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• Writing for the Academy: The Rhetoric of Rousseau’s First Discourse, 1750
• Enlightenment Workshop
• Dr Sophie Smith
• Dr Sophie Nicholls
• Discussion of 'The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790' (2020) by Ritchie Robertson
• Discussion of 'L'Héritage des Lumières: ambivalences de la modernité' (2019) By Antoine Lilti (EHESS, Paris)
• Discussion of 'Marie-Antoinette, Lettres inédites', ed. Catriona Seth (2019) and 'Frederick the Great’s Philosophical Writings', ed. Avi Lifschitz (2021)
• Discussion of 'Voltaire, Précis du siècle de Louis XV' (OCV, vols. 29A-C, 2019-2020), eds. Janet Godden (Oxford) and James Hanrahan (Trinity College Dublin)
• DMITRI LEVITIN (All Souls, Oxford), ‘“No Other Issue in the History of Ideas has ever been Subjected to the Same Degree of Scrutiny”. The Origins of the Synoptic Problem, from Palestine to Göttingen (via India)’
• MICHELLE PFEFFER (Magdalen, Oxford), ‘The Making of a Materialist in Seventeenth-Century England: Scholarship, Society, and the Soul’
• GRANTLEY MCDONALD (Faculty of Music, Oxford), ‘Georgius Slatkonia and the Viennese Network of Humanists and Natural Philosophers around the Court of Maximilian I Habsburg’
• AUDREY BOROWSKI (Queen’s, Oxford), ‘Gottfried Leibniz on the Querelle des anciens et des modernes and the Republic of Letters’
• The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• The Carlyle Lectures: Mark Goldie, John Locke and Empire
• The Carlyle Lectures: Mark Goldie, John Locke and Empire
• The Carlyle Lectures: Mark Goldie, John Locke and Empire
• The Carlyle Lectures: Mark Goldie, Locke and Empire
• The Carlyle Lectures: Mark Goldie, John Locke and Empire
• Jason Peacey (UCL), 'Radical Thought and Political Practice: Rethinking Ideas of Political Accountability in the English Revolution'
• William White (York), 'Episcopalians and the Interregnum Church: Remembering Conformity after 1660'
• David Como (Stanford), 'Before the Coffee House: The Political Tavern in Revolutionary England'
• Sarah Ward (UWE Bristol), 'God's Vigilant Watchmen: The Oppositional Words of Episcopalian Clergy in Wales, 1646-1660'
• Ali Usman Qasmi (Lahore University of Management Sciences), 'Nation and Its Discontents: The Poetics and Politics of Siraiki Nationalism in Pakistan'
• Karuna Mantena (Columbia University), 'Gandhian Satyagraha in the Mirror of Marxism'
• Vinayak Chaturvedi (University of California, Irvine), 'The Making of "Veer Savarkar": Methods for Writing an Intellectual History'
• Prashant Keshavmurthy (McGill University), 'Bedil’s Bisemic Ghazal Poetics'
• Shruti Kapila (University of Cambridge), 'On Violence or the Civil War of 1947 and the Importance of Indian Political Thought'
• Graduate Student Research Presentations
• Graduate Student Research Presentations
• Saman Tariq Malik
• Jan-Willem Prügel
• Professor David Leopold
• Annelien de Dijn on 'Freedom: An Unruly History'
• Melvin Rogers on 'African American Political Thought: A Collected History'
• Sudhir Hazareesingh on 'Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture'
• Mark Goldie on 'John Locke and Empire' (Carlyle Lectures)
• Jennie Ikuta on 'Contesting Conformity: Democracy and the Paradox of Political Belonging'
• Steven Klein on 'The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State'
• Professor Michael Broers
• Professor Nicholas Davidson
• Professor Oliver Zimmer
• Dr Joshua Bennett
• Dr Philippa Byrne
• Dr Marcus Colla
• Dr Tomasz Gromelski
• Lucy JS Clarke
• Delphine Bellis and Dmitri Levitin, 'The Natural Philosophy and Mathematics of Pierre Gassendi'
• Dr Evan Hepler-Smith (Duke University) Compound words, synthetic world: an information history of modern chemistry
• Dr Netta Cohen (University of Oxford) New under the sun: Jews and climate in Palestine 1897-1948
• Harriet Mercer (University of Oxford) How Joseph Banks made climate move
• Dr Sarah Easterby-Smith (University of St Andrews) Enlightenment science in Surat? Interpreting the collections of Anquetil de Briancourt and family (1773-1779)
• Dr Moujan Matin (University of Toronto) Lost in translation? Archaeological materials science as evidence for the study of the history of technology: case studies on ceramics
• Dr Vojtech Hladky (Charles University, Prague) Hermetic tradition and scientific revolution revisited: the case of Francesco Patrizi
• Dr Michelle Pfeffer (University of Oxford) Astrological forecasting of epidemic disease in early modern England: a forgotten chapter in the history of public health?
• Professor Teresa Bejan
• Professor Patricia Owens
• Professor Martin Kemp
• Professor John Robertson
• Dr Andrew Dunning
• Professor Ritchie Robertson
• Diego Lucci (AUB), John Locke and Socinianism: Similarities and Differences
• Dr Kirsten Macfarlane
• Professor Yair Mintzker, Princeton University 'Ahasverus, the Wandering Jew: An Early Modern Story'
• Audrey Borowski
• 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
• Felix Waldmann: 'Gianvincenzo Gravina, maternal dominium, and Hobbes in Rome,1699-1708', Early Modern Politics and Religion Workshop
• 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
• Registration: The Futures of Intellectual History
• The Futures of Intellectual History
• Dr William Ghosh
• Milton, Literary Studies, and Intellectual History
• Dr William Poole
• Professor Tim Rood
• Enlightenment Studies at Oxford: Intellectual History Across the Disciplines
• The Turn to the Modern in the History of Political Thought
• 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
• Peter Davidson, ‘America in the European Imagination: The Contrasting Cases of Chapman (1613) and Rubens (1635)’
• Brandi Adams, ‘“Difficile est Satyram non scribere”: The Parnassus Plays, The Bishops’ Ban and English Juvenalian Satire in the 1590s’
• Mark Hailwood, ‘The Meaning of Marks: Reassessing Writing Ability in Rural England, 1550-1700’
• Nigel Smith, ‘Transnational Early Modern Literature: Diplomacy, Migration, Theatre and the International Public Sphere’
• Kim Gilchrist, ‘Reflections on Early Modern Brutan Drama’
• Anthony Milton, ‘“A Model of a Reunited Christendom”? Britain and Religious Exiles and Travellers in the Short Peace (1592-1620)’
• Steve Hindle, ‘Dwelling, Labour and the Task-scape in Seventeenth-Century England: The Case of the Village Blacksmith'
• Amy Blakeway, ‘History, Literature, and Suzerainty: English, Scottish and ‘British’ Histories in sixteenth-century France’
• Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory
• Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory
• Sudipta Sen, 'Theft of Time: Notes on Spolia and the Writing of Indian History'
• Margrit Pernau, 'Emotions and Temporalities. On Ghosts, Jinns and their Exorcism'
• Sundar Sarukkai, '"Our History": The Everyday Social and the Sense of Historical Touch'
• Amar Sohal, 'Pure Kashmir: Nature in the Political Thought of Sheikh Abdullah, Muhammad Iqbal and Jawaharlal Nehru'
• Jyotirmaya Sharma, 'Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India' PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED
• Sumathi Ramaswamy, 'A Historian among the Goddesses of Modern India'
• Durba Ghosh, 'Monuments in Replica: Imperial Commemorations in Britain and its Colonies'
• Dipesh Chakrabarty, 'Conceptual Problems in Distinguishing Global from Planetary Histories'
• Dr Mihnea Dobre, 'Jacques Rohault’s Traité de physique between Cartesianism and Newtonianism'
• John Morill (University of Cambridge): '"They made a desert and called it peace": Cromwell's war in Irleand'
• Sarah Mortimer and David Scott: 'Henry Marten and "the Original of all Just Power"'
• Grant Tapsell (Lady Margret Hall, Oxford): 'The Ordeal of William Sancroft: a conservative endure Britain in revolution'
• Anthony Milton (University of Sheffield): 'Further Reformation? Episcopalian royalist rethinking in the 1650s'
• Hamid Dabashi in conversation about his new book: 'The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad'
• Jeremy Fradkin, 'Anti-Popery and Non-Christians 1640-1660'
• Ruggero Sciuto, 'Hiding Between the Lines: God, Causation, and Laws of Nature in the Works of the Baron d’Holbach'
• Ingrid Schreiber, 'Solitude and Sociability in the Late German Enlightenment, 1756-1807'
• Christian Witt, 'The Discovery of Religious Maturity and the Emergence of Critique. Exemplary Reflections on the Relationship between Reformation and Enlightenment'
• Kirsten Macfarlane, 'What has Purgatory to do with the Persian Monarchy? Chronology and Theology in late Elizabethan England'
• Carlos Alves, 'Universities in transition: cooperation and opposition in the university reforms of Coimbra and Salamanca, 1771-1820'
• Sophie Roux, 'The Life and Works of Jacques Du Roure. Hunting for an Unknown Cartesian'
• James Hooks, 'Mary Astell and Pierre Bayle: On the Margins of Toleration'
• Marion Thomas, 'Tarzan The Man Ape: chimpanzees, science and colonial memory at the Pasteur Institute in Kindia'
• Lori Anne Ferrell, 'Inventing the Anglican Reformation: Scholarship, Rivalry, and the Fate of English Protestantism'
• Christopher Hill: A Historian of Ideas?
• Michelle C. Sanchez: "Calvinist poiesis? Theology, Art, and Representation from Calvin to Hobbes"
• ‘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
• Statelessness: A Modern History
• Diderot’s Eléments de physiologie: An Interview with Professor Caroline Warman
• Saint-Simon’s Technocratic Internationalism, 1802–1825
• Anglo-Franco-American Graduate Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy
• 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
• Graduate Study
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• Alex Beeton
• Andre Jockyman Roithmann
• Catherine Jenkinson
• Charles Beirouti
• Dongsun Lee (Hannah)
• Sophie Aldred
• Martin Babička
• Natasha Bailey
• Dr Gordon Barrett
• Dr Philip Beeley
• Eduardo Benítez-Inglott y Ballesteros
• Eli Philip Bernstein
• Dr 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
• Dr John-Paul A. Ghobrial
• Mr Peter Ghosh
• Dr Morgan Golf-French
• Oliver Gough
• Professor Abigail Green
• Dr Matthew Grimley
• Zobia Haq
• Professor Bob Harris
• Professor Howard Hotson
• Professor Robert Iliffe
• Mohamed Haji Abdullahi (Ingiriis)
• Dr Mirela Ivanova
• Dr Ben Jackson
• Jacob Chatterjee
• Professor Marek Jankowiak
• Kaoruko Kawashima
• Dr Matthew Kempshall
• Professor Sho Konishi
• Professor Miles Larmer
• Paula Larsson
• Dr Katherine Lebow
• Dr Dmitri Levitin
• Associate Professor Avi Lifschitz
• Yui Chim Lo
• Farida Makar
• Sir Noel Malcolm
• Professor Julia Mannherz
• Professor Giuseppe Marcocci
• Professor Ian McBride
• Professor James McDougall
• Heather McTaggart
• Dr Alex Middleton
• James Miller
• Professor Maria Misra
• Professor Rana Mitter
• Dr Alexander Morrison
• Dr Marc Mulholland
• Chinami Oka
• Dr Jon Parkin
• Dr Michelle Pfeffer
• Dr Amanda Power
• Nicolás Prados Ortiz de Solórzano
• Professor David Priestland
• Shahnawaz Ali Raihan
• Iffat Rashid
• Dr Salam Rassi
• Professor Gervase Rosser
• Dr Emily Rutherford
• Dr. Yu Sakai
• Dr Cathleen Sarti
• Richard Schlag
• Ingrid Schreiber
• Neha Shah
• Dr Simon Skinner
• Philip Smith
• Professor Adam Smith
• Professor Lesley Smith
• Dr George Southcombe
• Warren A. Stanislaus
• Neil Suchak
• Chui Joe Tham
• Dr Peter Thompson
• Dr Ida Toth
• Paul Ulishney
• Tim Wade
• Professor John Watts
• Professor William Whyte
• Dr Brian Young
• Dr Faridah Zaman
• Dr Faridah Zaman
• Academics
• Researchers
• Doctoral Students
• Daniel McAteer
• Joel Littler
• Sheetal Jain
• Surajkumar Thube
• Christopher Birks
• Colin Williams
• Travis Brock Kennedy
• Elisabeth Grass
• Vincent Roy-Di Piazza
• Petros Spanou
• Toby Burrows
• Jonathan Thomas Wild
• Alice Billington
• Research Projects
• Besterman Lecture in Enlightenment Studies: Professor Sophia Rosenfeld, ‘How the Enlightenment understood truth—and why that matters.’
• Recovering Europe's Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700
• The Dutch Libertines / Les libertins néerlandais: Day 1
• The Dutch Libertines / Les libertins néerlandais: Day 2
• Dr Shruti Kapila (Cambridge): Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age
• Michael Heimos
• Jacob Brandler
• Eloise Davies (Pembroke College, Oxford): Venice and the Polemical Works of James VI
• Francesca Iurlaro (Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg): Do Shepherds Live in a State of Nature? From Peculium to Civilization in Gentili and Vico
• Russ Leo (Princeton), Spinoza, the Spinoza Circle, and the Politics of Art
• Carlo Moll (Cambridge): Elitist philosophy and the nature of Italian Fascism
• Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton): Democratic versus Aristocratic Republicanism: The Real Enlightenment Story (1660-1800)
• Thomas Blom Hansen (Stanford): The Law of Force: The Violent Heart of Indian Politics
• John-Francis Martin