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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 2021

Siblings in the hands of an angry god: ancient and modern analogues of the Adam and Eve myth

Wilson Jeremiah Moses (Penn State)

Online- via Zoom

Human rights and socioeconomic inequality

Lena Halldenius (Lund)

Online- via Zoom

Sovereignty and the Mixed Constitution

Philip Pettit (Princeton)

Online- via Zoom

The Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Death Work and the Making of the Black Counterpublic Sphere

Shatema Threadcraft (Vanderbilt)

Democracy’s World Shadow: Du Bois’s International Thought

Jennifer Pitts (Chicago)

Online- via Zoom

Term 2- Winter 2022

Gianvincenzo Gravina, maternal dominium, and Thomas Hobbes in Rome, 1699-1708

Felix Waldmann (Christ’s College, Cambridge)

Online- via Zoom

What was ‘political’ thought in early modern Europe?

Sarah Mortimer (Oxford)

Hybrid Event: UCL, Room 5, 188 Tottenham Court Road, W1T 7PH & Online via Zoom

James Bryce and the Uses of Comparative Politics

Stuart Jones (Manchester)

Hybrid Event: UCL, Room 5, 188 Tottenham Court Road, W1T 7PH & Online via Zoom

CANCELLED A Wife of the IR Canon

Patricia Owens (Oxford)

Online- via Zoom

Term 3- Spring/Summer 2022

On violence or the Importance of Indian Political Thought

Shruti Kapila (Cambridge)

Online- via Zoom & UCL, Room 4, 188 Tottenham Court Road, W1T 7PH and on Zoom

The Political Thought of Clifford Geertz

Joel Isaac (Chicago)

Online- via Zoom & UCL, Room 5, 188 Tottenham Court Road, W1T 7PH