Events
Past Events
Interdisciplinary symposium on Weber’s Vocation Lectures
Friday 14th May, 2010
10.30am - 4.30pm,
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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.
Round table: ‘Anglo-Saxon Historiography, the Republic and the Perception of Italian Democracy from Abroad’
Monday 18th January, 2010
5pm, Queen Mary, University of London
Round table on the theme of ‘Anglo-Saxon Historiography, the Republic and the Perception of Italian Democracy from Abroad: Difficulties and Ambiguities’. The first round table in the AHRC-funded seminar series ‘Democracy in Italy: from the End of Facism to Berlusconi’.
‘Difficult Freedom: Are Human Rights Philosophically Justified?’ – lecture
Tuesday 27th October, 2009
Queen Mary, University of London
Fourth Centre Lecture, ‘Difficult Freedom: Are Human Rights Philosophically Justified?’ was presented by Professor Richard Wolin (City University of New York).
Crossing the Anglophone vs. Continental Divide in Political Thought
Wednesday 27th May, 2009
The Finnish Institute, London
Conference at The Finnish Institute, London, 27-28 May 2009.
Lecture on ‘Christian Religion and Republican Liberty in Early Modern Italy’
Thursday 21st May, 2009
Queen Mary, University of London
Third Centre Lecture delivered by Professor Maurizio Viroli ‘Christian Religion and Republican Liberty in Early Modern Italy’ (Princeton University).
Inaugural lecture: Professor Jeremy Jennings
Thursday 7th May, 2009
Queen Mary, University of London
Inaugural Lecture of Professor Jeremy Jennings entitled ‘Despotism after Liberalism’.
First International Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Friday 20th February, 2009
10am-4.30pm, Stewart House (Room ST274/275), 32 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DN
The first International Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences was concerned with recent work on Thomas Hobbes by Philip Pettit and Quentin Skinner. Speakers and Respondents were: Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary), Philip Pettit (Princeton), Ian Shapiro (Yale), Alan Cromartie (Reading), Andrea Sangiovanni (King’s Colelge London), Chris Brooke (Oxford).