Episodes
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Alison Bashford (Sydney) - “Depopulation and Repopulation: Settler Colonialism and Political Economy in the Early 19th Century”
This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 26 November 2025. Alison Bashford is Scientia Professor in History and Director of the Laureate Centre for History & Population at the University of New South Wales (Sydney). Her work connects the history of science, global history…
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Niall O’Flaherty (KCL) - "Malthus and the Global Turn"
This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on the 19th of November 2025. Niall O’Flaherty is Reader in History of European Political Thought at King’s College London. His research focuses on eighteenth and nineteenth-century social, religious and scientific thought in Britain with...
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Avi Lifschitz (Oxford) - “Holding the Monarch to Account: Frederick the Great’s Writings in the Public Sphere”
This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on the 15th of October 2025. The lecture is not for citation without permission of the author. Avi Lifschitz is Professor of Intellectual History and Enlightenment Studies at Magdalen College, Oxford. Get full access to Institute of...
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Debating Enlightenment
This discussion took place a the University of St Andrews on February 26, 2025. Ann Thomson is Professor Emerita at the European University Institute, having been Professor of Intellectual History there from 2013 to 2020. Her research interests include the intellectual history of the long...
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Ramin Jahanbegloo - "The Idea of Persia: A Philosophical Enquiry" (Book launch)
This episode was recorded at the University of St Andrews on 7th of October 2025. The event was held in Parliament Hall, St Andrews. Ramin Jahanbegloo’s The Idea of Persia can be found here. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Robert Frost (Aberdeen) - "Drawing in the Reins of Government: Justus Lipsius and Republican Monarchy in Poland-Lithuania"
This lecture was given at the University of St Andrews on Wednesday 17 September 2025. The lecture is not for citation without permission of the author. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Beauty and the Footnote: Universities and the Study of Literature
Stefan Collini, FBA. Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature, University of Cambridge. The Donald Winch Lectures in Intellectual History.University of St Andrews. 11th, 12th & 13th October 2022. In the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, universities…
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Beauty and the Footnote: Universities and the Study of Literature
Lecture 2: Careers Stefan Collini, FBA.Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature, University of Cambridge. The Donald Winch Lectures in Intellectual History.University of St Andrews.11th, 12th & 13th October 2022. In the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,...
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Beauty and the Footnote: Universities and the Study of Literature
Lecture 1: Justifications Stefan Collini, FBA. Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature, University of Cambridge. The Donald Winch Lectures in Intellectual History. University of St Andrews. 11th, 12th & 13th October 2022. In the course of the nineteenth and twentieth...
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Sophie Scott-Brown (University of St Andrews; Remarque Institute, New York) - "British Activist-Intellectuals and the Unexpected Revival of Radical Democracy in the (Long) 1950s"
This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 25 September 2024. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen) - "Creating an Ancien Regime: The Union of 1800 as a Counter Revolutionary Act"
This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 18 September 2024. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Tom Pye (UCL) - "The tailzie and the politics of the feudal law in eighteenth-century Britain"
This lecture was delivered on 3 April 2024 at the University of St Andrews. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Norman Vance - "Individualism and its Discontents: Hobbes to Hayek and Beyond"
This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 13 March 2024. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Christopher de Bellaigue - "Suleyman the Magnificent and the 16th-century race for empire"
This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 31 January 2024. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Ariane Fichtl - “Overcoming the biopolitical dynamic of enslavement to achieve Immediate Emancipation”
This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 24 January 2024. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Tim Stuart-Buttle - "Behind the Curtain: Hobbes and the politics of recognition"
This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 17 January 2024. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Richard Whatmore - "The End of Enlightenment (book launch)"
This talk was given at Toppings in St Andrews on December 7, 2023. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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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. Jesse Norman is a Visiting Research...
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Vassilios Paipais - "Between Pacifism and Just War: Oikonomia and Eastern Orthodox Political Theology"
This lecture was given at the University of St Andrews on 15 November 2023. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Adam Sisman - "The Perils of Biography"
Adam Sisman in conversation with Richard Whatmore. Recorded on 8 November 2023. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Alan Kahan - "Three Pillars and Four Fears: A History of Liberalisms
This lecture was delivered on 11 October 2023 at the University of St Andrews. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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James Harris - “Hobbes and Rousseau on ‘the act by which a people is a people’”
This lecture was delivered on 5 April 2023 at the University of St Andrews. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Brian Young - "Utilitarianism and the universities in Victorian England: the brothers Grote in nineteenth-century thought"
This lecture was delivered at the University of St andrews on March 15, 2023. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Sarah Mortimer - "Virtue beyond Law? Christian Ethics and Political Duties in Reformation Europe"
This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on February 15, 2023. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Ariane Fichtl - "Bound with the enslaved: the role of women in the formation of the political discourse of Immediate Abolitionism and its egalitarian framework"
This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on February 1, 2023. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Martine van Ittersum - "The Working Papers of Hugo Grotius: A Case Study in the Micro-Sociologies of Archives"
specializes in Dutch overseas expansion in the early modern period, especially its implications for political thought and practice. She is also a book historian. Her research focuses on the social history of knowledge, including the materiality of texts, the archaeology of archives, and the…
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Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians - Maria Rosa Antognazza
During the final weeks of the summer, the Institute of Intellectual History brings a series of new interviews with leading intellectual historians about their career and work in intellectual history. In this sixth interview, we present a conversation with Maria Rosa Antognazza. is a professor of...
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Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians - Jamie Gianoutsos
During the final weeks of the summer, the Institute of Intellectual History brings a series of new interviews with leading intellectual historians about their career and work in intellectual history. In this fifth interview, we present a conversation with Jamie Gianoutsos. is Associate Professor…
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Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians - Carole Levin
During the final weeks of the summer, the Institute of Intellectual History brings a series of new interviews with leading intellectual historians about their career and work in intellectual history. In this fourth interview, we present a conversation with Carole Levin. Carole Levin is Willa…
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Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians – Tae-Yeoun Keum
During the final weeks of the summer, the Institute of Intellectual History brings a series of new interviews with leading intellectual historians about their career and work in intellectual history. In this third interview, we present a conversation with Tae-Yeoun Keum. Dr Tae-Yeoun Keum is a...
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Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians - Jacqueline Broad
During the final weeks of the summer, the Institute of Intellectual History brings a series of new interviews with leading intellectual historians about their career and work in intellectual history. In this second interview, we present a conversation with Professor Jacqueline Broad. Jaqueline...
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Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians - Eileen M. Hunt
During the final weeks of the summer, the Institute of Intellectual History brings a series of new interviews with leading intellectual historians about their career and work in intellectual history. In this first interview, we present a conversation with Eileen M. Hunt. Eileen Hunt is a…
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Emma McLeod - "John Bruce, precedent, and the 'mind of government' in the English and Scottish state trials of 1793-94"
This lecture was given at the University of St Andrews on April 20, 2022. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Rosa Antognazza - Leibniz as Historian
This lecture was given at the University of St Andrews on April 13, 2022. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Karie Schultz - Holy war advocates or secular political theorists? The case of the Scottish Covenanters, 1638-1646
This lecture was given at the University of St Andrews on April 6, 2022. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Craig Smith - Adam Smith and the Limits of Philosophy
This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 23 March 2022 and subsequently at George Mason University, where it was recorded. For a video of this lecture with the powerpoint slides, please vist: Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at...
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Jesse Norman - Uses and abuses of the Ancient Constitution
This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 1 April 2022. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Ryan Hanley - Commerce before Capitalism: Fénelon, Vauban, and Boisguilbert
This lecture was given on 16 February 2022 at the University of St Andrews. Ryan Patrick Hanley is Professor of Political Science at Boston College. His most recent projects include The Political Philosophy of Fénelon, and a companion translation volume, Fénelon: Moral and Political Writings…
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John Robertson - The Refutation of Natural Law by Sacred History in Giambattista Vico's New Science
Professor John Robertson (Cambridge & St Andrews) delivered this lecture at the University of St Andrews on February 27, 2020. The event was organised by the Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research in collaboration with the Institute of Intellectual History. Get full access to Institute of...
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Giulia Delogu - The Emporium of Words: Free Ports and Port Cities as Laboratories of Modernity (16th-19th centuries)
Dr Giulia Delogu (Venice) delivered this lecture on February 5th 2020. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Thomas Maissen - Britannia and her sisters in the 16th and 17th centuries: Political Representation and Iconography
Professor Thomas Maissen (Heidelberg/Paris) delivered this lecture on January 28, 2020 at the University of St Andrews. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Ian MacLean - Old wine in new bottles? Hippocrates, the classical tradition and the Early Enlightenment
Professor Ian MacLean (Oxford/St Andrews) delivered this lecture at the Institute of Intellectual History on November 19th 2019. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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David Weinstein - Green's Hume
Professor David Weinstein (Wake Forest) delivered this lecture on November 12, 2019 at the University of St Andrews. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Lucia Rubinelli - Sovereignty and Constituent Power in Weimar Germany
Dr Lucia Rubinelli (Cambridge) delivered the 18th István Hont Memorial Lecture on October 29 2019 at the University of St Andrews "This paper is the third chapter of a book manuscript, titled Constituent power: A history. The book mainly focuses on how Sieyes’ first theorisation of pouvoir...
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James Poskett - Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920
Dr James Poskett (Warwick) delivered this lecture on October 15th 2019 at the University of St Andrews. Phrenology was the most popular mental science of the Victorian age. From American senators to Indian social reformers, this new mental science found supporters around the globe. James’s new...
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Emma Hunter - Africa and the Global History of Liberalism
Dr Emma Hunter (Edinburgh) delivered this lecture at the University of St Andrews on September 24, 2019. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Silvia Sebastiani - The Boundaries of Humanity in the Enlightenment: Orangutans, Slaves and Global Markets.
Dr Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS) delivered the 10th James H. Burnes Memorial Lecture on April 23, 2019 at the Institute of Intellectual History. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Richard Whatmore - The End of Enlightenment: A synopsis of the 2019 Carlyle Lectures
Richard Whatmore (St Andrews) delivered this talk at the University of St Andrews on April 3, 2019. The talk was based on the Carlyle Lectures, which Professor Whatmore gave at the University of Oxford in the spring semester of 2019. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at...
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Iain McDaniel - Writing the Intellectual History of Caesarism in the era of the Franco-Prussian War
Dr Iain McDaniel (Sussex) delivered the 16th István Hont Memorial Lecture at the Institute of Intellectual History (St Andrews) on April 2, 2019. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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Nathan Alexander - The Meanings of "Racism": Towards a history of the concept
Dr Nathan Alexander (Erfurt) delivered this talk at the University of St Andrews on February 2, 2019. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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