The Centre for the Study ofthe History of Political Thought

Events

Past Events

Jacob Levy on ‘Rationalism, Pluralism and Freedom’

Wednesday 25th January, 2012

4.30pm, Laws 1.19 at Queen Mary's Mile End campus

Professor Jacob Levy (McGill University) presented a paper entitled ‘Rationalism, Pluralism and Freedom’. Hosted by the School of Politics and International Relations and the Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought.

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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Conference on Revolution and the Republic

Thursday 3rd November, 2011

French Institute

A one-day conference was held at the French Institute, London, to mark the publication of Revolution and the Republic by Jeremy Jennings.

Graduate Conference: Human Nature and Diversity

Monday 9th May, 2011

Senate House, Malet Street

London Graduate Conference on the theme of ‘Human Nature and Diversity in the History of Political Thought’. Keynote address: Noel Malcolm, with comments by Quentin Skinner, Jeremy Jennings and Serena Ferente.

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Fourth Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture

Thursday 10th March, 2011

6.30pm, Arts Lecture Theatre, Arts Building

histories of scientific experience in early modern europe med_menu-thumbProfessor Lorraine Daston of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin delivered the fourth Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture, entitled ‘Histories of Scientific Experience in Early Modern Europe’.

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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’.

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Conference on the Political Thought of the Risorgimento

Friday 3rd December, 2010

10.30am - 5.30pm, Senate House, Room 35

The Political Thought of the Risorgimento. A one day conference that was supported by ASMI, the Association of the Study of Modern Italy, and the Journal of Modern Italian Studies. The speakers and discussants were as follows: Anthony Howe, Carlo Capra, Eugenio Biagini, Francesca Sofia, Gareth Stedman Jones, Georgios Varouxakis, Jeremy Jennings, John Davis, John Robertson, Martin Thom, Maurizio Isabella, Roberto Romani.

Symposium on Professor Nicholas Phillipson’s new book on Adam Smith

Friday 29th October, 2010

One day symposium that discussed Professor Nicholas Phillipson’s (Edinburgh) new book on Adam Smith. Speakers were: Professor Fonna Forman-Barzilai, Professors Ryan Hanley, Dr Istvan Hont (Cambridge), Senior Lecturer Duncan Kelly (Cambridge), Professor Chandran Kukathas (LSE), Professor Nicholas Phillipson (Edinburgh), Lecturer Craig Smith (St Andrews), Professor Matthew Watson (Warwick), Professor Donald Winch (Sussex).

Lecture: Professor Stephen White

Monday 14th June, 2010

5pm, The Council Room at the School of Public Policy

Professor Stephen White (University Of Virginia) gave a talk entitled
‘Continental and/versus Analytical Political Thought’. The discussant was Professor Jane Bennet  (Johns Hopkins University).

Inaugural lecture: Professor Quentin Skinner

Wednesday 2nd June, 2010

6.30pm, Queen Mary, University of London.

Professor Quentin Skinner gave his inaugural lecture, ‘Truth and the Historian’.