Category Archives: Seminar Series

Conveners: Dmitri Levitin and Noel Malcolm As always, this year’s iteration of the Seminar in Early Modern Intellectual History will consist of papers on a wide range of subjects: philosophy, science, scholarship, religion, politics, and the social setting of early modern intellectual life. Due to the continued difficulties posed by the pandemic, at least one […]

Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar (EMPHASIS), organised by Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London) The EMPHASIS seminar focuses on the history of early modern philosophy (broadly construed), and the history of early modern science (including the occult sciences). It is one of the only seminars in London which addresses these themes together. […]

NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers: The Formation and Re-formation of the Book: 1450-1650 18 June – 15 July 2017, Huntington Library John N. King of the Ohio State University and Mark Rankin of James Madison University will direct a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers on continuity […]

Seminar Series: Religion and Human Nature in the European Enlightenment 18 January to 21 March 2016, King’s College London You are cordially invited to a new seminar programme at King’s College, London, co-sponsored by the Centre for Enlightenment Studies, and the Departments of History and Political Economy on ‘Religion and Human Nature in the European Enlightenment’. The […]

Seminar Series: Religion and Human Nature in the European Enlightenment King’s College London, 2016 All seminars commence at 17:15 and are on the Strand Campus of KCL. The seminars will be followed by a drinks reception and dinner – everyone is welcome to attend. For further information, please email the seminar organisers: Robin Mills and Robin Douglass. Monday 18th […]

The next EMPHASIS seminar will take place on 6 December 2014 in Room G35 (1st floor, Senate House, University of London) from 2.00-4.00 pm. The speakers will be Megan Kitching (Queen Mary, University of London): ‘Stubborn matter: Lucretian Atomism and the Poetry of Early-Modern Natural Philosophy’; and Cassie Gorman (University of Cambridge): ‘Feeling Inside the Atom in Seventeenth-Century Literature’. Refreshments will be provided. For more […]

The next EMPHASIS seminar will take place on 15 November 2014 in Room G35 (1st floor, Senate House, University of London) from 2.00-4.00 pm. The speaker will be Noah Moxham (University of St Andrews): ‘Authors, Editors and Newsmongers: Form, Genre and Editorship in the Early Philosophical Transactions (1665-1714)’. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, please see the EMPHASIS website. The purpose of EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy […]

The next EMPHASIS seminar will take place on 18 October 2014 in Room G35 (1st floor, Senate House, University of London) from 2.00-4.00 pm. The speaker will be Koji Yamamoto (King’s College London): ‘Medicine, Metals and Empire: A Paracelsian Chymist at the Rise of Public Science’. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, please see the EMPHASIS website. The purpose of EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy […]