Vincent Roy-Di Piazza
@roydipiazza.bsky.social
Historian of early modern science, religion, & political economy in northern Europe • Postdoc @DEPE-ERC.bsky.social @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social (JYU🇫🇮) • PhD Oxford (2022) • website: www.roydipiazza.com
Now wrapping the NHSC10 🇳🇴 conference, with final remarks from board chair Annette Lykknes and the general assembly meeting of the newly founded Norwegian association for the history of science / Norsk Vitenskapshistorisk Forening. See you in Oslo in 2027!
November 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Now wrapping the NHSC10 🇳🇴 conference, with final remarks from board chair Annette Lykknes and the general assembly meeting of the newly founded Norwegian association for the history of science / Norsk Vitenskapshistorisk Forening. See you in Oslo in 2027!
Last panel of the day, with Andreas Jüttemann on leprosy in the Baltic, Jenny Sure on yellow fever in early C19 Germany, Shan Jiang & Ulrike Spring on C. P. Thunberg & bloodletting, and Thomas Brandt on ship modelling knowledge in C20 Norway.
November 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Last panel of the day, with Andreas Jüttemann on leprosy in the Baltic, Jenny Sure on yellow fever in early C19 Germany, Shan Jiang & Ulrike Spring on C. P. Thunberg & bloodletting, and Thomas Brandt on ship modelling knowledge in C20 Norway.
Gave a remote talk at Swedenborg House, London (@swedenborghouse.bsky.social) this morning on ‘Swedenborg and slavery’, based on my article on the topic in the Intellectual History Review. Thanks very much to the organizers for their invitation and for accommodating me! Exciting line up and program
November 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Gave a remote talk at Swedenborg House, London (@swedenborghouse.bsky.social) this morning on ‘Swedenborg and slavery’, based on my article on the topic in the Intellectual History Review. Thanks very much to the organizers for their invitation and for accommodating me! Exciting line up and program
Second keynote of NCHS10 in Bergen 🇳🇴 by Staffan Bergwik (Stockholm) on historical time & scientific knowledge.
November 7, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Second keynote of NCHS10 in Bergen 🇳🇴 by Staffan Bergwik (Stockholm) on historical time & scientific knowledge.
It was a pleasure to present my paper on Abraham Bäck in the history of medicine panel at NCHS10! Interesting discussions. And kudos to my fellow panelist Camilla Ruud (Uni. of South Eastern Norway) for a fascinating talk — on a rather intriguing case study!
November 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It was a pleasure to present my paper on Abraham Bäck in the history of medicine panel at NCHS10! Interesting discussions. And kudos to my fellow panelist Camilla Ruud (Uni. of South Eastern Norway) for a fascinating talk — on a rather intriguing case study!
Second panel of the day, with Philip Roth (Aachen, @preprintculture.bsky.social) on preprints in 1960s physics, Hari Sidhar on natural history in ecology+evolutionary biology, and Marius Buning (UiOslo) on printing privileges & power in early modern Europe
November 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Second panel of the day, with Philip Roth (Aachen, @preprintculture.bsky.social) on preprints in 1960s physics, Hari Sidhar on natural history in ecology+evolutionary biology, and Marius Buning (UiOslo) on printing privileges & power in early modern Europe
First panel of NCHS10’s 2nd day, with Ageliki Lefkaditou and Jon Røyne Kyllingstad on historicizing IQ testing in Norway, and Harriet Palfreyman & Elizabeth Toon on the place of history of science in science communication.
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
First panel of NCHS10’s 2nd day, with Ageliki Lefkaditou and Jon Røyne Kyllingstad on historicizing IQ testing in Norway, and Harriet Palfreyman & Elizabeth Toon on the place of history of science in science communication.
First keynote by Anne Eriksen (UiOslo) at the beautiful Bergen University Museum, on knowledge for the public sphere there in 1825, preceded by a short tour in celebration of the Museum’s 200 years.
November 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM
First keynote by Anne Eriksen (UiOslo) at the beautiful Bergen University Museum, on knowledge for the public sphere there in 1825, preceded by a short tour in celebration of the Museum’s 200 years.
Afternoon session on the sciences and the Sami in 19th & 20th century, with Jykka Nyyssönen on the Skolt Sámi, Astri Andersen on scientists, Sámi culture & land use, and Svein Atle Skålevag on Roland Bonaparte & Sami anthropology in 1884
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Afternoon session on the sciences and the Sami in 19th & 20th century, with Jykka Nyyssönen on the Skolt Sámi, Astri Andersen on scientists, Sámi culture & land use, and Svein Atle Skålevag on Roland Bonaparte & Sami anthropology in 1884
Opening address from Annette Lykknes for the NCHS10🇳🇴 — 50 participants this year, incl. 29 from Norwegian institutions — First panel now chaired by Magnus Vollset, with Vera Schwach, Per Lundin & Ingemar Pettersson on research policy in post-war Norway & Sweden.
November 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Opening address from Annette Lykknes for the NCHS10🇳🇴 — 50 participants this year, incl. 29 from Norwegian institutions — First panel now chaired by Magnus Vollset, with Vera Schwach, Per Lundin & Ingemar Pettersson on research policy in post-war Norway & Sweden.
Now in misty Bergen for the 10th Norwegian history of science conference ! 🇳🇴
November 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Now in misty Bergen for the 10th Norwegian history of science conference ! 🇳🇴
Margaret R. Hunt (Uppsala), introduced by Pertti Ahonen, now delivering her keynote presentation « Truth, post Truth and history » at the 2025 Finnish history research conference in Jyväskylä
October 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Margaret R. Hunt (Uppsala), introduced by Pertti Ahonen, now delivering her keynote presentation « Truth, post Truth and history » at the 2025 Finnish history research conference in Jyväskylä
2nd day of the Finnish history research conference opening with a panel on ‘new histories of the idea & concept of democracy’ with Zachris Haaparinne on John Wilkes & the language of scale, Pasi Ihalainen on representative democracy in Northwest Europe, & Hugo Bonin on liberal democracy in FR vs UK
October 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
2nd day of the Finnish history research conference opening with a panel on ‘new histories of the idea & concept of democracy’ with Zachris Haaparinne on John Wilkes & the language of scale, Pasi Ihalainen on representative democracy in Northwest Europe, & Hugo Bonin on liberal democracy in FR vs UK
Attending the Finnish history research conference (300+ historians!). Enjoyed the panel ‘New early modern historiographies’ with Kaarlo Havu on Marc Fumaroli’s history of rhetoric, Tupu Ylä-Anttila on queenship & Johannes Huhtinen on the puritan roots of Atlanticism.
October 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Attending the Finnish history research conference (300+ historians!). Enjoyed the panel ‘New early modern historiographies’ with Kaarlo Havu on Marc Fumaroli’s history of rhetoric, Tupu Ylä-Anttila on queenship & Johannes Huhtinen on the puritan roots of Atlanticism.
New York, New York
October 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
New York, New York
Finally received my own copy of this classic banger — just in time for the weekend 📚
October 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Finally received my own copy of this classic banger — just in time for the weekend 📚
(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
September 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
(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
Celebrating midsommar in central Finland this year under the midnight sun, on the year’s longest day☀️ 🇫🇮
June 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Celebrating midsommar in central Finland this year under the midnight sun, on the year’s longest day☀️ 🇫🇮
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’
June 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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
June 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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)
June 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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)
June 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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)
June 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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’
June 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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)
June 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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)