Faculty of Arts and Social SciencesLancaster University
Events
News
Subscribe to News and Events
Liberty and its Histories: a symposium with Quentin Skinner
Date: 11 November 2010
The Department of History was delighted to host an inter-disciplinary symposium in November 2010 called "Liberty and its Histories". It was inspired by the work of Prof. Quentin Skinner, and Prof. Skinner attended as the guest speaker and commentator.
There wereseven papers, and the programme is reproduced below. Prof. Skinner consented to his lecture being video-ed. You can see it at this url: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/history/events/skinner_video.htm
The symposium was co-organised by Dr Stephen Pumfrey (Lancaster University) and Dr Neil Foxlee (Univeristy of Central Lancaster). Any enquiries should be emailed to me, Stephen Pumfrey at: s.pumfrey AT lancaster.ac.uk.
Symposium Programme
Liberty in England - a long view.
Dr Stephen Pumfrey (History, Lancaster), "Discourses of liberty in England, 1470-1700: some conclusions from corpus linguistics"
Prof. David Sugarman (Law, Lancaster), "'A Hatred of Disorder'. Legal Science and Liberty in England, c. 1850-1970."
The Early Modern Context
Prof. Naomi Tadmor (History, Lancaster), "Biblical polities."
Prof. Harro Hopfl (Accounting, Essex).
Political discourses in England and representations in the arts.
Prof. Alison Findlay (English, Lancaster), "'What art thou, thou idol ceremony?' Ceremony and political discourse in Shakespeare."
Dr Kamilla Elliot (English, Lancaster), "Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and the Portraiture of Politics".
Liberty: places and methods of study.
Dr Sarah Barber (History, Lancaster), "Liberty in the Caribbean: licence plus intemperance".
Dr Neil Foxlee, (English Language and Linguistics, Central Lancashire), "Bridging the Differences: The Bakhtin Circle, Begriffsgeschichte and the 'Cambridge School'."
Guest Speaker
Prof. Quentin Skinner (History, Queen Mary University of London), "The Genealogy of Liberty".
The symposium was co-organised by Dr Stephen Pumfrey (Lancaster University) and Dr Neil Foxlee (Univeristy of Central Lancaster). Any enquiries should be emailed to me, Stephen Pumfrey at: s.pumfrey AT lancaster.ac.uk.
News website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/history/events/skinner_video.htm
Further information
Associated departments and research centres: History
Search FASS
- FASS Intranet -
Save this page:
Del.icio.us
Digg It
Reddit
Facebook
Stumble It!
 |
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YD
United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0) 1524 510851
Fax: +44 (0) 1524 510857
|
Copyright & Disclaimer | Privacy and Cookies Notice Save contact details Save contact details |