David Cottington
is Professor of Art History at Kingston University London. His field of specialist interest is the art of the western avant-gardes of the late nineteenth and
Narve Fulsås
is Professor of Modern history at the University of Tromsø—The Arctic University of Norway. He has published on Norwegian national history, historiography, and cultural history and he has introduced and annotated Ibsen’s letters for the new critical edition Henrik Ibsens skrifter (2005–2010). He is co-author, with Tore Rem, of Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama (Cambridge UP, 2018).
Tommaso Giordani
PhD, is a historian of political thought with a background in philosophy. He teaches history at Gonzaga University in Florence. His research interests focus on French political thought—especially the work of Georges Sorel—and ideologies of welfare state during the belle époque. His most recent publication (forthcoming in 2018) is “On Bergson and Sorel: the impact of the courses at the Collège on the Reflections on Violence.”
Marja Jalava
acts as Professor in Cultural History at the University of Turku. Her research interests lie in intellectual history, history of historiography, and the modern history of the Nordic countries. Among her recent publications are the co-authored (with Bo Stråth) article “Scandinavia / Norden” in European Regions and Boundaries, eds. Diana Mishkova and Balázs Trencsényi (Berghahn, 2017) and the co-edited (with Pertti Haapala and Simon Larsson) anthology Making Nordic Historiography. Connections, Tensions & Methodology, 1850–1970 (Berghahn, 2017).
Zsófia Lórándis PhD.
Her main research interests include the intellectual history of feminism in post-WWII state-socialist Eastern Europe. Her current project focuses on the presence and absence of feminist ideas in the region between 1945 and 1989. Her book about Yugoslav feminism is going to be published in the Palgrave series “Genders and Sexualities in History” in 2018. Her recent publications include “Socialist-Era New Yugoslav Feminism Between ‘Mainstreaming’ and ‘Disengagement’: The Possibilities for Resistance, Critical Opposition and Dissent,” Hungarian Historical Review 4 (2016) and “‘A Politically Non-Dangerous Revolution Is Not a Revolution’: Critical Readings of the Concept of Sexual Revolution by Yugoslav Feminists in the 1970s,” European Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire 1 (2015). She also worked for eight years as a SOS helpline volunteer of NANE, the Hungarian feminist organisation focusing on domestic violence and as a trainer in the field of gender based and domestic violence.
Łukasz Mikołajewski
works as Junior Professor at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw. He specializes in intellectual history and political philosophy. In 2018 his monograph based on his PhD thesis defended at the European University Institute, Florence, and entitled Disenchanted Europeans. Polish Émigré Writers from Kultura and Postwar Reformulations of the West is going to appear in the Peter Lang’s series Exile Studies. His two current research projects focus on political assassinations in interwar Europe and the relation between the faculty of judgment and travel writing.
Diana MishkovaPhD,
has been the Academic Director, since 2000, of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia. She has published extensively on comparative Balkan history, intellectual history, and historiography. Her recent publications include European Regions and Boundaries. A Conceptual History, co-edited with Balázs Trencsényi (Berghahn Books, 2017), and Entangled Histories of the Balkans. Vol. 4: Concepts, Approaches, and (Self-) Representations, co-edited with Roumen Daskalov et al. (Brill, 2017).
Stefan Nygård
is Senior Researcher at the University of Helsinki. His scholarly interests include the modern history of intellectuals, culture, and society in Finland, Scandinavia, and Europe. He is currently involved in research projects on The Debt: Historicising Europe’s relations with the “South” (HERA), Minority, Nation
Emilia Palonen
works as Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Helsinki. Having researched Hungarian politics since 1999, she wrote her PhD in Ideology and Discourse Analysis at Essex on Hungarian political polarization. She has engaged on politics, culture, identities, and space in Budapest and Europe as well as researching populism in Finland and Hungary. Before returning to her native Finland, Palonen held research scholarships in several countries. In 2012–2016 she was a member of the Asymmetries of European Intellectual Space project at the University of Helsinki contributing to several academic publications. Transnational politics of the academia and academic communities is her pet topic, particularly when representing scientists at national collaborative networks such as the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies and Finnish Association for Scholarly Publishing.
Manolis Patiniotis
is an associate professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He teaches courses on the history of Scientific Revolution, the history of the sciences during the Enlightenment, and the historiography of science and technology. His recent work includes the monograph Elements of Natural Philosophy: The Greek scientific thought in the 17th and the 18th centuries (Gutenberg, 2013) and the article “Between the local and the global: History of science in the European periphery meets post-colonial studies” (Centaurus 55: 2013). He has also co-authored with Pedro Raposo the article “Beyond fixed geographies: moving localities and the making of knowledge” (Technology and Culture 57: 2016). He is a founding member of the international research group STEP (Science and Technology in the European Periphery).
Johanna Rainio-NiemiDr.Pol.Sc.,
works as Senior Lecturer of contemporary history at the University of Turku. She gained her doctorate from the University of Helsinki and holds the title of docent (adjunct professor) there since 2014. She has held academic appointments also at the University of Tampere, and been a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford and Vienna. Her research interests include the history of social sciences and the welfare state, consensus democracy, neutrality, and the Cold War. She is the author of The Ideological Cold War. The Politics of Neutrality in Austria and Finland (Routledge, 2014).
Tore Rem
is Professor of British literature in the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages at the University of Oslo. He has published extensively on British and Scandinavian 19th and 20th-century literature and on the history of the book. Among his most recent publications are Knut Hamsun. Reisen til Hitler [The Journey to Hitler] (2014) and, with Narve Fulsås, Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama (Cambridge UP, 2018). He is also general editor of the new Penguin Classics edition of Ibsen’s prose dramas.
José María Rosales
is Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Málaga. His recent works include the co-edited (with Kari Palonen) volume Parliamentarism and Democratic Theory (Budrich, 2015). He also acts as the Chair of the COST Action 16211 Reappraising Intellectual Debates on Civic Rights and Democracy in Europe (RECAST).
Johan Strang
is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Nordic Studies, University of Helsinki and affiliated also to the UIO: Nordic programme at the University of Oslo. His research interests orbit around the general theme of 20th century Scandinavian intellectual and political history. His publications include studies on the history of Nordic intellectuals, analytic philosophy, Scandinavian Legal Realism, the Nordic welfare state, democracy and Nordic cooperation.