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History of Political Ideas Seminar 2022
Book symposium: Andrew Fitzmaurice’s ‘King Leopold’s Ghostwriter’
The Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought and the Schools of Law and History at Queen Mary University of London are delighted to co-host a New Book Symposium on Professor Andrew Fitzmaurice’s ‘King Leopold’s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century‘ (Princeton University Press, 2022).
The event is organised by Professor Maksymilian Del Mar (QMUL) and Professor Georgios Varouxakis (QMUL).
Speakers:
Professor David Armitage (Harvard)
Professor Michael Lobban (LSE)
Professor Lisa Siraganian (Johns Hopkins)
Dr. Inge Van Hulle (Max Planck, Frankfurt)
Professor Andrew Fitzmaurice (QMUL)
Chaired by Professor Quentin Skinner (QMUL) and Professor Maksymilian Del Mar (QMUL).
Date & Time: Friday 13 May 2022, 16.00 – 19.00, followed by a reception in the Arts Two SCR.
Venue: Room GC201, Graduate Centre, Queen Mary University of London
Booking is essential. To book, please click here.
Book launch: Caroline Ashcroft’s ‘Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt’
Queen Mary’s Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought and School of History are delighted to host the launch of Dr Caroline Ashcroft’s (QMUL) ‘Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt’ (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). The event is organised by Dr Waseem Yaqoob (QMUL).
Speakers:
Dr Caroline Ashcroft (QMUL)
Professor Kimberley Hutchings (QMUL)
Dr Andrew Schaap (Exeter)
Dr Waseem Yaqoob (QMUL)
Chaired by Professor Andrew Fitzmaurice (QMUL).
Time: Tuesday 22 March 2022, 17.15 – 18.30, followed by a reception in the Senior Common Room
Venue: 1.12 Laws Building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS
Please register to attend here.
Andrew Fitzmaurice at the Cambridge World History Seminar
Prof. Andrew Fitzmaurice will speak about his new book, King Leopold’s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton University Press), at the Cambridge World History Seminar on 10 February 2022 from 17:00 to 19:00 GMT.
For more information, please click here.
History of Political Ideas Seminar Term 2
Registration is now open for Term 2 of the History of Political Ideas Seminar.
Covid permitting, all seminars will be run in hybrid format, on Zoom and (with limited capacity) in-person, with venues in London TBC. Please register via the listings on the IHR website. Registration is a must if you wish to attend in-person, as numbers are limited. Links to join via Zoom will be circulated to registered attendees on the day.
New book by Dr Caroline Ashcroft
We’re pleased to announce the publication of a new book by Dr Caroline Ashcroft, entitled Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt (Penn Press, 2021)
For more information, please click here.
CFP: London Graduate Conference in HPT
The 13th Annual London Graduate Conference will explore the theme of ‘Classes and Masses in the History of Political Thought‘.
The conference will take place in person at UCL (Gustave Tuck LT, Wilkins Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT) from 30 June to 1 July 2022. The keynote address will be delivered by Prof. Adom Getachew (University of Chicago), and Prof. Gareth Stedman Jones (QMUL) will deliver the opening remarks.
New book by Prof. Andrew Fitzmaurice
We are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Professor Andrew Fitzmaurice’s King Leopold’s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton University Press) – an intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free State.
For more information, please click here.
Panel Discussion: Gareth Stedman Jones’ ‘Outcast London’ after 50 years
Next month the Mile End Institute, Queen Mary’s Modern British Seminar and the Raphael Samuel Seminar are hosting an online event with a panel of distinguished speakers to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Professor Gareth Stedman Jones’ Outcast London.
The event will take place at 18:30 UK time on Wednesday 8 December. To view the programme and to register, please click here.
Georgios Varouxakis at the Global Intellectual History Seminar
Professor Georgios Varouxakis will deliver a lecture at the Amsterdam-Utrecht Global Intellectual History Seminar on Friday 26 November at 16:00 CET. The lecture is entitled ‘“Western Civilization” in the Thought of Afro-American and Francophone Black Intellectuals – from the Great War to the Early Cold War’.
To view the abstract and to register for the online session, please click here.