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John Burrow (1935-2009)

MA Programme

MPhil/DPhil Programme

director:
Professor
Knud Haakonssen


location:
Arts A36

mailing address:
Sussex Centre for Intellectual History
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QN, UK

telephone:
(+44) 01273 - 872 725

e.mail:
scih@sussex.ac.uk

For a generation, Sussex has been central in the flourishing of intellectual history in Britain and internationally. Its emphasis has been on political, economic, and social thought and its connections with literature from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.

The Sussex Centre for Intellectual History is established to continue this tradition and, at the same time, to broaden the agenda to include the history of philosophy and science and their connections with religious thought. We maintain a broad European perspective in these areas through recent and current work on Dutch, English, French, German, Irish, Italian, Scandinavian, Scottish, and Swiss topics.

The Centre promotes intellectual history nationally and internationally by being a hub for scholars to pursue research and develop their teaching and by maintaining links to other groups in the UK, across Europe and in North America and Australasia.

Within Sussex we collaborate with the Department of Philosophy, the Centre for Early Modern Studies, and the Centre for German-Jewish Studies. We have a lively graduate programme with MA, MPhil and DPhil students participating in joint seminars. We host extensive online text resources and are developing discussion fora, both for the academic and the wider community.

The Centre is home to the Newton Project, the most technically advanced AHRC humanities project and one of the most ambitious manuscript text-encoding projects in the world - and it is open access.

Together with The Centre for Dissenting Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, SCIH runs a major project on "The Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860", that is funded by The Leverhulme Trust. Other projects include one, funded by the British Academy, on 'Calvinism and Enlightenment in the Long Eighteenth Century: Comparative Studies of Scotland and Geneva'.

Several large editorial projects are housed at the Centre and the international journal History of European Ideas is edited here.