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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
• Professor Nicholas Davidson
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• 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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• Jason Chess
• Dr Nicholas Cole
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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
• 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
• Helena Rosenblatt (CUNY): 'Napoleon’s Nemesis: Madame de Staël and the Origins of Liberalism'
• Psychology and the Origins of Western Marxism
• Samuel Zeitlin (Cambridge): 'Carl Schmitt, Political Theology, and the History of Political Thought'
• Juliet Hooker (Brown): 'Harriet Jacobs and Ida B. Wells on (Black) Loss: Egalitarian Witness Against Pornographic Pain'
• Jeanne 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
• 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”'
• Luisa Simonutti (ISPF/CNR, Milan): 'Islamic influences on European thought in the seventeenth century'
• David Armitage (Harvard): 'Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and the law of nations'
• 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
• Matthew Andersen
• 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'
• 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'
• 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
• Emma Rothschild (Harvard), 'Conversations about Roads: A.R.J. Turgot and Economic Enlightenment'
• Friedrich Vollhardt (LMU, Munich): 'Lessing, Voltaire and theodicy'
• Michelle Pfeffer (Oxford): 'William Warburton’s Divine Legation of Moses (1738-1741) and theological learning in the public sphere'
• Eva Piirimäe (Tartu): 'Herder and the French Revolution'
• Nicolas Fréry (Université de Strasbourg): 'Seven years of literary and artistic life (1737-1744): what Voltaire’s new letters to Marie-Louise Denis bring to light'
• The Cambridge School and the Turn to the Present
• Chloë Ingersent
• Matthew Leech-Gerrard
• Dr Vincent Roy-Di Piazza
• Dr Chinami Oka
• Nathaniel Culverwell and the early English Reception of Descartes
• Annual Conference: 'Diaspora, Identity & Belonging'
• Questioning 'Western Philosophy'
• Sarah Mortimer (Oxford): 'Reformation, Resistance, and Reason of State'
• Duncan Bell (Cambridge): 'John Stuart Mill on Federation, Nationality, and Empire'
• Locke's Political Thought Revisited
• Alexandra Gajda (Oxford): 'The Parliament of England and the Protestant Reformation: 1547-1571'
• Deni Kasa (Oxford): 'Sacrifice and the beauty of grace in Abraham Cowley's Davideis'
• Marion Turner (Oxford): 'The Wife of Bath and the clerics, 1400-1700'
• Lloyd Bowen (Cardiff): 'Rowland Heylin, London-Welsh Puritan networks and the 1630 Welsh Bible'
• Charlotte Methuen (Glasgow): 'The English Reformation in Wittenberg'
• George Southcombe (Sarah Lawrence College, NY; Oxford): 'Biblicism, radicalism and conversion: the case of Robert Everard truly stated'
• John Spurr (Swansea): 'Virtue and vice in seventeenth-century England'
• David Como (Stanford): 'New Model theologians: soldiers and religious ideas in the English Revolution'
• Jennifer Rampling (Princeton; Oxford): 'Fantasy or Experiment? Reading Alchemical Imagery in Early Modern England'
• Jack Avery (Oxford): '“Chains of invincible reasoning”? New approaches to the Newton manuscripts at New College'
• Meira Gold (NYU): 'Territorial soils: Egyptology, agriculture, and the colonial politics of field sites'
• Nathan Crowe (University of North Carolina Wilmington): 'Forgotten Clones: The Birth of Cloning and the Biological Revolution'
• Scott Reese (Hamburg): 'Evolving Traditions: Networks of Empire and the Changing Economies of Islamic Intellectual Production in East Africa (c. 1800-1945)'
• Andrew B Liu (Villanova): 'Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India'
• 22-24 May - 3-Day Workshop: Nature and the Social Order since the 1970s
• Ken Pomeranz (Chicago): 'Why Is China So Big? Rethinking the Realm and its Subjects Under the Qing'
• James Hankins (Harvard): 'Thomas More’s Utopia and virtue politics'
• Ed Legon (QMUL): '"Rebells by their Trade"? Revisiting Clothmaking and Parliamentarianism'
• Michael Braddick (Sheffield): 'Christopher Hill, the Crisis of Bourgeois Culture in the 1930s and the English Revolution'
• Imogen Peck (Birmingham): '"For the dead father's sake"? Orphans, Petitions, and the British Civil Wars'
• Mordechai Feingold (Caltech): 'Radical Reformers? The Advancement of Learning During the Puritan Revolution Revisited'
• Suf Amichay (Cambridge): 'Maimonides' Modal Typology of Sciences'
• A conversation with Quinn Slobodian | Crack-Up Capitalism (Penguin, 2023)
• Jenny Davidson (Columbia): 'Edward Gibbon and the limits of knowledge'
• Jessica Goodman (Oxford): '"Des impressions si durables, si profondes?" Voltaire, an author in the dialogue des morts'
• Tamson Pietsch (University of Technology Sydney): 'The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge'
• Fellows' Forum - Marginal Education: Revenue Strategies of Universities in an Age of Neoliberal Education Policy
• Book talk - West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire
• Joe Moshenska (Oxford): 'The Two John Miltons'
• Ruth Harris (Oxford): 'A New Vision of Vivekananda?'
• A. Azfar Moin (The University of Texas at Austin): '“His Soul was a Bird of the Divine Throne”: Persian Inscriptions on Mughal Imperial Tombs and Mosques'
• Layli Uddin (QMUL): 'Red Maulanas: Islam and the Left in South Asia'
• Ajay Skaria (Minnesota): 'Along The Path To Gandhi's Neighbour'
• Ghazal Asif Farrukhi (Lahore University of Management Sciences): 'Seduced by God or Man? Religious Conversions and Women’s Desire in Pakistan'
• Robert Travers (Cornell): 'Empires of Complaints: Mughal Law and the Making of British India'
• Sunil Purushotham (Fairfield University): 'Dharma, Artha, and the Politics of Law and Sovereignty in Colonial India'
• Amy Allen (Pennsylvania State University): 'Universality, Necessity and Progress: Marx and the Problem of History'
• A Conversation with Michael Lamb | A Commonwealth of Hope: Augustine's Political Thought (Princeton, 2022)
• Eli P. Bernstein
• Dror Weil (Cambridge): 'Between Philology and Philosophy: The Accommodation of Islamicate Sciences in Late Imperial China'
• Yusuf Tayara (Oxford): 'The science of silence: alchemy, astronomy, and heresy in the work of al-Safadi'
• Fien de Block (Ghent): 'Ilm al-Nujūm in the fifteenth century Sultanate of Cairo Islamic astronomy/astrology and the importance of boundary work'
• Federica Gigante (History of Science Museum, Oxford): '“To predict the success or failure of something, they use no other instrument than the astrolabe": astrology and artistry at the Safavid court'
• Ann Blair (Harvard): 'Invisible and visible'
• Ann Blair (Harvard): 'Mechanical and intellectual'
• Ann Blair (Harvard): 'Complicating Attributions'
• Ann Blair (Harvard): 'Shaping Legacies'