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Monthly Archives: December 2014

Oxford Political Thought Conference

By James A T Lancaster | Published: December 30, 2014

Oxford Political Thought Conference 8-10 January 2015, University of Oxford The Political Thought Conference of the Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought will take between 8-10 January, 2015 at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. Speakers at this year’s conference will be presenting on range of issues such as English debates on the nature of treason, and […]

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CFP: The Anatomy of Political Bodies

By James A T Lancaster | Published: December 30, 2014

The Anatomy of Political Bodies 17-18 April 2015, University of Warsaw The research group “Rex nunquam moritur: Comparative Approaches to Political Theologies from the Middle Ages to the Present” is pleased to announce a call for papers for the international two-day conference on The Anatomy of Political Bodies which will be held at the Faculty […]

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CFP: The Tree of Knowledge

By James A T Lancaster | Published: December 30, 2014

The Tree of Knowledge: Theories of Sciences and Arts in Central Europe, 1400-1700 28-29 May 2015, University of Warsaw We invite submissions for papers to be given at the forthcoming seminar on theories of knowledge in late medieval and early modern Central European sources. The seminar is open to all scholars working in the field of […]

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Colloquium: Magic and Intellectual History

By James A T Lancaster | Published: December 12, 2014

Colloquium: Magic and Intellectual History 5 March 2015, University of York This symposium will explore the place of magic in the intellectual culture of early modern England and Europe. It will focus on how magic was perceived and understood in philosophical, religious and scientific thought, and the ambivalence that surrounded it as topics of scholarship. […]

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New President of the ISIH

By James A T Lancaster | Published: December 9, 2014

The International Society for Intellectual History is pleased to announce that the Society’s next president will be Professor Michael Hunter (Birkbeck College, University of London), who will serve a three-year term from December 2014. Professor Hunter is a distinguished intellectual historian, whose research has focussed on the intersection of natural philosophy, magic, and religion, as […]

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Charles Schmitt Prize 2015

By James A T Lancaster | Published: December 9, 2014

As the result of generous donations from an anonymous donor and our publisher (Routledge), the International Society for Intellectual History is offering, on an annual basis, a prize to honour the contribution of Charles B. Schmitt (1933-1986) to intellectual history. The prize is £250, plus £50 worth of Routledge books, and a year’s free membership of the ISIH with a subscription to the Society’s quarterly journal Intellectual […]

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Rethinking Intellectual History

By James A T Lancaster | Published: December 9, 2014

Conference: Rethinking Intellectual History 7-9 April 2015, University of Sydney The Sydney Intellectual History Network at the University of Sydney invite you to the Rethinking Intellectual History Conference. Rethinking Intellectual History is also affiliated with the International Society for Intellectual History (note, though, that it is not an official conference of the ISIH). The conference theme […]

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Warburg Institute Appeal

By James A T Lancaster | Published: December 9, 2014

Warburg Institute Appeal For those interested in the Warburg Institute, its former Director, Charles Hope, has an article in the current issue of the London Review of Books, detailing events and conversations surrounding the recent court decision. As the article explains, the Warburg Institute has suffered severe financial strains from its legal struggles, which are ongoing. Because […]

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Warburg Digital Collections

By James A T Lancaster | Published: December 3, 2014

Warburg Digital Collections The purpose of  the Warburg Institute‘s digital collections is to make out-of-print source material on Medieval and Renaissance studies freely available online through the Warburg Library catalogue and classification system. Books are either scanned by the Institute or downloaded as pdf files from public domain repositories and made available through the Library catalogue. The […]

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