Over the last 6 months, the so-called #MeToo ʼmovementʼ has deplatformed countless celebrity men accused of various forms of ʼsexual misconduct,ʼ ranging from forcible rape to bad date behaviour. For ...

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Sala degli Stemmi - Villa Salviati- Castle

This presentation will explore the languages of sexual equality deployed by homophile activists across Europe, paying particular attention to the contemporary themes of equality, rights and citizenshi...

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Seminar Room 2 - Badia Fiesolana

Over the last fifteen years the history of the science of the modern era – and particularly of the 18th century – has taken a global turn, expanding the discipline’s horizon of interests. Major global...

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Sala dei Levrieri - Villa Salviati- Castle

In the last decades, the history of science has experienced two productive shifts. The first shift deals with the transformation of a cultural history of science into a material history of science, st...

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Sala dei Levrieri - Villa Salviati- Castle

Lecture in the framework of the History of Science and Intellectual History Working Groups Abstract: Expurgated books are more than mutilated objects. They hold clues about practices of reading and c...

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Sala dei Levrieri - Villa Salviati- Castle

Participants may find it useful to read the publications listed in the attachment, before attending the round-table.

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Sala degli Stemmi - Villa Salviati- Castle

As Western democracies display an increasing ambivalence towards liberal internationalism, this workshop explores the dual nature of international institutions as both a source of political leverage a...

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Emeroteca - Badia Fiesolana

Keynote Lecture in the framework of the conference: The Renaissance on the Road: Mobility and Change in Europe, 1450 - Sala del Consiglio The Iberian powers and the Ottomans saw themselves as rivals ...

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Outside EUI premises -

Keynote Lecture in the framework of the conference: The Renaissance on the Road: Mobility and Change in Europe, 1450-1650 - Sala del Consiglio The forced movement of exiles and refugees was central ...

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Outside EUI premises -

Recent research has stressed the highly mobile nature of late Medieval and Early Modern European life. All kinds of people were on the move for a huge variety of reasons, encouraged by longer-term pro...

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Sala del Consiglio - Villa Salviati- Castle

In the talk, I argue that a key transformation in the history of political charisma took place in the eighteenth century. A new, uniquely powerful form of political charisma developed that would have ...

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Sala del Torrino - Villa Salviati- Castle

What can and should be the contribution of historians to debates around the design and implementation of public policy? We suggest that the methods deployed by historians to understand social, economi...

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Sala del Torrino - Villa Salviati- Castle

This workshop features presentations of diverse works-in-progress in the social, cultural, legal, and political History of Sexuality by four current researchers in the department of History and Civili...

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Sala del Torrino - Villa Salviati- Castle

Controversies studies analyse proceses of closure, i.e. when disputes vanish and consensus emerges. However, what happens when a controversy continues to be reborn? Two historical cases allow us to a...

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Sala dei Levrieri - Villa Salviati- Castle

Lecture in the framework of the Intellectual History and Economic History Working Groups By focusing on Chinese officials’ and intellectuals’ debates on market and consumption, this talk challenges e...

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Sala del Camino - Villa Salviati- Castle

In literature as well as in politics, public figures of the late socialist era were obsessed with sincerity. How did truth work in the self-fashioning of intellectuals, authors, and politicians of t...

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Sala dei Levrieri - Villa Salviati- Castle

Lecture in the Framework of the Economic History and Intellectual History Working Groups In my paper I undertake a rational reconstruction of Gustav Schmoller’s notion of justice and its relevance fo...

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Seminar Room 4 - Badia Fiesolana

Oil, coal, and other natural resources manifest unusual affinities with authoritarian, socialist, and post-socialist states. While political scientists look at the formal co-relations among these vari...

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Sala del Torrino - Villa Salviati- Castle

Book Presentation on the framework of the Imperial History Working Group Antifascism has received little attention compared to its enemy. No historian or social scientist has previously attempted to ...

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Sala del Torrino - Villa Salviati- Castle

The aim of this workshop is to explore the contribution, purposes, and limits of the use of prosopographical methods in international and economic history. Prosopography – the collective biography of...

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Seminar Room - Villa Malafrasca

In this lecture I discuss the religious and moral sources underlying the attacks on hypotheses and systems in early modern natural philosophy. I argue that the faculty of the imagination presented a ...

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Sala del Torrino - Villa Salviati- Castle

The HEC Job Interview Forum offers 4th and 5th year PhD researchers support and preparation for the job market. Researchers present a brief paper about their dissertation work and their conclusions....

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Sala del Torrino - Villa Salviati- Castle

The Royal Society was founded in 1660s London to discuss promoting knowledge of the natural world through observation and experiment, what we now call science. In his 1667 History of the Royal Society...

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Sala degli Stemmi - Villa Salviati- Castle

Historians have considered the Inquisition as a historical problem and have used inquisitorial records to approach early modern societies and cultures, before the opening of the archives of the Roman ...

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Sala del Torrino - Villa Salviati- Castle

The Treaty of Paris of 1763 reshaped many aspects of the relationship between France and Britain and their respective societies. The major consequence for France, the surrender of most of France’s Nor...

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Sala dei Levrieri - Villa Salviati- Castle