Monthly Archives: August 2021

50 Years of Keith Thomas’s Religion and the Decline of Magic, 3 September 2021

By Michelle Pfeffer | Published: August 23, 2021

3 September 2021, 14:00-17:45 (BST) This year sees the 50th anniversary of Sir Keith Thomas’s masterpiece, Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971), one of the most significant British historical monographs of the last century. This short conference will celebrate and reflect on Thomas’s achievement as well as publicise new interdisciplinary work on the history […]

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CFP: ‘Projects and Projectors in the Early Modern and Enlightenment periods’ (c. 1640-1780)

By Michelle Pfeffer | Published: August 18, 2021

In the Early Modern and Enlightenment periods the figure of the projector was as vital as it was common. Daniel Defoe famously nicknamed his era the “Projecting Age.” Decades earlier scholars were already commenting on the “rampant passion for schemes”. Projectors were inventors or entrepreneurs ‘who set out to gain the trust and backing of […]

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#ISIH2021 Conference programme available

By Michelle Pfeffer | Published: August 13, 2021

Coerced Labour in the Early Modern World (1500-1800): Definitions, Justifications and Resistances 7 – 8 September 2021, online The International Society for Intellectual History (ISIH) is pleased to present this conference as part of a series of online events designed by early career researchers, for early career researchers. Its main objective is to provide the community of intellectual historians […]

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CFP: 7th Derrida Today Conference

By Michelle Pfeffer | Published: August 12, 2021

13-16 June 2022 CFP closes 1 November 2021 The Derrida Today Conference will focus on the ongoing value of Derrida’s work and deconstruction as well as the political, ethical, cultural, artistic, and public debates and philosophical futures that confront us. The conference will be broadly interdisciplinary and invites contributions from a range of academic, disciplinary, […]

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