Lectures in Intellectual History

About Lectures in Intellectual History

Recordings from the popular public lecture series featuring new work on all aspects of intellectual history. Hosted by the Institute of Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews. standrewsiih.substack.com (https://standrewsiih.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Institute of IH

Category

history · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Mar 2010

Latest episode

11 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

5 of 126 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   11 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Alison Bashford (Sydney) - “Depopulation and Repopulation: Settler Colonialism and Political Economy in the Early 19th Century”

   This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on 26 November 2025. Alison Bashford is Scientia Professor in History and Director of the Laureate Centre for History & Population at the University of New South Wales (Sydney). Her work connects the history of science, global history, and environmental history into new assessments of the modern world, from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. She has written about the geopolitics of world population, specifically in two books: The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Re-reading the Principle of Population, with Joyce E. Chaplin (Princeton University Press, 2016) and Global Population: History, Geopolitics and Life on Earth (Columbia University Press, 2014). Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe (https://standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

2. 

   20 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Niall O’Flaherty (KCL) - "Malthus and the Global Turn"

   Niall O’Flaherty, Reader in History of European Political Thought at King’s College London, explores Malthus and the global turn in this lecture.

3. 

   6 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Avi Lifschitz (Oxford) - “Holding the Monarch to Account: Frederick the Great’s Writings in the Public Sphere”

   Professor Avi Lifschitz of Oxford explores Frederick the Great's writings and their role in holding monarchs accountable within the public sphere.

Inside a recent episode

Alison Bashford (Sydney) - “Depopulation and Repopulation: Settler Colonialism and Political Economy in the Early 19th Century”

Published 11 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Malthus was almost exclusively a theorist, notwithstanding his lifelong employment with the East India Company College. Horton's role was public policy as Under Secretary of State for War and the Colonies throughout the 1820s. And Wakefield implemented He was very close to the ground. He implemented his planned settlement of South Australia and New Zealand from the 1830s through the 1840s. And so I argue that the simultaneous unpeopling and repeopling of colonial territory was a linked process, a dual process. But perhaps more importantly, I think that this was set out by the political economists themselves rather more explicitly than I think current historiography allows. […]

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• Niall O’Flaherty
• Avi Lifschitz
• Ann Thomson

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Apple Podcasts (US)

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56 ratings

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Engagement

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