Monthly Archives: January 2018

CfP: Historicism as a Polemical Concept in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1890-1980

By James A T Lancaster | Published: January 30, 2018

CfP: Historicism as a Polemical Concept in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1890-1980 30-31 August 2018, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences On August 30 and 31, 2018 a conference “Historicism as a Polemical Concept in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1890-1980” will take place at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in […]

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Conference: Re-inventing Liberal Universalisms

By James A T Lancaster | Published: January 30, 2018

Conference: Re-inventing Liberal Universalisms 26-27 February 2018, University of Greifswald Liberalism, even when considered as a manifold and plural political ideology, is still widely regarded as having universal reach in its concepts and arguments. “Universal” here refers to the interweaving of abstract terms assuring continuity throughout fluctuating political agendas. Due to the important role of rationality […]

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CfP: Locating the Ancient World in Early Modern Subversive Thought

By James A T Lancaster | Published: January 30, 2018

CfP: Locating the Ancient World in Early Modern Subversive Thought 12-14 April 2018, Newcastle University Dichotomies have long been used to define the intellectual developments of early modern Europe – reason and faith; authority and subversion; science and humanism; radicalism and tradition; heterodoxy and orthodoxy – with classical thought usually located on the side of […]

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CfP: Aesthetics and Poetics in the History of Political Thought – Cambridge Graduate Conference

By James A T Lancaster | Published: January 30, 2018

CfP: Aesthetics and Poetics in the History of Political Thought 13 June 2018, Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History The uneasy distinctions between poetics, aesthetics and politics raise many important issues for historians of political thought. Can we sharply distinguish political and aesthetic concerns throughout history? Are political theories always determined by […]

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Hume Scholar Facebook and Twitter Pages

By James A T Lancaster | Published: January 30, 2018

Resource: Hume Scholar Facebook and Twitter Pages Hume Scholar is a Facebook and Twitter page dedicated to research about David Hume, the Scottish Enlightenment and related themes. It publicises information about new papers and books, call for abstracts and papers, book reviews, etc. We invite scholars and students to share with Hume Scholar all news and […]

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CfP: Ideas of Poverty in the Age of Enlightenment

By James A T Lancaster | Published: January 30, 2018

CfP: Ideas of Poverty in the Age of Enlightenment 5-6 September 2018, King’s College London Although the Age of Enlightenment saw the development of radically new approaches to the study of society and politics, our current understanding is that the existence of poverty was rarely problematized by eighteenth-century thinkers – notwithstanding that ‘the poor’ made up […]

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