Please find below the programme for this year’s IHR History of Political Ideas seminar.
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History of Political Ideas Seminar Programme 2021-22
Conference: Quentin Skinner’s ‘Meaning and Understanding’ after 50 years
Quentin Skinner’s classic 1969 essay ‘Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas’ was a ground-breaking challenge to prevailing ideas about how to read historical texts, and helped found an influential school of interpretation. Fifty years on, the essay is probably the most widely read article in the area and continues to breed debate. This British Academy conference on 7–8 July 2021 will critically examine the essay and its legacy.
Quentin Skinner at The Venice World Multidisciplinary Conference on Republics and Republicanism
Professor Quentin Skinner will deliver the keynote lecture at the Venice World Multidisciplinary Conference on Republics and Republicanism, taking place virtually from 11–13 June 2021 and hosted by Venice International University. The lecture is entitled ‘On so-called “republican” liberty and rights’.
For more information and to register, please click here.
12th Annual London Graduate Conference in HPT
Programme and Registration for the London Graduate Conference
History of Political Ideas Seminar Programme
The Summer Term programme for the IHR Seminar in the History of Political Ideas is now available to view online.
Please register for upcoming seminars via the IHR website.
Waseem Yaqoob at University of Manchester
Dr Waseem Yaqoob will take part in a new symposium on ‘Legacies in Intellectual History’ at the University of Manchester. He will be speaking on ‘An inheritance with no testament: reading Hannah Arendt from Cold War to Arab Spring’.
The symposium takes place via Zoom on 19 April 2021, 15:00-19:00 BST.
Please register here.
Quentin Skinner at the European University Institute
Prof. Quentin Skinner will deliver a lecture entitled ‘On Civil Liberty and Fundamental Rights: A Neo-Roman Approach’ at the EUI. The lecture, hosted by the Intellectual History Working Group and chaired by Thomas Ashby (EUI), takes place via Zoom on 12 April 2021 at 14:00 GMT+1/15:00 CEST.
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Book launch: Conquering Peace
On Wednesday 24 March, Prof. Stella Ghervas (Newcastle) presents her book Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union (Harvard UP, 2021) at the History of Political Ideas Seminar.
Discussant: Georgios Varouxakis (QMUL)
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History of Political Ideas Seminar at the IHR
After a brief hiatus, the History of Political Ideas Seminar resumes this Wednesday 10 March with a paper by Dina Gusejnova (LSE), entitled ‘Republicanism in twentieth-century German political thought’.