The Centre for the Study ofthe History of Political Thought

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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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