keynote of ISIH 2025, with Patricia Owens (Oxford) giving a lecture based on her book « Erased: a history of international thought without men » (@princetonupress.bsky.social) introduced by Christian O. Christiansen (Aarhus)

Session 5 of ISIH 2025 with talks from Rachel McVeigh (Harvard), Melisa Durkei (Central European University) & Rithma Kreie Engelbreth Larsen (Aarhus)

László Kontler introducing a rearranged session 4 panel featuring Lewis Ashman (Edimburgh), Rosa-María Mantilla Suárez (Columbia) & Nicolai von Eggers (Copenhagen)

Second keynote lecture of the ISIH 2025 conference by Shruti Kapila (Cambridge) introduced by Casper Andersen (Aarhus), titled ‘Against consent: a History of Sexual Contract from Sati to Gang Rape in India’

Starting day 2 of the 2025 ISIH conference in still sunny Aarhus, with a panel on post colonial critique, feat. Isabelle Napier (Oxford), Matthew Birchal (New South Wales) & Vanessa Pastorini (Sao Paulo) chaired by Christian O. Christiansen (Aarhus)

László Kontler, president of the @isih-blueskye.bsky.social , provides the 2025 ISIH conference’s welcome address, followed by Anna Becker’s introduction of Gianna Pomata’s keynote lecture on ‘Gender: rise and fall of an epistemic concept’

Opening up the session 1 of the @isih-blueskye.bsky.social conference 2025 in sunny Aarhus ☀️ 🇩🇰 with Kaarlo Havu (@helsinki.fi) moderated by Casper Andersen (@au.dk)

There’s been a few updates to the @isih-blueskye.bsky.social 2025 conference programme @au.dk 🇩🇰 starting this Wednesday — I’ll still be presenting on 9 June, session 1 at 13:00 in the Preben Hornung Room, with Kaarlo Havu (@helsinki.fi) & chaired by Casper Andersen (Aarhus) Looking forward to it!👇

Great workshop! Had a great time and fantastic discussions.

I am looking much forward to present today as part of the panel on Improvement & colonialism in early modern Sweden ! I’ll be presenting alongside Patrick Winton (Örebro) and Desislava Dimitriva (Munich) with Göran Rydén (Uppsala) chairing.

Great first day!

Looking forward to this! 📕

Really excited to be attending the @isih-blueskye.bsky.social conference 2025 in Aarhus 🇩🇰 @au.dk next month! It will be my first time; I’ll be talking on the 1rst day, on Sami soldiers in the C17 Swedish army. DM me if you’ll be there too & would like to meet up! | 👇 conferences.au.dk/isih-2025

Attending Magnus Enlund’s PhD disputation på svenska: « Med oro i blodet? – Svenskösterbottniska emigrationserfarenheter under 1890–1970-talen » | www.jyu.fi/en/events/23...