Events
Past Events
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.
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’.
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’.
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.
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.
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.
The Foundations of Modern International Thought: half-day colloquium
Friday 25th October, 2013
2pm - 6pm, Senate House
This half-day colloquium was devoted to David Armitage’s latest book, The Foundations of Modern International Thought, and more broadly the ‘international turn’ in intellectual history to which it contributes. Papers were delivered by Hannah Dawson, Edward Keene, Iain McDaniel and Lea Ypi, and a response given by David Armitage.
Against War and Empire: half-day colloquium
Friday 17th May, 2013
2pm - 6.30pm, Arts Two Building, Room 3.20, QMUL
The Centre hosted a half-day colloquium on Richard Whatmore’s new book, Against War and Empire. Speakers: David Armitage, Béla Kapossy, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Michael Sonenscher, Richard Whatmore.
Sixth Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture
Thursday 21st March, 2013
6.30pm, Skeel Lecture Theatre
Professor Peter Brown (Princeton University) delivered the sixth annual Rubinstein Lecture, ‘Constantine, Eusebius and the Future of Christianity’.
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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.