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Archive for January, 2009

Research Proposal

Posted in Research projects, Research themes on 30 January 2009 | 3 Comments »

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Here is the research proposal I have elaborated for a 3 years PhD research. All comments and feedback are more than welcomed to refine the project.

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Peter Wessel – Polyfonías

Posted in Cosmopolitan authors, Cosmopolitan experiences on 29 January 2009 | 4 Comments »

I went to a concert/poetry reading at the Danish house in Paris, the institution in charge of promoting Danish (not only but mainly) culture in France. Peter Wessel, a Danish born poet who lived in France, Spain, California, and who knows where else, was performing with Mark Solborg, a Danish/Argentinian composer, guitarist and musician, and [...]

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Ottmar Ette (University of Potsdam) The Scientist as Weltbürger: Alexander von Humboldt and the Beginning of Cosmopolitics

Posted in Articles, Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopolite, Links to cosmopolitan references, nineteenth century, tagged , , , , , on 5 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Excellent article on Humboldt and cosmopolitanism, arguing that the ‘Weltbürger’ was a scientist and the scientist a ‘Weltbürger.’ This reminds me of my own research on the use of the term cosmopolitan and citizen of the world in eighteenth century France. Very often people would use it as a moniker to claim a position of [...]

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