Empires are not the only entities that rise and fall. So too are academic fields of study. When I was a doctoral student, many of the foremost U.S. historians were intellectual historians: David Brion ...

For most of the last 18 months, Donald Trump has been portrayed as a clown, a showman, an opportunist, a faux conservative, a political naïf, and an egomaniac bent on nothing but power and glory—but ...

For a long time, modern European intellectual historians could rest content with the thought that they were the cosmopolitans in their guild, blissfully free of the nationalizing defaults of their ...

Today the study of ideas figures prominently not only in history departments but also across the humanities. Scholars have recovered from the misplaced populism that once trashed great books as if ...

Medieval Timbuktu was a wealthy city whose great libraries allowed it to flourish as a center of learning and scholarship. Kane’s compelling intellectual history of West Africa places Timbuktu within ...

Every paper has been allocated 30 minutes in total. Firstly, 20 minutes for talking/presentation. Secondly 10 minutes for Q&A right after the talk. The panels take place parallelly to the presentation ...