Intellectual History Research Group, University of Edinburgh

📚 M. A. Stewart Workshop in Scottish Intellectual History 📆 22-23 Oct 📍@standrewsiih.bsky.social, University of St Andrews Join in the celebration with the release of the long-awaited intellectual biography of Thomas Reid. ✍️ Details on registration:

The semester 1 programme of the Edinburgh Intellectual History Research Group is now available at hca.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

Submissions are open for the 2026 Charles Schmitt Prize, recognizing outstanding essays in intellectual history by doctoral students and recent PhDs. Deadline: 15 November 2026. is-ih.com/news/charles...

📣CONFERENCE: Aberdeen, Enlightenment, and Global Legacies. Thursday, 15 October 2026. This marks the 40-year anniversary of the influential 1986 conference. Registration for participation in person at www.eventbrite.com/e/40-years-o... or online at www.eventbrite.com/e/40-years-o....

PAPER: Professor Birgit Lang (University of Melbourne), 'Sex, Psyche, and Politics: Eden and Cedar Paul as Activist Translators of European Modernity'. Thursday 21 May, 3.30pm – 5pm, Violet Laidlaw Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building (Edinburgh Histories of Gender and Sexuality Group/GENDER.ED).

📣 The inaugural Stephen Gaukroger Lecture, 14:00 BST, Tue. 26 May: Prof. Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest), 'The Art of Thinking: Towards a New Practice Turn in the Intellectual History of Early Modern Logic'. In-person and online. Further details and sign-up at is-ih.com/the-inaugura...

📣PAPER: Anna Plassart (Open University), "National Independence in British Political Thought, 1802–1815". 20 March at 4 pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre (G.07), William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School. All welcome! Please note later start time than usual.

📣PAPER: Professor Jürgen Overhoff (University of Münster): “Lecturing on education: Immanuel Kant's creative use of pedagogy in his philosophy”. Friday 6 February, 3 pm, Room G.10, William Robertson Wing. All welcome!

📣LECTURE: Kenan Malik: 'How the British Working Class became white'. 10 Feb., 6-7.30 pm. G.07 Informatics Forum. Co-hosted by ERC/UKRI project 'Class Struggle in Greek Democracy' and School of History, Classics and Archaeology as part of The Class Series. Free tickets at hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even...

📣 PAPER: Iain Stewart (UCL), "Thinking Democracy after Marx and Empire: The Cercle Saint-Just between the First New Left and the Liberal Moment." Response: Emile Chabal (Edinburgh). 23 January, 3 pm, G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Wing. All welcome!

Network for the Study of the Long Reformation: Launch Event with inaugural Cheyne Memorial Lecture. Monday 12 January, 4.10pm-5.30pm, Martin Hall, School of Divinity. All warmly welcome. To participate online, please sign up for Zoom details: (www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-...)

Postdoctoral Fellowships (2 years): Research Project 'After the Enlightenment: Histories, Debates, and Reinterpretations'. Turin Humanities Programme. For further information, see www.fondazione1563.it/progetti/en-...

📣CFP: Conference of the International Society for Intellectual History, 18 - 20 September 2026. Conference Theme: 'Order and Disorder in Global Intellectual History'. Sabancı University, Istanbul. fass.sabanciuniv.edu/en/ISIH

📣BOOK LAUNCH AND RECEPTION: Linda Andersson Burnett and Bruce Buchan, Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750 - 1820. IASH, 29 October, 4.30 - 6 pm. Limited spaces. Register (free) for in-person attendance at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/race-and-t...

Conference: Celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the Publication of Francis Hutcheson’s An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue. Univ. of St Andrews, Department of Philosophy, Edgecliffe, The Scores, St Andrews, 23-24 Oct. 2025: www.intellectualhistory.net/ma-stewart-w...

1/6 Another highlight for our 10th anniversary. @brucealexb.bsky.social (Griffith University) who wrote "Travels in Space and Time: Progress, War, and the Historical Mobilities of Scotland’s Enlightenment" with us in 2022 (print 2023). We asked him about this work and its future. His response:

📣 PAPER: Professor Brendan Kane (University of Connecticut): 'Treason, traitors, and loyalty in early modern Ireland: political thought from the Irish-language archive', 7 October, 4:30pm, Seminar Room 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, University of Edinburgh [Irish History Seminar].

📣 PAPER: Prof. Jürgen Overhoff (University of Münster), ‘Lecturing on education: Immanuel Kant's creative use of pedagogy in his philosophy’, 10 October, 5 pm, WRW G.10.

📣 PAPER: Prof. Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary, University of London) will speak on 'Greeks bearing Gifts: The Emergence of Modern Greece and the Birth of the Idea of "the West"'. Thursday, 9 October 2025, 16:30-18:00, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre (Old College) [Modern Greek seminar].

Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History: Self and State: Intellectual Histories of Citizenship (Tuesday 24 June 2025). Registration now open at ptih-graduate-conference.eventbrite.co.uk.

CONFERENCE: The 13th Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy will be held in St Andrews next week, on Thursday 15 and Friday 16 May. For a programme, see www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philevents/e....

Three-year PhD scholarship to conduct research on the Marquis de la La Fayette (1757 - 1834) at the École nationale des Chartes. This grant is for non-French citizens. French language skills at equivalent of C1 level required. www.chartes.psl.eu/gazette-char...

We are very excited to announce our Spring 2025 update, which adds 40 born digital letters edited by Electronic Enlightenment’s interns and visiting researchers, the results of collaborations with @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social Special Collections & beyond: www.e-enlightenment.com/blog/newsshe...

📣JOB: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Utrecht University: The Colonial History of Botanic Gardens. www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

ISIH invites submissions for the 2025 Charles Schmitt Prize, honoring Charles B. Schmitt’s (1933–1986) contribution to intellectual history. The prize is awarded to outstanding articles by early-career scholars. 📅 Deadline: September 12, 2025 More info: is-ih.com/news/charles...

Ri Freer Prize Fellowships for doctoral candidates in their unfunded writing-up year researching the history of science; history of the Royal Institution; or heritage conservation science. Applications now open, deadline 31st March. See www.rigb.org/about-us/wor... .

Two doctoral scholarships (4 years), one each in the History of Ideas and the History of Science. Department of the History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University, from 1 Sept. 2025. International applicants welcome. Deadline: 8 April 2025: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... and www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Cross-cultural knowledge transfer in 18thC: Jeanhyoung Soh (Seoul) discusses Montesquieu and East Asia in an online session of our Enlightenment Workshop. Wednesday 5 March, 11:00 GMT, zoom.us/j/2739110432. Looking forward to seeing you virtually on Wednesday! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...

📣CFP: Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History 2025. Theme: "Self and State: Intellectual Histories of Citizenship”. Application Deadline: 5pm, Friday 14 March 2025. Conference Date: Tuesday 24 June 2025. Webpage: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/ptih-graduat...

Call for applications: Princeton-Bucharest-Nuremberg Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy: "The losers of the Scientific Revolution" Technical University Nuremberg (UTN), Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences Nuremberg, 30 June-July 5, 2025 is-ih.com/news/call-fo...

LECTURE: Professor Matt Simonton (Arizona State University), ‘Dogs, ticks, monsters, madmen: the role(s) of the demagogues in the ancient Greek class struggle’. 11 March, 5pm, Basement Theatre, Adam House, 3 Chambers Street, Edinburgh (UKRI/ERC project ‘Class Struggle in Ancient Greek Democracy’).

📣PAPER: Dr Tom Pye (University College London) on ‘The endurance of entail: Feudal law, political economy, and land reform in late 18th-Century Scotland’ on Thursday, 27 February, 5.15 - 6.30 pm in LG.10, 40 George Square. This seminar is organised as part of the Scottish History Seminar series.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Anthony Whiting Fund for the Study of Intellectual & Cultural History royalhistsoc.org/calendar/ant...

Why were Newton's theories so controversial in 18th-century Berlin? Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet talks at our Enlightenment Workshop on the reception of Newton in the Berlin Academy: Wednesday 26 Feb, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social. All welcome! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...

📣PAPER: David McNaughton (Edinburgh/Florida State): "Clarke and Price on the Eternal Fitnesses of Things." Friday 21 February, 3 - 5 pm, room 7.18, 40 George Square. This event is organised by the Early Modern Philosophy Seminar.

1/5 For our monthly 10th anniversary highlight in February we hear from Ann Thomson (@eui-history.bsky.social) who wrote "Colonialism, race and slavery in Raynal’s Histoire des deux Indes" with us in 2017 @global-ih.bsky.social. We asked her about this work & the future. Here is her response:

📢 Call for Papers 📢 States and Spaces in the History of Political Thought 📍16th London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought 📅 June 19-20, 2025 | LSE, London 📝 Submission deadline: March 2025 Infos: historyofpoliticalthoughtblog.wordpress.com/call-for-pap...

Call for Papers: How Women Shaped the Nordic Enlightenment 📍 University of Copenhagen 📅 June 18–20, 2025 The organizers invite papers on women’s contributions to the Nordic Enlightenment. Travel & accommodation covered! More info: is-ih.com/news/call-fo...

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The Global Intellectual History Seminar will take place on Tuesdays at the OCR in Trinity College, Cambridge. See our website for more details: www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/future-event...

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We're delighted to share our Call for Papers for the 16th London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought, on the theme of ‘States and Spaces' (19th-20th June, LSE). Deadline for submissions is 14 March! For more details: historyofpoliticalthoughtblog.wordpress.com/call-for-pap...

📢 Term has started, and so will our #EnlightenmentWorkshop! 📢 Our guests in the 2nd term: Colin Jones, J. C. D. Clark, Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, Jeanhyoung Soh, and Pauline Kleingeld. #18C More information on the website: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...

I was the runner-up of this year's Charles Schmitt Prize by @isih-blueskye.bsky.social Now that the paper is online; it really makes sense to share it! Free speech, the making of libertarianism, books, tender intergenerational friendships and more. Please share👇 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BYEDM...

🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨 The Call for Papers and Symposia for the ISIH 2025 Conference has been postponed to February 1! 🗓️ Theme: Women, Men, and Other Animals 📍 Where: Aarhus University 📆 When: 11–13 June 2025 👉 More info & submissions: is-ih.com/isih-2025-wo...

Today - 17.00 | Oxford Political Thought Seminar | Leslie James (Queen Mary): 'Beyond Antagonism: Converging Radicalisms in the 1930s Caribbean' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/leslie...

Constance Blackwell Prize of 2024 to Freddy Foks is-ih.com/news/constan...