Intellectual History Seminars
Candlemas Semester 2025
Global Commons and the Law of the Sea: Towards an Archipelagic Nomos of the Earth
Miguel Vatter (University of New South Wales)
‘Women’s International Thought in U.S. Public Culture: A Divided History’
Katharina Reitzler (University of Sussex)
Authors of the Laws: Rethinking Rousseau's Legislator through Ancient Lawgivers - Lecture 1
Melissa Lane (Princeton)
Authors of the Laws: Rethinking Rousseau's Legislator through Ancient Lawgivers - Lecture 2
Melissa Lane (Princeton)
Melissa Lane (Princeton) - Masterclass
Professor Melissa Lane will give a masterclass on the subjects of the Winch Lectures at the Old Class Library, South Street.
‘Reconstructing early modern selfhood: the case of feminism’
Hannah Dawson (King’s College, London)
Was there a Scottish National Style of Physical Science in the Nineteenth Century?
Bill Jenkins (University of St Andrews)
Dugald Stewart in the 21st Century
The first M. A. Stewart Workshop in Scottish Intellectual History.
In honour of Knud Haakonssen
Dugald Stewart in the 21st Century
The first M. A. Stewart Workshop in Scottish Intellectual History.
In honour of Knud Haakonssen
The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation
Isaac Nakhimovsky (Yale) discusses his latest book, The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation, with Béla Kapossy (Lausanne) and Michael Sonenscher (Cambridge).
Symposium
Richard Bourke (University of Cambridge) and the following commentators from St Andrews: Colin Kidd, James Harris, Ariane Fichtl, and Caroline Humfress – Donal Winch Memorial Symposium
“The Right Side of History” – Donald Winch Memorial Lecture 2024
Richard Bourke (University of Cambridge)
“The Right Side of History” Donald Winch Memorial Lecture 2024
Richard Bourke (University of Cambridge)
British Activist-Intellectuals and the Unexpected Revival of Radical Democracy in the (Long) 1950s
Sophie Scott-Brown (University of St Andrews; Remarque Institute, New York)
Creating an Ancien Regime: The Union of 1800 as a Counter Revolutionary Act
Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen)
John Marshall (Johns Hopkins) - "Art, Artists, Aesthetics, Antiracism, Antislavery and AfroBritish Arguments 1787-1792"
Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787-1791) in context
Jesse Norman - "Ambition, revenge, truth, fiction: The Winding Stair”
The barely known story of the 30-year rivalry between Francis Bacon and Edward Coke is a fascinating case study in late-Elizabethan-Jacobean court politics. But it can also be a means by which to explore the limits of historical truth, and the uses of fiction.
The Perils of Biography - Adam Sisman in conversation with Richard Whatmore
Adam Sisman talks about the perils of biography and his new book The Secret Life of John Le Carré in conversation with Richard Whatmore
Béla Kapossy - “The Republican Restoration” (Lecture 3)
The Donald Winch Lectures in Intellectual History 2023
Béla Kapossy - “The Republican Restoration” (Lecture 2)
The Donald Winch Lectures in Intellectual History 2023