SCIH Spring Term News
By: Kristopher Grint
Last updated: Thursday, 24 February 2011
Nicholas Phillipson (University of Edinburgh) will be giving the next Sussex Lecture in Intellectual History on 28 February 2011, 18.00-19.30, Arts A5.
‘Adam Smith – An Intellectual Biographer’s Perspective’
Everyone is welcome. More details.
SCIH will soon be hosting, with the Department of Philosophy at Sussex, The British Society for the History of Philosophy Annual Conference 2011. 29-31 March at the University of Sussex.
THEME: THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT.
Plenary speakers include Jonathan Friday (Kent), Knud Haakonssen (Sussex), James Harris (St Andrews), Helga Varden (Illinois) and Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary, London). Registration is now open. More details.
Martin Van Gelderen (European University Institute, Florence) will give a lecture ‘Rembrandt, Grotius and Menassseh: Visuality and Religious Toleration’ on 9 May 2011, 18.00-19.00, Arts A2.
Everyone is welcome. More details.
Donald Winch (Sussex) will give a lecture 'John Maynard Keynes: Economist as Biographer and Intellectual Historian' on 6 June 2011, 18.00-19.00, Arts A2.
Everyone is welcome. More details.
The second SCIH Leverhulme funded Anti-Machiavellian Machiavellianism conference, 'Wrestling with Machiavelli', will be held at Tufts University on 28-29 May, 2011.
More details or enquiries to Mark Somos.
Applications are welcome for the John Burrow PhD Studentship, which provides £3000 per annum for three years for a PhD student at Sussex working on any aspect of intellectual history.
Download application form or enquiries to Richard Whatmore.
We are pleased to announce the launch of another online resource: The Malthus-James Archive.
The archive consists of papers created or collected by Patricia James in the course of her research on Thomas Robert Malthus and his family.