Category Archives: Conferences and Workshops

International Workshop on Grotius and His Place in the History of Moral and Political Philosophy 5-6 April 2017, Institute of Philosophy in Leuven You are kindly invited to the international workshop on Grotius and His Place in the History of Moral and Political Philosophy, which shall take place at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven (Belgium) on 5 […]

Virtù, Stato, Sovranità. Political Thought in Italy c. 1300-c.1800 20 June 2017, Christ’s College, Cambridge A major conference on this subject will take place in Christ’s College, Cambridge on 20 June 2017 (9.30 am-6.45 pm). The participants include Melissa Calaresu, Serena Ferente, James Hankins, Jill Kraye, Giorgio Lizzul, John Robertson, Quentin Skinner, Peter Stacey, Nicolas Stone Villani, […]

Workshop: Dartmouth History Institute in Intellectual History Seminar Dates: 11-15 June 2017 This summer (11-15 June 2017), Dartmouth College will inaugurate its first annual Dartmouth History Institute, a week-long summer history seminar. The theme will be European intellectual history from the seventeenth century to the present. Designed for graduate students and recent PhDs, participants will […]

Conference: Priestcraft: Early Modern Variations on the Theme of Sacerdotal Imposture 1-2 September 2016, CRASSH, Cambridge Between older forms of anticlericalism which impugned priests for laxity and later forms which questioned their loyalty to the nation, the early modern period witnessed the emergence of its own distinct claim, namely: that priests concocted and peddled fraudulent […]

Conference: The Sophistic Renaissance 26 September 2016, Ca’ Foscari University This International Conference aims at exploring the influence and diffusion of the ancient sophistic traditions in early-modern Europe, fostering an interdisciplinary discussion among scholars and enhancing a new network for a future collaboration across fields. The Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscari […]

CFP: 60 Years of Essentially Contested Concepts 12 December 2016, University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh’s Philosophy, History, and Literature, Languages and Culture schools, The Creation of Reality Group (CRAG), The Centre for the Study of Modern Conflict (CSMC), EIDYN, and the Institut Français UK celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of W.B. Gallie’s influential paper, […]

Conference: Imagining Apocalypse 18 June 2016, University of Oxford Organised in collaboration with Dr Catherine Redford, the theme of this year’s RECSO conference is ‘Imagining Apocalypse’. 2016 is a key anniversary for scholars studying long eighteenth-century depictions of apocalypse as it marks two hundred years since the famous ‘year without a summer’ of 1816, when […]