Turvallista matkaa Suomeen ("Good trip to Finland"), Dr. Cuttica: Junior Fellow is leaving the Max-Weber-Kolleg with a workshop on the history of ideas in England

Dr. Cesare Cuttica, a historian and philosopher who has studied and worked at various institutions in Europe and the USA, is leaving after a year in the COFUND program of the Max-Weber-Kolleg Erfurt, to study at the Helsinki University of Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, where he will continue his research on the history of ideas.

During the last year his main research focus laid on the anti-democratic movements of the early modern age "Fighting the Monstrous 'Many-Headed Multitude': Anti-Democracy in Early Modern England 1558-1642". On the 18^th and 19^th July together wirh Prof. Markku Peltonen (Helsinki) he organized a workshop on this topic at the Max-Weber-Kolleg. Under the title "Democracy and Anti-Democracy in Early Modern England 1603-1689", Cuttica had invited 14 international researchers to Erfurt to discuss the topic and engage in research-networking. Cuttica writes: The conference facilitated international cooperation between the University of Erfurt and such institutions   as   the   University of Helsinki;   it   created  the  opportunity  for   Erfurt-based professors, researchers, and students to develop networks of professional collaboration with colleagues working in the  same fields as  well  as to establish  new collaborative projects between faculty-members and postgraduate students at Erfurt and partners in the UK, the US, Finland, France and the United Arab Emirates.” The workshop was organized in collaboration with the European Society for the History of Political Thought (https://europoliticalthought.wordpress.com/), a conference paper for a British publicher is in Progerss with the provisional title The Troubled Journey of Democracy in Early Modern England.

Cesare Cuttica's 12-month research stay at the Max Weber College was enabled by a Fellowship within the framework of the MWF COFUND Fellowship Program, financed by the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Actions of the European Framework Program for Research and Innovation, and co-financed by Horizon. Through the program, which runs until 2020, up to ten international fellows come to Erfurt every year and make an important contribution to the internationalization of research at the Erfurt Science Center.