Sussex Lectures in Intellectual History
Sussex Lectures in Intellectual History is a public lecture series jointly organised by SCIH and the History of European Ideas journal published by Taylor and Francis.
In 2008 we begun recording our lectures, which we are delighted to present here in our digital archive. You can stream each lecture directly from this page by clicking the appropriate play button below. Alternatively, you can download a particular lecture by right-clicking (Mac: Ctrl + click) on the 'Download' link and selecting 'Save Target As' (Mac: select 'Download Linked File As'). Our podcast archive is also now available on iTunes.
The John Burrow Memorial Lecture: The Trials of Douglas Young
Professor Colin Kidd (17th April 2013)
Professorial Lecture: Democracy and Empire
Professor Richard Whatmore (5th March 2013)
View Professor Whatmore's PowerPoint slides for this lecture.
Two 17th Century Century Concepts of Liberty and their Legacy
Professor Blair Worden (23rd January 2013)
The Mythos, Ethos and Pathos of the Humanities
Professor Ian Hunter (11th October 2012)
Calvinists, Socinians and Arminians: Reformation and natural rights in early modern political thought.
Professor James Moore (11th October 2012)
Benjamin Franklin's Radical Agrarian Project
Professor Manuela Albertone (18th June 2012)
The sociological imagination in mid-twentieth century Britain and America
Professor Peter Mandler (12th March 2012)
What gave you that idea Paddy? Genealogies of the Irish mind
Professor Norman Vance (6th February 2012)
The John Burrow Memorial Lecture: The Very Idea of the University
Professor Stefan Collini (5th December 2011)
The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival
Professor Isabel Rivers (21st November 2011)
Sacred History and Political Thought, 1650-1750
Professor John Robertson (18th October 2011)
John Maynard Keynes: Economist as Biographer and Intellectual Historian
Professor Donald Winch (6th June 2011)
Rembrandt, Grotius and Menasseh: Visuality and Religious Toleration
Professor Martin van Gelderen (10th May 2011)
Adam Smith: An Intellectual Biographer's Perspective
Professor Nicholas Phillipson (28th February 2011)
Anglican Enlightenment and Christian revelation: The reception of Gibbon's Decline and Fall
Professor J.G.A. Pocock (2nd March 2010)
Word and Image in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
Professor Q.R. Skinner (11th March 2009)
Gibbon and the Invention of Gibbon: Chapters 15 and 16 revisited
Professor J.G.A. Pocock (22nd May 2008)
