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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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),…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…