Category Archives: Calls for Papers

CfP: Scientiae: Early Modern Knowledge 12-15 June 2019, Queen’s University, Belfast Scientiae is the interdisciplinary conference on intellectual culture, 1400-1800. It is centred on, but not limited to, developments in the early-modern natural sciences. Philosophers, historians, literary scholars and others are invited to share their perspectives on this vital period. This conference at Queen’s University, […]

CfP: Religious Heritage in a Diverse Europe: New Directions in Practice, Policy & Scholarship 19-21 June 2019, Groningen This conference will bring into conversation scholars, museum curators, heritage professionals, visual artists, as well as leaders of religious and secular organizations. Among the scholarly disciplines that we hope will contribute is intellectual history. Heritage is new area of […]

CfP: Civil Religion from Antiquity to the Enlightenment 23-24 October 2019, Newcastle University Civil religion – the belief that public religion could be subsumed within the administration of the state – has long been recognised by intellectual historians of the early modern period as a feature of republican discourse, most often conceived of as an […]

CfP: Social Technologies and Global Knowledge Economies 1750-1850 4-6 April 2019, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen The remarkable density of connections that characterized knowledge production between 1750 and 1850 has long figured in definitions of the “rise of modernity.” The commerce of ideas through correspondence networks and print as well as manuscript circulation in salons, learned societies and […]

CfP: Irish Philosophy in the Age of Berkeley 5-6 April 2019, Trinity College Dublin Scholars in any academic discipline are invited to submit abstracts of papers to be presented at the Irish Philosophy in the Age of Berkeley conference, to be held in Trinity College Dublin, 5 and 6 April 2019. The conference aims to explore […]

CfP: Our Place in the Cosmos?: Humanity, Spirituality and the Awesome Universe Science, Religion & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal One often cited premise is that the work of modern scientists like Copernicus and Darwin served to remove our home planet and humanity from their special place in the cosmos as previously upheld by religious and […]

CfP: The Body and Politics (Graduate Conference) 18-19 March 2019, Pembroke College, Cambridge Keynote speaker: Dr Anna Becker (University of Copenhagen) The 2019 Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History will be on the theme ‘The Body and Politics’. We invite graduate students to consider the multifaceted ways in which the body can be […]

CfP: Ninth Annual RefoRC Conference on Early Modern Christianity 15-17 May 2019, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII, Bologna May 15-17, 2019, the Ninth Annual RefoRC Conference will take place in Bologna, hosted by the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII. Short paper proposals on all disciplines related to Early Modern Christianity, ca. 1450-1650, such […]

CfP: LECTIO Doctoral Seminar Jill Kraye Seminar Date: 17 May 2018 Every year, LECTIO awards the LECTIO Chair to a renowned scholar specialized in one of the disciplines studied by LECTIO researchers. Holder of the 2018 LECTIO Chair is Prof. Jill Kraye (Warburg Institute). On Thursday 17 May 2018, she will give a doctoral seminar […]