Monthly Archives: May 2021

CFP: Coerced Labour in the Early Modern World (1500-1800): Definitions, Justifications and Resistances

By Michelle Pfeffer | Published: May 25, 2021

Coerced Labour in the Early Modern World (1500-1800): Definitions, Justifications and Resistances 6 – 8 September 2021, online The International Society for Intellectual History is pleased to announce our 2021 conference: Coerced Labour in the Early Modern World (1500-1800), which will take place online from 6 – 8 September 2021. From the ancient world to […]

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CFP: New ISIH Seminar Series, Women in Intellectual History

By Michelle Pfeffer | Published: May 24, 2021

The International Society for Intellectual History is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for our new seminar series, Women in Intellectual History, which will take place Autumn/Winter 2021. Women thinkers and their writings are still underrepresented in the discipline of intellectual history. Despite decades-long efforts at canon-busting, research agendas and teaching curricula alike attest that much […]

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Bayle Lecture at Princeton

By Michelle Pfeffer | Published: May 11, 2021

Dmitri Levitin, Why did Pierre Bayle believe in Virtuous Atheists? A Critique of Pure Reason “avant la lettre” Wednesday, 12 May at 12:00pm EST Pierre Bayle’s claims about the possibility of a society of virtuous atheists are one of the most famous ideas produced in Europe in the decades around 1700. More generally, Bayle’s intentions […]

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