Monthly Archives: November 2015

Conference: Thomas Browne and His World

By James A T Lancaster | Published: November 28, 2015

Conference: Truth and Error in Early Modern Science: Thomas Browne and his World 22-23 January 2016, The Huntington Library Featuring twelve leading experts in the literary, philosophical, and scientific culture of seventeenth-century England, this conference focuses on the works and worlds of Sir Thomas Browne, the physician, essayist, and naturalist who was one of the […]

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Book Announcement: Domesticity in the Making of Modern Science

By James A T Lancaster | Published: November 28, 2015

Book Announcement: Domesticity in the Making of Modern Science Edited by Donald L. Opitz, Staffan Bergwik, Brigitte Van Tiggelen Announcing Domesticity in the Making of Modern Science, edited by Donald L. Opitz, Staffan Bergwik, Brigitte Van Tiggelen. The fourteen chapters of this volume directly challenge the strong historiographical opposition between science and domesticity by analysing the […]

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Book Announcement: A World Enchanted: Magic and the Margins

By James A T Lancaster | Published: November 28, 2015

A World Enchanted: Magic and the Margins Edited by Julie Davies and Michael Pickering Announcing the second volume in the Melbourne Historical Journal Research Series: A World Enchanted: Magic and the Margins. This collection of essays by students, past and present, from the University of Melbourne celebrates the life and scholarly work of Professor Charles Zika. It commemorates […]

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CFP: International Society for Historians of Atheism, Secularism, and Humanism Inaugural Conference

By James A T Lancaster | Published: November 28, 2015

CFP: International Society for Historians of Atheism, Secularism, and Humanism Inaugural Conference 4-5 June 2016, Conway Hall in London, UK Interest in the history of atheism, secularism, and humanism has taken off in the past decade. Previously, only a handful of academics dealt with the history of unbelief in any systematic way, but in recent years […]

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CFP: Nation/Boundaries/Place: Reappraising the Global Sphere

By James A T Lancaster | Published: November 28, 2015

CFP: Nation/Boundaries/Place: Reappraising the Global Sphere 2-3 June 2016, University of Oslo In the 1980s and 1990s, the swift decline of the national space as the basis for research in the humanities and the social sciences cleared the way for theories of globalization and globality, and for the subordination of the national. In the subsequent […]

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Registration Open: AMPRAW 2015

By James A T Lancaster | Published: November 28, 2015

Registrations Open: AMPRAW 2015 Conference Dates: 14-15 December 2015 It is with great pleasure that we announce that registration for the fifth Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World is now open. AMPRAW 2015 will be a two-day conference providing UK and international postgraduate students from all disciplines with the opportunity […]

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Charles Schmitt Prize 2016

By James A T Lancaster | Published: November 20, 2015

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 Charles B. Schmitt (1933-1986) 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 journal Intellectual […]

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Rethinking Europe: Keynotes Announced

By James A T Lancaster | Published: November 7, 2015

Rethinking Europe in Intellectual History 3-5 May 2016, University of Crete Rethinking Europe in Intellectual History (3-5 May, University of Crete), the 2016 conference of the International Society for Intellectual History, is pleased to announce that our two keynotes will be David Armitage (Harvard) and Etienne Balibar (Paris-Ouest Nanterre/Kingston University). In recent debates regarding the status of intellectual history, the […]

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