Please join us for the 2018 Queen Mary Annual Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences. This year will be dedicated to Professor Quentin Skinner’s book From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Registration is essential.

Full schedule as follows:

1.30-2.00: Arrival and registration

First session:
2.00-2.30: Professor David Colclough, Queen Mary University of London
‘Slippery turns’: rhetoric and politics in Shakespeare
2.30-3.00: Professor Susanna Berger, University of Southern California
To see beyond the lines: On the iconography of the Leviathan
3.00-3.45: Discussion
3.45-4.15: Break

Second session:
4.15-4.45: Professor Mónica Brito-Vieira, University of York
Hobbes on representation Revisited
4.45-5.15: Dr Sophie Smith, University of Oxford
Hobbes’s spooky state
5.15-6.00: Discussion
6.00-6.30: A summing-up from Quentin Skinner
6.30-7.30: Reception