Institute of Intellectual History
The History of Scottish Philosophy wi’ Muckle Gaps is back! Listen to new episodes here.
Saturday 9 March.
Parliament Hall, St Andrews.
Read the programme here.
This project seeks to advance philosophy in business ethics by drawing upon the history of moral, political, or legal thought.
Deadline: March 15th 2024.
We are pleased to announce that the 2022 István Hont Book Prize has been awarded to Claire Rydell Arcenas for America’s Philosopher - John Locke in American Intellectual Life (UCP).
John Pocock, who has died at the age of ninety-nine only a little short of his hundredth birthday, was a giant of the historical profession.
Obituary by Colin Kidd
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Next semester’s Institute events will be advertised in August 2024
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Intellectual History in a Thousand Manuscripts
Item no. 24: A letter to Isaiah Berlin from 1955.
On 9 March, colleagues and friends of J. G. A. Pocock gathered in Parliament Hall at the University of St Andrews to celebrate the life and work of one of the greatest and most influential historians of the 20th century.
Robin Mills speaks with Matthijs Lok (Amsterdam) about his recently published book Europe against Revolution (OUP, 2023).
Robin Mills speaks with Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas about the history of basic income, from its rise in American and British policy debates following periods of economic and political crisis to its present-day popularity in Silicon Valley.
Robin Mills speaks with Fredrik A. Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind, who examine the origins of the vision of scarcity embedded in modern economics and demonstrate its historical contingency, even in the age of capitalism.
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Past Events
Johns Hopkins University
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
15th Annual London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought. CfP: 3rd February 2024
Department of History, Lund University
11th-12th June 2024.
CfP: 7th March 2024.
VIU will hold the fourth edition of the Venice Word Multidisciplinary Conference on Republics and Republicanism on May 24-26, 2024.
CfP: December 15, 2023.
Kylemore Abbey, Ireland, 15-17 August 2024.
CfP: 15 November 2023.
Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Bordeaux, France, 3-5 April 2024
University of Geneva, 3−4 November 2023.
The deadline for submissions is 31 May 2023.
Fri 7 - Sat 8 Jul 2023
Hegel is among the greatest polymaths of the modern era. However, the nature of his contribution to the humanities and social sciences has been systematically obscured since the Second World War. This conference is designed to highlight his significance as a political thinker in particular.