Monthly Archives: November 2013

EMPHASIS Seminar: 7 December 2013

By James A T Lancaster | Published: November 30, 2013

The next EMPHASIS seminar will take place on 7 December 2013 in Room G37 (1st floor, Senate House, University of London) from 2.00-4.00 pm. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, please see the EMPHASIS website. Dario Tessicini (University of Durham): ‘Harmony vs. Unity: Giordano Bruno, Copernicus, and the abandonment of circular uniformity’   The purpose of EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and […]

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CFP: Using, Misusing and Abusing Latin in the Early Modern Period

By James A T Lancaster | Published: November 26, 2013

Using, Misusing and Abusing Latin in the Early Modern Period 25 April 2014, University of Warwick Keynote: Dr Andrew Taylor, Churchill College, University of Cambridge. The organisers invite proposals for 20 minute papers on using, misusing and abusing Latin and the classical tradition in the early modern period and early modern studies. The event will […]

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CFA Reminder: Special Issue of Preternature

By James A T Lancaster | Published: November 26, 2013

Shadows of the Mind: Discourses of Superstition and Nature in the Early Modern World Special Issue of Preternature Edited by James A.T. Lancaster and Richard Raiswell The advent of novel approaches in early modernity to understanding and mastering nature—from natural magic, to natural history, to natural philosophy—motivated discourse about how best to distill true knowledge (vera scientia) from an increasing […]

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An Intellectual History of Genius

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

An Intellectual History of Genius Ideas Roadshow has recently released an issue devoted to the intellectual history of ‘genius’. “Deconstructing Genius” features a 93-minute conversation with Florida State University’s Darrin McMahon in which he discusses the evolution of the concept of genius, evil geniuses, the unacknowledged genius, and much more. As per all of our issues, […]

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Intellectual Hinterlands: Keynotes Announced

By James A T Lancaster | Published: November 20, 2013

Intellectual Hinterlands : The 2014 Conference of the International Society for Intellectual History 25-27 June 2014, Victoria College, University of Toronto The Conference Committee is pleased to announce that the keynotes for Intellectual Hinterlands will be Sarah Hutton (Aberystwyth University), Alan Charles Kors (University of Pennsylvania) & Martin E. Jay (University of California, Berkeley). Over the past few decades, intellectual history has undergone significant changes […]

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From ‘Encyclopédie’ to ‘Encyclopédie méthodique’

By James A T Lancaster | Published: November 19, 2013

From ‘Encyclopédie’ to ‘Encyclopédie méthodique’: Revision and Expansion Kathleen Hardesty Doig The last of the great Enlightenment encyclopedias, Charles Joseph Panckoucke’s Encyclopédie méthodique was originally conceived as an innovative revision of the Encyclopédie and the Supplément. Arranged in a series of subject-specific dictionaries, it began to appear in 1782 and was completed 50 years later, […]

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Free Issue of Zygon: Intelligent Discourse on Intelligent Design

By James A T Lancaster | Published: November 18, 2013

Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science has just published a free online ‘virtual issue’, titled “Intelligent Discourse on Intelligent Design”. This virtual issue consists of articles already published, with a new editorial. The articles, by Larry Arnhart, Ernan McMullin, John Hedley Brooke, John S. Wilkins, Christopher Southgate, Michael Ruse, Doren Recker, Helen De Cruz and Johan De Smedt, Erkki Vesa Rope Kojonen, James A.T. Lancaster, Gregory R. […]

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IHR: Vol. 23, No. 4 (December 2013) Now Available

By James A T Lancaster | Published: November 8, 2013

Intellectual History Review, Vol. 23, No. 4, 01 Dec 2013 is now available on Taylor & Francis Online. The latest issue of Intellectual History Review, the journal of the International Society for Intellectual History is now available online and in print. Intellectual History Review is edited by Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck) and Stephen Gaukroger (Sydney). This new issue contains the […]

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CFP: Transferring the Soviet New Man: Eastern and Central European Perspectives

By James A T Lancaster | Published: November 7, 2013

CFP: Transferring the Soviet New Man: Eastern and Central European Perspectives 13-14 June 2014, Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania Central to the Soviet experiment was the refashioning of man into what had often been referred to as the Homo Sovieticus. In the past decades, a growing body of new scholarship has focused on this very […]

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2014 NEH Summer Seminar: “Tudor Books and Readers”

By James A T Lancaster | Published: November 5, 2013

2014 NEH Summer Seminar: “Tudor Books and Readers” 23 June – 26 July 2014 John N. King of The Ohio State University and Mark Rankin of James Madison University will direct a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers on the construction and dissemination of books and the nature of […]

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