Monthly Archives: November 2016

CFP: Revisit Vegueta: “Messianism, Apocalyticism and the End of the World”

By James A T Lancaster | Published: November 27, 2016

CFP: Revista Vegueta (Issue 17, 2017): “Messianism, Apocalyticism and the End of the World” Submissions Due: 31 January 2017 This dossier of the journal Vegueta aims to collect contributions regarding messianism, Apocalypticism, and the end of the world. All three notions, which embrace the idea of Millenarianism, have evolved whether as a result of research […]

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Hobbes Studies Essay Competition 2017

By James A T Lancaster | Published: November 27, 2016

Hobbes Studies Essay Competition 2017 Submissions Due: 3 March 2017 Hobbes Studies is pleased to invite submissions to the 2017 Hobbes Studies Essay Competition. Submissions should treat the philosophical, political historical, literary, religious, or scientific aspects of the thought of Thomas Hobbes and be no more than 10,000 words. Essays are invited from researchers in […]

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CFP: From Scotland to the South of the Mediterranean. The Thought of Adam Smith Through Europe and Beyond

By James A T Lancaster | Published: November 27, 2016

CFP: From Scotland to the South of the Mediterranean. The Thought of Adam Smith Through Europe and Beyond 6-7 July 2017, University of Palermo Adam Smith is one of those authors who has left a very profound sign in the history of ideas. Yet, the reception of Smithian ideas was not a unique and uniform process, […]

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TORCH research network at Oxford: ‘Crisis, Extremes and Apocalypse’

By James A T Lancaster | Published: November 27, 2016

TORCH research network at Oxford: ‘Crisis, Extremes and Apocalypse’ Research Project The ‘Crisis, extremes and Apocalypse’ research network was created in September 2016 under the aegis of the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and aims to illuminate as many perspectives as possible on these themes via a year-long seminar series, workshops, high-profile speakers, a blog, […]

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Europe and the East: Self and Other in the History of the European Idea

By James A T Lancaster | Published: November 27, 2016

CFP: Europe and the East: Self and Other in the History of the European Idea 14-16 June 2017, University of East Anglia Throughout the centuries, Europe has constantly defined and imagined itself in opposition to or in conjunction with the East. From Montesquieu and Boulanger’s Oriental despotism to Marx’s Asiatic mode of production and twentieth-century […]

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