Events
Past Events
Fourth Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture
Thursday 10th March, 2011
6.30pm, Arts Lecture Theatre, Arts Building
Professor 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’.
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’.
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’.
Interdisciplinary symposium on Weber’s Vocation Lectures
Friday 14th May, 2010
10.30am - 4.30pm,
Download the flyer here (pdf).
Graduate Conference: ‘Perspectives on Democratic Political Thought’.
Tuesday 4th May, 2010
Room G37, Senate House, London
Graduate Conference on the theme of ‘Perspectives on Democratic Political Thought’. The guest speaker was: Professor John Dunn (University of Cambridge).
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Third Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture
Thursday 4th March, 2010
6.30pm, Skeel Lecture Theatre
The third Nicolai Rubinstein lecture, ‘Republics and Revelation: Some Patterns in the Shaping of Western Historiography’, was delivered by Professor John Pocock (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore).
Second International Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Friday 12th February, 2010
10am - 5pm, University of London, Senate House, South Block, Room G37 (Ground Floor)
The second International Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences was concerned with the theme of “Democracy and Imperialism” in the work of James Tully.