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History of Political Ideas-Early Career Seminar

Venue: Online-via Zoom.
Time: Wednesdays 17:30
Convenors: Jack Edmunds (KCL), Cathleen Mair (QMUL), David Klemperer (QMUL), Giuseppe Grieco (QMUL), Peter Morgan (UCL) , Adela Halo (QMUL), Conor Bollins (QMUL)
Calyx Palmer (KCL) and Atlanta Neudorf (QMUL).

Term 1- Autumn 2021

Paolo Sarpi’s Venice and the English debate over Church-State relations

Eloise Davies (Oxford)

Online- via Zoom

William Morris and the inevitability of socialism

Peter Halton (Sussex)

Online- via Zoom

Heresy and Authority in mid-sixteenth-century Reformed thought

Odile Panetta (Cambridge)

Online- via Zoom

Adam Smith, Poverty, and the Problem of Hard-Heartedness

Chris Chambers (Yale)

Online- via Zoom

The problem with individuals: Sophie de Grouchy and moral republicanism, 1785-1815

Kathleen McCrudden Illert (EUI)

Online- via Zoom

Theorising the politics of time from a historical perspective

Blake Ewing (Oxford)

Online- via Zoom

Term 2- Winter 2022

From Province to Nation (and back): the Rio Grandense Republic, 1835-1845

Andre Jockyman Roithman (Oxford)

Online- via Zoom

CANCELLED Sixteenth-Century Political Universalism: Guillaume Postel (1510-1581) on History, Geography, and Religion

Maria Vittoria Comacchi (Ca’ Foscari Venice - Indiana University Bloomington)

Online- via Zoom

Law and Empire in the Central Mediterranean: Reimagining the International from the Margins, c. 1800-1860

Giuseppe Grieco (QMUL – Luigi Einaudi Foundation (Turin))

Online- via Zoom

CANCELLED The idea(s) of West Germany in the 1970s Conservative Party

Ben Thomas (Nottingham)

Term 3- Spring/Summer 2022

Ecclesiology and Political Thought in the Scottish Revolution, 1637-1645

Karie Schultz (St Andrews)

UCL: Room G08, Sir David Davies Lecture Theatre, Roberts Building

What If God Was No Longer the Male Father: The Embracing of a Multi-Gendered God and Competing Ideas of Civilisation in Early Twentieth-Century Japan

Chinami Oka (Oxford)

Online- via Zoom

The Muslim Secular: Politics and Parity in Indian Nationalism

Amar Sohal (Cambridge)

UCL: Room G08, Sir David Davies Lecture Theatre, Roberts Building

Edward Dacres’ Discourses (1636) and Prince (1640): Translating Machiavelli under absolute monarchy

Charlotte McCallum (QMUL)

IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, NB01/NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Robert Young, Philanthropy, and the Social Science of Happiness

Matilde Cazzola (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory)

UCL: G22, North-West Wing Lecture Theatre