Convenor: Dr Angus Nicholls

The Intellectual History Section of the CAGCR facilitates lectures, colloquia and workshops at the interface between the English and German language intellectual and philosophical traditions.

The key research areas for this component of the CAGCR are the following:

• The relationships between philosophy, literature and culture in the English and German language cultural traditions
• English and German language literary theory and critical theory
• The reception of German language philosophy and thought in the English speaking countries, and of English language philosophy and thought in the German speaking countries

Events organised by the Intellectual History Section:

Research Colloquia

Anglo-German Mythologies Research Colloquium 2005-6

Anglo-German Mythologies Research Colloquium 2006-7

Anglo-German Poetologies Research Colloquium 2007-8

Anglo-German Poetologies Research Colloquium 2008-9

Conferences

25-27.04.2007
International Conference on Anglo-German Mythologies

Workshops

21.11.2008
Roger Smith, Being Human (with Department of History)

Lectures

02.02.2007
Greg Moore (St Andrews)
“A Moral Force: Carlyle in Germany”

27.02.2009
Suzanne Kirkbright (CAGCR Visiting Research Fellow)
“Karl Jaspers Recreated: Translation Notes on Jaspers' Philosophy of Existenz”
Steiner Room, Lockkeeper’s Cottage, 5:00-6:30pm