Lectures in Intellectual History
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Lectures in Intellectual History
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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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 T...
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 The lecture is not for citation without permission of the auth...
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,...
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...
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 The lecture is not for citation without permission of the autho...
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 In...
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 Don...
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 pol...
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.
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Adam Sisman - "The Perils of Biography"
Adam Sisman in conversation with Richard Whatmore. Recorded on 8 November 2023.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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 abo...
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 abo...
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 abo...
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 abo...
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 abo...
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 abo...
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.
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Rosa Antognazza - Leibniz as Historian
This lecture was given at the University of St Andrews on April 13, 2022.
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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.
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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...
Jesse Norman - Uses and abuses of the Ancient Constitution
This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 1 April 2022.
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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. H...
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...
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.
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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.
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