Lectures in Intellectual History

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Alan Kahan - "Three Pillars and Four Fears: A History of Liberalisms Nov 14, 2023

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This lecture was delivered on 11 October 2023 at the University of St Andrews.
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James Harris - “Hobbes and Rousseau on ‘the act by which a people is a people’” May 18, 2023

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This lecture was delivered on 5 April 2023 at the University of St Andrews.
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Brian Young - "Utilitarianism and the universities in Victorian England: the brothers Grote in nineteenth-century thought" May 04, 2023

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This lecture was delivered at the University of St andrews on March 15, 2023.
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Sarah Mortimer - "Virtue beyond Law? Christian Ethics and Political Duties in Reformation Europe" Apr 13, 2023

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This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on February 15, 2023.
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Ariane Fichtl - "Bound with the enslaved: the role of women in the formation of the political discourse of Immediate Abolitionism and its egalitarian framework" Apr 06, 2023

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This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on February 1, 2023.
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Martine van Ittersum - "The Working Papers of Hugo Grotius: A Case Study in the Micro-Sociologies of Archives" Oct 06, 2022

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specializes in Dutch overseas expansion in the early modern period, especially its implications for political thought and practice. She is also a book historian. Her research focuses on the social history of knowledge, including the materiality of texts, the archaeology of archives, and the history of canon formation. She has taught European, Atlantic and global history at the University of Dundee since September 2003.
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Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians - Maria Rosa Antognazza Sep 18, 2022

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During the final weeks of the summer, the Institute of Intellectual History brings a series of new interviews with leading intellectual historians about their career and work in intellectual history. In this sixth interview, we present a conversation with Maria Rosa Antognazza. is a professor of Philosophy at King’s College London. Her research interests include the history of philosophy, epistemology and the philosophy of religion, including the relationship between science and religion. She has published extensively on early modern philosophy and specifically on Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Notably, her book Leibniz - An Intellectual Biography (CUP, 2009) was the winner of the 2010 Pfizer award. More recently, she was awarded the 2019-2020 Mind Senior Research Fellowship for work on her book Thinking with Assent: Renewing a Traditional Account of Knowledge and Belief (forthcoming with Oxford University Press).
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Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians - Jamie Gianoutsos Sep 13, 2022

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During the final weeks of the summer, the Institute of Intellectual History brings a series of new interviews with leading intellectual historians about their career and work in intellectual history. In this fifth interview, we present a conversation with Jamie Gianoutsos. is Associate Professor of History at Mount St. Mary’s University in the US. In the interview, Jamie shares insights into her university experience, her motivation to become a researcher and her discovery of the intellectual history of seventeenth-century Britain as a research field. She discusses her time as a Ph.D. candidate and traces the early stages of her academic career and the work on her book The Rule of Manhood: Tyranny Gender and Classical Republicanism in England, 1603-1660 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), which won the The 2020. For an interview with Jamie about her book, .
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Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians - Carole Levin Sep 07, 2022

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During the final weeks of the summer, the Institute of Intellectual History brings a series of new interviews with leading intellectual historians about their career and work in intellectual history. In this fourth interview, we present a conversation with Carole Levin. Carole Levin is Willa Cather Emerita Professor of History at the University of Nebraska. She specialises in early modern English women's and cultural history. Her books include Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age, co-authored with John Watkins (Cornell, 2009); Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); The Reign of Elizabeth I (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002); and The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994). She is the former president of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, the co-founder and president of the Queen Elizabeth I Society, and is Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians – Tae-Yeoun Keum Aug 29, 2022

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