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Manipulating Flora: Seventeenth-Century Botanical Practices and Natural Philosophy Early Science and Medicine 23 (2018) This special issue aims to explore the philosophical investigations of flora in the seventeenth century. In the early modern period, natural philosophers regarded plants not just as bodies that are collected for their rarity, curiosity or medical uses, but also as […]

CfP: “The great protector of wits.” D’Holbach 1789-2019 9-11 May 2019, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen 230 years after his death, Baron Paul Henri Thiry d’Holbach (1723-1789) continues to be a challenging figure of the European Enlightenment. Not only was he a materialistic philosopher, a champion of anticlericalism, the author of the monumental Système de la nature known as […]

CfP: HOPOS Special Issue: Animism and Its Discontents: Soul-Based Explanations in Early-Modern Philosophy and Medicine Submission Deadline: October 31, 2019 This special issue will explore varieties of animism in the natural philosophy of Western Europe from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Our focus is “natural-philosophical animism,” the position that the soul, along with its […]

Conference: Rethinking Intellectual History 7-9 April 2015, University of Sydney The Sydney Intellectual History Network at the University of Sydney invite you to the Rethinking Intellectual History Conference. Rethinking Intellectual History is also affiliated with the International Society for Intellectual History (note, though, that it is not an official conference of the ISIH). The conference theme […]

CFP: Early Modern Women on Metaphysics, Religion and Science 21-23 March 2016, University of Groningen During the early modern period (c. 1600-1800) women were involved in many debates that tangled together metaphysics, religion and science. The women included figures such as Margaret Cavendish, Emilie Du Châtelet, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, and Damaris Cudworth Masham. The debates […]

CFP: Pensamiento decolonial, historiografía latinoamericana y milenarismo X COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL TRADICIÓN Y MODERNIDADEN EL MUNDO IBEROAMERICANO XIV CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL NUESTRO PATRIMONIO COMÚN Cádiz, del 2 al 5 de septiembre de 2014 Mediante este panel queremos reflexionar sobre las relaciones entre colonización, capitalismo y modernidad. El entendimiento de estas tres ideas en conjunto ha llevado al […]

Renaissance Culture and Japan’s Christian Century (1550–1650) A research project of the Japanese Association for Renaissance Studies (JARS) From the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, Europe underwent a remarkable intellectual transformation, often called the Scientific Revolution. Meanwhile, Japan experienced its first direct encounter with Western culture and science. Renaissance Culture and Japan’s Christian Century is a […]

Because of illness, the next EMPHASIS seminar, has been CANCELLED. For more information, please see the EMPHASIS website. Speaker: Dario Tessicini (University of Durham): ‘Harmony vs. Unity: Giordano Bruno, Copernicus, and the abandonment of circular uniformity’. The purpose of EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination) is to provide a London forum for scholars […]

The Warburg Institute’s Annual Programme for events taking place from January to June 2013 is now available and can be downloaded from: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/mnemosyne/AnnualProgramme2012_13.pdf. Alternatively you can pick up a copy from the brochure stand near the front door of the Institute.

The ISIH is delighted to issue the CFP for its twelfth international conference: The Importance of Learning: Liberal Education and Scholarship in Historical Perspective, Princeton University, 5-7 June 2013 (please note new date). The ideal of liberal education, long a mainstay of Western ideals of higher education, is suddenly under attack the world over. In […]