February 21 – May 31

Students are reading an important book. Writing assignment 1: 1000 words summary derived from reading : Richard Whatmore, What Is Intellectual History?, Cambridge: Polity Press, 20164 (pp. 1 - 66). Summary should reach PESSH MS Teams assignments by 31 May 2022.

July 11 - 14, 2022

Students are participating on the Summer school, July 11 – 14, Faculty of Humanities. Detailed programme will be published here and via MS Teams group PESSH by the end of April.

Provisional list of lectures to be given by members of the University of Edinburgh, Professor Thomas Ahnert (TA) and Dr Alasdair Raffe (AR), is as follows:

Religion and Secularisation in the Enlightenment (TA)
Commerce and Luxury in Enlightenment Debates (TA)
Historical Writing in the Enlightenment (TA)
The Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment (AR)
Disciplinary Specialisation and Curricular Change at Universities (AR, with TA?)
The Presbyterian Kirk and intellectual change (AR)

Charles University provisional list of lecturers: Prof. Markéta Křížová, PhD. (MK), Doc. Veronika Čapská, PhD. (VČ), Doc. Pavel Himl, PhD. (PH), Doc. Josef Fulka, PhD. (JF), PhDr. Tomáš Kunca, PhD. (TK).

Samples of expected lectures and excursions:

Observe, Describe, Create: Police in the Age of Enlightenment and Modern State, 1770–1820 (PH)

Enlightenment as the Revolution in Gift Exchange (VČ)

Reflections and impacts of (American) slavery in Central and Eastern Europe, 18th-19th century (MK)

Historic Hume / Very British images of the 18th century slavery vindication: Thomas Newton, David Hume and James Boswell (TK)

Excursion/guided tour to Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Culture (MK)