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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
• 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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• 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)
• 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
• 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”'
• 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
• 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
• Nathaniel Culverwell and the early English Reception of Descartes
• Duncan Bell (Cambridge): 'John Stuart Mill on Federation, Nationality, and Empire'
• 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'
• 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’
• 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)
• Professor David Dwan
• The Renaissance 'Age of Conspiracies' Revisited: Intellectualising a Sixteenth-Century Coup D'état
• Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
• Visiting Fellowships
• Dr Joshua Freed
• Dr Katherine Travers
• Political Thought and the Welfare State: Jose Harris's History of Social Policy
• 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
• 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
• Sophie Aldred
• 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
• Dr Faridah Zaman
• Professor Avi Lifschitz
• Dr Philip Beeley
• Dr Nicholas Cole
• Professor Abigail Green
• Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference
• Professor Ian McBride
• Alexander M. Aizenman
• Martin Babička
• Kit Barbour-Mercer
• Pilar Bertuzzi Rivett
• Andrew Biedermann
• Robert Bork III
• Cameron Bowman
• William Bunce
• Jacob Chatterjee
• Federica Costantino
• Federica Costantino
• Federica Costantino
• Federica Costantino
• James Cullis
• Meredith Cutrer
• Sara Elizabeth Green
• Leif Hammer
• Zobia Haq
• Chloë Ingersent
• Sheetal Jain
• Catherine Jenkinson
• Bee Jones
• Kaoruko Kawashima
• Ziad Kiblawi
• Paula Larsson
• Dongsun Lee (Hannah)
• Joel Littler
• Dr Saman Tariq Malik
• Ailsa Maxwell
• Daniel McAteer
• James Drysdale Miller
• Ross Moncrieff
• Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet
• Antonio Pattori
• Alexander Peplow
• Shahnawaz Ali Raihan
• Iffat Rashid
• Neha Shah
• 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
• Konradin Eigler
• Francesca Trivellato (Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton): 'Images of Jews’ Economic Roles from the Enlightenment to the French Revolution'
• Ming Kit Wong
• Dr Michelle Pfeffer
• Jose Maria Andres Porras
• Professor Caroline Warman
• Sophie West
• Stephen Oakley (Cambridge): 1 - 'The transmission of Julius Caesar’s Civil War'
• Stephen Oakley (Cambridge): 2 - 'The transmission of the Corpus Cyprianum and Pontius’ Life of Cyprian'
• Stephen Oakley (Cambridge): 3 - 'Cross-fertilization and the limits of the genealogical method: the case of Catullus'
• Stephen Oakley (Cambridge): 4 - 'What happens when incunables replace manuscripts?'
• Stephen Oakley (Cambridge): 5 - 'Some generalizations about the shape and geographical spread of Latin textual traditions'
• 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'
• The Encyclopédie Nouvelle: The 19th Century’s Magnificent Achievement and Glorious Failure
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• Dmitri Levitin: 'The Origins of Modern Eurocentrism: Erudition, Theology, Philosophy, and Race, 1700-1800'
• Paulina Kewes (Oxford): 'The First Tudor Succession Tract?'
• Alison Shell (UCL): 'Shakespeare and the Jesuits: Spiritual Direction in King Lear'
• Lizzie Swarbrick (Edinburgh): '“A fag end of the international medieval tradition”? – The Quality and Worth of Scottish Pre-Reformation Churches'
• Peter Davidson in collaboration with Jane Stevenson (Oxford): 'The Aberdeen Reformations: Glimpses of an Alternative History'
• Karl Gunther (Florida): '“My Simple Opinon”: Lay Belief and the Bible in the Reign of Henry VIII'
• Sophie Aldred (Oxford): 'Reading and Religion in the Civil Wars: Lord Robartes and the Library at Lanhydrock'
• John Colley (Cambridge): 'Early Christianity, Confessionalization, and the Translation of Greek in Mid-Tudor England'
• Scott Sowerby (Northwestern University): 'The Demographic Crisis and Religious Toleration in Britain and Europe after 1650'
• Kiri Paramore (Cork): 'Democracy in Early Modern East Asia? Japanese Chivalric "Solidarity" and Chinese Imperial "Meritocracy" in Contrast and Collaboration'
• Mikael Adolphson (Cambridge): 'The Disease of Money: Coins, Traders, and Agency in Twelfth-Century East Asia'
• Rebekah Clements (ICREA): 'Parades and Power in Seventeenth-Eighteenth Century Japan: The Daimyo of Satsuma's visits to a village of captured Korean potters within his domain'
• Ernest Caldwell (Goldsmiths): 'Still Chasing the Xiezhai: Mythology and Visual Representations of Justice in Chinese History'
• Duncan Bell (Cambridge): 'That Now Devastated Terrain? Utopianism in the Twentieth Century and Beyond'
• Michael Hunter (Birkbeck): 'Robert Boyle's Strange Reports: From the Outlandish to the Supernatural'
• Jeremy Schneider (Cambridge): 'Authenticating Nature: Fossils and Fakes, 1590-1620'
• Henrique Leitão (Lisbon): 'Global Lines and Nautical Cartography in the Iberian Oceanic Expansion'
• Lawrence Principe (Johns Hopkins University): 'Franciscan Spirituality, Transmutation, and the Antichrist: John of Rupescissa's Alchemical Thought and Practices'
• Laure Miolo (Oxford): 'Eclipse Prediction in Late Fifteenth-Century England: The Case of Lewis Caerleon'
• Zoe Screti (Oxford): 'Alchemy during the English Reformation: The Troubled Times of Thomas Charnock'
• Hochee Cho (Oxford): 'Intercolonial Health Cooperation in the Pacific Islands and the British Empire'
• Cameron Bowman (Oxford): 'Critiquing Roman Law: Oroonoko, Two Treatises, and the Shifting Justifications of Slavery'
• Simon MacDonald (UCL): 'Policing the "British" in Paris during the French Revolutionary Terror'
• Nicola Di Cosmo (Princeton): 'Historical research in the time of the Anthropocene: can climate data help us read the past (and, if so, how)?'
• Erika L Milam (Princeton): 'Red Squirrels, Big Data, and the Birth of Behavioral Ecology'
• Doreen Kembabazi (Warwick): 'Austerity, Experimentation and Opposition: The Global and Local Politics of Biomedical Contraception in Uganda'
• Agustí Nieto-Galan (Barcelona/Oxford): 'The Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL): a “République des lettres” in the twentieth century'
• Grace Heaton (Oxford): '"God is an Equal Opportunities Employer - Pity about the Church": Humour and the Campaign for Women's Ordination in the Church of England, 1978-1994'
• Jamie Gemmell (KCL): 'Reckoning with Race in Early Modern London'