Curriculum vitæ Frank Ejby Poulsen

External Lecturer Email: [email protected] University of Copenhagen Url: https://frankejbypoulsen.wordpress.com Department of Political Science Academia: https://ku-dk.academia.edu/FrankEjbyPoulsen Øster Farimagsgade 5 Researchgate: Frank Ejby Poulsen DK-1353 København K OrcID: 0000-0003-0087-4800

Education

2018 Ph.D. in History and Civilisation, European University Institute, Florence Thesis title: A Cosmopolitan Republican in the French Revolution: The Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots. DOI: 10.2870/772327 Supervisor: Martin van Gelderen. Second reader: Ann Thomson External examiners: Reidar Maliks, Richard Whatmore 2008 M.Sc. in Political Science, University of Copenhagen 1999 LL.B., LL.M. (DEUG, licence, maîtrise) in Law, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Academic Employment History

2018 External lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, June–present 2017–18 Wimmer Research Fellow, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, September–March 2017 Wiedemann Research Fellow, IZEA, MLU Halle-Wittenberg, 16 January–15 April 2017 2013 Sick leave, 2 years 2012 Bereavement leave, 1 year 2009–18 PhD Researcher, EUI, Florence

Publications

Articles 2018 ‘The Education of Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794) at the Berlin Académie militaire des nobles (1770–1773)’. History of European Ideas 44, 5: 559–574. Published online 12 June 2018, DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2018.1477615. 2018 ‘Self-Fashioning and Rhetoric in the French Revolution: Anacharsis Cloots, Orator of the Human Race’. Global Intellectual History. Published online 30 May 2018, DOI: 10.1080/23801883.2018.1479976.

Book Chapter 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.

1 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 5 October 2015, 241–242, DOI: 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), Published online 9 June 2015, 515–517, DOI: 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), Published online 19 September 2014, 784–785, DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2014.952116.

Grants & Fellowships

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

Courses 2018 ‘Republicanism’, University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science, Autumn 2018, http://kurser.ku.dk/course/astk18127u/2018-2019

Certificates 2018 Certificate, Pedagogy, University of Copenhagen, 16–17 August 2014 Certificate, University Teaching 101, Johns Hopkins University https://www.coursera.org/records/LZj3aqrKwrkaWymh 2012 Certificate, Teaching Skills, European University Institute

Conference Activity/Participation

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, 26–27 August. 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, 6–7 December. 2011

2 ‘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, 24–26 November. 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, 9–10 May.

Departmental Talks

2018 ‘Identifying the Loose Canon in Western Philosophy: The Case With the Self-Fashioning of Anacharsis Cloots, Orator of the Human Race’.’ Presentation at the research group ‘Thinking the European Republic of Letters’, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 21 February. 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. 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, 25 October. 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, 7 June. 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, 28–30 April. 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, 27–28 September.

Departmental/University Service

2009–10 Researchers representative

Summer Schools

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

Languages

French, native, reading, speaking, writing, comprehension English, fluent (C2), reading, speaking, writing, comprehension Danish, fluent (C2), reading, speaking, writing, comprehension German, excellent (C1), reading, speaking, writing, comprehension

3 Italian, excellent CELI 4 (C1), reading, speaking, writing, comprehension Spanish, excellent (C1), reading, passive comprehension

Professional Memberships/Affiliations

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 Reidar Maliks University of Oslo Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas Blindernveien 31 Georg Morgenstiernes hus 0313 Oslo Norway [email protected] +47 228 580 02 Richard Whatmore School of History University of St Andrews St Katharine’s Lodge The Scores St Andrews Fife KY16 9BA Scotland [email protected] +44 (0)13 344 628 84

Last updated: 18th August 2018

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