Charlotta Wolff
Professor of Finnish history
Finnish History charlotta.wolff@utu.fi +358 29 450 4008 +358 50 595 8127 Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku HUOM.: Epidemian takia ei vastaanottoa. Puhelinneuvontaa opiskelijoille 25.3.-31.5.2020 keskiviikkoisin klo 10.00-12.00. ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7989-8308 Online research seminar for methods in cultural and intellectual history |
Intellectual history; cultural history; Finnish history; early modern Europe; France; Scandinavia; Finland; Enlightenment; cosmopolitanism; eighteenth century; nineteenth century; elites; social networks; cultural diplomacy; music history; queer.
My research has focused on the intellectual relationships between Scandinavia, Finland and the rest of Europe, particularly France, in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. My research crosses traditional borders between disciplines and languages and between local and global. As a cultural and intellectual historian, I am interested in identities, self-representations and social practices, circulations and transfers, conceptual history, and poetry and music as sources for historical research.
My current and recent research topics include the queer history of friendship and sexuality in the eighteenth century, the history of radical philosophy, intellectual networks and cultural cosmopolitanism, the practical and medical Enlightenment, historical biography, and opera.
My new research project Opera in the periphery? Åbo and Paris as musical capitals, 1790–1840 (The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland, 2024–2027) studies Turku (historically Åbo) and Paris as cities of music and theatre through the example of opéra-comique. The project studies how musical and theatrical life contributed to the birth of a bourgeois public sphere and new civic ideals, and it analyses the cultural interactions between a European metropolis and a regional centre from the viewpoint of entangled history and the circulation of ideas. The project employs four researchers from the University of Turku and the Åbo Akademi University. It is a sequel to the earlier project Comic opera and society in France and Northern Europe, ca 1760–1790 (Academy of Finland/University of Helsinki, 2013–2018), where I examined the role of French opéra-comique in the development of eighteenth-century public opinion and political identities in France and Scandinavia mainly from the perspective of Copenhagen and Stockholm.
Among my previous project, the Agents of Enlightenment. Changing the minds in eighteenth-century Northern Europe (Academy of Finland, 2017–2021) examined the role of local knowledge agents for the spread of new, evidence-based knowledge and radical philosophy in Finland and the Baltic area between 1740 and 1810.
Together with Johanna Ilmakunnas at Åbo Akademi University, I have also directed the project Tie meren yli - Vägen över havet (Municipality of Turku and Svenska Kulturfonden, 2019–2021), where we examined cultural, economic and human interaction between Turku and Uppsala from 1640 to 1828.
- Duty versus Pleasure: Philosophical Libertinage Amongst Swedish Civil Servants and Diplomats in the Eighteenth Century (2023) Konkurrenzen in der frühen Neuzeit. Aufeinandertreffen - Übereinstimmung - Rivalität Wolff Charlotta
(Unrefereed conference proceedings (B3)) - Gustav Philip Creutz skildringar av 1760-talets Spanien (2023)
- Konferenser / Kungl. Vitterhets historie och antikvitets akademien
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Introduction (2023) Konkurrenzen in der frühen Neuzeit. Aufeinandertreffen - Übereinstimmung - Rivalität Holm Sophie, Wolff Charlotta
(Unrefereed conference proceedings (B3)) - L'inoculation dans les périodiques suédois au dix-huitième siècle (2023)
- Diciottesimo secolo
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Musiken i adelns vardag och fest i 1700-talets Sverige - Musiikki aatelin arjessa ja juhlassa 1700-luvun Ruotsissa (2023)
- Ritarihuoneemme
(Popularised article or blog post (E1)) - Vuoksenlaakson visionääri Eugène Wolff (1851-1937) (2023) Tienraivaajia ja jälleenrakentajia. Suomalaista yrityshistoriaa itsenäistymisestä jälleenrakentamiseen Wolff Charlotta
(Book chapter (B2)) - Conceptions of Cosmopolitanism in the Intellectual Culture of the Enlightenment (2022) Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined. A European History of Concepts Beyond Nation States Wolff Charlotta
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Digital källkritik och upplysta nätverk: Det filosofiska Europa i greve Gustav Philip Creutz umgängeskrets, 1774-1783 (2022)
- Sphinx
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Johan Fredrik Aminoff. Gustavian i två riken (2022) Wolff Charlotta
(Popularised or unrefereed scientific book (E2)) - Johan Fredrik Aminoff. Kustaviaani kahdessa valtakunnassa (2022) Wolff Charlotta
(Other (O2)) - Vastuullinen historiantutkimus (2022)
- Tieteessä tapahtuu
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Viska om mitt qval. Erotisk ambivalens hos Gustav Philip Creutz och Gustaf Fredrik Gyllenborg (2022)
- Sjuttonhundratal
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Art and self-image around 1900: The Sinebrychoff collection in context (2021) Koti Bulevardilla. Keräiljät Paul ja Fanny Sinebrychoff - Ett hem på Bulevarden. Konstsamlarna Paul och Fanny Sinebrychoff - A Bulevardi Home. Art Collectors Paul and Fanny Sinebrychoff Wolff Charlotta
(Book chapter (B2)) - Book Review: Louis Delpech, Ouvertures à la française. Migrations musicales dans l’espace germanique, 1660-1730 (French openings. Musical migrations in Germanic space, 1660-1730). ISBN 978-2-503-58858-2. 2020. (2021)
- Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Book review: Mathias Persson: Det villrådiga samhället. Kungliga Vetenskapsakademiens politiska och ekonomiska ideologi, 1739–1792. ISBN 978-91-88909-44-2. (2021)
- Scandinavian Economic History Review
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Från flödande till autonoma kroppar: medicinhistorien kritiskt granskad (2021)
- Historisk Tidskrift För Finland
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Franska vetenskapsmän i 1700-talets Lappland (2021)
- Auraica: Scripta A Societate Porthan Edita
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Ihmisoikeuksien puolustaja Suomen asialla: Ludovic Trarieux (2021)
- Lastuja Suomen historiasta: Turun yliopiston Suomen historian oppiaineen blogi
(Popularised article or blog post (E1)) - Kirurgerna och förnyelsen av läkarvetenskapen i Finland 1751-1850 (2021)
- Historisk Tidskrift För Finland
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Konst och självbild vid sekelskiftet 1900: den sinebrychoffska samlingen kontextualiserad (2021) Koti Bulevardilla. Keräiljät Paul ja Fanny Sinebrychoff - Ett hem på Bulevarden. Konstsamlarna Paul och Fanny Sinebrychoff - A Bulevardi Home. Art Collectors Paul and Fanny Sinebrychoff Wolff Charlotta
(Book chapter (B2))