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History of Political Ideas

Convening Committee: Dr Richard Bourke (Queen Mary, University of London), Professor Gregory Claeys (Royal Holloway, University of London), Professor Janet Coleman (London School of Economics and New York University), Dr Angus Gowland (University College London), Professor Jeremy Jennings (Queen Mary, University of London), Professor Michael Levin (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Dr Avi Lifschitz (University College London), Professor Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary, University of London), Professor Gareth Stedman Jones (Queen Mary, University of London), Dr Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary, University of London)

Venue: Rooms as announced in the programme below

Time: Wednesday, 5 pm 

Spring Term 2012
11 January

Richard Whatmore (Sussex)


An end to old Europe: The decline and fall of republicanism and the republics

 

The Senate Room, Senate House, first floor.  (Previously, Bedford Room.)

25 January

Melissa Lane (Princeton)


Platonizing the Spartan politeia in Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus

 

Senate House, Senate Room (First floor)

22 February

Catherine Wilson (Aberdeen)


Materialism and Communism: The critique of civilisation before (and in) Marx and Engels

 

Senate House, Bedford Room G37 (ground floor)

7 March

John Robertson (Cambridge)


Sociability and sacred history: Neapolitan answers to a Hobbesian problem

 

Senate House, Bedford Room G37 (ground floor)

21 March

Cesare Cuttica (Universite Paris 8 - Vincennes)


Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe

 

Senate House, Bedford Room G37 (ground floor)

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Summer Term 2012
25 April

Alexander Schmidt (Jena)


'Amor patriae' and 'ratio status': The morality of patriotic actions in humanist political thought

 

Senate House, Bedford Room G37 (ground floor)

16 May

Valentina Arena (UCL)


'Actio popularis' and popular sovereignty in Rome

 

Senate House, Bedford Room G37 (ground floor)

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