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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Graduate Conference: Human Nature and Diversity
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’.
Interdisciplinary symposium on Weber’s Vocation Lectures
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Graduate Conference: ‘Perspectives on Democratic Political Thought’.
Graduate Conference on the theme of ‘Perspectives on Democratic Political Thought’. The guest speaker was: Professor John Dunn (University of Cambridge).
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Round table: ‘Anglo-Saxon Historiography, the Republic and the Perception of Italian Democracy from Abroad’
Round table on the theme of ‘Anglo-Saxon Historiography, the Republic and the Perception of Italian Democracy from Abroad: Difficulties and Ambiguities’. The first round table in the AHRC-funded seminar series ‘Democracy in Italy: from the End of Facism to Berlusconi’.
‘Difficult Freedom: Are Human Rights Philosophically Justified?’ – lecture
Fourth Centre Lecture, ‘Difficult Freedom: Are Human Rights Philosophically Justified?’ was presented by Professor Richard Wolin (City University of New York).
Crossing the Anglophone vs. Continental Divide in Political Thought
Conference at The Finnish Institute, London, 27-28 May 2009.