Conference schedule

Day 2 – 6 May
09:30-11:00 Session 5: Intellectual Conformity and Deviancy
Chair: Michelle Pfeffer
Alasdair Raffe (Edinburgh)
‘University Divinity and the Growth of Intellectual Pluralism in Eighteenth-Century Scotland: The Case of John Simson (1667-1740)’
Emily Kent (Edinburgh)
‘“Minimizing” Marin Mersenne: Tracing the Intellectual Culture of a Seventeenth-Century Parisian Convent’
Michael Jaworzyn (Oxford)
‘Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) and his Followers on the Human Mind, Inside and Outside the University of Leiden’

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-12:15 Session 6: Institutional Self-Perception in Early Modern England
Chair: Alex Beeton
Bo Van Broekhoven (Edinburgh)
‘John Dury’s A Model for Church-Government: Institutional Foundations and the Lord’s Supper’
Natasha Bailey (Oxford)
‘“To treat such miscreants as these upon the foot of fair Disputants”: Undergraduate Theologians in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England’

12:15-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Session 7: Institutions as the Crucible for Ideology
Chair: Sophie Aldred
Joseph Hettrick (Bank of England/Dundee)
‘The Leviathan, the Self and the Universities’
Morgan Golf-French (Oxford)
‘Christoph Meiners’ Race Theory in Institutional Context’

14:30-15:00 Break

15:00-16:30 Session 8: Unfixed Sites of Learning: The Institutional Geography of Ideas
Chair: Eli Bernstein
Jin-Woo Choi (Princeton)
‘1709: A Winter of Content in the Republic of Meteorological Letters’
Oleksii Rudenko (CEU Vienna)
‘Networks of Thought: Knowledge, Patronage, and History-Writing in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania’
Alex Beeton (Oxford)
‘Greek clergymen, English universities, and Protestant propagation in the Interregnum’

16:30-16:45 Break

16:45-18:00 Keynote: Richard Oosterhoff (Edinburgh)
‘Contesting the Early Modern University: Institutions and Intellectual Change’

18:00-18:15 Wrap-up