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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
- Professor Oliver Zimmer
- Dr Joshua Bennett
- Dr Philippa Byrne
- Dr Marcus Colla
- Dr Tomasz Gromelski
- 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
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- Alex Beeton
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- Catherine Jenkinson
- Dongsun Lee (Hannah)
- Sophie Aldred
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- Professor Erica Charters
- Jason Chess
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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