Monthly Archives: May 2017

CfP: Singular Acts: The Role of the Individual in the Transformation of Collective Culture 16 November 2017, The Warburg Institute The Warburg Institute will host its second Postgraduate Symposium on 16 November 2017. This year’s Symposium focuses on particular personalities who acted for or against historical and cultural change. The Early Modern period saw seismic […]

CfP: Epistemic Vices: Continuities and Discontinuities, 1600-2000 25-26 January 2018, Leiden University Impartiality, objectivity, honesty, and accuracy are qualities that generations of scholars have regarded as necessary for the pursuit of scholarly inquiry. Philosophers call them epistemic virtues, because these virtues facilitate the pursuit of epistemic aims such as knowledge and understanding of reality. As such, […]