Forschungsschwerpunkte
Intellectual history
Enlightenment history
History of the press
The Age of Revolutions
Atlantic history
French colonial history
Caribbean history
Slavery and race
CONFERENCES AND INVITED TALKS
04/2023 A French Catholic Undercurrent of Abolitionism Between Senegal And Haiti? Abbé Giudicelli’s Critique of the Slave Trade in the 1820s,
European Social Science History Conference, Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden
01/2023 Revolutionary Catholicism: Reflections on an Enslaved Religion Between Saint-Domingue and Haiti, ERC-Project Atlantic Exiles,
Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
12/2022 The 'Lord's vineyard' in Sugar Plantations: Missions in the French Caribbean in the 18th C., Experiencias de las misiones en América,
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid. Spain.
10/2022 Une religion révolutionnaire? Le catholicisme à Haïti entre époque coloniale, Révolution Haïtienne & premiere independence,
Institut Historique Allemand, Paris, France.
06/2022 Sulle tracce della Regina di Haiti a Pisa, Sponde italiche e mari lontani Italienzentrum, Universität Trier, Germany.
11/2021 Risorgimento zwischen Atlantik und Mittelmeer? Ideen- und Personentransfer im Zeitalter der Revolutionen, Italienzentrum,
Universität Trier, Germany.
09/2021 Pensare l’“impensabile”: la rivoluzione haitiana nel primo Ottocento italiano, Società italiana per lo studio della storia contemporanea, Cagliari, Italy.
09/2021 Thinking of Haiti in Early Nineteenth Century Italy, 12th Annual Conference of the Research Network on the History of the Idea of Europe,
Athens, Greece.
06/2021 Confessing Slaves in the 18th Century French Caribbean, Stigma, Discrimination, Birth: Racisms and their Dis/Connection with the
Christian Experience, Fondazione per le scienze religiose Giovani XXIII, Bologna, Italy.
05/2021 A Game of Robes: The Clerical Battle for Africans’ Soul during the Haitian Revolution, ERC-Project ConnecCaribbean,
Institut des Hautes Études de l'Amérique Latine, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, France.
05/2019 “Une île qui dévore ses habitants?” 18th Century Jesuit Reports from Saint-Domingue, Centre for Atlantic and Global Studies,
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany.
07/2018 Leonardo da Vinci: Historical Contexts and Legacy,New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque, NM, USA
06/2018 Das Volk aus dem Wald: der Mythos des germanischen Waldes zwischen Romantik und Nationalsozialismus,
University of New Mexico German Summer School, Taos, USA
06/2015 How did French Historiography Put England on the (Mental) Map of Europeans? Conference in Early Modern Intellectual History,
University of Newcastle, UK
11/2014 Rapin’s Histoire d’Angleterre: A Best-Seller in the Republic of Letters, Moveable Types: People, Ideas and Objects. Cultural Exchange in
Early Modern Europe, University of Kent, UK
05/2014 Publishing ‘A Book which Should Be in Every Englishman’s Hands in the 18th Century, Book History in Global Context: Print Culture in Global
and Transnational Context, University of Leicester, UK
