Robert Frost (Aberdeen) - "Drawing in the Reins of Government: Justus Lipsius and Republican Monarchy in Poland-Lithuania"

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).

This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on the 19th of November 2025. Niall O’Flaherty is Reader in History of European Political Thought at King’s College London. His research focuses on eighteenth and nineteenth-century social, religious and scientific thought in Britain with particular reference to Thomas Robert Malthus and Charles Darwin.

This lecture was delivered at the University of St Andrews on the 15th of October 2025. The lecture is not for citation without permission of the author. Avi Lifschitz is Professor of Intellectual History and Enlightenment Studies at Magdalen College, Oxford.

This discussion took place a the University of St Andrews on February 26, 2025. Ann Thomson is Professor Emerita at the European University Institute, having been Professor of Intellectual History there from 2013 to 2020. Her research interests include the intellectual history of the long Eighteenth Century, and she studies questions at the intersection of religion, medicine and politics, as well as the circulation of ideas, book history and translation, and European writings on the Muslim world.

This episode was recorded at the University of St Andrews on 7th of October 2025. The event was held in Parliament Hall, St Andrews. Ramin Jahanbegloo’s The Idea of Persia can be found here.