Past Activities
Past Events
Symposium on ‘A History of Histories’
Friday 17th October, 2008
Queen Mary, University of London
One day Symposium to discuss John Burrow’s recently-published A History of Histories. Speakers included Professor Michael Bentley (St Andrews) and Professor Paul Cartledge (Cambridge).
Inaugural Centre Lecture
Friday 30th May, 2008
Queen Mary, University of London
Inaugural Centre Lecture given by Professor Mark Lilla (Columbia University).
Seventh Annual International Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Friday 24th April, 2015
9.30am - 7pm, Woburn Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
This year’s symposium focused on recent work by Professor Seyla Benhabib.
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.
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.
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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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’.
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.
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).
Eighth Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture
Tuesday 31st March, 2015
6.30pm, ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre
Professor Martti Koskenniemi (Helsinki) delivered the eighth annual Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture, ‘Jus gentium – the power of a middle concept’.