Intellectual History Seminars

Candlemas Semester 2025

Nov
18

The Donald Winch Lectures: Professor Jamie Gianoutsos (Mount St Mary’s) “Storied Republics: Re-Animating the Republican Tradition”

“Storied Republics: Re-Animating the Republican Tradition”

Lecture 1:
"Can Women Be Republican Citizens?”

Professor Jamie Gianoutsos (Mount St Mary’s)

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Nov
19

The Donald Winch Lectures: Professor Jamie Gianoutsos (Mount St Mary’s) “Storied Republics: Re-Animating the Republican Tradition”

“Storied Republics: Re-Animating the Republican Tradition”

Lecture 2:
"The ‘Love of Liberty’ and its Egalitarian Potential.”

Professor Jamie Gianoutsos (Mount St Mary’s)

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Nov
20

The Donald Winch Lectures: Professor Jamie Gianoutsos (Mount St Mary’s) “Storied Republics: Re-Animating the Republican Tradition”

“Storied Republics: Re-Animating the Republican Tradition”

Further event on the themes of the lectures

Professor Jamie Gianoutsos (Mount St Mary’s)

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Melissa Lane (Princeton) - Masterclass
May
14

Melissa Lane (Princeton) - Masterclass

Professor Melissa Lane will give a masterclass on the subjects of the Winch Lectures at the Old Class Library, South Street.

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Events
Donald Winch Lectures 2026: Susan James, “The artist as philosopher: The case of Nicolas Poussin”
May 14
Donald Winch Lectures 2026: Susan James, “The artist as philosopher: The case of Nicolas Poussin”

Susan James (Birkbeck)

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Donald Winch Lectures 2026: Susan James, “The artist as philosopher: The case of Nicolas Poussin”
May 13
Donald Winch Lectures 2026: Susan James, “The artist as philosopher: The case of Nicolas Poussin”

Susan James (Birkbeck)

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Donald Winch Lectures 2026: Susan James, “The artist as philosopher: The case of Nicolas Poussin”
May 12
Donald Winch Lectures 2026: Susan James, “The artist as philosopher: The case of Nicolas Poussin”

Susan James (Birkbeck)

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Poppy Kershaw (St Andrews): "Seeing Like a State in F. W. Maitland"
Mar 25
Poppy Kershaw (St Andrews): "Seeing Like a State in F. W. Maitland"
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Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary): "Five Myths About ‘the West’ and Why Intellectual History Matters"
Mar 11
Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary): "Five Myths About ‘the West’ and Why Intellectual History Matters"
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Sarah Naramore (Edinburgh): "Can Medicine have a National Context?: Benjamin Rush’s Biological Revolution and its Legacy"
Mar 4
Sarah Naramore (Edinburgh): "Can Medicine have a National Context?: Benjamin Rush’s Biological Revolution and its Legacy"
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Carl Wennerlind (Barnard/Columbia): "Capitalism: For and Against"
Feb 18
Carl Wennerlind (Barnard/Columbia): "Capitalism: For and Against"
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Lasse Anderson (St Andrews): "Systematic Colonisation and Diminishing Returns: E. G. Wakefield in Context"
Feb 4
Lasse Anderson (St Andrews): "Systematic Colonisation and Diminishing Returns: E. G. Wakefield in Context"
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Michael Frazer (Glasgow): "Max Weber's Defence of Scholarly Activism"
Jan 28
Michael Frazer (Glasgow): "Max Weber's Defence of Scholarly Activism"
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Alison Bashford (Sydney) - “Depopulation and Repopulation: Settler Colonialism and Political Economy in the Early 19th Century” 
Nov 26
Alison Bashford (Sydney) - “Depopulation and Repopulation: Settler Colonialism and Political Economy in the Early 19th Century” 

Everyone is welcome.

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Niall O’Flaherty (King’s College London) - “Malthus and the Global Turn”
Nov 19
Niall O’Flaherty (King’s College London) - “Malthus and the Global Turn”

Everyone is welcome.

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Avi Lifschitz (Oxford) - “Holding the Monarch to Account: Frederick the Great’s Writings in the Public Sphere”
Oct 15
Avi Lifschitz (Oxford) - “Holding the Monarch to Account: Frederick the Great’s Writings in the Public Sphere”

Everyone is welcome.

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Ramin Jahanbegloo (Toronto) - In discussion with Ali Ansari and Richard Whatmore
Oct 7
Ramin Jahanbegloo (Toronto) - In discussion with Ali Ansari and Richard Whatmore

Everyone is welcome.

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Jesse Norman MP - A Discussion of ‘Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right’ (by Quinn Slobodian), with James Harris and Richard Whatmore
Oct 1
Jesse Norman MP - A Discussion of ‘Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right’ (by Quinn Slobodian), with James Harris and Richard Whatmore

Everyone is welcome.

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Robert Frost (Aberdeen) - "Drawing in the Reins of Government: Justus Lipsius and Republican Monarchy in Poland-Lithuania"
Sept 17
Robert Frost (Aberdeen) - "Drawing in the Reins of Government: Justus Lipsius and Republican Monarchy in Poland-Lithuania"

Everyone is welcome.

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Melissa Lane (Princeton) - Masterclass
May 14
Melissa Lane (Princeton) - Masterclass
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Authors of the Laws: Rethinking Rousseau's Legislator through Ancient Lawgivers - Lecture 2
May 13
Authors of the Laws: Rethinking Rousseau's Legislator through Ancient Lawgivers - Lecture 2

Melissa Lane (Princeton)

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Authors of the Laws: Rethinking Rousseau's Legislator through Ancient Lawgivers - Lecture 1
May 12
Authors of the Laws: Rethinking Rousseau's Legislator through Ancient Lawgivers - Lecture 1

Melissa Lane (Princeton)

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‘Captive Knowledge. How Enemy Aliens Transformed the Western Canon in the Second World War’
Apr 23
‘Captive Knowledge. How Enemy Aliens Transformed the Western Canon in the Second World War’

Dina Gusejnova (LSE)

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‘Women’s International Thought in U.S. Public Culture: A Divided History’
Apr 9
‘Women’s International Thought in U.S. Public Culture: A Divided History’

Katharina Reitzler (University of Sussex)

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‘Centrism from the French Revolution to Today’
Apr 2
‘Centrism from the French Revolution to Today’

Hugo Drochon (University of Nottingham)

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Global Commons and the Law of the Sea: Towards an Archipelagic Nomos of the Earth
Mar 26
Global Commons and the Law of the Sea: Towards an Archipelagic Nomos of the Earth

Miguel Vatter (University of New South Wales)

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‘The People and Constituent Power’
Mar 12
‘The People and Constituent Power’

Camila Vergara (Essex)

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‘Debating Enlightenment’
Feb 26
‘Debating Enlightenment’

Ann Thomson (European University Institute)

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‘Reconstructing early modern selfhood: the case of feminism’
Feb 19
‘Reconstructing early modern selfhood: the case of feminism’

Hannah Dawson (King’s College, London)

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‘What is a Classic in Historiography? Some Ideas in Historical and Global Perspective’
Jan 29
‘What is a Classic in Historiography? Some Ideas in Historical and Global Perspective’

Davide Cadeddu (Milan)

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Natural Law Theory in Cicero
Nov 20
Natural Law Theory in Cicero

Alex Long (University of St Andrews)

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Was there a Scottish National Style of Physical Science in the Nineteenth Century?
Nov 6
Was there a Scottish National Style of Physical Science in the Nineteenth Century?

Bill Jenkins (University of St Andrews)

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Dugald Stewart in the 21st Century
Oct 25
Dugald Stewart in the 21st Century

The first M. A. Stewart Workshop in Scottish Intellectual History.
In honour of Knud Haakonssen

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Dugald Stewart in the 21st Century
Oct 24
Dugald Stewart in the 21st Century

The first M. A. Stewart Workshop in Scottish Intellectual History.
In honour of Knud Haakonssen

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