Workshop for Intellectual History
This working group meets monthly during the academic year. It has existed for some years but only acquired a web presence in fall 2016.
Please e-mail Alexander Arnold or Abram Kaplan for copies of papers listed below.
Unless otherwise noted, meetings take place at CIRHUS, 4 Washington Square North, Second Floor Dean’s Conference Room, at 3:00 p.m.
Spring 2017
April 24
Sophia Roosth (Harvard University),
"The Fluent Structure of Time: Microbial Colonies and Post-Colonial Economies in the Caribbean"
April 10
Sophia Rosenfeld (University of Pennsylvania),
"Revolutions and the Problem of Choice"
March 27
Sebastian Conrad (Freie Universität),
"Time Regimes in the 19th Century: Global History Perspectives"
March 20
Reviel Netz (Stanford University),
"Scale, Space, Canon: Parameters of Ancient Literary Practice"
Fall 2016
November 28
Carolyn Biltoft (The Graduate Institute, Geneva),
"International Organizations as Heterotopias: Story Fragments, Conflicted Modernities, and the League of Nations Archives"
November 21
Knox Peden (Australian National University),
"Truth and Consequences: Historical Interpretation and Political Judgment in Foucault and Althusser"
October 29
Nicholas Heron (University of Queensland),
"Homo Instrumentum Humanitatis: On Dante’s Political Theology According to Ernst Kantorowicz "
September 17
Jamie Martin (University of Sydney),
"The European Origins of U.S. Postwar Planning: European Integration, Public Works, and Development in the Late 1930s"
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