Dr Sophie Bisset
| Post: | Associate Tutor (Centre for Intellectual History) |
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Qualifications
PhD Intellectual History, Sussex (AHRC funded)
MA Intellectual History, Sussex (Distinction)
BA Politics, Sussex (1st: Prize for the Highest Achieving Graduate in the Politics Department 2006)
I have also completed an M-level PGCertHE (Sussex, Distinction)
Activities
Recent activites:
Co-editing the "What is Intellectual History?" Project, a series of video interviews with leading intellectual historians.
Taking part in the Researchers in Residence programme, running projects on Just War Theory and Intellectual History Methodology in conjunction with two local schools: Dorothy Stringer High School and Varndean College, respecitvely.
I also helped to organise and run the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Forum (2010) and the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History Postgraduate Conference: Religion and Modernity (2009).
Selected Conference Papers:
‘Exploring the parameters of the école romande du droit naturel in the Journal helvétique : the case of Louis Bourguet’s ‘Four Letters’ on Leibniz’, Lectures du Journal helvétique (1732-1782), Colloque international Neuchâtel, March 2014
‘Natural law as an academic discipline: Switzerland 1672-1720’, European Natural Law 1625-1850: Concepts and Traditions, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Oct 2013
‘Moral Permission and Religious Heterodoxy in Barbeyrac’s Morale des peres’, Exploring the Early Modern Underground: Freethinkers, Heretics, Spies: ISECS International Seminars for Early Career Scholars, Gotha, August 2013