Prof. Dr. Giovanni Orsina is Professor of History at Luiss-Guido Carli University, Italy.

His research interests include the relationship between ideologies, institutions and political struggle, with a particular focus on liberalism.

At Luiss-Guido Carli University Giovanni Orsina is deputy director of the School of Government and director of the Master in European Studies. He is also research fellow of IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, where he is the coordinator of the PhD in Political History.

His latest publications include ‘Party democracy and its enemies: Italy, 1945–1992′ Journal of Modern European History 17:2 (2019) 220–233, with T.B. Müller and J. Nevers; ‘Genealogy of a Populist Uprising. Italy, 1979-2019′ The International Spectator 54:2 (2019) 50–66.

Prof. Dr. Irène Herrmann is Professor in Transnational History of Switzerland at the Université de Genève, Switzerland.

Her research interests include humanitarianism, conceptual history, conflict management and the political uses of the past in Switzerland and in Post-soviet Russia. She was co-founder of the research network European Conceptual History and has been a board member of the Concepta-International Research School in Conceptual History and Political Thought.

Her latest publications include L’humanitaire en questions. Réflexions autour de l’histoire de la Croix-Rouge (Paris: Editions du Cerf 2018) and 12 septembre 1814. La Restauration. La Confédération réinventée (Lausanne, Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes 2016).

Prof. Dr. Henk te Velde is Professor of Dutch History at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

He has a wide range of research interests including the history of political eloquence and debate; political culture and legitimacy; and national identity.

Recent publications include ‘Honour and reason: competing ideals of debating in nineteenth-century Europe, Parliaments, Estates and Representation 44:1 (2024) 21-33 and Civic continuities in an age of revolutionary change: Europe and the Americas, c.1750-1850. Palgrave Studies in Political History (Cham: Palgrave MacMillan 2023) edited with Judith Pollmann.

He is co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Political History.

Dr. Hagen Schulz-Forberg is associate professor at Aarhus University, Denmark.

His research interests focus on transnational history, global history, intellectual history, European history, European integration, travel and tourism, historiography, and cultural history.

Recent publications include ‘Constitutionalism as practice’ European Journal of Legal Studies 15:2 (2024) 109-126; ‘The inequalities of progress: Jean-Baptiste Say’s theory of capitalism and the entrepreneur’, in: E. Nokkala and J. Gerlings (ed.), The Process of Enlightenment: Essays by and inspired by Hans Erich Bödeker (Liverpool University Press 2024).

Hagen Schulz-Forberg is co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Political History.