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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

“‘Normal for Norfolk’: Two Legal Antiquaries on the Norman Conquest”

13, 14 & 16 May 2024.

Old Class Library, St Andrews.

The History of Scottish Philosophy wi’ Muckle Gaps is back! Listen to new episodes here.

Deadline: 28 March 2024.

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

Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment will be published on December 7th 2023. Join us for the book launch in St Andrews.