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• Writing for the Academy: The Rhetoric of Rousseau’s First Discourse, 1750
• Dr Sophie Smith
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• Jan-Willem Prügel
• Professor David Leopold
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• 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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• 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
• Jonathan H Madison
• Representation without a Parliament: How Latin America’s Colonial Cities Thrived without Cortes
• Maro Dotulong
• 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
• Laurence Brockliss (Magdalen College, Oxford) Doing research in eighteenth-century France: private libraries as public resources
• Conor Bollins (Queen Mary University of London): Securing Peace, Prosperity, and Population Growth in Scotland, 1745-1767
• Anita Traninger (Freie Universität Berlin): Theatrum criticum: Pierre Bayle, Benito Jerónimo Feijoo, and the early modern genealogies of Enlightenment critique
• Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS, Paris): Orangutans and the Borders of Humanity in the Enlightenment
• Martin Gierl (University of Göttingen): (Online – details tbc) The Göttingen university Fachjournale from 1765 to 1825 – and a few remarks on information, organization, and history as evolution
• Marie Thébaud-Sorger (CNRS, Paris): The European network of Jean-Claude Pingeron (1730–1795), amateur and collectioneur of useful arts
• Kelsey Rubin-Detlev (University of Southern California): Language and Logos in the Writings of A. N. Radishchev
• Gregory S. Brown (University of Nevada): Rekindling the French Enlightenment in the embers of World War: internationalism, bibliography, and cultural policy in the origins of the critical edition of the Voltaire Correspondence
• Peter Tatchell: "Future Sex: The End of Gay"
• Anne Phillips: "Unconditional Equals"
• John Adenitire: "Balancing Freedom of Conscience and Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination"
• Finn Mackay: "Researching Female Masculinities in the Context of the UK 'Gender Wars'"
• Anna Becker & Geertje Bol: "Gender in the History of Political Thought: A Conversation"
• Daniel Allemann (University of Lucerne), ‘Iberian visions of slavery in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries'
• Ian Campbell (Queen's University, Belfast), 'Calvinist scholasticism and the just war in the seventeenth century'
• 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
• Joel Halcomb, (UEA), 'Despiteful names, disreputable churches, and denominational formation in the "puritan" revolution'
• Ann Hughes (Keele University), 'Nehemiah Wallington reads the news, 1645-47'
• Jon Parkin (University of Oxford), 'Leviathan and the Defence of the King'
• Nicholas McDowell (University of Exeter), 'John Milton, Oliver Cromwell and Virtue Politics'
• Christoph Lüthy (Radboud University), ‘Where is the Mechanic? Agency in the Age of the Mechanical Philosophy’
• Simon Mills (University of Newcastle), ‘Jean Gagnier: An Eighteenth-Century Oxford Arabist and “Enlightened” Views of Islam’
• Sophie Aldred (Oxford), ‘Reason, Reading and Religion: Lord Robartes and the Restoration Church’
• Deni Kasa (Oxford), ‘Why Milton Rejected the Trinity: Education and Community in Paradise Lost'
• Ingrid de Smet (University of Warwick), ‘The Seal of Secrecy, the Seal of Confession: A Renaissance Problem?’
• Dániel Margócsy (University of Cambridge), ‘Worms: the Nature of Ships and the Nature of Humans in Early Modernity’
• Lodi Nauta (University of Groningen), ‘Boyle and Locke on Natural Kinds’
• Claire Crignon (Université Paris-Sorbonne), ‘What is at Stake in a Natural History of the Air? Ways of Knowing and Ways of Believing’
• Sarah Mortimer (Oxford), Reformation, Resistance and Reason of State (1517-1625): the Oxford History of Political Thought
• Milinda Banerjee (St Andrews), 'How ‘Dynasty’ Became a Modern Global Concept: Intellectual Histories of Sovereignty and Property'
• Manu Samnotra (South Florida), '"Downward Equalization”: A Gandhian inversion of dignity and rights-claims'
• Mishka Sinha (University of Oxford)
• Nazmul Sultan (Cambridge), 'Waiting for the People: Anticolonialism and the Idea of Democracy in India'
• Nusrat S. Chowdhury (Amherst College), The Infrastructure of Rumor: Development and Democracy in a Postcolony
• J. Daniel Elam (University of Hong Kong), 'B.R. Ambedkar's Sociophilia and Other Anti-Caste Sciences'
• Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University), 'Reflections on Gandhi’s Anti-Modernism'
• Sophie Nicholls (Oxford), 'Jean Bodin’s Six livres de la République in the French Wars of Religion: reception and reaction'
• George Garnett (Oxford) and Magnus Ryan (Cambridge), 'City, faction, and tyranny: Bartolus of Sassoferrato's three treatises on city government'
• Lois McNay (Oxford), 'New Book: The Gender of Critical Theory'
• Vanessa Wills (George Washington University), 'Claudia Jones' 'Triple Oppression' Concept and the interrelation of Race, Gender, and Class’
• Emma MacKinnon (Cambridge), 'Rereading An American Dilemma'
• Niklas Olsen (University of Copenhagen), 'The Birth of Neoliberal Anti- Environmentalism in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s'
• Emily Katzenstein (Oxford), 'Reconsidering Racial Capitalism: From Necessity to Entanglement'
• Benjamin Straumann (Zurich/NYU), 'The rule of merit and the merit of rules'
• Sam Moyn (Yale), 'The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism: A Discussion of the Carlyle Lectures'
• Intellectual History and the Problem of Incest
• Shruti Kapila (Cambridge) ‘Replacing Europe? The Importance of India, Violence and Global Political Thought’
• The Mind is its Own Place? Early Modern Intellectual History in an Institutional Context
• The Mind is its Own Place? Early Modern Intellectual History in an Institutional Context
• Professor Filippo de Vivo
• New Intellectual Histories of the Global South
• Tim Stuart-Buttle (York), 'A New History of Recognition in Political Theory'
• Revolution, Republicanism, and the End of Empire: Latin America in Victorian Intellectual History
• Oxford Technology in Society Forum Launch Event
• A Conversation with Samuel Moyn: The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism
• George Rousseau Lecture: Edward Gibbon and Lausanne
• Lisa Kattenberg (Amsterdam), 'Catholic reason of state and the politics of necessity in the Spanish monarchy (c. 1590-1650)'
• Conference: In Search of Zera Yacob
• In Search of Zera Yacob: Philosophy in Early Modern Ethiopia
• Book Launch: Caroline Warman, 'The Atheist's Bible: Diderot's 'Éléments de physiologie'' (2020)
• Harriet Lyon (Cambridge), 'The Dissolution of the Monasteries and its Legacies in the Early Modern Historical Imagination'
• Sarah Mortimer (Oxford), 'Religion and Political Thought in Early Modern Britain - and beyond'
• Michael Winship (Georgia), 'Coming to Synodical Grips with John Cotton’s Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven in Westminster, London, and Cambridge, Massachusetts'
• Richard Cusk, 'Family chapels in post-Reformation England'
• William White (York), 'Peacemaking and the Clergy During the English Revolution'
• Anastasia Stylianou (UEA), 'Looking East: Greek Christian Influences on the English Reformations'
• Karie Schultz (St Andrews), ‘Two Kingdoms Theology and Political Duties: The Intellectual Framework of the Scottish Revolution, 1637-1651.’
• Joan Redmond (KCL), 'Justifying Rebellion: Violence and Religion in Ireland, 1641-42'
• Humeira Iqtidar (KCL), 'Justice Beyond Rights'
• Abhishek Kaicker (UC Berkeley), TBC
• Anish Gawande (Oxford), 'Queer Azaadi and the origins of Indian homonationalism in Kashmir'
• Jyotirmaya Sharma (Hyderabad), 'Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India'
• Cemil Aydin (Chapel Hill), 'Pan-Nationalist Notions of Rights, Indian Khilafat Movement and the Treaty of Lausanne (1923)'
• James Caron (SOAS), 'Ma'na and War'
• 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'
• 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'
• Gabriele Metzler (Humboldt, Berlin): 'Paris, October 1961. A Postcolonial Perspective on (In-)Securitization'
• Leif Hammer (Oxford): ''Decline' and the Cultural History of the Eighteenth-Century University'
• 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'
• 25 Years After the 1997 Election: Roundtable on New Labour in Historical Perspective
• 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'