On the 26th of April, Professor Richard Bourke will be delivering a keynote lecture on ‘Popular Sovereignty in the History of Political Thought’ at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow as part of the VIIIth Russian Congress of Political Philosophy on “The Modes of Thinking, the Ways of Speaking”. 

From the 2nd to the 15th of April 2017, Professor Quentin Skinner served as Visiting Professor in the Global Fellowship Programme at Peking University, where he delivered four live-streamed lectures and participated in an academic dialogue on ‘Themes and Methods of Modern Political Thought’. Further details can  be found on the Peking University website. To listen to Professor Skinner’s lectures, please follow the links below:

1. On the Interpretations of Texts
2. Machiavelli: the Ruler and the State
3. Hobbes: Picturing the State
4. Hobbes and His Critics: Freedom and the State

Professor Quentin Skinner appeared on the BBC World Service programme ‘The Forum’ to discuss Machiavelli and The Prince. To listen to the programme, please click here.

For the first time, the sole surviving manuscripts of the most celebrated works of William Godwin (1756 – 1836) will be digitised and made freely available on the Shelley-Godwin Archive as part of a collaborative project announced today by Queen Mary University of London, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Please click here for more information about this project. A public event will follow in September.