Activities

Current activities

Past activities

Activities

Autumn 2012 - Professor Charles Walton of the Department of History at Yale University has accepted a visiting fellowship at Queen Mary. He is the author of Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: The Culture of Calumny and the Problem of Free Speech and editor of Into Print: Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment. He is presently completing a manuscript entitled From Eden to Terror: Reciprocity, Rights and free- Market Politics in the Age of the French Revolution. Professor Walton will be at Queen Mary during the autumn of 2012, when he will be participating in a series of conferences and seminars relating to his research.

6 July 2012 - The first workshop for the Popular Sovereignty Project. The following papers will be presented: Melissa Lane: 'Rethinking Offices: Athenians, Plato, and Aristotle on Popular magistracies and Political Knowledge' Eric Nelson: '"The King is the Only Sovereign of the Empire": Prerogative, Representation, and the American Founding' Tim Stanton: 'State Authority, Popular Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law: Weber, Schmitt, Kelsen, and the lessons of Weimar Germany' The meeting will be chaired by co-director Quentin Skinner.

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14-15 May 2012 - The London graduate conference in the history of political thought 'Property, Dominium and Self-Ownership' will be taking place at Senate House, University of London. The keynote will be Eric Nelson (Harvard) with Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary) chairing. Please see the poster or the programme for more info.

3 April 2012 - On the 3rd April, Queen Mary School of History was honoured to host Dr. Joseph Canning, Lecturer in History at Cambridge, in celebration of the publication of his latest work: Ideas of Power in the Late Middle Ages. Dr. Canning introduced the themes of his work, followed by a lively discussion chaired by Milan Zonca, PhD student in the School of History at QM, and a drinks reception. This event brought together over thirty graduate students and scholars in the fields of Medieval History and the History of Political Thought from QM, University of London Schools, Cambridge and even further afield. Please see the poster for more information. For some images from the event click here.

29 March 2012 - The Annual Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History: "What's the Big Idea? Intellectual History and the Longue Duree". The lecture will be given by David Armitage (Harvard University). Click here for more information.

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