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‘It is with real sadness to report that Hans Aarsleff, a brilliant intellectual historian and long-standing friend of the Institute, has died in his hundred and first year.

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The Institute is now on Substack
The Institute is now on Substack

You can now find the Institute of Intellectual History on Substack, where we will be publishing new content regularly, including the Institute Newsletter and our Lectures in Intellectual History.

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Call for Papers: Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference 2026
Call for Papers: Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference 2026

After Empire: Intellectual Life in a Post-Imperial World - Thursday 28 may

15-20 minutes long papers by 10 April

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Call for Papers for York Graduate and Early Careers Conference
Call for Papers for York Graduate and Early Careers Conference

From Crisis to the Renewal of Community: Progress, Judgement, and the Return of History - 20th-21st July 2026

20-minute papers by 30 April

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2024 István Hont Book Prize
2024 István Hont Book Prize

We are pleased to announce that the 2024 István Hont Book Prize has been awarded to Sophia Rosenfeld for The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life (Princeton University Press).

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Call for Papers for Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History 
Call for Papers for Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History 

“In Search of Refuge”

24 June 2026

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Events
Intellectual History Workshop
Sept 21
Intellectual History Workshop

21 Sept 2026, 14:00 pm on Zoom. co-hosted by the Global Intellectual History Unit at Sungkyunkwan University and the Institute of Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews.

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Upcoming Events

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Umberto Eco and Abulafia’s Revenge
Umberto Eco and Abulafia’s Revenge

Part 1: Prophetic Parodies

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The West: The History of an Idea
The West: The History of an Idea

Yifan Wang and Seungeun Lee speak with Professor Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary) about his new book The West: The History of an Idea (Princeton, 2025).

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Interview with Professor Ferenc Hörcher
Interview with Professor Ferenc Hörcher

Derek van Voorst interviews Professor Ferenc Hörcher about his new edited text “Intellectual Conservatism: From Burke to Scruton”.

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Sectarianism in Philosophy
Sectarianism in Philosophy

What is the relation between philosophy’s claim to disinterested universal rational inquiry and its historical existence as an assemblage of apparently sectarian schools? This is the question that formed the topic for a conversation that Valery Vino initiated with Ian Hunter.

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Interview with Dagmar Herzog
Interview with Dagmar Herzog

The dark history of eugenic thought in Germany from the nineteenth century to today―and the courageous counter-voices.

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Interview with Elad Carmel
Interview with Elad Carmel

Robin Mills speaks with Elad Carmel about his new book Anticlerical Legacies - The deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes, c. 1670–1740

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Niall O’Flaherty (KCL) - "Malthus and the Global Turn"

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Past Events and More…

A Podcast about German Intellectual History

Zeitgeist und Geschichte

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Events outside
Book launch and Reception: Linda Andersson Burnett and Bruce Buchan, Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750 - 1820.
Book launch and Reception: Linda Andersson Burnett and Bruce Buchan, Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750 - 1820.

University of Edinburgh. 29 October, 4.45 - 6 pm.

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What is the West?
What is the West?

Are the Western values that we have become accustomed to undergoing a fundamentalchange? Is this change permanent?

Antony Black - University of Dundee - Thu, 17 Apr 2025: 10:00 - 12:00

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Socialist Ideas of Europe in the World 1871-1968
Socialist Ideas of Europe in the World 1871-1968

June 14th, 2024. LSE.
CfP: March 31.

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John Pocock’s Life, Legacy, and Languages of Historical and Political Thought
John Pocock’s Life, Legacy, and Languages of Historical and Political Thought

Johns Hopkins University

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

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Call for Papers 2024: Utopias and Dystopias in the History of Political Thought 
Call for Papers 2024: Utopias and Dystopias in the History of Political Thought 

15th Annual London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought. CfP: 3rd February 2024

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Call for papers: “Human rights in eighteenth-century global and colonial contexts: Scandinavia and beyond” 
Call for papers: “Human rights in eighteenth-century global and colonial contexts: Scandinavia and beyond” 

Department of History, Lund University
11th-12th June 2024.
CfP: 7th March 2024.

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The Venice World Multidisciplinary Conference on Republics and Republicanism
The Venice World Multidisciplinary Conference on Republics and Republicanism

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.

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Intellectual Histories of the American Revolution
Intellectual Histories of the American Revolution

Kylemore Abbey, Ireland, 15-17 August 2024.
CfP: 15 November 2023.

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Strangers and Foreigners: Hospitality and Hostility in Britain, France, and Germany, 1680-1850
Strangers and Foreigners: Hospitality and Hostility in Britain, France, and Germany, 1680-1850

Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Bordeaux, France, 3-5 April 2024

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Events outside of St Andrews