Monthly Archives: July 2018

Conference: Vegetative Powers: Endowing Bodily Life from the Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period

By James A T Lancaster | Published: July 12, 2018

Conference: Vegetative Powers: Endowing Bodily Life from the Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period 12-13 September 2018, Università di Padova The conference aims at analysing the various attempts to deal with the bodily activities traditionally attributed to vegetative powers—nutrition, generation, sleep, and metabolism—that served for the understanding and definition of life. Vegetative powers are a key […]

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Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (3 years)

By James A T Lancaster | Published: July 9, 2018

Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (3 years) Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at The University of Queensland is dedicated to high level research in a range of humanities disciplines, with particular strengths in Intellectual and Literary History, History of Science, History of […]

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CfP: The Body and Politics (Graduate Conference)

By James A T Lancaster | Published: July 9, 2018

CfP: The Body and Politics (Graduate Conference) 18-19 March 2019, Pembroke College, Cambridge Keynote speaker: Dr Anna Becker (University of Copenhagen) The 2019 Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History will be on the theme ‘The Body and Politics’. We invite graduate students to consider the multifaceted ways in which the body can be […]

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CfP: Ninth Annual RefoRC Conference on Early Modern Christianity

By James A T Lancaster | Published: July 8, 2018

CfP: Ninth Annual RefoRC Conference on Early Modern Christianity 15-17 May 2019, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII, Bologna May 15-17, 2019, the Ninth Annual RefoRC Conference will take place in Bologna, hosted by the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII. Short paper proposals on all disciplines related to Early Modern Christianity, ca. 1450-1650, such […]

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Conference: Ideas of Poverty in the Age of Enlightenment

By James A T Lancaster | Published: July 8, 2018

Conference: 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 comprehending and reforming society and politics, our current understanding is that the existence of poverty was rarely problematized by eighteenth-century thinkers, writers and officials – notwithstanding that […]

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Event: Manuscript Workshop on Professor Annelien de Dijn’s Freedom: An Unruly History

By James A T Lancaster | Published: July 8, 2018

Call for Participation: Manuscript Workshop on Professor Annelien de Dijn (University of Utrecht), Freedom: An Unruly History (Harvard University Press, forthcoming). 3 September 2018, Strand Campus, King’s College London The Centre for Enlightenment Studies at King’s College London, with support from the Leverhulme Trust, is proud to host a manuscript workshop of Professor de Dijn’s forthcoming […]

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