Intellectual Geography: Comparative Studies, 1550-1700

CALL FOR PAPERS

Please find via the link below details of the CFP for a major international conference on the theme of ‘Intellectual Geography: Comparative Studies, 1550-1700’, which will take place at St Anne’s College at the University of Oxford on 5-7 September 2011. The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is 1 April 2011.

This conference, the second in a series of three, forms part of ‘Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters’. Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Project is based in the Humanities Division of the University of Oxford and, in collaboration with partners in both Britain and abroad, is dedicated to reconstructing the correspondence networks central to the revolutionary intellectual developments of the seventeenth century. Full details concerning the conference and submissions may be found on the conference microsite:

http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/intellectualgeography/