Graduates
Political thought and intellectual history
The Political Thought and Intellectual History Workshop provides an opportunity for postgraduate students to present research on any aspect of the history of political thought or intellectual history from antiquity to the present, in a friendly and informal atmosphere. Sessions consist of a 20-25 minute presentation followed by feedback and discussion with wine and nibbles. The workshop generally meets on alternate Thursdays at 5pm in the Keynes Seminar Room 2, King's College. A convener will be in King's Bar at 4.55 pm for those who need directions.
If you are interested in giving a paper, please do get in touch. Presentations need not be of completed research; works-in-progress are very much welcome. We also welcome participants working in related fields in other faculties.
Programme - Easter Term 2012
Wednesday, 9th May
Jacques Derrida and Post-War French Thought: The Crisis of Transcendental Philosophy
Giovanni Menegalle
Thursday, 21st June
Difference without Disagreement: Hobbes on Toleration
Teresa Bejan
Programme - Lent Term 2012
26th January
We need to talk about sociability
Paul Sagar
9th February
The Family in Eighteenth-Century Moral and Political Thought
Tara-Jane Westover
23rd February
What's the Stoic theory of the passions doing in Twelfth-Century Roman Law?
Tom Parry-Jones
8th March
On the Usefulness of the History of Political Thought
Dominic O'Mahony
Programme - Michaelmas Term 2011
13th October
Hannah Arendt on Marx and modern historical consciousness
Waseem Yaqoob
20th October
Pierre Rosanvallon’s Democratic Legitimacy and the Legacy of Anti-totalitarianism in Recent French Thought
Jamie Martin
10th November
Eighteenth-Century Epicureanism and the Reception of Rousseau's Second Discourse
Jared Holley
24th November
Empire, Democracy and Geopolitics: Owen Lattimore's International Thought, 1940-1949
Or Rosenboim
Convenors:
Katrina Forrester - kf267
Tom Parry-Jones - tdp28