Monthly Archives: March 2016

CFP: The Persona of the Historian: Repertoires and Performances

By James A T Lancaster | Published: March 18, 2016

CFP: The Persona of the Historian: Repertoires and Performances, 1800-2000 26-27 January 2017, Leiden University What does it take to be a good historian? This conference, scheduled to take place at Leiden University on 26-27 January 2017, reexamines the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century historical scholarship through the prism of scholarly personae. It seeks to […]

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Rethinking Europe: Registration and Programme

By James A T Lancaster | Published: March 18, 2016

Rethinking Europe: Registration and Programme 3-5 May 2016, University of Crete Registration and accommodation details, as well as a preliminary programme, are now available for the 2016 conference of the International Society for Intellectual History, Rethinking Europe in Intellectual History. In recent debates regarding the status of intellectual history, the emergence of new academic objects such as […]

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CFP: Sacred Polities, Natural Law and the Law of Nations

By James A T Lancaster | Published: March 17, 2016

CFP: Sacred Polities, Natural Law and the Law of Nations in the 16th-17th Centuries 10-12 November 2016, Central European University, Budapest Modern natural law self-consciously styled itself as protestant. It is evident that the catholic theological tradition contributed in its own ways and along different interfaces to this modern legal underpinning of both state and […]

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Registration Open: Fate and Fortune in Renaissance Thought

By James A T Lancaster | Published: March 17, 2016

Registration Open: Fate and Fortune in Renaissance Thought 27 May 2016, University of Warwick The aim of the colloquium is to explore the significance of the concepts of fate and fortune in Renaissance thought. While having a significant medieval background in theological texts and in The Consolation of Philosophy and other philosophical treatises, these concepts […]

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Professor Richard Bourke’s Inaugural Lecture

By James A T Lancaster | Published: March 17, 2016

Professor Richard Bourke’s Inaugural Lecture 3 May 2016, 6.30 pm Professor Richard Bourke’s Inaugural Lecture, “‘And the Glory of Europe is Extinguished Forever’: What was the Old Regime?”, will take place on Tuesday 3 May 2016, 6.30pm, at Queen Mary University of London. Historians tend to explain the origins of modern Europe in terms of the […]

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CFP: Imagined Worlds in the History of Political Thought

By James A T Lancaster | Published: March 12, 2016

Imagined Worlds in the History of Political Thought (Seventh Annual London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought) 30 June – 1 July 2016, University College London The quincentenary of the publication of Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) occasions renewed reflections on imagined worlds in the history of political ideas. Thinkers have long wrestled with […]

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