IHR seminars > History of Political Ideas
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
| 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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| 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) |

