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• Writing for the Academy: The Rhetoric of Rousseau’s First Discourse, 1750
• Dr Sophie Smith
• Dr Sophie Nicholls
• Saman Tariq Malik
• Jan-Willem Prügel
• Professor David Leopold
• Professor Michael Broers
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• Dr Kirsten Macfarlane
• Scholarly Melancholy in the German Enlightenment, 1760-1800
• Professor Joanna Weinberg
• Professor Nicholas Cronk
• Dr Michael Drolet
• On Leibniz’s Description of Hobbes as ‘plusquam nominalis’, 1670–1677
• Professor Joanna Innes
• Professor Michael Bentley
• Professor Ian Maclean
• Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh
• The Futures of Intellectual History
• The Idea of ‘Climate’ in Intellectual History, 1688–1767
• Intellectual History and the History of Sexuality
• The Conditions of Intellectual Work
• Theories of Race and Empire
• Professor Blair Worden
• Professor Paulina Kewes
• The History of Pre-Modern Knowledge: Oxford and Beyond
• Dr William Ghosh
• Milton, Literary Studies, and Intellectual History
• Dr William Poole
• Professor Tim Rood
• Enlightenment Studies at Oxford: Intellectual History Across the Disciplines
• Do Ideas Matter? Intellectual History and the History of Public Policy
• Jacob Chatterjee
• Defining the History of Political Thought: An Early Modernist’s View
• The Cultural History of Ideas
• Open Frontiers: The Future of Intellectual History/The History of Ideas in 2021
• Intellectual History and the “Decline of Magic”
• Dr Mogens Lærke
• Intellectual History at the End of the World?
• Dr Deni Kasa
• Christopher Hill: A Historian of Ideas?
• ‘Whence came this law of nations?’ Emer de Vattel in the Confines of Brazil, 1835–1845
• The State and Intellectual History: The Hartlib Circle and the Forgotten Reform of English Education, 1649–53
• Saint-Simon’s Technocratic Internationalism, 1802–1825
• The Venture of the Islamicate: The History of a Key Concept in Islamic Intellectual History
• Gottfried Leibniz as a Projector in a World of Projectors in the 1670s
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• Alex Beeton
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• Professor Erica Charters
• Jason Chess
• Dr Nicholas Cole
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• Recovering Europe's Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700
• Michael Heimos
• Jacob Brandler
• John-Francis Martin
• Recovering Europe’s Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700
• Parliamentary Humanism: The History of Parliaments as The History of Ideas
• Parliaments as Meeting Places for Political Concepts
• Roman Osharov
• Dr Timothy Michael
• Zhixia Jin
• Hazim Azghari
• Interview: Faridah Zaman
• Representation without a Parliament: How Latin America’s Colonial Cities Thrived without Cortes
• The Estates General and the King of France: The Imperfect Union
• A Natural Match: Iberian Parliamentary Cultures and Republicans of Letters
• Power over the most Powerful: The Paradox of Parliamentarism
• Les États généraux et le roi de France : l’union imparfaite
• Rhetoric of Debate: A Parliamentary Innovation
• Informal Counsellors as Royal Agents in Early Modern Parliaments
• Re-imagining Democracy and the Parliamentary Cultures Project
• Isabel Oakes
• Sam Moyn (Yale): 1. Against the Enlightenment (Judith Shklar)
• Sam Moyn (Yale): 2. The Romantic Revolution (Isaiah Berlin)
• Sam Moyn (Yale): 3. The Terrors of Historical Progress (Karl Popper)
• Sam Moyn (Yale): 4. Jewish Christianity (Gertrude Himmelfarb)
• Sam Moyn (Yale): 5. White Freedom (Hannah Arendt)
• Sam Moyn (Yale): 6. The Garrisoned Self (Lionel Trilling)
• Late Medieval Europe: Founding a Parliamentary Culture
• After the Levellers: On the Non-Mysterious Disappearance of Parliamentary Reform in England
• Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700: The State of Research
• The English Revolution and the History of Majority Rule
• The Proud Oxymorons of Venice’s Parliamentary Culture
• When is a Parliament not a Parliament? The Polish-Lithuanian Sejm and Parliamentary Culture
• Max Weber’s Influence on German Economic Thought in the Twentieth Century
• The Nature of the Self in Fifth-Century Gaul
• ‘Proximity’ and the Continuities in Parliamentary Representation
• Parliamentary Government, Whig History, and the Cambridge School
• Dealing with petitions in the English Parliament and the Dutch States General
• Exported Early Modern British Political Cultures
• Rituals of Consent or Procedures of Decision-Making? Assemblies of Estates in Early Modern Europe
• Parliamentary Culture and Library History in Britain
• Parliament and Parliaments from the Gaelic Perspective
• Parliamentary Culture and Public Credit: How Merchants Overcame Their Weak Position
• Emma MacKinnon (Cambridge), 'Rereading An American Dilemma'
• Intellectual History and the Problem of Incest
• Professor Filippo de Vivo
• Revolution, Republicanism, and the End of Empire: Latin America in Victorian Intellectual History
• A Conversation with Samuel Moyn: The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism
• In Search of Zera Yacob: Philosophy in Early Modern Ethiopia
• Book Launch: Caroline Warman, 'The Atheist's Bible: Diderot's 'Éléments de physiologie'' (2020)
• Nico Slate (Carnegie Mellon University), '‘Jim-Crowed the World Over’: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Idea of the Global South'
• Devin Zuber (UC Berkeley), 'Sermons in stones: John Muir, American environmentalism,
• Brigitte Stenhouse (Oxford), 'Mary Somerville: being and becoming a mathematician in 19th-century Britain'
• Paulina Kewes (Oxford), 'Rethinking the Edwardian Succession'
• Niall Allsopp (Exeter), 'Sermons and Ceremonies in Civil War Exeter'
• Alexander Samson (UCL), 'Novel Representations of Tudor History'
• Maria Shmygol (Galway), 'Travelling Players and Continental Adaptations of English Drama: The Case of Tito Andronico (1620)'
• Carla Suthren (UCL), '"It was Greek to me": (Not) Quoting Phoenician Women'
• Michael Edwards (Cambridge), TBC
• Jim van der Meulen (Oxford), 'Between Official Record and Gonzo Journalism: Parliamentary Diaries as a Transnational Genre in Seventeenth-Century Europe'
• Journeys to the Moon in Ancient Greece
• Anne Applebaum, Stalin’s War on Ukraine and Putin’s War on Ukraine: What we Know Now, and Why it Matters
• Book Launch: The Mishnaic Moment: Jewish Law among Jews and Christians in Early Modern Europe, ed. Piet van Boxel, Kirsten Macfarlane, & Joanna Weinberg
• Book Lauch: Ian Campbell and Floris Verhaart (eds), Protestant Politics beyond Calvin: Reformed Theologians on War in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
• Learning to Worry about the Enlightenment in Korea, 1917
• Philosophy, Encyclopedism, and French Socialism in the 19th Century
• Devin Vartija, The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought
• Ukraine: Between West and Different Easts
• The Myth of Reinhold Niebuhr’s Political Realism
• Helena Rosenblatt (CUNY): 'Napoleon’s Nemesis: Madame de Staël and the Origins of Liberalism'
• Eli P. Bernstein
• Sophie Read (Cambridge): 'Modernist Metaphysics: Empson, Donne and the Science of Feeling'
• Susanne Wofford (New York): 'Marina, Perdita, Eunuchus and The Rope: Slavery, Race and Genre in Shakespeare’s Mediterranean'
• Psychology and the Origins of Western Marxism
• Christopher Hill and the English Revolution: 50 Years after The World Turned Upside Down
• Alice Leonard (Coventry): 'Correcting readers in seventeenth-century natural philosophy'
• Cora Salkovskis (Birkbeck): '“We cannot help laughing”: reflex, discomfort, and the comic in late-Victorian mental science'
• Ludmilla Jordanova (Durham): 'Images, tags and identities in ‘science’'
• Daniel Jon Mitchell (IEEE History Center, NJ): 'Quantification, measurement and the rise of physics in Victorian Britain'
• Stephen Johnston (Oxford): 'Material culture and mathematical practice in astrology’s long 16th century'
• Monika Fludernik (Freiburg): ‘The History of Free Indirect Discourse’
• David Wiggins (Uppsala University): ‘Gothic images: Illustration in the Gothic novel, 1764-1840’
• Peter McCullough (Oxford): 'Donne's Roman Catholic Sources'
• Kirsten Macfarlane (Oxford): 'The Westminster Assembly (1643-52): Time for a New Paradigm?'
• John Rees (Goldsmiths, University of London): 'The Fiery Spirits and the coming of the English Revolution'
• Peter Lake (Vanderbilt University): 'Whatever you do, don’t mention the revolution: Samuel Clarke and the making of the puritan tradition’
• Elliot Vernon (Lincoln's Inn): ''The Wall and Glory of Jerusalem': The message of sermons preached before the Lord Mayor and City of London in the Commonweath and Protectorate, 1649-1660'
• The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: Gary Gerstle (Cambridge) in conversation with Dan Rowe (Oxford)
• Kendrick Oliver (Southampton): 'The Antenna and the Stepladder: American Scientific Cosmology and Cosmologies of American Science'
• From Cyberspace to the Metaverse: Toward an Intellectual History of the Internet
• Bruce Schulman (Boston): 'The Forgotten Constitutional Revolution: Amending American Democracy in the Early Twentieth Century'
• Chloe Ireton (UCL): 'Imagining Freedom: Enslaved Black People in Sevilla and their Personal Cartographies of the Atlantic World'
• Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College): 'The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance'
• Konradin Eigler (Oxford): 'Joining (and remaining in) the Academy. Institutional Reform, Academic Careers, and the Idea of Scientific Progress in Revolutionary Paris'
• Pepijn Corduwener (Utrecht): 'The Rise and Fall of the People’s Party. A New History of Democracy since 1918 through the perspective of Christian and Social Democracy'
• Zbigniew Wojnowski (Oxford): 'Ukraine and the Soviet Politics of Empire after 1945'
• Jacob Chatterjee (Oxford): 'The Surprising Case of the High Church Lockeans at Christ Church, Oxford, 1689-1725'
• Michela Coletta (Warwick University and Freie Universität Berlin): 'Thinking beyond the Anthropocene: Anti-Extractive Intellectual Genealogies from Latin America during the Twentieth-Century'
• Hestor Barron (Sussex): 'Why Schools Matter to Histories of Interwar Britain'
• Guy Ortolano (NYU): 'Winston Churchill, Race, and Transnational History'
• Elena Rossi (Oxford): 'Our Mother the University: maternal roles and the medieval university'
• Chimene Bateman (Oxford): 'Christine de Pizan and Saint Christine: the power of women's speech'
• Sophie Lewis (UPenn/Brooklyn Institute for Social Research)
• Eileen Hunt (Notre Dame): 'Miltonic Monsters among the British Moralists: The Imagination of AI from Hobbes to Shelley'
• Emma Planinc (Notre Dame): 'Painting Political Philosophy'
• Paulina Kewes (Oxford): 'Parliamentary Institutions in the Political Thought of Jean Bodin'
• Manjeet Ramgotra (SOAS): 'Languages of Republicanism: res publica and swaraj'
• Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins): 'From Cyberspace to the Metaverse: Toward an Intellectual History of the Internet'
• Samuel Zeitlin (Cambridge): 'Carl Schmitt, Political Theology, and the History of Political Thought'
• Musab Younis (QMUL): 'Forward Ever: Nkrumah’s Conception of Anticolonial Speed'
• Juliet Hooker (Brown): 'Harriet Jacobs and Ida B. Wells on (Black) Loss: Egalitarian Witness Against Pornographic Pain'
• Jeannie Morefield (Oxford): 'Discussion of Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory'
• Marietta van der Tol (Oxford): 'Toleration, Time and the Other'
• Stefan Eich (Georgetown): 'Discussion of The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes'
• Demetra Kasimis (Chicago): 'Economies of Conspiracy: Hidden Power and the Erosion of Democracy in Athenian Political Thought'
• John Hudson (St Andrews): A Discussion of the Carlyle Lectures
• Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway): '"Power to the People?": Citizens and the Everyday State in Early Postcolonial South Asia'
• Luna Sabastian (Cambridge): 'Who are the Muslims? Savarkar on Indian Muslim Origin'
• Béatrice Longuenesse (New York): 'Conflicting Logics of the Mind'
• Béatrice Longuenesse (New York): 'Kant on Consciousness and its Limits'
• Béatrice Longuenesse (New York): 'Freud’s Concept of the Unconscious'
• Béatrice Longuenesse (New York): 'The “Morality System”'
• Professor Mohammad Khalil (Michigan State University): 'Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism'
• Katerina Dalacoura (LSE): 'The International Thought of Turkish Islamists: History, Civilization and Nation'
• Joas Wagemakers (Utrecht): 'The Reception of Sayyid Qutb’s Controversial Ideas Among Jordanian Muslim Brothers'
• Asma Afsaruddin (Indiana University): 'Resurrecting the Caliphate: The Creed of Abraham and ISIS’s Hermeneutics of Power'
• Stéphane Lacroix (Sciences Po, Paris): 'The struggle for Salafism in Egypt’s post-revolutionary period'
• Sajid Nizami (Institute of Urdu Language and Literature): 'Urdu as a language for Science? Textbook experiments in Roorkee College of Engineering in the nineteenth century'
• Sarah Apetrei (Oxford): 'The doctrine of universal salvation and women theologians in seventeenth-century England'
• Jürgen Overhoff (Münster): 'Lecturing on pedagogy: Kant’s creative use of Basedow’s educational philosophy'
• Ruggero Sciuto (Oxford): '« Fi! l[a] vilain[e] hypocrite »: picturing women atheists in eighteenth-century Paris'
• Sanja Perovic (KCL): 'Radical translations: the transfer of revolutionary culture between Britain, France and Italy (1789-1815)'
• Luisa Simonutti (ISPF/CNR, Milan): 'Islamic influences on European thought in the seventeenth century'
• Eva Piirimäe (Tartu): 'Herder and the French Revolution'
• David Armitage (Harvard): 'Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and the law of nations'
• Jeffrey Ravel (MIT): 'The Old Regime deck of playing cards'
• Sarah Mortimer (Oxford): 'Virtue Beyond Law? Christian Ethics and Political Duties in Reformation Europe'
• The Samurai and The Cross: The Jesuit Enterprise in Early Modern Japan
• Alice Baldock
• Eric Sheng
• Tyler Tully and Amber Starks: 'Diaspora and Indigeneity'
• Tionne Parris (Hertfordshire): 'Diaspora and Radicals'
• Clare Carlisle (KCL): 'Thought and Feeling: George Eliot and the Expansion of Philosophy'
• Call for Papers: Nature and the Social Order since the 1970s
• John Hudson: Maitland, Common Law and Civil Law
• John Hudson: Legal development in Europe: a view from the 1190s
• John Hudson: Legal learning and learning law in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
• John Hudson: Genius or juristic accident? Policy, legal change and the early Common Law
• John Hudson: 'Secreted in the interstices of procedure': actions, ideas, and legal change
• John Hudson: 'Nolumus mutare...': further reflections
• Sofia Sanabria De Felipe
• Benjamin Graham
• Lauren Spohn
• Matthew Andersen
• Samuel Head
• Ailsa Maxwell
• Elena Rossi
• Sana Shah
• Chris van Niekerk
• Lorraine Daston | 'Rules: A Short History of What We Live By'
• Colin Kidd: 'Peculiarities'
• Colin Kidd: 'Ancients and Moderns: a Contrapuntal Enlightenment?'
• Colin Kidd: 'Modern Paganism Revisited'
• Colin Kidd: 'The Warburtonian Moment'
• Colin Kidd: 'Platonists and deplatonizers'
• Colin Kidd: 'Words and Things'
• Matthew Leech-Gerrard
• Thomas Pink (KCL): 'Free will and change in the theory of causation'
• Carla Rita Palmerino (Nijmegen): ‘The philosophy of sleep between paradoxes and thought experiments: Descartes, Gassendi, Locke and Leibniz’
• Vincent Roy-Di Piazza (Oxford and Stockholm): ‘“Enslaved by African angels”: Swedenborg on African superiority, evangelization, and slavery in the Swedish Age of Liberty’
• Felix Schlichter (Cambridge): ‘Early modern scholarship on idolatry and the Chinese Rites debate’
• Anna Corrias (Cambridge): ‘Mapping the chiaroscuro: Marsilio Ficino on Plato’s allegory of the cave’
• Darrel Rutkin (Venice): ‘What makes early modern intellectual history “early modern”? Marsilio Ficino (1433-99), Plotinus and astrology in the transition from medieval to Renaissance astrology, magic and religion’
• Filippo de Vivo (Oxford): ‘Anglo-Venetian views on cross-confessional alliances during the Thirty Years War’
• Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (Bucharest): ‘The freedom to philosophize in the German Enlightenment from Christian Wolff to the Berlin Academy’
• Professor David Dwan
• Uday Mehta (CUNY): 'The Logic of Cruelty and Violence in Ambedkar and Gandhi'
• Lauren Rozenberg (UCL): 'In the Flat Round: Brain Diagrams in Late Medieval Manuscripts'
• Mary Carruthers (NYU and Oxford): 'Envisioning Thinking: Geometry and Meditation in the Twelfth Century'
• Alex Gajda (Oxford) and Neil Younger (Open University): 'The first history of Elizabethan England: William Camden’s Annals of the Reign of Elizabeth I'
• Vikram Visana (Leicester): 'Uncivil Liberalism and the Globalisation of Dadabhai Naoroji's Ideas of Sociality'
• Zaib un Nisa Aziz (South Florida): 'Nations Ascendant: Towards a Global Intellectual History of Self Determination'
• Authority and the Global Early Modern: Translation and Transformation
• The Common Notion: Science and Consensus in the Seventeenth Century
• Gibbon and the Islamic Orient