#  2024-Pocockian Moments: A Symposium on the Centenary of J.G.A. Pocock (EUI) 

 



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## **Day 1 - Monday 20 May**


### **9:00 – 9:15 — Introductions**

Greetings: [Thomas Ashby ](/people/thomas-ashby "Thomas Ashby")(EUI), [Sama Mammadova ](/people/sama-mammadova "Sama Mammadova")(Harvard), and [Laurelin Middelkoop ](/people/laurelin-beatrijs-middelkoop "Laurelin Beatrijs Middelkoop")(EUI)

[Thomas Ashby ](/people/thomas-ashby)(EUI), “Historiographer of Worlds: A Tribute to John Pocock”

### **9:15 – 10:45 — Keynote 1**

[Richard Whatmore ](https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/persons/richard-whatmore)(University of St Andrews), “John Pocock and the British Empire”

Chair: [Laurelin Middelkoop ](/people/laurelin-beatrijs-middelkoop "Laurelin Beatrijs Middelkoop")(EUI)

### **Break**


### **11:00 – 12:30 — Panel 1**

[Lewis Mayo ](https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/5585-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 ](https://people.ceu.edu/laszlo_kontler)(Central European University), “Re-Europeanizing the Enlightenment: A (non-) Pocockian View”

Chair: [Sama Mammadova ](/people/sama-mammadova "Sama Mammadova")(Harvard University)

### **Lunch Break**


### **13:45 – 15:15 — Panel 2**

[Myriam-Isabelle Ducrocq ](https://www.parisnanterre.fr/mme-myriam-isabelle-ducrocq)(Université Paris Nanterre), and [Blandine Kriegel ](https://www.blandinekriegel.com/)(Professor emerita) “John Pocock and the Enlightenment in Britain and France”

[Joel Herman ](https://virtualtreasury.ie/team)(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 ](/people/artur-banaszewski "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 ](http://jalexand.bilkent.edu.tr/)(Bilkent Üniversitesi), “Pocock’s Sattelzeit: Coleridge’s Modernity” Chair: [Federica Signoriello ](https://www.eui.eu/people?id=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 ](https://www.eui.eu/people?id=anastazja-grudnicka)(EUI)

### **Lunch Break**


### **13:00 – 14:30 — Keynote 2**

[Rosario López ](/people/rosario-l%C3%B3pez "Rosario López Sánchez")(Universidad de Málaga), “What are Global Intellectual Historians *Doing*? John Pocock and the Politics of Historiography”

Chair: [Sama Mammadova ](/people/sama-mammadova "Sama Mammadova")(Harvard University)

### **Break**


### **14:45 – 15:45 — Roundtable Discussion**

**Further information and inquiries:** The symposium is convened by [Thomas Ashby ](/people/thomas-ashby "Thomas Ashby")(EUI), [Sama](/people/sama-mammadova "Sama Mammadova") [Mammadova](/people/sama-mammadova) (Harvard), and [Laurelin Middelkoop](/people/laurelin-beatrijs-middelkoop "Laurelin Beatrijs Middelkoop") (EUI) in collaboration with the organising committee of the [Association for Global Political Thought ](/home "Home Page")(AGPT). The organisers can be contacted at [agpt.symposium.24@gmail.com ](mailto:///agpt.symposium.24@gmail.com)for any further questions.

**Who we are?** [The Association Global Political Thought](/home "Home Page") 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](/home "Home Page").



 

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