Professor Paul Cheney and Dr Alexander Schmidt are holding a three-week NEH Summer Seminar, to be held at the Neubauer Collegium, University of Chicago, 9-27 July 2018.

The title of the Seminar is “Invisible Hands: the Enlightenment Science of Society from Mandeville to Hegel.” The aim of this three-week seminar for University and college professors is to recover the complexity of eighteenth-century attempts to theorize the relation between the imaginary, yet very real (moral) bonds that make up a stable society, and the autonomous individual self. This will be accomplished through a close reading of texts on moral theory, politics, economy, law, and aesthetics. Applications are welcome from political theorists, philosophers, historians, literary scholars, and scholars of religious thought.

​The application deadline is 1 March, 2018.​

http://voices.uchicago.edu/enlightenment/

The seminar is open to college and university teachers. There are no restrictions as to academic rank, but three of the sixteen summer scholars chosen will have non-tenure track or otherwise precarious academic positions; up to two graduate students may also be accepted. Regrettably, due to restrictions, only those who have been residing in the U.S. for at least three years may apply.