knud haakonssen curriculum vitae

KNUDHAAKONSSEN CURRICULUMVITAE QUALIFICATIONS,HONOURSANDAPPOINTMENTS Dr. Phil., University of Copenhagen, 1996
Ph. D., University of Edinburgh, 1978
Mag. Art., University of Copenhagen, 1972
Cand. Art., University of Copenhagen, 1968
Fellow, British Academy
Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh
Foreign Member, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences & Letters
Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
Fellow, Royal Historical Society
Lim Chong Yah Professor, National University of Singapore, 2012
Torgny Segerstedt Professor, University of Uppsala, 2002
Inaugural Centenary Fellow, Scots Philosophical Club 2001
Gold medal of the University of Aarhus 1970
Current affiliations ● Long-term Fellow, Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche
Studien, Universität Erfurt ● Professor of Intellectual History, University of St. Andrews ● Professor
Emeritus of Intellectual History, University of Sussex ● Honorary Professor of History, University
College London ● Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Boston University
Former affiliations ● Professor of Intellectual History and Director of the Sussex Centre for Intellectual
History, University of Sussex● Non-resident Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study ●
Professor of Philosophy and Associate Faculty in Political Science, Boston University ● Senior Fellow at
the Institute for Advanced Studies, Australian National University ● Lecturer in the School of Political
Science, Victoria University of Wellington ● Senior Tutor in the Department of Philosophy, Monash
University, Melbourne ● Tutor in the Institute for Philosophy, University of Copenhagen
Visiting positions in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Sweden, UK, USA.
Invited lectures and seminars in these countries as well as Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France,
Greece, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland
PROFESSIONALSERVICE(selection)
•Member, Selection Committee for the Max-Weber-Preis für Nachwuchsforschung, 2014
•Member, Selection Committee of EURIAS [European Institutes of Advanced Studies], 2014
•Member, Selma V. Forkosch Prize Committee, 2011-2013
•Peer review panel, European Science Foundation
•Peer review panel, Australian Research Council
•Reviewer for grants bodies in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the US
•University appointed professorial promotions-, tenure- and appointment-reviewer (in philosophy,
political science, history, economics, law, and humanities) for universities in Australia, Canada,
Denmark, Germany, Israel, Norway, Singapore, the UK, and the US
•Reader for 25 international journals (classics, history, intellectual history, jurisprudence, philosophy,
political economy, political science, religious studies, sociology)
•Reader and adviser for academic presses, incl. CUP, OUP, Princeton UP, Yale UP, Edinburgh UP,
Blackwell’s, Penn State UP, Manchester UP, Garland, Open Court, Liberty Press, Penguin,
Thoemmes, Acumen, Pickering & Chatto
•Currently member of the editorial/advisory boards of:
Journal of the History of Ideas
Intellectual History Review
Eighteenth-Century Thought
Enlightenment and Dissent
Grotiana
Hume Studies
History of European Ideas
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy
Journal of Scottish Philosophy
The Adam Smith Review
Studia Erasmiana Wratislaviensia
Intellectual History (Taiwan)
Storia del pensiero politico / Italian
Journal of History of Political Thought
GRADUATEWORK Doctoral supervision in philosophy, political science and history.
External examiner of PhDs (in history, jurisprudence, philosophy, and political science) at 25
universities in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, the UK,
and the US.
PhD workshops in methodology of intellectual history & history of philosophy in Denmark, Germany
and Switzerland.
Co-director, first London-Sussex international summer school for graduate students in intellectual
history.
Formerly Director of Graduate Studies in Philosophy, Boston University
SCHOLARLY NETWORKS(RECENT)
Co-Director, Natural Law 1625-1850: A European Project: http://www.natural-law.uni-halle.de, 2010Holbergs ideologier, University of Bergen, 2012-2015.
Eighteenth-Century Translators: A Digital Dictionary of Biography, Université Paris 8, Diderot, 2011The Dissenting Academies Project (‘A History of Dissenting Academies in the British Isles 1660-1860’),
Queen Mary, London, and Sussex Centre for Intellectual History, funded by The Leverhulme Trust,
2008-2011
Calvinism and Enlightenment in the Long Eighteenth Century: Scotland and Geneva, with Richard
Whatmore, funded by British Academy 2009-2010
SELECTEDRECENTPRESENTATIONS ‘Toleration and Subscription: An Enlightenment Debate’, Institute for Philosophy and Religion, Boston
University, 8 December 2010; & Interdisciplinäres Zentrum für die Erforschung der Europäischen
Aufklärung, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, 4 July 2011
‘Pufendorf og Holberg – men hvilken Pufendorf?’, workshop on Ludvig Holberg’s Natur- og
Folkeretten (1716), University of Bergen, 10-11 February 2011
‘Natural Law and Natural Rights: Historical Myths and Realities’, lecture, Departamento de Filosofia,
Nova Universidade de Lisboa, 26 April 2011
‘Samuel Pufendorf’s Concept of the Person under Natural Law’, lecture, Facultad de Derecho,
Universidad San Pablo CEU, Madrid, 28 April 2011, & Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies,
13 May 2011
‘Natural Law and Natural Rights: Historical Myths and Realities’, seminar, Swedish Collegium for
Advanced Study, Uppsala, 11 May 2011
‘Meditations on what a History of Early-Modern Natural Law might be a History of’, Interdisciplinäres
Zentrum für die Erforschung der Europäischen Aufklärung, Martin-Luther-Universität,
Halle-Wittenberg, 28 June 2011; & Max-Weber-Kolleg, Universität Erfurt, 4 November 2011
‘The Enlightenment and the Ubiquitous Natural Law’, plenary session address, conference of the
International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Graz, 25-29 July 2011
‘Natural law as a European academic institution: The case of Scotland in the 18th century’, Department
of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, 8 November 2011
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'Human nature and social construction in early-modern natural law', Swedish Collegium for Advanced
Study, 10 November 2011; & Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore, 19
April 2012
‘Adam Smith: Economics as Moral Philosophy’, Lim Chong Yah Public Lecture, National University of
Singapore, 2 March 2012
‘Antipodean revisionism’, symposium in honour of Ian Hunter, University of Queensland, Brisbane,
30-31 March 2012
‘Natural Law in Early-Modern Political Thought’, seminar Department of Political Science, National
University of Singapore, 5 April 2012
‘Clerical subscription, toleration and the utility of rights’, workshop, Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und
sozialwissenschaftliche Studien, Erfurt, 6 February 2013
‘Morality without dignity. Samuel Pufendorf’s concept of personhood’, workshop, Max-Weber-Kolleg
für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien, Erfurt, 22 January 2014
Workshop on Ludvig Holberg, Copenhagen, 1-2 September, 2014
‘Morality without dignity: Samuel Pufendorf’s Concept of Personhood’, paper to conference on
‘Dignity, Respect, and Esteem in 17th- and 18th-Century Moral Philosophy before Kant’, Université
de Lausanne, 5 – 6 September 2014
‘Political economy and utopia. The paternalistic Enlightenment in Scotland’, Institute of Intellectual
History, University of St. Andrews, 7 October 2014
‘Church history and natural law: A Pufendorfian enlightenment’, conference on ‘Enlightenment beyond
radicalism: Reasserting the role of faith in the European Enlightenment’, University of Haifa, 4-6
January 2015
‘Thomas Reid’s Lectures on Politics and their Place in his Oeuvre' , workshop ‘Thomas Reid on action,
society, and the epistemology of social sciences’, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 21 March
2015
‘Human rights and early modern theories of natural right and of the rights of man’, symposium of the
Human Rights Committee of the three Royal Swedish academies, Stockholm, 25-26 May, 2015
‘The Law of Nations in the Natural Law Curriculum’, conference on The Law of Nations and Natural
Law 1625-1850, Lausanne 5-6 November 2015
‘Eclecticism as Method, Style and Attitude: The Case of Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754)’,
Forschungszentrum Gotha, 7 January 2016