Welcome to the Graduate Workshop in PTIH

Our workshop offers PhD and MPhil students the opportunity to present and discuss results from their current research in an informal and supportive environment. It is intended as a home for all graduate students whose work intersects in some way with the broad field of intellectual history, taken as the historical study of ideas, concepts, discourses, beliefs, knowledge.

The workshop draws impetus from the diversifying scene of intellectual history at Cambridge, as demonstrated by recent graduate conferences on “Aesthetics and Poetics” (2018), “The Body and Politics” (2019) and “The Patristic Legacy in Early Modern Culture” (2019, upcoming), and the regular seminar series on Political Thought and Intellectual History, Early Modern Scholarship and Religion, and Global Intellectual History.

We welcome papers on topics from all periods and regions of the world that are engaged in intellectual history broadly construed, including papers on the history of social, economic, political, religious, cultural, or aesthetic thought, contemporary political philosophy, critical theory, the history of scholarship and the book, and beyond. Even if your research interests might, at first sight, only have a tangential affinity with the field, please do not hesitate to submit your abstract, together with a short academic CV, to the organisers by Monday 9th September 2019.

Convenors:

Odile Panetta (olp23@cam.ac.uk)                                                                                                                                     

Edward Wren (ew515@cam.ac.uk)

Emily Evans (ee271@cam.ac.uk)

Image: Ambrogio Lorenzetti, The Allegory of Good and Bad Government (detail), fresco, c. 1339