Intellectual History Research Group Edinburgh

We shall soon be closing the account of the Intellectual History Research Group on X. Please follow us on Bluesky (@inthistedin.bsky.social) instead. Thank you.

Happy new year from OCIH! For a list of upcoming events, including Eric Nelson's Carlyle Lectures, see below ⬇️ intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/events

Applications are now open for 2025-26 IASH Fellowships, with 50+ places available! Apply here: iash.ed.ac.uk/application-fo… Senior/mid-career programmes close 28 Feb. Postdoctoral/early-career programmes close 25 Apr. See our Fellowship pages for details: iash.ed.ac.uk/fellowship-pro…

[🆕NEW ARTICLE (AHEAD OF PRINT)] Alessandro Nannini (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), “Clinical aesthetics. Johann Christian Bolten and the aesthetic origins of psychotherapy,” IHR (2024). doi.org/10.1080/174969…

Constance Blackwell Prize of 2024 to Freddy Foks is-ih.com/news/constance…

Postdoctoral positions: Turin Humanities Programme (THP), fellowships on “Rethinking the Origins of Political Economy in the European World: Needs, Justice, and the Wealth of Nations” : fondazione1563.it/progetti/en-th…. Deadline February 17, start date November 2025.

REMINDER: LUCK's International Fellowship Programme in the History of Knowledge has an open call for the spring of 2025. Deadline for application: 15 November.

[🆕NEW ARTICLE] Sofía Mercader (Aarhus University), “Democracy and inequality in Latin America: revisiting the intellectual legacy of Guillermo O’Donnell” IHR 34 (4): 833-850. doi.org/10.1080/174969….

📢PAPER: Prof Sergio Orozco-Echeverri (University of Antioquia, Columbia) will speak about early modern environmental thought, under the title 'Changes in the Air: Medical Astrology and Meteorology in Early Modern Spanish-American Almanacs' (1 pm, 15 November, G.16 WRW).

Eight (!) scholarships for PhD projects in Enlightenment studies @UniHalle, offered by our friends at the IZEA centre: verwaltung.uni-halle.de/dezern3/Aussch… Apply by 4 November!

5 Full-Time PhD Positions at VUB, on the Research Project ‘Contra Isaac Newton: British Anti-Mathematical Criticism of Newton’s Natural Philosophy and the ‘New Science’, 1650-c.1750’. For more information, please contact steffen.ducheyne@vub.be.

JOB: Postdoctoral position in Political Philosophy, University of Groningen: rug.nl/about-ug/work-…

If you're an ECR in intellectual history and have published your first monograph in the last 2 years, don't forget to submit it for our Constance Blackwell Prize! The deadline is 31 May. More details below 👇

Joint seminar of Histories of Gender and Sexuality/ History of Science, Medicine and Technology groups: Dr Leah Astbury (Manchester), 'The myth of the (early modern) vaginal orgasm'. Wednesday 27th March at 4.10pm, G.16 (Doorway 4, Old Medical School).

📢JOB: Lectureship in the History of the Modern Political Thought of Africa, the Americas, or Asia, at King's College London. For furtherinformation, see kcl.ac.uk/jobs/084725-le…

Publish a first book in intellectual history? Submit it for a prize! @IHRjournal @ISIHtweets ISIH Society biennial Constance Blackwell Prize for a first monograph published in 2022 or 2023. Particulars... is-ih.com/ecr/prizes/

CFP: Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference, 31 May, 2024, on 'Methodology in Intellectual History'. Deadline for papers is 28 April, 2024. Submit proposals via this form: forms.office.com/Pages/Response….

Only 2 days left to apply for an ISIH bursary to support participation at the annual conference of the European Society for the History of Political Thought!

📢PAPER: Katie East (U of Newcastle): 'Experiencing Texts: how the Catilinarians were made political in the eighteenth century'. 1pm, 28 Feb.,rm. 2.27, SHCA. This will explore how editors used material elements of books to encourage readers to experience them as political works.

[🆕NEW OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE🔓(AHEAD OF PRESS)] Stephen Gaukroger, “Making sense of the exotic: the differing impact of travel reports in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century thought” IHR (2023). doi.org/10.1080/174969….