Events
Past Events
Colloquium on The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, Volume IV
Friday 24th June, 2016
2pm-6pm, Wolfson Room II, Institute of Historical Research, London WC1E 7HU
A half-day colloquium on the New Clarendon Edition of Edmund Burke, edited by P. J. Marshall and Donald C. Bryant.
Speakers: Donald Bromwich, Richard Bourke, J. C. D. Clark, Peter Marshall, Anna Plassart, Brian Young.
Book launch: Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective
Thursday 2nd June, 2016
6.30pm-8pm, Queen Mary University of London Arts Two Building, Ground Floor Foyer
Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective, edited by Richard Bourke and Quentin Skinner, is published by Cambridge University Press.
Professor Richard Bourke’s inaugural lecture
Tuesday 3rd May, 2016
6.30pm, Arts Two Lecture Theatre, Arts Two Building, QMUL
‘And the Glory of Europe is Extinguished Forever’: What was the Old Regime?
Historians tend to explain the origins of modern Europe in terms of the demise of ‘the old regime’. The Enlightenment, culminating in the Age of Revolutions, is usually described as the transition between the two epochs. In this lecture, Professor Richard Bourke explores the emergence of the idea of the old regime, and asks whether it adequately captures past experience. If the period since 1750 cannot be coherently viewed in terms of progress from an ancien régime to modernity, we are left with a general question that bears on our current self-understanding: how are we to interpret the meaning of our present?
To view the flyer (pdf), click here.
To listen to a recording of the lecture, click here.
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.
Roundtable on Empire and Revolution
Wednesday 13th January, 2016
5.15pm, Room SH349, 3rd floor, South block, Senate House
A roundtable discussion of Richard Bourke's Empire & Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke will take place on Wednesday 13 January 2016 at 5:15 p.m.
Empire and Revolution book launch
Friday 9th October, 2015
6.30-8pm, Middle Temple Library
The launch of Prof. Richard Bourke's new book, Empire and Revolution: The political life of Edmund Burke was held on 9th October 2015, with an introduction by Lord Sumption.
Social welfare, justice and distribution
Friday 19th June, 2015
9am - 5pm, QMUL campus (room TBC)
A two-day conference in honour of John Roemer, jointly organised by the Centre and the School of Economics and Finance.
Graduate Conference: Public and Private
Friday 5th June, 2015 – Saturday 6th June, 2015
9.30am, Senate House
The Sixth Annual London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought was held on 5-6 June 2015 at Senate House. The theme was 'Public and Private'.
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.
Eighth Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture
Tuesday 31st March, 2015
6.30pm, ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre
Professor Martti Koskenniemi (Helsinki) delivered the eighth annual Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture, ‘Jus gentium – the power of a middle concept’.