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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
• Professor David Leopold
• Professor Michael Broers
• Dr Joshua Bennett
• Dr Philippa Byrne
• 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?
• 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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• Sophie Aldred
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• Professor Erica Charters
• Dr Nicholas Cole
• Professor Martin Conway
• Dr Margaret Coombe
• James Cullis
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• Maria Florutau
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• Professor Peter Ghosh
• Oliver Gough
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• Professor David Priestland
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• Research Projects
• Recovering Europe's Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Learning to Worry about the Enlightenment in Korea, 1917
• Ukraine: Between West and Different Easts
• The Myth of Reinhold Niebuhr’s Political Realism
• Psychology and the Origins of Western Marxism
• 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”'
• Alice Baldock
• Eric Sheng
• 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
• Samuel Head
• Ailsa Maxwell
• Elena Rossi
• Sana Shah
• Chris van Niekerk
• 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'
• The Common Notion: Science and Consensus in the Seventeenth Century
• Gibbon and the Islamic Orient
• The Cambridge School and the Turn to the Present
• Chloë Ingersent
• Dr Vincent Roy-Di Piazza
• Dr Chinami Oka
• Nathaniel Culverwell and the early English Reception of Descartes
• Duncan Bell (Cambridge): 'John Stuart Mill on Federation, Nationality, and Empire'
• 22-24 May - 3-Day Workshop: Nature and the Social Order since the 1970s
• A conversation with Quinn Slobodian | Crack-Up Capitalism (Penguin, 2023)
• A Conversation with Michael Lamb | A Commonwealth of Hope: Augustine's Political Thought (Princeton, 2022)
• Ann Blair (Harvard): 'Invisible and visible'
• Ann Blair (Harvard): 'Mechanical and intellectual'
• Ann Blair (Harvard): 'Complicating Attributions'
• Ann Blair (Harvard): 'Shaping Legacies'
• Thomas Hobbes and the Rejection of 'Objective Being'
• David Elliott
• Leif Hammer
• An Aesthetic of Science in British Imperial Cartography of the Caribbean, c. 1700-1775
• In Conversation with Peter Ghosh
• Zoltan Biedermann (UCL): ‘Towards a Global Intellectual History of the Global: European Texts, Indigenous Contexts’
• Richard Calis (Utrecht): ‘Turkish Turbans, Greek Ceremonies, Catholic Friends: A Global History of Protestant Accommodation’
• Sare Aricanli (Durham): ‘Bodily Knowledge in Qing China: Anatomical "Translation" into Manchu and Mongolian?’
• James Poskett (Warwick): ‘The Scientific Revolution as Global History, 1200-1800’
• Richard Bourke (Cambridge): ‘Hegel’s Enlightenment’
• David Armitage (Harvard): ‘Gulliver’s Travails: Treaties in the Making—and the Breaking—of the Modern World’
• Book Launch: John Robertson (ed.), Time, History, and Political Thought (Cambridge, 2023)
• Kevin Hilliard (Oxford): 'Turning the page on the reign of Frederick the Great: Mirabeau, Zimmermann and the ‘Berlin Enlightenment’, 1786-1792'
• Béla Kapossy (Lausanne): 'The Enlightenment origins of historicism'
• Matthijs Lok (Amsterdam): 'Cosmopolitanism against revolution: counter-revolutionary legacies of the Enlightenment'
• Mara van der Lugt (St Andrews): 'The animal question: from Bayle to Bentham'
• Joseph Harris (Royal Holloway, London): 'The play’s the thing: Jean-François Ducis’s Hamlet (1769-1815)'
• Zoe Screti (Oxford): 'Cataloguing the Enlightenment: classification, marginalisation, and digital scholarship'
• Minchul Kim (Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul): 'Étienne-Géry Lenglet and the political economy of equality for the modern republic'
• Damien Tricoire (Trier): 'Putting the Enlightenment in its place: religion, moral leadership and the genealogy of the 18th-century age of improvement'
• Jessica Goodman (Oxford): 'Imagined afterlives in eighteenth-century France'
• Paola Rumore (Turin): 'Philosophical narratives and the formation of national culture: the case of the Leibnizian-Wolffian tradition'
• Sonja Asal (Halle): 'Manners and political stability in a commercial republic: the case of France, c. 1795-1799'
• Sylvana Tomaselli (Cambridge): 'Ask them what and whom they liked: Montesquieu, Smith and others'
• Roman Kuhn (Oxford): 'Doing things with poetry: uses and reuses of poésie fugitive in the long 18th century'
• Professor David Dwan
• Matthew Leech-Gerrard
• Chris Millington (MMU): 'The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904-1939'
• Juhana Aunesluoma (Helsinki): 'From a ‘Sea of Peace’ to a ‘NATO lake’? Security imaginaries of the Baltic Sea from the Second World War to the Present'
• Carlos Domper Lasús (Zaragoza): 'An alternative conception of democracy: Franco's Spain and conservative political groups in France and Italy from 1945 to the 1960s'
• Katja Hoyer (KCL): 'Beyond the Wall: Rethinking East Germany'
• Martin Conway (Oxford): 'The Offstage Storm? Decolonization and the Politics of Democracy in Post-war Western Europe'
• The Renaissance 'Age of Conspiracies' Revisited: Intellectualising a Sixteenth-Century Coup D'état
• New Work in Early Modern Philosophy and Science
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• Matthew Kempshall (Oxford): 'Dante's Political Theology'
• Thomas Kelsey (Oxford): 'How the Treasury Saved Britain: nationalism, liberalism and “high technology” in the post-war era'
• Mark Goldie (Cambridge): 'Intertextual Whiggism: Political Aphorisms, Textual Appropriation, and Political Thought, 1570-1800'
• Linda Bryder (Auckland): '“Deliver us from doctors”: The New Zealand model of midwifery and the politics of maternity from 1970'
• John Henderson (Cambridge): 'The Great Pox in Early Modern Italy: imagining and experiencing' (Joint with Early Modern Italian World Seminar)
• Baihui Duan (Oxford): 'Framing epidemic geographies and displacement after the Great East Asian War of 1592-1598'
• Vincent Roy-Di Piazza (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm): 'Abraham Bäck and Linnean racial science'
• Arne Schirrmacher (Berlin): 'How students created their own curriculum: Oxbridge student clubs in the age of the research university'
• Elizabeth Tilley and Nathaniel Lawford (Open University): 'Historical activism, autobiographies and life story work with people with learning disabilities - using history and stories for social change' (Joint with Disability History Month Seminar)
• Jue Jin (Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Oxford): 'Cave Remedies: Ancient Wisdom in Stalactites'
• Visiting Fellowships
• Book Launch: The Muslim Secular by Dr Amar Sohal
• Melissa Lane (Princeton): Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political
• Ulas Ince (SOAS): 'From "Civilization" to "Race": The Political Economy of Imperial Subjecthood'
• Musab Younis (QMUL): 'Scale in Anticolonial Thought'
• Karuna Mantena (Columbia): 'Why and How Gandhi Civilized Disobedience'
• Marinos Sariyannis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas): 'Ottoman Political Thought before the Tanzimat Reforms (c. 1839)
• Linda Zerilli (Chicago): 'Towards a Freedom-Centred Feminist Historiography'
• Alison McQueen (Stanford): 'The Poisoned Tree: Treason of the Heart in Seventeenth-Century England'
• Eli P. Bernstein
• Emily Rutherford (Oxford): 'Oxbridge and the Invention of Male Homosexuality, 1850-1939'
• Jane Cooper (Oxford): 'On the Sublime: Poetic Theory in the Age of Dryden'
• Dr Joshua Freed
• Dr Katherine Travers
• Susan James (Birkbeck): 'Fake News: Learning from Spinoza'
• Political Thought and the Welfare State: Jose Harris's History of Social Policy
• Utsa Bose
• Benjamin Gladstone
• Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet
• Raphael Endre Adès
• Ross Moncrieff
• Antonio Pattori
• Cameron Bowman
• Ellen Hausner
• Jane Baun (Oxford): 'Late antique and early medieval apocryphal religious texts and why we should read them' (CANCELLED)
• Mary Whittingdale and Rachel Cresswell (Oxford): 'On the Edge of Exegesis'
• Paul Seaward: 1. Providence and Posterity
• Alec Ryrie (Durham): 1. Propagation
• Alec Ryrie (Durham): 2. Apocalypse
• Alec Ryrie (Durham): 3. Allurement
• Alec Ryrie (Durham): 4. Language
• Alec Ryrie (Durham): 5. Enslavement
• Alec Ryrie (Durham): 6. A New Phase
• Paul Seaward: 2. Conscience and Honour
• Paul Seaward: 3. Skill and Uningenuity
• Paul Seaward: 4. Ancient Landmarks
• Paul Seaward: 5. Religion and Policy
• Paul Seaward: 6. Wildness and Illimitedness
• Gionathon Lo Mascolo (ed.), The Christian Right in Europe
• The Reception of Confucianism in Early Modern Britain