On this page we bring together news about the edition, and Bacon-related events involving our editorial and advisory board members.
19 June, 2026
2026 Quentin Skinner Lecture given by OFB editor Samuel Garrett Zeitlin
In the 2026 Skinner Lecture in Intellectual History since c. 1500, OFB editor Dr Samuel Garrett Zeitlin discussed Francis Bacon’s evolving responses to the crisis of the Palatinate through Bacon’s diplomatic correspondence, state papers, essays, natural scientific writings, poetry, and civil histories in response to the onset of what we now refer to as the Thirty Years War.
The paper was introduced by Richard Bourke (Cambridge), with panels chaired by Alexandra Gadja (Oxford) and Jessica Patterson (Cambridge), and papers delivered in response to the lecture by Annabel Brett (Cambridge), Clare Jackson (Trinity Hall, Cambridge), Vera Keller (Oregon), Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge), and Filippo de Vivo (Oxford).
17-18 June, 2026
Dana Jalobeanu speaks on ‘Baconian induction and the construction of principles’ in Heidelberg
at the two-day conference ‘What is a Principle? Differing Perspectives in Early Modern Philosophy’ at the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Philosophie in Heidelberg.
12-13 June, 2026
Francis Bacon 1626-2026: Four Centuries of Thought, New Horizons for Research
A conference organized by Dana Jalobeanu and Rodolfo Garau at the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), thanks to the generous support of a grant from the Thyssen Stiftung. .
May 21, 2026
Gray’s Inn celebrates Bacon 400
OFB Director Alan Stewart addresses the dinner marking the quatercentenary of Bacon’s death at Gray’s Inn. Photography by Liz Isles.
10 April, 2026
Trinity College Cambridge Fellow Professor Richard Serjeantson on Francis Bacon
9 April, 2026
Bacon exhibition opens at the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge
‘Lord of Induction and of Veralum: Francis Bacon after 400 years’ is open to visitors to the Wren Library weekdays 12-2pm and Saturday mornings during term-time, 10.30am-12.30pm. The exhibition runs from 9 April until 15 June 2026. Trinity fellow and OFB editor Richard Serjeantson discusses Bacon in this article on Trinity’s website.
27-28 March, 2026
Two-day conference organized by Mordechai Feingold at California Institute of Technology to mark the quatercentenary of Bacon’s death
18 March, 2026
Alan Stewart speaks on Bacon’s 1597 Essayes to the Early Modern Lab at the University of Technology Nuremberg
6-7 November, 2025
Idols, Methods, and the Organisation of Knowledge: a workshop on the De augmentis scientiarum
A two-day workshop at the Maison Francaise d’Oxford, organized by Dana Jalobeanu, Daniel Garber, Mogens Laerke, and Alan Stewart
8 August, 2025
Why Bacon’s New Atlantis is Peter Thiel’s favourite book: Chloe Houston reviews OFB XIX in the TLS
25 March, 2025
Julianne Werlin: Francis Bacon and the Idea of the University
Julianne Werlin (Duke) responds to our New Atlantis RSA panel in her Substack piece, ‘Francis Bacon and the Idea of the University‘. Thank you, Julianne!
20 March, 2025
A New New Atlantis: Re-thinking Francis Bacon’s Unfinished Fable
A roundtable session at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) held in Boston, Massachusetts, from March 20–22, 2025, on the occasion of the publication of OFB XIX: New Atlantis, edited by David Colclough. Sponsored by the Columbia University Seminar in the Renaissance.
Discussants: Rhodri Lewis (Princeton University), Kathryn Murphy (University of Oxford), Mickael Popelard (Université de Caen Normandie), and Angus Vine (University of Stirling). Organized and chaired by Alan Stewart (Columbia University).
20 March, 2025
OFB XIX published! Congratulations to David Colclough!
The Oxford Francis Bacon I: Early Writings 1584-1596, ed. by Alan Stewart with Harriet Knight (Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 1,136. ISBN: 978-0-19-818313-6.