Intellectual History

On the Occasion of Sir Syed Bicentenary Celebrations 2016-17, the Department of English and the Sir Syed Academy at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, are jointly organizing a two-day national seminar titled “Sir Syed and Colonial Modernity: Issues and Debates” on 25-26 October 2017.

Keynote: S. Irfan Habib (Historian of science and the former Abul Kalam Azad Chair at the National University for Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi).

CALL FOR PAPERS

Call for Papers

The New Series of The Anachronist invites academic papers for its 2017 issue (to be published in 2018), celebrating the 200th anniversary of the publication of

S. T. Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria

With apologies for cross-posting 

Call for Session Papers – International Conference of Historical Geographers

Warsaw, 15-20 July 2018

Crossing the boundaries of knowledge: historical geographies of mobility, circulation, and transculturalism

The European Society for the History of Political Thought (ESHPT, http://europoliticalthought.wordpress.com ) invites proposals for individual papers and panels for its next international conference which will take place at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) on 11-13 October 2018.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Asking Big Questions Again

23 - 25 November 2017, Lucca, Italy

Agora Cultural Centre

Deadline for Paper Proposals: 15th of September 2017

Early Bird Deadline: 15^th of August 2017

Paper abstracts are invited for a seminar entitled "Vox Clamantis: Silencing, Censorship, and the Role of the Intellectual", at the 49th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, April 12-18, 2018 (Pittsburgh, PA).

The task of translating a literary text often poses the challenge of choosing between content and form. This is, of course, conspicuous in the translation of poetry where meaning and form are indissoluble and constitute an organic whole. Prose translation can be equally exigent. Its narratological ingenuity and nuances in style demand not only verbal dexterity but also the ability to capture the magic concealed in the author’s imagery.

Timothy Snyder is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University and author of several award-winning books including Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin and Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning.

Organized by Vaclav Havel Library Foundation and the Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews and supported by Bohemian Benevolent & Literary Association.

I am organising a panel  on the subject of 'The interaction between halakhah and kabbalah in Early Modern Europe'. In the panel I would like to discuss the following topics:

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