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In person at: Wolfson NB01, IHR & LSE
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Wednesdays 17:30 IHR or LSE
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Tom Arnold-Forster (KCL), Callum Barrell (NCH), Janet Coleman (LSE), Hannah Dawson (KCL), Andrew Fitzmaurice (QMUL), Angus Gowland (UCL), Dina Gusejnova (LSE), Humeira Iqtidar (KCL), Gareth Stedman Jones (QMUL), Julia Nichols (KCL), Niall O’Flaherty (KCL), Paul Sagar (KCL), Quentin Skinner (QMUL), Georgios Varouxakis (QMUL), Waseem Yaqoob (QMUL) and Samuel Zeitlin (UCL).

Term 3- Spring/Summer 2025

07 may 2025

The Structure of Anti-Democratic Thought in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Greg Conti (Princeton)

IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
14 may 2025

How to be Happy: Advice from Adam Smith

Paul Sagar (KCL)

LSE Mar 1.04
21 may 2025

The Quest for Order: Reflections on a Key Concept in Modern (German) History

Paul Nolte (GHI London/FU Berlin)

LSE: PAR.1.02
04 jun 2025

Can we make a new time? Perspectives from intellectual history

Liisi Keedus (Tallinn)

IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
18 jun 2025

The Ethical State in Italy: From Vico to Hegel

Fernanda Gallo (Cambridge)

LSE, Centre Building, Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre
02 jul 2025

Montesquieu's Persian Letters

Stuart Warner (Roosevelt University)

Online-via Zoom

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