NOP Ideas in History Journal for the Nordic Society for the History of Ideas

Ideas in History (IiH) has been publishing double-blind peer-reviewed articles in all areas of intellectual history since 2006 in English. Currently, IiH is the only internationally-profiled, English-language journal in intellectual history in Scandinavi a. IiH has featured articles by leading intellectual historians such as Quentin Skinner, Warren Breckman and Allan Megill. IiH has also provided an outlet for the dissemination of intellectual historical research by Scandinavian-based scholars in Englis h language. This has encompassed a broad range of scholars based at institutions from Oslo to Aarhus University to Göteborg to Aalborg to Lund to Helsinki (among others). IiH of course plans to continue its mission of creating an interplay among interna tional and Scandinavian intellectual historians. Important for IiH's mission from 2012 onwards is positioning the journal more clearly in relation to its international competition (e.g., Modern Intellectual History [Cambridge University Press], Journal o f the History of Ideas [University of Pennsylvania Press] and Intellectual History Review [Routledge]). This involves both developing the Nordic Society for the History of Ideas into a functioning society, establishing relations with central internationa l intellectual historical organs (such as the International Society for Intellectual History), clearly announcing its calls for papers on international bases (such as via H-Net), embracing its new relationship with Museum Tusculanum Press and maintaining its website at the home university of the journal's editor (Aalborg). This should position IiH noticeably more centrally in the context of global perspective on intellectual history while continuing to emphasize the journal's dissemination of the work of scholars based in Scandinavia.