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History of Political Ideas Seminar

Parthenon Athens

Venue: Online-via Zoom.
Time: Wednesdays 17:15
Convenors: Gregory Claeys (RHUL), Janet Coleman (LSE), Hannah Dawson (KCL), Andrew Fitzmaurice (QMUL), Angus Gowland (UCL), Jeremy Jennings (KCL), Michael Levin (Goldsmiths), Niall O’Flaherty (KCL), William Selinger (UCL), Quentin Skinner (QMUL), Gareth Stedman Jones (QMUL), Georgios Varouxakis (QMUL) and Waseem Yaqoob (QMUL).

Term 1- Autumn 2020

A ‘Common Spectacle' of the Race: The Visual Politics of Founding in the Age of Garveyism

Adom Getachew (Chicago)

Online- via Zoom

Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought

Durba Mitra (Harvard)

Online- via Zoom

CANCELLED Preparing revolution in Parisian exile: transnational intellectual exchange among émigrés in Paris in the 1840s

Camille Creyghton (Utrecht)

Online- via Zoom

Thinking About Black Republicanism: An Introduction

Melvin Rogers (Brown University)

Online- via Zoom

The State Theory of Hugo Grotius

Nehal Bhuta (Edinburgh)

Online- via Zoom

Term 2- Winter 2021

The Discourse on Technology in Cold War Political Thought: Media, Modernity and Freedom

Caroline Ashcroft (QMUL)

Online- via Zoom

Republicanism in twentieth-century German political thought

Dina Gusejnova (LSE)

Online- via Zoom

Book Launch: Stella Ghervas (Newcastle), Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union

Stella Ghervas (Newcastle), Georgios Varouxakis (QMUL)

Online- via Zoom

Term 3- Spring/Summer 2021

Freedom: The History of an Elusive Idea in Indian Political Thought

Jyotirmaya Sharma (Hyderabad)

Online- via Zoom

Moral obligations in the face of plague in 17th-century Europe

Annabel Brett (Cambridge)

Online- via Zoom

Machiavelli’s The Prince and the Florentine Constitution of 1513

Jérémie Barthas (CNRS, Paris)

Online- via Zoom

John Locke, Treaties and the Two Treatises of Government

David Armitage (Harvard)

Online- via Zoom

Singapore, Riau and the Malay Peninsula in the European glossaries and dictionaries before 1800

Peter Borschberg (Singapore)

Online- via Zoom

What is 'positive freedom'? Unity and disunity in the positive tradition

Michael Garnett (Birkbeck)

Online- via Zoom

Hobbes on freedom as the silence of the law

Monica Brito Vieira (York)

Online- via Zoom