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Intellectual History Across Borders

28 September 2026

Date: Monday 28 September 
Time: 14:00-18:00
Venue: Old Library, All Souls College

Registration required

 

Speakers include: 

Dmitri Levitin, 'Noel Malcolm: A Historian Without Borders'

Joanna Weinburg,  'From Troki to Königsberg, via Constantinople: The Erudite Meanderings of a Disgruntled Orientalist'

Anthony Grafton,  'The Meanings of a Fish Tale: Conjectural History in Early Modern England'

Timothy Raylor, 'Thomas Hobbes, Charles du Bosc, and the Parisian Scribe'

Alastair Hamilton, 'Kindness to Foreigners: A Late Chapter in the History of the Republic of Letters'

Followed by drinks 

 

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