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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
- Professor Nicholas Davidson
- Dr Joshua Bennett
- Dr Philippa Byrne
- Dr Marcus Colla
- Dr Tomasz Gromelski
- Lucy JS Clarke
- Professor Teresa Bejan
- Professor Patricia Owens
- Professor Martin Kemp
- Professor John Robertson
- Dr Andrew Dunning
- Professor Ritchie Robertson
- 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
- Test People
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- Alex Beeton
- Catherine Jenkinson
- Dongsun Lee (Hannah)
- Sophie Aldred
- Martin Babička
- Dr Natasha Bailey
- Dr Philip Beeley
- Eduardo Benítez-Inglott y Ballesteros
- Professor Erica Charters
- Jason Chess
- Dr Nicholas Cole
- Professor Martin Conway
- Dr Margaret Coombe
- James Cullis
- Professor Faisal Devji
- Maria Florutau
- Professor Peter Frankopan
- Dr Gabriela A. Frei
- Dr Alexandra Gajda
- Professor George Garnett
- Professor Jane Garnett
- Professor John-Paul A. Ghobrial
- Professor Peter Ghosh
- Oliver Gough
- Professor Abigail Green
- Dr Matthew Grimley
- Zobia Haq
- Professor Bob Harris
- Professor Howard Hotson
- Professor Rob Iliffe
- Dr Mirela Ivanova
- Professor Ben Jackson
- Professor Marek Jankowiak
- Kaoruko Kawashima
- Dr Matthew Kempshall
- Professor Sho Konishi
- Professor Miles Larmer
- Paula Larsson
- Dr Katherine Lebow
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- Farida Makar
- Sir Noel Malcolm
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- Dr Alex Middleton
- James Drysdale Miller
- Professor Maria Misra
- Professor Rana Mitter
- Dr Alexander Morrison
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- Dr Michelle Pfeffer
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- Professor David Priestland
- Shahnawaz Ali Raihan
- Iffat Rashid
- Dr Salam Rassi
- Professor Gervase Rosser
- Dr Emily Rutherford
- Dr Cathleen Sarti
- Richard Schlag
- Ingrid Schreiber
- Neha Shah
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- Professor Adam Smith
- Professor Lesley Smith
- Dr George Southcombe
- Warren A. Stanislaus
- Neil Suchak
- Chui Joe Tham
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- Research Projects
- 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