Imagining order in moments of rupture
The 2026 conference invites scholars to examine how historical actors — political thinkers, jurists, reformers, revolutionaries, literati, and religious scholars — imagined, contested, and redefined order in moments of rupture and transformation.
Bringing together perspectives from across global intellectual history, the conference asks how ideas of order and disorder have travelled, clashed, and been reworked across regions, languages, and traditions — from early modern political thought to the contested orders of the modern world.
Plenary speakers
Martti Koskenniemi
University of Helsinki
Ayşe Zarakol
University of Cambridge
Dániel Margócsy
University of Cambridge
Key dates
Peer review and selection
ISIH 2026 is a peer-reviewed international academic conference. All individual paper and panel proposals undergo formal academic peer review by members of the conference's academic committees. Acceptance decisions are made only after this evaluation is complete, and rest on academic quality, originality, relevance to the conference theme, and contribution to the field of intellectual history.