Curriculum vitæ Frank Ejby Poulsen

PhD-researcher Email: [email protected] European University Institute Url: https://me.eui.eu/frank-ejby-poulsen/ History and Civilization Academia: https://eui.academia.edu/FrankEjbyPoulsen Via Bolognese 156 50139 Firenze (FI) Italy

Education

– Ph.D. in History, European University Institute, Florence (Submitted 31 October 2017) Dissertation title: A Cosmopolitan Republican in the French Revolution: The Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots Supervisor: Martin van Gelderen. Second reader: Ann Thomson 2008 M.Sc. in Political Science, University of Copenhagen 1999 LL.B. (maîtrise) in Law, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Publications

Book Chapters 2014 “Anacharsis Cloots and the Birth of Modern Cosmopolitanism.” In Critique of Cosmopolitan Reason: Timing and Spacing the Concept of World Citizenship, edited by Kristian Petrov and Rebecca Letteval, 87-117. Series “New Visions of the Cosmopolitan,” Oxford, New York,NY: Peter Lang, 2014.

Book Reviews 2016 Rev. of Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris, by Nina Kushner, European Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire 23(1–2). Published online October 5, 2015, 241–242, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2015.1083269. 2015 Rev. of France and the Age of Revolution: Regimes Old and New from Louis XVI to Napoleon Bonaparte, by William Doyle, European Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire 22(3), June 9, 515–517, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2015.1035015. 2014 Rev. of Why Concepts Matter? Translating Social and Political Thought, by Martin J. Burke and Melvin Richter (Eds.), European Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire 21(5), September 19, 784–785, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2014.952116.

Grants & Fellowships

2017 Professor Ludvig Wimmer and wife’s grant 2017 Wiedemann Research Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, 16 January–15 April

1 2014–17 Affiliated researcher, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen 2012 Visiting scholar, UC Berkeley, exchange programme grant by EUI, January–June 2011 Visiting scholar, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, May–December 2010–12 EUI mission funds 2009–14 Ph.D. grant, Danish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education

Teaching

2014 Certificate, University Teaching 101, Johns Hopkins University https://www.coursera.org/records/LZj3aqrKwrkaWymh 2012 Certificate, Teaching Skills, European University Institute

Conference Activity/Participation

2017 “Anacharsis Cloots in Berlin: A Cosmopolitan Republican Education at the Académie des Nobles?” Presentation at the Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für die Erforschung der Europäischen Aufklärung (IZEA), Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany, 28 March. 2016 “From Enlightened Despotism to Universal Republic: The Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots in the Context of the Dutch Republic, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the French Republic.” Presentation (in Danish) at the Danish Meeting of Historians, University of South Denmark, Odense, Denmark, August 26–27. 2012 “Cosmopolitan Republicanism as a Discussion on the Borders of Liberty? The Case of Anacharsis Cloots.” Presentation at the Research Training Seminar The Concepts of Republic: Local, Regional and International, European University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 6–7. 2011 “Anacharsis Cloots and the Birth of Modern Cosmopolitanism.” Presentation at the International Conference Cosmopolitanism in a Wider Context: Conceptualizing Past and Present, Södertörn University/The Nobel Museum, Stockholm, Sweden, November 24–26. 2011 “Anacharsis Cloots’s Concept of the Sovereignty of Humankind in the Context of Natural Law: the Birth of Modern Cosmopolitanism?” Presentation at the Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought Human Nature and Diversity in the History of Political Thought, University of London, May 9–10.

Departmental Talks

2013 “The making of the French intellectual: the man of letters as an appealing careerin eighteenth-century France.” Presentation at the Workshop in Intellectual History Controversial Intellectuals, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, October 25. 2013 “Debating Republicanism During the French Revolution: Does Size Matter?” Presentation at the Workshop in Intellectual History Intellectual Controversies: Writing the History of Debates and Argumentation, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, June 7. 2011 “Anacharsis Cloots, Orator of the Human Race: Natural Law as the Rational Foundation for a Universal Republic.” Presentation at the Graduate Conference on European History Transfers and Demarcations, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, April 28–30. 2010 “The Trouble with Sovereignty: Anacharsis Cloots between Cosmopolitanism and Federalism.” Presentation at the Workshop Debating Federalism in the Early Modern Atlantic World, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, September 27–28.

2 Departmental/University Service

2009–10 Researchers representative

Summer Schools

2012 University College London, London–Sussex Summer School in Intellectual History, September 3–6 2010 University of Helsinki, Introduction to Conceptual History, August 3–19 2010 Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, How to Write the History of Political Thought, July 26–30

Languages

French, native, reading, speaking, writing, comprehension German, excellent (C1), reading, speaking, writing, comprehension English, fluent (C2), reading, speaking, writing, comprehension Danish, fluent (C2), reading, speaking, writing, comprehension Italian, excellent CELI 4 (C1), reading, speaking, writing, comprehension Spanish, excellent (C1), reading, passive comprehension Dutch, good (B2), reading with dictionary only

Professional Memberships/Affiliations

International Society for Intellectual History Danish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

References

Martin van Gelderen Lichtenbergkolleg Historische Sternwarte der Universität Göttingen Geismar Landstraße 11 37083 Göttingen Germany [email protected] +49 (0)551 / 39–10621 Ann Thomson European University Institute Department of History and Civilization Via Bolognese 156 50139 Florence (FI) Italy [email protected] +39 055 4685 507 / 541

Last updated: December 9, 2017

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