Monthly Archives: June 2015

First Popular Sovereignty Project workshop

The first meeting of the Popular Sovereignty Project was held on 6 July 2012. The following papers were presented:

Melissa Lane: ‘Rethinking Offices: Athenians, Plato, and Aristotle on Popular magistracies and Political Knowledge’
Eric Nelson: ‘”The King is the Only Sovereign of the Empire”: Prerogative, Representation, and the American Founding’
Tim Stanton: ‘State Authority, Popular Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law: Weber, Schmitt, Kelsen, and the lessons of Weimar Germany’
Please see Proceedings and papers for more details.

Graduate conference: Property, Dominium and Self-Ownership

The 2012 London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought was held on 14-15 May, on the theme of Property, Dominium and Self-Ownership. The keynote was Eric Nelson (Harvard) with Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary University of London) chairing.

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Ideas of Power in the Late Middle Ages

Queen Mary School of History was honoured to host Dr. Joseph Canning, Lecturer in History at Cambridge, in celebration of the publication of his latest work: Ideas of Power in the Late Middle Ages. Dr. Canning introduced the themes of his work, followed by a lively discussion chaired by Milan Zonca, PhD student in the School of History at QM, and a drinks reception. This event brought together over thirty graduate students and scholars in the fields of Medieval History and the History of Political Thought from QM, University of London Schools, Cambridge and even further afield.

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Jacob Levy on ‘Rationalism, Pluralism and Freedom’

Professor Jacob Levy (McGill University) presented a paper entitled ‘Rationalism, Pluralism and Freedom’. Hosted by the School of Politics and International Relations and the Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought.

Conference on Revolution and the Republic

A one-day conference was held at the French Institute, London, to mark the publication of Revolution and the Republic by Jeremy Jennings.

Graduate Conference: Human Nature and Diversity

London Graduate Conference on the theme of ‘Human Nature and Diversity in the History of Political Thought’. Keynote address: Noel Malcolm, with comments by Quentin Skinner, Jeremy Jennings and Serena Ferente.

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Conference on the Political Thought of the Risorgimento

The Political Thought of the Risorgimento. A one day conference that was supported by ASMI, the Association of the Study of Modern Italy, and the Journal of Modern Italian Studies. The speakers and discussants were as follows: Anthony Howe, Carlo Capra, Eugenio Biagini, Francesca Sofia, Gareth Stedman Jones, Georgios Varouxakis, Jeremy Jennings, John Davis, John Robertson, Martin Thom, Maurizio Isabella, Roberto Romani.

Symposium on Professor Nicholas Phillipson’s new book on Adam Smith

One day symposium that discussed Professor Nicholas Phillipson’s (Edinburgh) new book on Adam Smith. Speakers were: Professor Fonna Forman-Barzilai, Professors Ryan Hanley, Dr Istvan Hont (Cambridge), Senior Lecturer Duncan Kelly (Cambridge), Professor Chandran Kukathas (LSE), Professor Nicholas Phillipson (Edinburgh), Lecturer Craig Smith (St Andrews), Professor Matthew Watson (Warwick), Professor Donald Winch (Sussex).

Lecture: Professor Stephen White

Professor Stephen White (University Of Virginia) gave a talk entitled
‘Continental and/versus Analytical Political Thought’. The discussant was Professor Jane Bennet (Johns Hopkins University).

Inaugural lecture: Professor Quentin Skinner

Professor Quentin Skinner gave his inaugural lecture, ‘Truth and the Historian’.