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PhD 2005, University of Helsinki. Docent of European History, 2009, University of Helsinki. Docent of Finnish and Scandinavian History, 2019, University of Turku. Academy Research Fellow (Academy of Finland/University of Helsinki) 2013–2018. Professor of Finnish history, University of Turku, acting 2018–2021, full/permanent 2022–. Current research topics: practical Enlightenment, intellectual networks, history of friendship, cosmopolitanism, cultural and political history of opera in the eighteenth-century, history of elites.
Particular interests: Enlightenment, eighteenth century, republicanism, political language, history of ideas and concepts, history of medicine, interdisciplinary research, musicology, networking, identities and representations, France, Sweden, Finland, Northern Europe.
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Approaching Religion, Nov 28, 2011
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Nov 1, 2015
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Nov 1, 2015
Finnish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies ; International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2007
Böhlau Verlag eBooks, May 14, 2023
Diciottesimo Secolo
This article examines the views on the inoculation of smallpox as they were presented in the Swed... more This article examines the views on the inoculation of smallpox as they were presented in the Swedish periodical press during the second half of the eighteenth century. The analysis is based on digitized newspapers available in the online press databases of the Swedish and Finnish national libraries. The historical Swedish realm is an interesting case with regard to inoculation. First, extensive and systematic population records and statistics exist for both parts of the realm – Sweden and Finland – since the eighteenth century, an era when also the elementary foundations of a medical infrastructure and administration were cast. Second, as a part of the political and scientific interest in demography, inoculation was strongly promoted by the central administration and became a central element of public health policies that involved both medical professionals and local officials, including ministers and sacristans of the Lutheran church. Third, during the latter half of the 1760s, Swe...
1700-tal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Gustav Philip Creutz and Gustaf Fredrik Gyllenborg, both born in 1731, were two major authors who... more Gustav Philip Creutz and Gustaf Fredrik Gyllenborg, both born in 1731, were two major authors who developed pastoral and epic poetry in Swedish and who were also known for their literary friendship. In Swedish and Finnish national literature, they are known as representatives of a supposedly light, rococo style that fell out of fashion in the nineteenth century. By proposing a queer reading of their poetry, this article takes a new approach to their works, arguing that these can be used as valuable sources for the history of gender, genderqueer and feelings of love and friendship. While previous studies have generally analysed Creutz’s and Gyllenborg’s works separately, they are here seen as a mutual venture in the context of a shifting, gendered public space, however within a strongly classical framework, which allowed the authors to play at several intertextual levels to appeal to the sensitivities of different readers.
Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined
1700-tal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2021
The Royal Academy of Sciences was an important organization in eighteenth-century Sweden. It brou... more The Royal Academy of Sciences was an important organization in eighteenth-century Sweden. It brought together scientists and scholars contributing to a wide spectrum of areas, encompassing nature as well as society. But it also maintained close ties to the elite and the political establishment. The academy formed part of the institutional landscape of power and functioned as a consultive body and an arena for the upper echelons of the Swedish realm. The monograph sheds light on the political and economic outlook of the Royal Academy of Sciences during the period 1739–1792 against the background of its intimate connections to the ruling stratum. Not least the Hat Party, which dominated the Swedish political scene during the Age of Liberty, and the autocratic King Gustav III. The study shows that the members of the academy overall gravitated towards traditional viewpoints and that their conceptualizations of society were substantially affected by their interactions with the power hold...
Approaching Religion, Nov 28, 2011
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Nov 1, 2015
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Nov 1, 2015
Finnish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies ; International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2007
Böhlau Verlag eBooks, May 14, 2023
Diciottesimo Secolo
This article examines the views on the inoculation of smallpox as they were presented in the Swed... more This article examines the views on the inoculation of smallpox as they were presented in the Swedish periodical press during the second half of the eighteenth century. The analysis is based on digitized newspapers available in the online press databases of the Swedish and Finnish national libraries. The historical Swedish realm is an interesting case with regard to inoculation. First, extensive and systematic population records and statistics exist for both parts of the realm – Sweden and Finland – since the eighteenth century, an era when also the elementary foundations of a medical infrastructure and administration were cast. Second, as a part of the political and scientific interest in demography, inoculation was strongly promoted by the central administration and became a central element of public health policies that involved both medical professionals and local officials, including ministers and sacristans of the Lutheran church. Third, during the latter half of the 1760s, Swe...
1700-tal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Gustav Philip Creutz and Gustaf Fredrik Gyllenborg, both born in 1731, were two major authors who... more Gustav Philip Creutz and Gustaf Fredrik Gyllenborg, both born in 1731, were two major authors who developed pastoral and epic poetry in Swedish and who were also known for their literary friendship. In Swedish and Finnish national literature, they are known as representatives of a supposedly light, rococo style that fell out of fashion in the nineteenth century. By proposing a queer reading of their poetry, this article takes a new approach to their works, arguing that these can be used as valuable sources for the history of gender, genderqueer and feelings of love and friendship. While previous studies have generally analysed Creutz’s and Gyllenborg’s works separately, they are here seen as a mutual venture in the context of a shifting, gendered public space, however within a strongly classical framework, which allowed the authors to play at several intertextual levels to appeal to the sensitivities of different readers.
Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined
1700-tal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2021
The Royal Academy of Sciences was an important organization in eighteenth-century Sweden. It brou... more The Royal Academy of Sciences was an important organization in eighteenth-century Sweden. It brought together scientists and scholars contributing to a wide spectrum of areas, encompassing nature as well as society. But it also maintained close ties to the elite and the political establishment. The academy formed part of the institutional landscape of power and functioned as a consultive body and an arena for the upper echelons of the Swedish realm. The monograph sheds light on the political and economic outlook of the Royal Academy of Sciences during the period 1739–1792 against the background of its intimate connections to the ruling stratum. Not least the Hat Party, which dominated the Swedish political scene during the Age of Liberty, and the autocratic King Gustav III. The study shows that the members of the academy overall gravitated towards traditional viewpoints and that their conceptualizations of society were substantially affected by their interactions with the power hold...
Scandinavian Journal of History, 2018
Histoire, économie & société, 2010
Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, Philippe Bourdin and Charlotta Wolff (eds), Moving scenes: the circulation of music and theatre in Europe, 1700-1815, Oxford, Oxford University studies on Enlightenment, February 2018., 2018
Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, Philippe Bourdin and Charlotta Wolff (eds), Moving scenes: the circulat... more Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, Philippe Bourdin and Charlotta Wolff (eds), Moving scenes: the circulation of music and theatre in Europe, 1700-1815, Oxford, Oxford University studies on Enlightenment, February 2018.