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Geneva, the Swiss Confederation, and the North: Eighteenth-Century Exchanges
International Workshop organised by Jonas Gerlings, Brian Kjær Olesen, and Martin van Gelderen8 May 2024
More than a century ago in 1910 Louis Bobé noted that “Throughout the second half of the eighteenth century, there was a rich intellectual interaction between Copenhagen and Geneva.” While Bobé restricts his assertion to Copenhagen recent studies have unearthed wider connections between Geneva and the Nordic literary public (Denmark-Norway and Sweden-Finland). Not only did Nordic writers appropriate the ideas of the Republic of Geneva, Swiss writers also displayed an influential interest in the Nordic states. The aim of this workshop is to explore these connections further through the presentation of a series of papers.
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