The second International Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences was concerned with the theme of “Democracy and Imperialism” in the work of James Tully.
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Second International Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences
First International Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences
The first International Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences was concerned with recent work on Thomas Hobbes by Philip Pettit and Quentin Skinner. Speakers and Respondents were: Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary), Philip Pettit (Princeton), Ian Shapiro (Yale), Alan Cromartie (Reading), Andrea Sangiovanni (King’s Colelge London), Chris Brooke (Oxford).
Eighth Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture
Professor Martti Koskenniemi (Helsinki) delivered the eighth annual Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture, ‘Jus gentium – the power of a middle concept’.
Seventh Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture
Professor Carlo Ginzburg, UCLA, delivered the seventh annual Rubinstein Lecture, ‘Intricate Readings: Machiavelli, Aristotle, Aquinas’.
Sixth Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture
Professor Peter Brown (Princeton University) delivered the sixth annual Rubinstein Lecture, ‘Constantine, Eusebius and the Future of Christianity’.
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Fifth Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture
The fifth Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture, ‘What’s the Big Idea? Intellectual History and the Longue Duree’, was given by David Armitage (Harvard University).
History of European Ideas article (pdf)
Professor Armitage’s article for the Times Literary Supplement can be found here
Fourth Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture
Professor Lorraine Daston of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin delivered the fourth Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture, entitled ‘Histories of Scientific Experience in Early Modern Europe’.
Third Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture
The third Nicolai Rubinstein lecture, ‘Republics and Revelation: Some Patterns in the Shaping of Western Historiography’, was delivered by Professor John Pocock (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore).
Second Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture
Professor Jonathan Israel (Princeton) delivered the second Nicolai Rubinstein lecture, entitled ‘Democratic versus Aristocratic Enlightenment: The Split in European Thought in the Late Eighteenth Century’
First Nicolai Rubinstein lecture
Professor Quentin Skinner delivered the first Nicolai Rubinstein lecture, entitled ‘What is the State?’