Past Activities
Past Events
Seventh Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture
Thursday 20th March, 2014
6.30pm, ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre
Professor Carlo Ginzburg, UCLA, delivered the seventh annual Rubinstein Lecture, ‘Intricate Readings: Machiavelli, Aristotle, Aquinas’.
Sixth Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture
Thursday 21st March, 2013
6.30pm, Skeel Lecture Theatre
Professor Peter Brown (Princeton University) delivered the sixth annual Rubinstein Lecture, ‘Constantine, Eusebius and the Future of Christianity’.
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Fifth Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture
Thursday 29th March, 2012
6.30pm, ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre, ArtsTwo Building
The fifth Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture, ‘What’s the Big Idea? Intellectual History and the Longue Duree’, was given by David Armitage (Harvard University).
History of European Ideas article (pdf)
Professor Armitage’s article for the Times Literary Supplement can be found here
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 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 Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture
Wednesday 5th November, 2008
6.30pm, Skeel Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary
Professor Jonathan Israel (Princeton) delivered the second Nicolai Rubinstein lecture, entitled ‘Democratic versus Aristocratic Enlightenment: The Split in European Thought in the Late Eighteenth Century’
First Nicolai Rubinstein lecture
Wednesday 31st October, 2007
6.30pm, Skeel Lecture Theatre Queen Mary, University of London
Professor Quentin Skinner delivered the first Nicolai Rubinstein lecture, entitled ‘What is the State?’