Lectures in Intellectual History

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Niall O’Flaherty (KCL) - "Malthus and the Global Turn"

July 20, 2026

This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on the 19th of November 2025. Niall O’Flaherty is Reader in History of European Political Thought at King’s College London. His research focuses on eighteenth and nineteenth-century social, religious and scientific thought in Britain with particular reference to Thomas Robert Malthus and Charles Darwin. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsii...

Avi Lifschitz (Oxford) - “Holding the Monarch to Account: Frederick the Great’s Writings in the Public Sphere”

July 06, 2026

This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on the 15th of October 2025. The lecture is not for citation without permission of the author.Avi Lifschitz is Professor of Intellectual History and Enlightenment Studies at Magdalen College, Oxford. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standrewsiih.substack.com

Debating Enlightenment

May 23, 2026

This discussion took place a the University of St Andrews on February 26, 2025. Ann Thomson is Professor Emerita at the European University Institute, having been Professor of Intellectual History there from 2013 to 2020. Her research interests include the intellectual history of the long Eighteenth Century, and she studies questions at the intersection of religion, medicine and politics, as well as the circulation of ideas, book history and translation, and European writings on the Muslim wo...