The Republic of Intellectual History

If the Republic of Letters occasionally meets for coffee or conferences, so too do intellectual historians often come together for talks, regular workshops, and summer schools. The editors at JHIBlog hope to increasingly encourage and promote these events with your help. We will soon have a calendar of events on the website, with readers encouraged to submit news of interesting happenings both in intellectual history as well as related fields. Here we certainly want to look further afield. If the discipline itself has ambitions to a global scope, intellectual history is being practiced globally as well. Here such organizations as the International Network for the Theory of History have begun paving the way for collaborations and contacts, particularly in their handy listing of conferences which will interest intellectual historians of all stripes. Yet not all traditions of doing intellectual history are converging—nor should they, necessarily. This makes for a variegated and exciting map which we hope readers from all over the world can help fill in over time. And hopefully we can do our part in fostering this community.
So without further ado, here are a few events, workshops, exhibitions, and programs which the editors look forward to participating in (or very much wish we could attend–would any readers like to contribute their impressions?):
Events, lectures, and conferences

• Hommage à Simon Leys (La Maison de la Chine, Paris; March 23)
• Anthony Grafton, “Books & Barrels: Readers and Reading in Colonial America” (New York Society Library; March 23)
• Jürgen Kaube, “America, Europe, and Russia: Max Weber’s Argument Reconsidered” (Deutsches Haus, NY; March 27)
• Transatlantic Theory Transfer – Missed Encounters? (Columbia University, NY; March 27-28)
• Wolf Lepenies, “Twenty-Five Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Reflections on a United Germany in a Troubled Europe” (Deutsches Haus, NY; March 30)
• Abram de Swaan, “Genocidal regimes and their perpetrators” (CIRHUS, NY; March 30)
• Philip Nord, lecture on the 1956 Mémorial de la Shoah (Princeton, NJ: March 30)
• Fascism Across Borders (Columbia University, NY; April 1-2)
• Martin Ruehl, “The Dark Cradle of Modernity: Burckhardt, Nietzsche, and the Idea of the Renaissance” (Harvard University, MA; April 2)
• States of Division: Borders and Boundary-Formation in the Cold War and Beyond (Columbia University; April 7)
• Rens Bod, “On Method: The Longue Durée of Empiricism in the Humanities: Patterns versus Interpretations” (Columbia University, NY; April 8)
• Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of Social Research: An International Quarterly (The New School, NY; April 9)
• Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, “Hegel’s ‘Prose of the World’ and Diderot’s ‘Neveu de Rameau’: About An Epistemological Configuration at the Edge of Enlightenment, Today” (Princeton, NJ; April 15)
• Foucault’s Les mots et les choses at Year 50: An International Conference (Harvard University, MA; April 17-18)
• Image as Method (Columbia University; May 4-5)
• Barbara Hernstein Smith, “What Was ‘Close Reading’?” (Columbia University, NY; May 6)
• Religion and Irreligion in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge University; May 25)
• Globalized Classics Summer School and Conference (Humboldt University Berlin, August 24 – September 5)
• Comment penser l’Anthropocène ? (call for papers here; Paris; November 5-6)
• Catastrophe, Environnement et Propriété : Approches historiques, XIXe-XXe siècle (call for papers in English; EHESS, Paris; December 2-3)

Workshops

• The NYU Intellectual History Workshop (meeting through May, New York):
  • Tomoko Masuzawa, “Adjudicating the Secular” (March 23)
  • Udi Greenberg, “Protestant Thought and Europe’s Turn from Empire to Decolonization” (March 30)
  • Giuseppe Bianco, “What is Intellectual Inheritance? The Case of Bergsonism” (April 13)
  • Jean-Frédéric Schaub, “Two Scholarly Traditions Separated by a Common Word: Race and Race in France and the US” (April 20)
  • Vanessa Ogle, “The Transformation of Muslim Spacetime: Telegraphy, the Islamic Calendar, and the Global History of Time Reform, 1880s-1930s” (April 27)
  • Katrina Forrester, “Rules, Persons, and Society: John Rawls Before A Theory of Justice” (May 4)

Programs and exhibitions:

• Readers Make Their Mark (New York Society Library; February 5-August 15)
• François I^er, pouvoir et image (BnF, Paris; March 24-June 21)
• Philology Among the Disciplines (Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, Rome; June 14-27)
• International Research School in Conceptual History and Political Thought (University of Copenhagen; August 9-15)
• Summer School in Comparative and Transnational History: Theories, Methodology and Case Studies (European University, Florence; September 14-17)

What have we missed? Please let us know in the comments!