Past Activities
Past Events
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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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’.