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• Writing for the Academy: The Rhetoric of Rousseau’s First Discourse, 1750
• Dr Sophie Smith
• Dr Sophie Nicholls
• Professor David Leopold
• Professor Michael Broers
• Dr Joshua Bennett
• Dr Philippa Byrne
• Dr Tomasz Gromelski
• Professor Teresa Bejan
• Professor Patricia Owens
• Professor Martin Kemp
• Professor John Robertson
• Dr Andrew Dunning
• Professor Ritchie Robertson
• 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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• Recovering Europe's Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700
• 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
• Dr Timothy Michael
• 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
• Sam Moyn (Yale): 1. Against the Enlightenment (Judith Shklar)
• 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
• 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
• 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'
• Eric Sheng
• John Hudson: Maitland, Common Law and Civil Law
• Colin Kidd: 'Peculiarities'
• The Common Notion: Science and Consensus in the Seventeenth Century
• Gibbon and the Islamic Orient
• The Cambridge School and the Turn to the Present
• Nathaniel Culverwell and the early English Reception of Descartes
• 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)
• Thomas Hobbes and the Rejection of 'Objective Being'
• An Aesthetic of Science in British Imperial Cartography of the Caribbean, c. 1700-1775
• In Conversation with Peter Ghosh
• Richard Bourke (Cambridge): ‘Hegel’s Enlightenment’
• Professor David Dwan
• The Renaissance 'Age of Conspiracies' Revisited: Intellectualising a Sixteenth-Century Coup D'état
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• Dr Joshua Freed
• Political Thought and the Welfare State: Jose Harris's History of Social Policy
• Paul Seaward: 1. Providence and Posterity
• Alec Ryrie (Durham): 1. Propagation
• The Reception of Confucianism in Early Modern Britain
• The End of Enlightenment: A Conversation with Richard Whatmore
• Jim Bennett and John Heilbron as Historians of Science and Intellectual Historians
• Dr Frances Reynolds
• Kenneth Novis
• J. G. A. Pocock (1924-2023)
• Matthew Leech-Gerrard
• Eli P. Bernstein
• Dr Jon Parkin
• Professor Sarah Mortimer
• Dr Brian Young
• Sir Noel Malcolm
• Dr Dmitri Levitin
• Professor Howard Hotson
• Professor Rob Iliffe
• Professor Ben Jackson
• Dr Alexandra Gajda
• Professor John-Paul A. Ghobrial
• Dr Matthew Grimley
• Professor David Priestland
• Professor Jane Garnett
• Dr Matthew Kempshall
• Professor Giuseppe Marcocci
• Dr Marc Mulholland
• Professor Sho Konishi
• Professor Avi Lifschitz
• Dr Philip Beeley
• Dr Nicholas Cole
• Professor Abigail Green
• Professor Ian McBride
• Alexander M. Aizenman
• Kit Barbour-Mercer
• Pilar Bertuzzi Rivett
• Andrew Biedermann
• Robert Bork III
• Cameron Bowman
• William Bunce
• Jacob Chatterjee
• Federica Costantino
• James Cullis
• Meredith Cutrer
• Sara Elizabeth Green
• Leif Hammer
• Zobia Haq
• Chloë Ingersent
• Sheetal Jain
• Catherine Jenkinson
• Bee Jones
• Dr Gwion Wyn Jones
• Kaoruko Kawashima
• Ziad Kiblawi
• Paula Larsson
• Ailsa Maxwell
• Daniel McAteer
• James Drysdale Miller
• Ross Moncrieff
• Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet
• Antonio Pattori
• Iffat Rashid
• Sana Shah
• Philip Smith
• Chui Joe Tham
• Thomas (Liang-Chung) Wang
• David Elliott
• Utsa Bose
• Benjamin Gladstone
• Raphael Endre Adès
• Ellen Hausner
• Hugo Lopes Williams
• Ming Kit Wong
• Dr Michelle Pfeffer
• Jose Maria Andres Porras
• Professor Caroline Warman
• Sophie West
• The Encyclopédie Nouvelle: The 19th Century’s Magnificent Achievement and Glorious Failure
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• How 'Chinese' is Chinese Theology? The Case of Wu Yaozong
• Eduardo Posada-Carbó
• Daniel Fried
• William Winning
• Odes to the Early Royal Society
• Eduardo Benítez-Inglott y Ballesteros
• Ethics and Equality: The Remonstrant Vision of Church and Society
• Professor Martin Conway
• Perpetual Return: What a Fascist Reading of Dante Tells Us About Philology
• Democratic Identity in the Age of Revolutions: Central and Northern Europe 1780-1870
• What did it mean to be a democrat in the Age of Revolutions?
• Between Democracy and Liberalism: Ludwig Bamberger's Path
• Carl Rudolf Löwstedt: the first Swedish democrat?
• The Intellectual History of Unimplemented Protest Tactics
• Pauline Kleingeld (Groningen): 'Kant’s republicanism'
• Stefanie Stockhorst (Potsdam): 'Bit-making and artisanal Enlightenment: the codification of practical knowledge from the pictorial rhetoric of bit-books to riding manuals and encyclopaedic knowledge'
• Giora Sternberg (Oxford): 'Writing acts and the family in the 18th Century: the Courtin-Brisay affair'
• Melissa Lane (Princeton): 1. Genealogies of law and lawgivers from Zaleucus to Hart
• Melissa Lane (Princeton): 6. Are we all legislators now? Athens to Nietzsche
• Looking for Kant: An Interrail Archive Trip
• Jacobins, Republicans, and Democracy in Mainz
• Presentism in Intellectual History
• Eurocentrism and Global Intellectual History
• Cécile Vidal (EHESS, Paris): 'Suicide and slavery in Enlightenment thought'
• Samuel Head
• Dr Faridah Zaman
• Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference 2024
• Intellectual History, Philosophy, and Literature
• Dr Esben Rasmussen
• Professor Bob Harris
• Professor Filippo de Vivo
• Dr Amanda Power
• Duanran Feng
• Faisal Chaudhry (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth): 'Rereading Property in Law’s Rule: Between Representation and Reality in the Shifting Political Economy of the Company’s India'
• Eric Nelson (Harvard): 'The Conservative Dilemma'
• Nuno Castel-Branco (Oxford): 'Mapping Animal Motion in the Time of Galileo'
• Malthe Conrad Bruun: A “Dangerous Democrat”
• Democracy or Popular Government? The Political Thought of Mihály Táncsics in the Vormärz
• A Peasant Democrat in the 1848 Revolution?
• Robert James Taylor
• Eric Nelson (Harvard): Discussion of the Carlyle Lectures — For the Way Things Are: In Search of a Defensible Conservatism
• Professor Valentina Arena
• Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin / Institute of Advanced Study): 'On the logic of autocracy and the plasticity of history: the case of Frederick William I, King of Prussia'
• Haoming Liu
• Carlo Ginzburg, 'On Mechanical Traces: Reflecting on Connoisseurship, Once Again'
• Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference 2025
• Natural Law and Christian Communities in Early Modern Europe
• Liberalism, Conservatism, and Reception History
• Oxford Utopia Reading Group
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• Planetary Orders and Global Divisions in the Political Thought of Barbara Ward
• Hannah Arendt: In Conversation with Thomas Meyer and Lyndsey Stonebridge
• The Anti-Elitist Democrat, Jens Andersen Hansen
• How Sciences End
• How Sciences End
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• Paul Cavill (Cambridge): 'The Two Swords: Spiritual and Temporal Jurisdiction in Henrician England'
• Sam Teague (Oxford): 'In Times of Ferment and Flourishing: The Livelihoods of Chapel Royal Musicians, 1640s-80s'
• Tim Wade (Warwick): 'John Bale and Polydore Vergil: An Encounter in Church History'
• Brian Mac Cuarta (Oxford): 'A Caroline Catholic Conversion: Francis Slingsby (1611-42)'
• Tara Hamling (Birmingham): 'Framing the Word: Presenting Religious Texts as "Comely" Ornament in Post-Reformation England'
• Kate Shore (Oxford): 'English Reformers in German Print, 1547-1603'
• David Scott (History of Parliament): 'Peterhouse Chapel and the Laudian Style'
• Mary Morrissey (Reading): 'London Public Sermons and Early Modern Emotional Communities'
• Martha Vandrei (Exeter): 'Literary and Philosophical Societies as knowledge-making Communities in early nineteenth-century England'
• Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History
• Amanda Power (Oxford): 'Salvation, alienation and sacrifice zones from medieval to modern thought'
• Zoe Screti (Oxford): 'Science in Cinders: Destruction in scientific correspondences of the long eighteenth century'
• Laure Miolo (Oxford): 'Learning and practising astronomy and astrology in fourteenth-century Paris and Oxford'
• Charlotte Dewarumez (Toulouse): 'Sensibility and Visual Culture in Scientific Illustrations of the Human Body, France and England, c.1770-1850'
• Richard L Kagan (Johns Hopkins University): 'Henry Charles Lea, the Inquisition, and the Origins of Scientific History in the United States'
• Saumya Saxena (OP Jindal Global University): 'Ghost in the Courtroom: Gender, Belief, Spirit Possession, and the Postcolonial State'
• Moiz Tundawala (Oxford): 'Constituent Power versus Constitutionalism in Hindu and Muslim Political Thought'
• Sana Aiyar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): 'Sacred Geographies, Political Communities: Burma's South Asian History'
• Rahul Sagar (New York University Abu Dhabi): 'The Birth of Indian Liberalism'
• Ilyas Chattha (Lahore University of Management Sciences): 'The Bangladesh Liberation War and Mass Internment of Bengalis in (West) Pakistan, 1971-1974'
• Hannah Marcus (Harvard): 'Galileo's Letters: Seeing Presence, Absence, and Shadows in a Scientific Legacy'
• Michael Stolberg (Universität Würzburg): 'Anatomical Practice and the Rise of Post-Mortems in the 16th and Early 17th Centuries'
• Michelle Pfeffer (Oxford): '"An astrologus praedicere possit futura contingentia? Nego": Astrology in Student Disputations at Oxford and Cambridge'
• Katja Krause (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science): 'Relations of Religious Experience and Scientific Practices in Albert the Great'
• Niall Dilucia (CNRS, Maison Française d'Oxford/IHRIM): 'Agricultural Knowledge, the Pursuit of Public Utility, and Collaborative Epistemology in the Early Royal Society'
• Philipp Nothaft (Oxford): 'Traces of Maghribī Astronomy in Sources from Latin Europe (13th-14th Centuries)'
• John Ma (Columbia): 'Notes for a history of sexualities in the Hellenistic age'