Intellectual History

Lectures in Intellectual History

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Recordings from the popular public lecture series featuring new work on all aspects of intellectual history. Hosted by the Institute of Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews. standrewsiih.substack.com

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Avi Lifschitz (Oxford) - “Holding the Monarch to Account: Frederick the Great’s Writings in the Public Sphere” 06.07.2026 50:16

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 The lecture is not for citation without permission of the author.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. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.subst...

Debating Enlightenment 23.05.2026 1:25:17

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 Eighteenth Century, and she studies questions at the intersection of religion, medicine and politics, as well...

Ramin Jahanbegloo - "The Idea of Persia: A Philosophical Enquiry" (Book launch) 15.05.2026 49:26

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 . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com

Robert Frost (Aberdeen) - "Drawing in the Reins of Government: Justus Lipsius and Republican Monarchy in Poland-Lithuania" 14.11.2025 1:06:59

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 The lecture is not for citation without permission of the author. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com

Beauty and the Footnote: Universities and the Study of Literature 10.08.2025 1:01:09

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 expanded to include a wide range of what came to be regarded as academic ‘disciplines’. In Britain, the stud...

Beauty and the Footnote: Universities and the Study of Literature 28.07.2025 54:04

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, universities expanded to include a wide range of what came to be regarded as academic ‘disciplines’. In...

Beauty and the Footnote: Universities and the Study of Literature 20.07.2025 1:06:10

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 centuries, universities expanded to include a wide range of what came to be regarded as academic ‘discipli...

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" 15.01.2025 55:02

This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 25 September 2024. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com

Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen) - "Creating an Ancien Regime: The Union of 1800 as a Counter Revolutionary Act" 11.12.2024 35:55

This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 18 September 2024. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com

Tom Pye (UCL) - "The tailzie and the politics of the feudal law in eighteenth-century Britain" 15.10.2024 48:57

This lecture was delivered on 3 April 2024 at the University of St Andrews. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com

Norman Vance - "Individualism and its Discontents: Hobbes to Hayek and Beyond" 15.05.2024 41:24

This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 13 March 2024. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com

Christopher de Bellaigue - "Suleyman the Magnificent and the 16th-century race for empire" 03.04.2024 44:21

This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 31 January 2024. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com

Ariane Fichtl - “Overcoming the biopolitical dynamic of enslavement to achieve Immediate Emancipation” 21.03.2024 35:34

This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 24 January 2024. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com

Tim Stuart-Buttle - "Behind the Curtain: Hobbes and the politics of recognition" 07.03.2024 50:50

This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 17 January 2024. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com

Richard Whatmore - "The End of Enlightenment (book launch)" 27.12.2023 36:36

This talk was given at Toppings in St Andrews on December 7, 2023. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com

Jesse Norman - "Ambition, revenge, truth, fiction - The Winding Stair" 22.12.2023 1:04:19

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 Fellow at St Andrews, a Fellow of All Souls and a Member of Parliament (UK). This lecture was given on...

Vassilios Paipais - "Between Pacifism and Just War: Oikonomia and Eastern Orthodox Political Theology" 20.12.2023 32:01

This lecture was given at the University of St Andrews on 15 November 2023. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com

Adam Sisman - "The Perils of Biography" 14.11.2023 56:47

Adam Sisman in conversation with Richard Whatmore. Recorded on 8 November 2023. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com

Alan Kahan - "Three Pillars and Four Fears: A History of Liberalisms 14.11.2023 54:58

This lecture was delivered on 11 October 2023 at the University of St Andrews. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com

James Harris - “Hobbes and Rousseau on ‘the act by which a people is a people’” 18.05.2023 51:58

This lecture was delivered on 5 April 2023 at the University of St Andrews. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com

Brian Young - "Utilitarianism and the universities in Victorian England: the brothers Grote in nineteenth-century thought" 04.05.2023 1:02:34

This lecture was delivered at the University of St andrews on March 15, 2023. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com

Sarah Mortimer - "Virtue beyond Law? Christian Ethics and Political Duties in Reformation Europe" 13.04.2023 50:18

This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on February 15, 2023. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com

Ariane Fichtl - "Bound with the enslaved: the role of women in the formation of the political discourse of Immediate Abolitionism and its egalitarian framework" 06.04.2023 45:16

This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on February 1, 2023. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com

Martine van Ittersum - "The Working Papers of Hugo Grotius: A Case Study in the Micro-Sociologies of Archives" 06.10.2022 1:06:42

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 history of canon formation. She has taught European, Atlantic and global history at the University of Dundee...

Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians - Maria Rosa Antognazza 18.09.2022 35:47

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 Philosophy at King’s College London. Her research interests include the history of philosophy, epistem...