Monthly Archives: October 2013

Charles Schmitt Prize 2014

By James A T Lancaster | Published: October 25, 2013

As the result of generous donations from an anonymous donor and our publisher (Routledge), the International Society for Intellectual History is offering, on an annual basis, a prize to honour the contribution of the late Charles Schmitt to intellectual history. The prize is £250, plus £50 worth of Routledge books, and a year’s free membership of the ISIH with a subscription to the Society’s quarterly […]

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CFP: Time and Early Modern Thought

By James A T Lancaster | Published: October 23, 2013

CFP: Time and Early Modern Thought Northern Renaissance Roses Seminar, 2014 10 May 2014, York Minster Old Palace Library Run jointly by the universities of Lancaster and York, this seminar will look at ‘time’ in the renaissance. We will consider this broadly, but papers would be welcome, for example, on any of the following: Was […]

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CFP: Religion in the Scottish Enlightenment

By James A T Lancaster | Published: October 23, 2013

CSSP Spring Workshop: Religion in the Scottish Enlightenment 14–16 March 2014, Princeton Theological Seminary A common perception of the Enlightenment holds that it played a key intellectual role in initiating a decline in religious belief and adherence across Europe, and Hume’s Dialogues concerning Natural Religion are widely regarded as a seminal text in this connection. Yet Hume was in […]

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CFP: HOPOS Meeting 2014

By James A T Lancaster | Published: October 17, 2013

CFP: HOPOS Meeting 2014 3-6 July 2014, Ghent University The program committee for HOPOS 2014 invites scholars to submit paper and symposium proposals for its tenth meeting, to be held in Ghent, July 3-6, 2014. Keynote Speakers: Dennis DesChene (Washington University, St Louis, U.S.A.) and Cristina Chimisso (The Open University, U.K.) Proposal submission deadline: November 1, 2013 (with […]

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Changing Hearts: Performing Jesuit Emotions between Europe, Asia, and the Americas

By James A T Lancaster | Published: October 15, 2013

Changing Hearts: Performing Jesuit Emotions between Europe, Asia, and the Americas 7-8 March 2014, Trinity College, Cambridge Announcing the forthcoming Symposium at Trinity College, Cambridge: Changing Hearts: Performing Jesuit Emotions between Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The early modern Society of Jesus excited and channeled emotion through sacred oratory, Latin poetry, plays, operas, art and architecture; […]

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CFP: Between Medical Collections and their Audiences

By James A T Lancaster | Published: October 14, 2013

CFP: Between Medical Collections and their Audiences – EAMHMS Congress 4-6 September 2014, London The European Association of Museums of the History of Medical Sciences Congress biennial meeting will be held in London, September 4th – 6th 2014, jointly hosted between the Science Museum, the Royal College of Surgeons (Hunterian Museum) & the Wellcome Collection. The theme […]

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CFP: The Promises of Science. Historical Perspectives

By James A T Lancaster | Published: October 10, 2013

CFP: The Promises of Science. Historical Perspectives 7-9 April 2014, San Sebastian/Donostia, Spain Ever since the famous frontispiece of Francis Bacon’s Instauratio Magna, modern science has been portrayed in terms of future promises. The vessels daring to sail beyond the Pillars of Hercules were an obvious metaphor of the wonders to come if a new epistemic […]

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Digital Edition of the Manuscripts of Thomas Harriot Now Available

By James A T Lancaster | Published: October 10, 2013

Digital Edition of the Manuscripts of Thomas Harriot We are delighted to announce that the digital edition of the manuscripts of Thomas Harriot (1560–1621) is now up and running at: http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/content/scientific_revolution/harriot. The editors are Matthias Schemmel (mechanics), Jacqueline Stedall (algebra, arithmetic, navigation, sources), and Robert Goulding (optics). The edition is hosted by ECHO (European Cultural Heritage […]

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Adventures of the Symbolic

By James A T Lancaster | Published: October 10, 2013

Warren Breckman, Adventures of the Symbolic (Columbia University Press, 2013) Warren Breckman’s new book, Adventures of the Symbolic: Postmarxism and Radical Democracy has appeared with Columbia University Press, 2013. The book explores a body of theoretical work on ‘radical democracy’ shaped by the collapse of Marxism in the last decades of the twentieth century. It tracks […]

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Summistae: The Commentary Tradition on Thomas Aquinas’s ‘Summa Theologiae’

By James A T Lancaster | Published: October 10, 2013

Conference: Summistae: The Commentary Tradition on Thomas Aquinas’s ‘Summa Theologiae’ – 16th to 18th Century 17-19 October 2013, Universidade do Porto The Summa Theologiae is one of the classical works of the history of theology and philosophy. Beyond its influence in the Middle Ages, the Summa marked the teaching and the making of theology from […]

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