Papers are invited for a major international conference on the theme of ‘Universal Reformation: Intellectual Networks in Central and Western Europe, 1560-1670’. The conference will explore early modern aspirations toward ecclesiastical reunification, political pacification, pedagogical improvement, and philosophical reform, with particular reference to the exchange of these ideas within the new intellectual networks brought into being by the upheavals of the Thirty Years War. Further details can be viewed and downloaded here:

http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/cofk/opportunities/calls-for-papers

The conference forms part of ‘Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters’. Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Project is based in the Humanities Division of the University of Oxford, and, in collaboration with partners in Britain and abroad, is dedicated to reconstructing the correspondence networks central to the revolutionary intellectual developments of the seventeenth century. For full details of our activities, please see the Project website:

http://www.culturesofknowledge.org

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to the ‘Cultures of Knowledge’ Project Director, Professor Howard Hotson, at cofk[at]humanities.ox.ac.uk by the submission deadline of 31 December 2009.