Monthly Archives: February 2017

Quentin Skinner at Ertegun House

On the 24th of February, Professor Quentin Skinner participated in an interview at Oxford’s Ertegun House Seminar in the Humanities. The seminar is a termly series of conversations between members of the Ertegun House community and notable figures from the fields of culture, the arts, academia, journalism, and beyond. To watch Professor Skinner’s interview, please follow this link.

Richard Bourke in Paris

Professor Richard Bourke visited Paris in February to give two talks. On the 2nd, Professor Bourke discussed ‘Burke, Revolution and Empire’ at L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. On the 21st, he participated in a discussion held in collaboration with University of London in Paris, the Queen Mary Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought and Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique, where he spoke on ‘Edmund Burke and the Origins of Conservatism’.