Classes & Conferences

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN: 2021– (see coursicle.com)

  • HIST 2760 The Historian and the Law (Legal Thought and Legal History from the Middle Ages to the Present)
  • HIST 3000W History Workshop: Law, Property and the State
  • EUS 2214 Introduction into European Intellectual History Renaissance to Modernity (Montaigne to Beauvoir)
  • EUS 2220, 5220 Religion and Politics in Modern Europe (St Augustine to Christian Democracy)
  • EUS 2203 The Idea of Europe (Renaissance to the Present)
  • EUS 2204 European Cultural History
  • PSCI 3851 Supervision of Independent Research, Honors Thesis

Friedrich Schiller University, Jena (Selection): 2009-2020

  • Conservative Thought (graduate seminar)
  • Natural and Human Rights: A Genealogy from the Enlightenment to the Present (graduate seminar)
  • China and the European Enlightenment (undergraduate seminar)
  • Rousseau in Context (graduate seminar)
  • Hobbes (graduate seminar)
  • The European Enlightenment (lecture)
  • Europe in the Confessional Age (lecture)
  • Freedom: A History of the Concept (graduate seminar)
  • The Scottish Enlightenment (graduate seminar with Student Excursion to Edinburgh)
  • Methods in the History of Ideas (undergraduate and graduate seminar)
  • The History of Prussia (undergraduate seminar)
  • Introduction into Early Modern History (undergraduate seminar)

University of Chicago, IL (USA): 2017-18

Sichuan University, Chengdu (China): 2016

  • The Enlightenment Science of Society

Conferences & Lecture series

  • International Conference: „The Actuality of the Enlightenment: Contextualist Readings of J. G. Herder in the 21st Century“, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2024
  • Co-Convenor Webinar European Studies, with Ari Joskowicz, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2021
  • International Conference: „Human rights without religion?“, with Tilman Reitz, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, 2018
  • Workshop series of the Research Center Laboratory of Enlightenment: “Wozu Ideengeschichte?”, with Tilman Reitz, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, 2015
  • Lecture series: „Mein System ist das erste System der Freiheit“: Fichte and the invention of German idealism, with Andreas Schmidt, Klaus Vieweg, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, 2014
  • Lecture series: „The Problem of Jean-Jacques. Lines of the Rousseau reception“, with Prof. Tilman Reitz, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, 2012-13
  • International Conference: „Was ist Wissensgeschichte?“, with Martin Mulsow, Tilman Reitz, Steffen Siegel, Universität Erfurt-Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Germany 2011
  • International Conference: „Social versus Unsocial Sociability in Enlightenment“, Political Thought, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, 2010
  • Lecture series: „Kein Licht? Die dunkle Seite der Aufklärung“, with Nina Birkner, Karsten Kenklies, Tilman Reitz und Steffen Siegel, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, 2009-10