2011

Seminars

26 January: Rachel Foxley (Reading)

'"Due Libertie and Proportiond Equalitie": Milton, Democracy and the Republican Tradition'

11 February: Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck)

'Consumption in World Historical Context' (Sussex History Seminar on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Long-Term Change)

25 February: Steven Pincus (Yale)

'Rethinking Mercantalism: Political Economy, the British Empire and the Atlantic World in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries' (Sussex History Seminar on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Long-Term Change)

Public Lectures

All of the following lectures are available as podcasts.

28 February: Nicholas Phillipson (University of Edinburgh)

'Adam Smith – An Intellectual Biographer’s Perspective'

9 May: Martin Van Gelderen (European University Institute, Florence)

'Rembrandt, Grotius and Menassseh: Visuality and Religious Toleration'

6 June: Donald Winch (Sussex)

'John Maynard Keynes: Economist as Biographer and Intellectual Historian'

18 October: John Robertson (Cambridge)

'Sacred History and Political Thought, 1750-1850'

21 November: Isabel Rivers (Queen Mary)

'The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival'

5 December: Stefan Collini (Cambridge)

The John Burrow Memorial Lecture: 'The Very Idea of the University'

Conferences

29-30 March Sussex

The British Society for the History of Philosophy Annual Conference 2011

'The Philosophy of the Enlightenment'

Co-hosted by the Centre for Intellectual History and the Department of Philosophy. More details on the conference website.

28-29 May Tufts University (USA)

The second SCIH Leverhulme funded Anti-Machiavellian Machiavellianism conference: 'Wrestling with Machiavelli'.

More details are available on the conference website or enquiries to msomos@gmail.com.