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Programme

08:30-09:00 Conference Registration

Opening remarks by Cameron Bowman (Keble College)

09:00-10:40 Presentism in Intellectual History Chaired by Ming Kit Wong (Magdalen College)

• Connor Grubaugh, ‘St Augustine of Cambridge’
• Joseph Hettrick, ‘“Source-mining” and “Lumping”: Charges of Presentism in the History of Seventeenth-Century Ideas’
• Oliver Gough, ‘Presentism and the Escape from Language in the History of Emotions’

11:00-12:40 Intellectual History, Philosophy and Literature Chaired by Sophie West (Christ Church)

• Maya Gavin, ‘Re-articulation and the Process of Canon Formation’
• Paul Norris, ‘History in general, poetry in particular’
• João Gado F Costa, ‘Visions of Pragmatics: A reevaluation of Quentin Skinner’s concerns around meaning and context’

12:40-14:00 Lunch – sandwich lunch with cake, fruit, tea and coffee provided

14:00-15:40 Global Intellectual History Chaired by Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine’s College)

• Kaoruko Kawashima, ‘Confucianism, Human Rights and the Role of Translation in Nineteenth-Century Japan’
• Ross Moncrieff, ‘Global Intellectual History, Eurocentrism, and the Problem of Incommensurability: Connected Problems, Comparative Solutions’
• Jorge Varela-Yepes, “Nineteenth-Century Andean Political Thought in Global Intellectual History’

16:00-1710 Keynote Address by Professor Faisal Devji (St Anthony’s College)

17:10-17:15 Conference End

17:15-19:10 Drinks Reception – Ante Room
19:10 Dinner – Dining Hall, followed by tea/coffee – Terry Newport Room