Category Archives: Conferences and Workshops

Sir John Cheke and the Cambridge Connection in Tudor England 19-20 July 2014, St John’s College, Cambridge 2014 marks the quincentenary of the birth of one of the most significant, but neglected, scholars of Renaissance England, Sir John Cheke (1514-57), fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, and the first Regius Professor of Greek in the […]

Music, Emotions and Well-being: historical and scientific perspectives 20 June 2014, Queen Mary University of London Music is commonly treated as an emotional stimulant that can calm, console or energise. That music can and frequently does contribute to an individual’s sense of well-being is commonly accepted. This relationship between music, the emotions and well-being has […]

Conference: Let There Be Enlightenment: The Religious and Mystical Sources of Rationality 16-17 May 2014, Stanford University The field of Enlightenment studies has recently undergone a series of debates regarding the role of religion in 18th-century thought, leading to reconsiderations of the supposed predominance of secular rationalism during this period. The traditional definition of “the […]

Conference: Scholarship, Science and Religion in the Age of Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) and Henry Savile (1549-1622) 1-3 July 2014, Merton College, Oxford Henry Savile (1549-1622) and Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) were two contrasting giants of late humanism. Savile, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, was a key figure in the history of English science and a formidable presence […]

Early Modern Medicine of the Mind 30-31 May 2014, Warburg Institute, London Speakers will include: Fabrizio Baldassarri (Università di Parma), Fabrizio Bigotti (Warburg Institute), Davide Cellamare (Radboud University Nijmegen), Annalisa Ceron (Università del Piemonte Orientale), Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest), Claire Crignon (Paris Sorbonne), Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute), Angus Gowland (UCL), Rina Knoeff (University of Groningen), […]

London Summer School in Intellectual History 1-4 September 2014, UCL and QMUL Deadline to apply: 12 May 2014. 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 1 to 4 September 2014, the summer school will include: Special […]