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Charles Schmitt Prize 2026
We are pleased to announce that the ISIH is now accepting submissions for the 2026 Charles. The deadline to submit for this year’s competition is 15 November 2026. 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…
Call for Candidatures: ISIH Constance Blackwell Prize 2026
The International Society for Intellectual History invites submissions for the 2026 Constance Blackwell Prize. The ISIH Constance Blackwell Prize is awarded biennially to the best first monograph in intellectual history, broadly construed, published in the previous two years. The prize was established in memory of the Society’s founder, Constance Blackwell (1934–2018). The value of the…
CfA: Three Postdoctoral Positions in the HumanLaw ERC Project at the University of Turin
Applications are open until May 27 for 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝟯-𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻 within my ERC Consolidator Grant project 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗟𝗮𝘄: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101229235 1. A position for a scholar with a background in 𝗡𝗲𝗼-𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲, who will work on the epistolary correspondence between Italian jurists and humanists from the late fourteenth to the early…
CfP: Forecasting the weather, between divination and science. Antiquity to the present
October 9, University of Oxford, UK Organized by Simon Dolet (Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Chambéry) and Michelle Pfeffer (Calleva Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford) Submission Deadline: 31 May 2026 It is often said that modern weather forecasting began on 1 August 1861, when Robert FitzRoy, founder and Director of the Meteorological Office, published the first…
Ross Moncrieff wins the 2025 Charles Schmitt Prize
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2025 Charles Schmitt Prize is Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford) for his paper, “When sinologists were geologists: Chinese chronology in early modern England and the heterodox Chinese studies of Robert Hooke and John Beaumont.” The paper, which has been published online in open access on our journal…
In Memoriam: Letizia Panizza
It is with great sadness that we received news of the death of Letizia Panizza, on June 20th, following a protracted period of ill health. A founder member of the ISIH, Letizia was a distinguished scholar of Italian Renaissance Intellectual History. She won international recognition for her work on Renaissance Stoicism, Libertinism, and rhetoric and for…
Charles Schmitt Prize 2025
We are pleased to announce that the ISIH is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Charles Schmitt Prize. The deadline to submit for this year’s competition is 12 September 2025. 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,…
Call for applications: Princeton-Bucharest-Nuremberg Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
The losers of the Scientific Revolution Technical University Nuremberg (UTN), Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences Nuremberg, 30 June-July 5, 2025 The Princeton-Bucharest-Nuremberg Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy is organized by Dana Jalobeanu (UTN/University of Bucharest), Daniel Garber (Princeton University) and Rodolfo Garau (University of Hamburg). Invited speakers include: Roger Ariew (University of South Florida),…
Call for papers: How Women Shaped the Nordic Enlightenment
Intellectual Equality, Women’s Education, and Moral Philosophy International Conference at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, June 18-20, 2025 Due to increased scholarly attention to women’s writings and agency, the image of the European Enlightenment as a male-dominated enterprise has slowly begun to fade. It is now established that women writers across Europe participated in intellectual,…
Call for papers: Innovating (trans)cultural studies through gift exchange
Innovating (trans)cultural studies and (trans)cultural history through the polyvalent concept of gift exchange. Revisiting Marcel Mauss’s Essay on the Gift (1925–2025) Conference details Date: 16 – 17 July, 2025 Location: Heidelberg University Submission: Please send a 200-300 word abstract of your paper to veronika.capska@fhs.cuni.cz by 15 February 2025. This conference is organised as part of Veronika Čapská’s Visiting…
Call for Papers 2025: States and Spaces in the History of Political Thought
16th Annual London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought Keynote speaker: Dr. Faridah Zaman (Oxford) Location: Room 2.06, Cheng Kin Ku Building, 54 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, LSE Date: Thursday 19th-Friday 20th June, 2025 Ideas are central to the history of political thought, but they rarely emerge from a vacuum. Histories of political thought once portrayed ideas as…
ISIH Bursaries for Early Career Researchers: Funding Support for HES 2025 Conference
The International Society for Intellectual History (ISIH) is offering up to 3 bursaries for Early Career Researchers (PhD candidates or scholars within max. 3 years from obtaining the PhD) to assist them with the expenses involved in attending the 52nd Annual Meeting of the History of Economics Society (HES) in Richmond, Virginia. The bursaries will be…
Constance Blackwell Prize of 2024 to Freddy Foks
The judging panel is pleased to announce the winner of the Constance Blackwell Prize of 2024. The prize is awarded to the best first monograph in intellectual history published in the previous two years (2022-2023). Out of a superb shortlist, the panel decided to award the prize to Freddy Foks, for Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and…
CALL FOR PAPERS: How Sciences End
Dates: 11–13 July 2025 Location: University of Oxford, UK Submission deadline: 31 January 2025 Conference Theme and Goals Historians have studied extensively how sciences begin—but how do they end? This is a crucial question for understanding how the labour of knowledge-making evolves. Previous attention to the founding, disciplining, and professionalisation of individual sciences has provided…
Announcement: Shortlist for the Constance Blackwell Prize of 2024
The judging panel expects to announce the winner in December. The judging panel is pleased to announce the shortlist for the Constance Blackwell Prize of 2024. The prize is awarded to the best first monograph in intellectual history published in the previous two years (2022-2023). Out of a wide range of submissions, the shortlist is:…
2024 Charles Schmitt Prize to Angus Harwood Brown
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2024 Charles Schmitt Prize is Angus Harwood Brown from Cambridge University for his paper, “Republican Hegemony as Perpetual Peace? Sieyès’ Theory of International Politics and the Intellectual Origins of Kant’s ‘Federation of Peoples’.” The panel commended the originality and rigour of the work, which explores…
ISIH 2024/2025 Seminar Program: Women in Intellectual History
All seminars take place 2-4pm BST/GMT, online via Microsoft Teams Contact: Emily A. Steinhauer | emily.steinhauer@rhul.ac.uk Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/e/c1vecwHxjS 02 October 2024 Isidora Grubački (Ljubljana) The origins of Yugoslav feminisms: Political thought in East Central Europe and the “woman question” before the First World War Manaswini Sen (Hyderabad) (Re)Inventing Feminism within the Discourse of…
Hybrid talk: Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge): “In Defence of Universities”: Universities and their enemies in early-modern England (Monday 30 September, 5:30pm)
Monday 30 September, 5:30pm London time; at the IHR, Wolfson NB01 and on zoom: Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge): ‘“In Defence of Universities”: Universities and their enemies in early-modern England’ From the Chantries Act of 1545 to the Revolution of 1688 the early-modern English universities had a complex and sometimes troubled relationship with state power and with…
Announcement: ISIH Annual General Meeting (hybrid), Thursday, 26 September 2024, h. 9:00 AM (CET)
The ISIH Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday, 26 September 2024, h. 9:00 AM (CET), at Central European University in Vienna, coinciding with the participation of the ISIH in this year’s ESHPT conference. Members unable to attend in person are invited to join the meeting online via Zoom. A link for online participation will be provided upon…
2024 ISIH Annual General Meeting
The ISIH Annual General Meeting will be held during the conference of the European Society for the History of Human Thought, in Vienna, 25-27th September 2024. Further information, including information about online attendance, will be posted on the ISIH website in due course.
Call for Papers: Fourth Seminar “Women in Intellectual History”, 2024/2025
The International Society for Intellectual History is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the fourth instalment of its seminar series, Woman in Intellectual History, which will take place online in late 2024 / early 2025. Women thinkers and their writings are still underrepresented in the discipline of intellectual history. Despite decades-long efforts at…
The Dacre Lecture 2024: Dmitri Levitin on The Origins of Modern Eurocentrism
The Al Jaber Auditorium, Corpus Christi College, 10 May 2024, 5pm All are welcome at this year’s Dacre Lecture, which will be held in person at Corpus Christ College, Oxford. This year the lecture will be given by Dmitri Levitin, Assistant Professor at Utrecht University and Fifty-Pound Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. The lecture…
Online event: Women in Nineteenth Century Philosophy
27 March – 8 May 2024, Organised by Alison Stone (Lancaster) The seminar series on Women in Nineteenth Century Philosophy draws together scholarship rediscovering women philosophers from nineteenth-century Britain who have been unjustly left out of the philosophical canon. The talks introduce these women and their thinking on such topics as feminism, animals, metaphysics, religion,…
CFP: Ideas of Europe and Images of Russia: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present
XV Annual Conference of the Research Network on the History of Idea of Europe University of East Anglia, School of History – Norwich 19 – 21 June 2024 The geo-cultural relationship between Europe and Russia has been a source of intrigue for scholars, historians, philosophers, novelists, and politicians since at least the late seventeenth century.…