The next EMPHASIS seminar, Francis Bacon: Mind and Matter, will take place on 12 January 2013 in Room 104 (Senate House, University of London) from 2.00-4.00 pm. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, please see the EMPHASIS website. Speakers: James A T Lancaster (Warburg Institute), ‘”How farre the Hvmovrs and Affects of the Bodie […]
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Literature, Ideas & Society Seminar: 28 November 2012
The first session of the 2012-2013 Literature, Ideas & Society seminar, Fiction and the Cosmos, will take place at the Warburg Institute in London on Wednesday 28 November at 17.15. The speakers will be Isabelle Moreau (French Department, UCL) and Frédérique Aït-Touati (St John’s College, Oxford). For more information, please see the Literature, Ideas & Society website.
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Medieval Philosophy in the UK
A new group of scholars in the UK with interests in medieval philosophy has been established with the intent of coming together for a regular series of informal meetings to discuss work and share ideas. The inaugural meeting was held in June 2012 at The British Academy. Due to limitations of space attendance was by […]
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EMPHASIS Seminar: 8 December 2012
The next EMPHASIS seminar, Trade and Science in the late Seventeenth and early Eighteenth centuries, will take place on 8 December 2012 in Room 261 (Senate House, University of London) from 2.00-4.00 pm. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, please see the EMPHASIS website. Speakers: Simon Mills (University of Cambridge), ‘The Royal Society and the […]
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2013 Conference Keynotes Announced
The International Society for Intellectual History is pleased to announce that the keynote speakers for its 2013 conference, The Importance of Learning: Liberal Education and Scholarship in Historical Perspective, will be William Clark (UCSD) and Anthony Grafton (Princeton). Please see our poster detailing the most recent information. We hope that you will consider joining us in Princeton […]
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CFP: Philosophical Correspondence and the Republic of Letters
The 11th Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, which will take place in Bran, Transylvania on 2–8 July 2011, is currently seeking contributions. Organised by the Research Centre for the Foundations of Modern Thought (FME) at the University of Bucharest in collaboration with the Philosophy Department at Princeton University, this year’s event takes as its […]
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CFP: Mihajlov’s Quest for Democracy and Human Rights
Proposals are invited for the international symposium The First Freedoms: Mihajlov’s Quest for Democracy and Human Rights, which will take place at the Hilton Pasadena, California on 4–7 August 2011. This interdisciplinary gathering will re-assess the life, work, and legacy of Mihajlo Mihajlov (1934–2010), a leading writer and dissident in the former Yugoslavia. The deadline for […]
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CFP: Intellectual Geography: Comparative Studies, 1550-1700
Proposals are invited for Intellectual Geography: Comparative Studies, 1550-1700, to be held at St Anne’s College of the University of Oxford on 5–7 September 2011. The conference, which forms part of the Mellon-funded research project Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters, will explore prospects for an analytical geography of the […]
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CFP: History of Economics Society Conference
Contributions are being sought for the next History of Economics Society Conference, will be take place on 16–20 June 2011 at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. You are encouraged add your voice to the historical contemplation of economic thought and action by submitting a paper or proposing a session. The deadline for paper and panel proposals […]
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CFP: Knowledge and the Emotions in Intellectual History
Paper and panel proposals are still being accepted for our 2011 conference, Passionate Minds: Knowledge and the Emotions in Intellectual History, which will take place at the University of Bucharest on 26–28 May 2011. The event will address the topic of the interplay of emotions and cognition as it bears on historical views of epistemology, […]
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