=========================== HES POSTING ================== THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR INTELLECTUAL HISTORY aims to bring together scholars in intellectual history from all countries and all disciplines. ISIH was founded in 1994 by an international group of scholars, and a steering committee has been formed, consisting of Constance Blackwell (Foundation for Intellectual History, London), Donald R. Kelley (Rutgers University, New Brunswick), Ulrich Johannes Schneider (Universitaet Leipzig), Wilhelm Schmitt-Biggemann (Freie Universitaet, Berlin), Edoardo Tortarolo (University of Torino), Francoise Wacquet (CNRS, Paris), and Charles Webster (All Souls College, Oxford), Ann Blair (Harvard University). The ISIH proposes to organize conferences and to publish a newsletter in order to facilitate and to extend contacts among scholars with interdisciplinary interests. It will welcome other projects and act in general as a network of communication and exchange concerning questions arising in and across the history of various humanistic and scientific disciplines, with respect to national, cultural, and gender identities. All ISIH members will receive a newsletter which will appear at least once a year to rovide information about conferences and activities of the society's members. The ISIH will organize a conference at least every four years. The first conference will be the United States in 1997 ("The Idea of Tradition"), and the second will take place in Berlin 1998 ("The History of Endings"). Future topics may include "The Republic of Letters" and Intellectual Quarrels." Among other projects, the ISIH sponsors a "Dictionary of Intellectual Historians," containing essays on major twentieth- century scholars who are of contemporary importance, and a series of reprints of early modern who have contributed to intellectual history. Dues for membership and the Newsletter are US $20 (students $10) or 15 pounds sterling (students 8 pounds). Anyone interested in becoming a member of ISIH should write to one of the following addresses: For Europe, Africa, Australasia the Middle East, and Indian Sub-continent: Constance Blackwell Foundation for Intellectual History 28 Gloucester Crescent NW1 7DL London, U.K. e-mail (inquiries only): [log in to unmask] For the Americas and the Far East: Neil Miller ISIH at Journal of the History of Ideas 88 College Avenue Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08903-5059 USA NOTE that the e-mail addresses for further inquiries are not the ones from which this message was sent. Please copy and distribute this message freely. ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]