The 2013 Conference of the International Society for Intellectual History:

The Importance of Learning:
Liberal Education and Scholarship in Historical Perspective

Princeton University, 5-7 June 2013

Keynote Speakers: William Clark (UCLA), Anthony Grafton (Princeton), and Howard Hotson (Oxford)

It is an inescapable fact of contemporary life that the idea of a liberal
education, an education that aims primarily at the cultivation of the
intellect and sensibility rather than at preparation for a particular
vocation, is widely under attack all over the world. In country after
country, the idea of learning for its own sake is being swept aside, as
institutions of higher education are pressured to devote themselves
primarily to preparing students for careers in practical areas. The global
membership of the International Society for Intellectual History is in a
unique position to illuminate these questions from a genuinely historical
and cosmopolitan perspective.

This conference has been made possible thanks to the support of the
Department of Philosophy, the Department of History, the Humanities
Council, the University Center for Human Values, the Shelby Cullom Davis
Center for Historical Studies, and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty,
whose sponsorship we gratefully acknowledge.

Registration is free. For the programme and information relating to
registration, please see the conference website:
http://isih.history.ox.ac.uk/?page_id=595

Please feel free to contact James Lancaster
(james.lancaster@postgrad.sas.ac.uk) for more information.