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

20-minute papers by 30 April

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).

“In Search of Refuge”

24 June 2026

17th Annual London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought at UCL

11-12 June, 2026

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.

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations conference at Duke University,

October 8-9, 2026

Celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the Publication of
Francis Hutcheson’s An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue

23-24 October 2025.

Roots and Branches explores the interface between theory and practice in the History of Ideas. Combining insights into the latest publications, ongoing research and the newest developments in the field with case studies of how practicioners resort to history to create societal change, the podcast explores the many ways in which the History of Ideas affects our world today.

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

We are pleased to announce that the 2023 István Hont Book Prize has been awarded to Eva Piirimäe for Herder and Enlightenment Politics (CUP).

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

In this episode, Seungeun Lee speaks with Isaac Nakhimovsky about his new book The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation (Princeton, 2024).

The first M. A. Stewart Workshop in Scottish Intellectual History.
In honour of Knud Haakonssen.
24-25 October 2024.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Mark Garnett discusses how so often what the Conservative Party’s ideology is taken being the same thing as conservative political thought. But for most of its history, the Conservative Party has been anything other than conservative.

In this episode of Zeitgeist und Geschichte, we interview Professor Peter Gordon about his new book A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity (CUP, 2023).

Join us on this St. Andrews podcast as we interview academics and researchers of German Intellectual History with an eye to reflecting on the integral influence German thinkers have had on our intellectual landscape.

The workshop will take place 25th - 27th June 2025 at St Andrews Business School, Scotland, UK.

Deadline for abstracts (300-500 words): 1st November 2024.

Richard Whatmore speaks with Aurelian Craiutu about his new book Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals (CUP, 2023).

Martin Daunton speaks with Richard Whatmore about Adam Smith, David Hume and the End of Enlightenment

The Institute of Intellectual History is pleased to announce a call for papers dedicated to the 20th publication anniversary of Professor Eric Nelson’s book The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (CUP, 2004), which will take place at the University of St Andrews in mid-February 2025.