This series of seminars studies the hermeneutic and methodological traditions that have dominated the study of intellectual history and the history of political thought in Europe. The course has two principal aims. It seeks to stimulate study of the historiography of intellectual history, cultural history and the history of political thought, focusing on distinct approaches to them. The seminars will also address -and offer opportunities to discuss- major problems of scholarly interpretation and research, which are at the centre of a number of recent approaches.

Autumn term 2008-2009

The Enlightenment and its Legacies: Europe and Beyond organized by Profs. Martin van Gelderen and Sebastian Conrad

Analysing Discourse: Between Promise and Paralysis organized by Prof. Martin van Gelderen

Spring term 2008

Readers Spectators and Audiences: From Early Modern Venice to the Weimar Republic, organized by Prof. Martin van Gelderen, Anastasia Stouraiti Freya Sierhuis (Researcher) and Katja Haustein (Max Weber Fellow)

Toleration in Europe: History, Theory and Policy (two term seminar) organized by Prof. Martin van Gelderen and Maxim Khomiakov (Marie Curie Fellow)

Autumn term 2008-2009

Toleration in Europe: History, Theory and Policy (two term seminar) organized by Prof. Martin van Gelderen and Maxim Khomiakov (Marie Curie Fellow).

Citizens, Parliaments and States: Towards a European History of Concepts. Organized by prof. Martin van Gelderen.

Spring term 2007

Mad, Bad and Dangerous people - New Approaches to Cultural and Intellectual History, organized by Profs. Bo Strath, Martin van Gelderen and Arfon Rees. Click here to see the programme.

Please note that seminars/workshops start at 10.00 AM in Cappella

Republicanism and Federalism, organized by Profs. Martin van Gelderen, Peter Wagner (SPS) and Bo Stråth. Click here to see the programme.
Usually on Tuesday from 3.00PM until 7.00PM (please check the rooms below)

Autumn term 2007-2008

Literature History and Culture: Novels, Intellectuals and Modern Politics, organized by Profs. Arfon Rees and Martin van Gelderen. Click here to see the programme.

Republicanism and Federalism: European Pasts and Futures (two term seminar), organized by Profs. Maurizio Viroli (Princeton University), Martin van Gelderen, Peter Wagner (SPS) and Bo Stråth. Click here to see the programme.

Spring term 2006

Republicanism and Religion. Organized by Profs. Maurizio Viroli and Martin van Gelderen. For the readings see the syllabus

Usually on Tuesday 17.00-19.00 sala Belvedere

Intellectual History: The Classics. Organized by Prof. Martin van Gelderen. For the readings please click on the detailed syllabus

Usually on Wednesday 11.00-13.00 sala Belvedere

Autumn term 2005-06

Moral and religious revivals in Modern Europe. Organized by Profs. Arfon Rees and Martin van Gelderen. Click here to see the programme.

Cultural and comparative History. Organized by Profs. Martin van Gelderen and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt. Click here to see the programme.

Spring term 2005

Intellectual History: Old Paradigms, New Approaches and Post-modern Critics. Click here to see the programme

Religion in Modern Europe: Historical, Philosophical and Theological Controversies.Click here to see the programme

Autumn term 2004-05

Liberty and Sovereignty in European Political Thought-from Marsilius to Morley

Spring term 2003-04

Modernism, Post-modernism and the Study of History

Autumn term 2003-04

Historiography of European Intellectual History