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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), Alessandro de Arcangelis (UCL), David Klemperer (QMUL), Giuseppe Grieco (QMUL), Peter Morgan (UCL) Emily Steinhauer (QMUL), Adela Halo (QMUL) and Conor Bollins (QMUL).

Term 1- Autumn 2020

Francesco Paolo Bozzelli’s “Della Tragica Imitazione” and the contours of Neapolitan Liberalism

Anja Ciccone (Cambridge)

Online- via Zoom

David Hume the Harringtonian in 1790s Scotland

Danielle Charette (Chicago)

Online- via Zoom

Nothing but “empty talk”? Hegel and contemporaries on the constitution

Elias Buchetmann (European University Institute)

Online- via Zoom

Ethnocultural nationalism in Chile’s model republic, 1840s-1860s

Alfred Hinrichsen-Herrera (UCL)

Online- via Zoom

The Politics of Externalities: Three Perspectives

Alyssa Battistoni (Harvard)

Online- via Zoom

“The Centre Everywhere”: Fin-de-Siècle Anarchist Thought and the End of Global Space

Pascale Siegrist (GHIL)

Online- via Zoom

Term 2- Winter 2021

Ex-communism and the languages of interwar Marxism: the case of Franz Borkenau in Spain

Nick Devlin (Cambridge)

Online- via Zoom

States of Growth in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy

Adam Woodhouse (Chicago)

Online- via Zoom

Towards a History of Intellectual Labor: Gender, Negritude, and the Black Public Sphere

Merve Fejzula (Missouri)

Online- via Zoom

Liberty, Classical Models and Countering Rebellion in the early modern Spanish Empire

Lisa Kattenberg (Cambridge)

Online- via Zoom

Hume, Wallace, and the Golden Mean: Securing Peace and Population Growth in Scotland, 1745-1767

Conor Bollins (QMUL)

Online- via Zoom

Term 3- Spring/Summer 2021

Global Expansion, Scoto-English Relations, and the Concept of Union Aeque Principaliter, 1603-1707

Joseph Wagner (St Andrews)

Online- via Zoom

“Discovery” of the People: Postcolonial Founding and the Idea of Independence

Nazmul Sultan (Cambridge)

Online- via Zoom

Untimely Consciousness and the Problem of White Collar Workers: The Frankfurt School on Rationalisation as Dehumanisation

Emily Steinhauer (GHIL)

Online- via Zoom

The Greek door to the study of history: Arnold J. Toynbee, world history and the international crisis

Liam Stowell (Manchester)

Online- via Zoom