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History of Political Ideas

Parthenon Athens

Venue: In person at: Wolfson NB01, IHR & LSE
Time: Wednesdays 17:30 IHR or LSE
Convenors: 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 1- Autumn 2024

The Church of England and the origins of the ‘ancient constitution’ in English political thought

Alexandra Gajda (Oxford)

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

French republicanism: a philosophy, a regime and a culture war

Philippe Marlière (UCL)

Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

India of the Present: Abdul Ghaffar Khan and the Congress Movement

Amar Sohal (KCL)

Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Perspectives on Sovereignty, Economy and Union in England and Ireland in the mid-Seventeenth Century

Shannon Stimson (Georgetown)

Fossil Diplomacy: The Franco-British Commercial Treaty of 1860 and the Environmental History of International Thought

James Stafford (Columbia)

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

David Hume and the balance of property

Danielle Charette James (UNC-Chapel Hill)

Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre at UCL, in the Wilkins Building