2024-Pocockian Moments: A Symposium on the Centenary of J.G.A. Pocock (EUI)
Day 1 - Monday 20 May
9:00 – 9:15 — Introductions
Greetings: Thomas Ashby (EUI), Sama Mammadova (Harvard), and Laurelin Middelkoop (EUI)
Thomas Ashby (EUI), “Historiographer of Worlds: A Tribute to John Pocock”
9:15 – 10:45 — Keynote 1
Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews), “John Pocock and the British Empire”
Chair: Laurelin Middelkoop (EUI)
Break
11:00 – 12:30 — Panel 1
Lewis Mayo (University of Melbourne), “Pocock and the Non-European: De-centering histories and Historiographies, 1974-1957”
Nicolau Lutz (University of Cambridge), “Autonomy and Self-Knowledge in the Work of J.G.A. Pocock”
László Kontler (Central European University), “Re-Europeanizing the Enlightenment: A (non-) Pocockian View”
Chair: Sama Mammadova (Harvard University)
Lunch Break
13:45 – 15:15 — Panel 2
Myriam-Isabelle Ducrocq (Université Paris Nanterre), and Blandine Kriegel (Professor emerita) “John Pocock and the Enlightenment in Britain and France”
Joel Herman (Trinity College Dublin), “A New ‘British’ History of the Atlantic Archipelago? The Case of Ireland in Pocockian Projects”
George Gallwey (Independent), “Public Credit and Pocock’s Nightmare; the Material Limits to Modern Politics”
Chair: Artur Banaszewski (EUI)
DAY 2 – Tuesday 21 May
9:00 – 10:30 — Panel 3
Lai Ying 来瑛(Tsinghua University), “A review of the image of James Harrington in the genealogy of classical republican thought”
Connor Grubaugh (University of Oxford), “St. Augustine of Cambridge”
James Alexander (Bilkent Üniversitesi), “Pocock’s Sattelzeit: Coleridge’s Modernity” Chair: Federica Signoriello (EUI)
Break
10:45 – 11:45 — Panel 4
Moses Lapin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Sermonizing as a Political Act: Toward a More Global Politics of Speech”
Luca Lissoni (Università di San Marino), “Comparative Perspectives on Ibn Khaldūn: Toynbee, Pocock and beyond”
Chair: Anastazja Grudnicka (EUI)
Lunch Break
13:00 – 14:30 — Keynote 2
Rosario López (Universidad de Málaga), “What are Global Intellectual Historians Doing? John Pocock and the Politics of Historiography”
Chair: Sama Mammadova (Harvard University)
Break
14:45 – 15:45 — Roundtable Discussion
Further information and inquiries: The symposium is convened by Thomas Ashby (EUI), Sama Mammadova (Harvard), and Laurelin Middelkoop (EUI) in collaboration with the organising committee of the Association for Global Political Thought (AGPT). The organisers can be contacted at agpt.symposium.24@gmail.com for any further questions.
Who we are? The Association Global Political Thought is an international, interdisciplinary, and intercollegiate project founded in 2021 at Harvard University. Dedicated to the study of political ideas in international society and global contexts, supported by humanists and social scientists from across global institutions. More information about the Association may be found on our website.