The Centre for the Study ofthe History of Political Thought

Events

Past Events

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.

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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'.

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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.

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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’.

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Intellectual Histories of American Foreign Policy

Thursday 5th June, 2014

3pm, Arts Two, QMUL

A workshop on ‘Intellectual Histories of American Foreign Policy’ took place on 5-6 June 2014.

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Graduate Conference: Conceptualising Change

Monday 2nd June, 2014

9.30am, Senate House

The fifth annual London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought was held on 2-3 June 2014 at Senate House, University of London. This year’s theme was ‘Conceptualising Change in the History of Political Thought’.

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Seventh Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture

Thursday 20th March, 2014

6.30pm, ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre

Professor Carlo Ginzburg, UCLA, delivered the seventh annual Rubinstein Lecture, ‘Intricate Readings: Machiavelli, Aristotle, Aquinas’.

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Hume’s Politics: half-day colloquium

Friday 14th March, 2014

2pm - 6pm, Stewart House

A half-day colloquium on Andrew Sabl’s Hume’s Politics was held on Friday 14 March. Speakers: James Harris, Paul Sagar, Robin Douglas, Mark Philp, and Andrew Sabl.

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Liberty Abroad: panel discussion

Friday 7th March, 2014

5pm - 7.30pm, Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3EU

Panel discussion at Europe House to launch Georgios Varouxakis’s Liberty Abroad: J. S. Mill on International Relations.

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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.

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