Category Archives: Conferences and Workshops

Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe. Beyond Production, Circulation and Consumption 28-31 May 2014, Erfurt/Gotha, Germany This international conference is designed as a reflection on the history of the early modern book in Europe, and aims to open discussion between experts that are working in the interdisciplinary field of book history. The conference will take […]

‘Matters of Thought: models and knowledge-production in the early-modern world’ Monday 16 September The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace. Organised by Dr Simona Valeriani, V&A. Co-sponsored by the Victoria and Albert Museum, this one-day workshop will focus on the role played by models in the production and circulation of knowledge, and their function as ‘loci’ […]

Erudition and Confessionalisation in Early Modern Europe 20 September, Old Combination Room, Trinity College, Cambridge This one-day colloquium brings together an international group of leading historians of scholarship and historians of religion to examine how historical erudition was shaped by, and in turn shaped, confessional identity and broader patterns of religious change in early modern […]

The Fragmented World of Psychoanalysis: Is Dialogue Possible? Date: Friday 26th (6.30 – 9 + wine reception) & Saturday 27th, July, 2013 (10 – 6) Venue: Royal College of Art, Jay Mews Entrance At this International Conference run by The Higher Education Network for Research and Information in Psychoanalysis we will explore whether the competing […]

Workshop: Your Right To Know 28-29 November 2013, Roosevelt Study Center On November 28-29, 2013 the Roosevelt Study Center and the University College Roosevelt in Middelburg will host a workshop focusing on those public educators and commentators who promoted ideas on active citizenship through the mass media in the early years of the cold war. The […]

Ancient Cosmos: Concord among Worlds A CAMNE Conference at Durham University, 20-22 September 2013 Cosmos is a term that encompasses a wide variety of meanings and applications in the ancient world, each of which, broadly speaking, implies the ‘order’ that things can have.  As the sophist Gorgias of Leontini attests, cosmos can refer to the most proper (or best) […]

Early Modern Approaches to the Imagination (17 July 2013, University of Warwick) This one day interdisciplinary colloquium seeks to bring together scholars working on literature, history, and philosophy to examine early modern ideas about imagination in various, overlapping spheres. Cultural discourses shaping ideas about the imagination were extremely diverse in the early modern period. Aristotelian, […]

London Summer School in Intellectual History 9-12 September 2013 at University College London The London Summer School in Intellectual History is a rare opportunity for graduate students to acquire further training in the discipline and its different methodologies. Running from 9 to 12 September, the summer school will include: Special workshops Masterclasses Feedback on current […]