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History of Political Ideas

Convenors: Dr Richard Bourke (QMUL), Prof. Gregory Claeys (RHUL), Prof. Janet Coleman (LSE), Dr Angus Gowland (UCL), Professor Jeremy Jennings (QMUL), Dr. Michael Levin (Goldsmith's), Dr Avi Lifschitz (UCL), Professor Quentin Skinner (QMUL), Dr Georgios Varouxakis (QMUL)

Venue: Senate House, South block, rooms G34 or G35, except 17 March 2010 in Stewart House room 274.

Time: Wednesday, 5 pm (please note this new time from Autumn 2008)
Spring Term 2010
20 January Magnus Ryan (University of Cambridge)
Legal Humanism and the Origins of Empire
Room G34, Senate House, South block
3 February Jon Parkin (University of York)
Early Modern Attitudes to Self-Censorship
Room G35, Senate House, South block
17 February David Weinstein (Wake Forest University)
The Exile of Interpretation: Popper, Strauss and Constructing Political Philosophy's Canon
Room G35, Senate House, South block
3 March Janet Coleman (London School of Economics)
Anti-democratic Voices in Ancient Greece and Rome (and their Legacies)
Room G35, Senate House, South Block
17 March Luc Foisneau (CNRS, EHESS, Paris)
Arendt, Hobson and Hobbes on Imperialism and the State
Room ST 274, Stewart House, second floor
24 March Discussants: Christopher Bayly (Cambridge); Eugenio Biagini (Cambridge)
Chair: Lucy Riall
Round table discussion of 'Risorgimento in Exile' by Maurizio Isabella (OUP, 2009)
Joint session with Modern Italian History Seminar

Please note: this session will be held in the Germany Room, beginning at 17:30

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