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Stephen Gaukroger (1950–2023)
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of Stephen Gaukroger, who passed away on 3 September 2023. Stephen was an eminent intellectual historian and historian of science who was an active member of the Society since its early years. Stephen was amongst those who, in 1994, encouraged our founder,…
“An Emerging Discipline in a Warring World: World War I & Social Sciences”
A Hybrid Event jointly with UWS and UofG, 7-8 September 2023 Panel 1: 7 September, 14:00-16:00 (UK Time), University of Glasgow, Seminar Room, Lilybank House Zoom link to Panel 1 for those attending online: https://rb.gy/nbsx8 Guest speakers: Niall Bond (Université Lumière Lyon), Austin Harrington (University of Leeds), Thomas Kemple (University of British Columbia), Peter Kivisto (Augustana College) Panel 2: 8 September,…
International Symposium: Newton Geneva Edition 2023
Newton & Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Geneva Edition ([1739-1742]1822) 22-23 September 2023, Centenary Room, University of Oxford Entry is free but registration is essential. For more information, visit the conference website.
ISIH Annual General Meeting, 2023
The ISIH will hold their Annual General Meeting at the 2023 Conference in Edinburgh. The meeting will be hybrid, and will take place from 15:15-16:30 (BST) on Tuesday 5 September. Members of the ISIH who are unable to attend the conference, but would like to join the meeting online, should contact the Communications Director to…
Call for Applications: Vossius Fellowships for 2024
The Vossius Center for the History of Humanities and Sciences at the University of Amsterdam is now inviting applications for short-term Research Fellowships. The Fellowships are meant for inviting top researchers for 1-3 months to the UvA. There are two kinds of fellowships: Candidates should have a clear affinity with the history of humanities and/or…
Logic and Human Nature: Early Modern and Enlightenment Confluences, 15-16 September 2023
The workshop ‘Logic and Human Nature: Early Modern and Enlightenment Confluences’ will take place in Bucharest, 15-16 September 2023. Participation online is available via zoom. For the zoom link, please contact Sorana Corneanu. The programme and further details can be found here.
ISIH Annual General Meeting, 2023
The 2023 Annual Meeting of the International Society for Intellectual History will take place during the ISIH Conference, ‘Crisis and Change in Intellectual History‘, which will be held at the University of Edinburgh 4 to 6 September . Members not attending the the conference in person can join the AGM online. Details of the date, time…
Lisa Jardine ECR History of Science Grants
The Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme is designed to offer the opportunity for early career scholars to exploit history of science collections, including the Royal Society’s own, in support of their research in the field of intellectual history. The Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme is named in memory of the eminent British historian Professor Lisa Jardine CBE…
2023 Charles Schmitt Prize Winner
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Charles Schmitt prize for 2023 is Carlos Perez Crespo of the University of Hamburg, for his essay ‘Antiliberalism, Civil War and Dictatorship: Carl Schmitt and His Intellectual Influence on the Ideologists of Francoism (1939-1942)’. The winning essay will be published in Intellectual History Review. The…
CFP: Afterlives of Empire in the Public Imagination
21-22 September 2023 Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies, Sapienza University of Rome Keynote speakers: Corinne Fowler (University of Leicester), Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford). The resurgence of nationalist ideologies in Europe and the US has reignited interest in the histories and legacies of modern Empires. As of late, this has been strongly visible in the UK. The…
Michael J. B. Allen (1941–2023)
It is with great sadness that we share news of the death Professor Michael J. B. Allen, who died on 25 February 2023 in his Santa Monica home at the age of 81. Michael was an outstanding scholar, renowned for his work on the Renaissance philosopher Marsilio Ficino. Professor Emeritus at UCLA, he was a…
CFP: Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Liberal World Order
ECR Seminar, 12 May 2023, City, University of London
EMPHASIS Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy and the History of Science 2023
The EMPHASIS seminar focuses on the history of early modern philosophy (broadly construed), and the history of early modern science (including the occult sciences). It is one of the only seminars in London which addresses these themes together. This year there will be a mixture of in-person seminars and online zoom seminars. The in-person seminars…
Conference: Early Women Philosophers in London, 27 Jan 2023
27 January 2023, 10:00am – 6:00pm Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Recent years has seen significant work on women philosophers who contributed to the early development of analytic philosophy. A number of these philosophers were – in part because of limited opportunities in established centres such as Oxford and Cambridge – associated with Bedford…
CFP: 14th Annual London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought
Property and Power in the History of Political Thought Keynote speaker: Dr. Sudhir Hazareesingh Location: 1-19 Torrington Place, G13 Date: Thursday 22 – Friday 23 June 2023 Seneca may have claimed that power belonged to kings and property to individuals, but in practice, theorists have rarely found the two concepts so easy to disentangle. Property and power have always…
CFP: JHP Summer Seminar in the History of Philosophy
Ancient Origins of Renaissance and Early Modern Feminism, May 15–19, 2023 Mindful of the challenges facing young scholars working in the history of philosophy, the Board of Directors of the Journal of the History of Philosophy has established a Summer Seminar in the History of Philosophy. The central idea of the program is that a senior scholar…
Professor G.A.J. (John) Rogers
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of John Rogers (G.A.J. Rogers), who passed away in November. John was founding editor of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy and well known to both historians and historians of philosophy for his work on Locke. An obituary will be…
Constance Blackwell Prize 2022
The ISIH is delighted to announce that the winner of the inaugural Constance Blackwell Prize is Jessica Patterson, for her book Religion, Enlightenment and Empire: British Interpretations of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2021). The judges were deeply impressed by the originality, breadth, and rigour of Jessica Patterson’s book. Patterson shows, with…
Graduate Student Scholarship for Studies in the History of Ideas
The Robert and Moira Sansom Ideas Foundation was established in 2013 with the intention to create a Graduate Student Scholarship for Studies in the History of Ideas, granting $10,000 each year in support of the work of the recipient. The scholarship is open to graduate students, who are or will be studying at a university…
Charles Schmitt Prize 2023
As the result of generous donations from an anonymous donor and our publisher (Taylor & Francis), the International Society for Intellectual History is offering, on an annual basis, a prize to honour the contribution of Charles B. Schmitt (1933-1986) to intellectual history. The prize is £250, plus £100 worth of Routledge books, and a year’s free membership of the ISIH with a subscription to the…
Venice seminar series in Intellectual History – Crisis and Change in Early Modernity: Knowledge, Practice, Governance
Ca’Foscari University of Venice and the International Society for Intellectual History are pleased to present a seminar series on Crisis and Change in Early Modernity: Knowledge, Practice, Governance. The next seminar will take place on 10 November, when Sophie Roux will speak on The Life and Circumstances of Jacques du Roure (1621-1683?), or: How to…
Fully-funded PhD programme at the European University Institute (EUI)
Students of intellectual history may be interested in the following call: The call for applications for the fully-funded PhD programme at the European University Institute (EUI) will open on 1 November 2022. The Department of History at the EUI offers exceptional opportunities to study the history of Europe in the World from the 15th century to the…
ISIH President wins 2022 Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize
The Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize was created in honor of the 400th birthday of Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680). The Prize is intended to acknowledge an internationally known scholar whose work best preserves the memory of women in philosophy. The prize is awarded by the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and by its director, Prof. Ruth…