Annual International Symposia in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Past Events
2020 Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Tuesday 28th April, 2020
Please note, this event has been postponed.
The 2020 Annual Book Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences will be dedicated to:
Noel Malcolm’s
Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
2018 Annual Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences on Quentin Skinner’s From Humanism to Hobbes
Friday 23rd November, 2018
13:30 – 19:30, Senate Room, Senate House, University of London, Malet St, WC1E 7HU
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.
Symposium on the work of Martin E. Jay
Friday 15th June, 2018
Symposium on Gareth Stedman Jones’ Karl Marx, Greatness and Illusion
Friday 21st April, 2017
9:30 am - 6:00pm, Queen Mary Graduate Centre Room 201
We are pleased to announce the Annual Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences on Gareth Stedman Jones’ Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion (Allen Lane, Penguin: 2016). To view the poster for the event, please click here.
The speakers are:
Gareth Stedman Jones (QMUL)
Warren Breckmann (Penn)
Douglas Moggach (Ottawa/Sydney)
Julia Nicholls (Oxford)
Shannon C. Stison (Georgetown)
To view the programme, please click here. Registration is essential.
Symposium on sovereignty and human rights
Friday 15th January, 2016
9.30 - 17.00 (followed by a reception), Senate House, University of London
This year's Annual Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences will be held on on 15 January 2016, on the theme of Sovereignty and Human Rights.
The Symposium will consider two new books: Richard Tuck's The Sleeping Sovereign and Samuel Moyn's Christian Human Rights.
Registration is essential, so please book in advance here.
Seventh Annual International Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Friday 24th April, 2015
9.30am - 7pm, Woburn Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
This year’s symposium focused on recent work by Professor Seyla Benhabib.
Sixth International Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Friday 10th January, 2014
9.30am - 7pm, Woburn Room, Senate House, University of London
This symposium focused on recent work by Prof. Bryan Garsten (Yale) and Prof. Nadia Urbinati (Columbia) on the themes of Liberalism and Democracy. The speakers were Nadia Urbinati, Bryan Garsten, John Dunn, Monica Brito Vieira, Gareth Stedman Jones and Georgios Varouxakis.
Fifth International Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Friday 11th January, 2013
9.30am - 7.30pm, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
This one-day symposium was dediated to Noel Malcolm’s Clarendon edition of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan. Speakers included Noel Malcolm, Kinch Hoekstra, Monica Brito Vieira, David Scott and Jonathan Parkin.
Fourth International Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Friday 13th January, 2012
10am - 5pm, Room 349/350 Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU
The Fourth International Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences focused on ‘Reasoning and Personhood: Some Themes in the Recent Work of Ian Hacking.’ Speakers at the event were John Forrester, Sarah Franklin, Alexander Bird, Rachel Cooper, and Ian Hacking.
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Third International Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Friday 14th January, 2011
10am - 5pm, G22-26 Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU
The Third International Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences focused on recent work by Richard Tuck and Jeremy Waldron under the general rubric of ‘Political Thought and Democratic Theory’.