Order and Disorder in Global Intellectual History

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.