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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…
Constance Blackwell Prize Shortlist
We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for our inaugural Constance Blackwell Prize, named in honour of our founder. The prize is awarded biennially to the best first monograph in intellectual history (broadly construed) published in the previous two years. The titles on the shortlist are, in alphabetical order by authors’ surnames: Jessica Patterson, Religion, Enlightenment…
CFP: Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy VIII
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen (NL), 23–24 June 2022 The Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy brings together advanced graduate students and established scholars from all over the world to discuss the latest work in early modern philosophy, broadly conceived. Building on the success of the previous 2014–2021 editions, the seminar offers workshop-style collaborations in order to stimulate…
PhD and postdoctoral positions: Responses to Newton’s Mathematical-Experimental Paradigm in 18th-Century Philosophy
Applications are now open for three four-year PhD positions, three four-year postdoctoral positions, and one two-year postdoctoral position in the history of modern philosophy and/or history and philosophy of science. The selected applicants will carry out part of the recently awarded project ‘Responses to Newton’s Mathematical-Experimental Paradigm in 18th-Century Philosophy’ (RENEW18). The project is funded by the Belgian research…
CFP: Special Issue of the Journal for the History of Knowledge, 2024
The Journal for the History of Knowledge features an annual special issue, compiled by guest editors, which explores a theme central to the journal’s scope. The special issues of previous years have been Histories of Bureaucratic Knowledge (2020) and Histories of Ignorance (2021). We are currently accepting proposals for the 2024 Special Issue. Proposals should contain the following: A description of…
Call for Expressions of Interest – 2022 ISIH Online Events for Early Career Researchers
The International Society for Intellectual History is inviting expressions of interest from early career researchers who would like to organise an online event for ECRs with ISIH in 2022. Possible formats include but are not limited to workshops and seminar series, with a topic that would engage intellectual historians from a broad range of backgrounds.…
ISIH appoints new Executive Committee member: Elias Buchetmann as Early Career Representative
The ISIH is delighted to announce a new position on our Executive Committee: Early Career Representative. The inaugural holder of this position is Elias Buchetmann (University of Rostock). The Early Career Representative will be responsible for arranging events each year primarily geared towards early career researchers in intellectual history. Last year these events included Coerced Labour in the…
CFP: Classes and Masses in the History of Political Thought
London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought, 30 June-1 July 2022 Keynote: Prof. Adom Getachew (University of Chicago) Location: University College London (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre) Roundtable Speakers: Tejas Parasher (Cambridge), Sarah Dunstan (Glasgow), Nicola Miller (UCL), Adam Sutcliffe (KCL) Social divisions and social collectives have always been at the heart of political…
CFP: Beyond Anti-Liberalism? Lessons from Experience
13–14 June 2022 Submissions Due: 30 April 2022 A workshop of the Civic Constellation III project co-organised with the Department of Philosophy of the University of Milan Over the past decades the rise in constitutional democracies across the world, and significantly throughout Europe, of anti-liberal politics has changed the terms of academic and public debates…