Legacy of Greek Political Thought Network: Research Workshop

December 7, 2012 - December 8, 2012
University of Bristol

Bristol
United Kingdom

Sponsor(s):

  • Bristol Institute for Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition
  • Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts
  • AHRC-funded project 'Thucydides: reception, reinterpretation and influence'

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The Legacy of Greek Political Thought Network is an international group of scholars, drawn from the fields of Classics, Political Theory and the History of Ideas, interested in the continuing influence of classical Greek political ideas and theories in the modern world.

http://www.reading.ac.uk/classics/research/class-LegGPT.aspx

This will be its second annual research workshop, bringing together members of the network and other scholars to discuss key issues in this field of study.

Confirmed speakers:

Carol Atack (Cambridge): 'Technocracy Ancient and Modern'

Ryan Balot (Toronto): 'Civic Trust and Democratic Leadership, from Thucydides to the Present'

Ben Earley (Bristol): 'From Colonialism to Imperialism: Thucydides in the American War of Independence'

Steve Hodkinson (Nottingham): discussion of his recent papers on 'Sparta and Nazi Germany' and 'Sparta and the Soviet Union'.

Paul Rahe (Hillsdale College, MI): 'Can a Republic Be Established on an Extended Territory? The classical experience, the ruminations of Montesquieu, and the practical challenge faced by the American Founders'

Helen Roche (Cambridge): '"Recreating a shared Graeco-German Aryan heritage": The ideal of Greek education for citizenship in National Socialist pedagogy'

Christian Wendt (Frei Universität Berlin): 'Herodotus as the father of political realism?'

All are welcome to attend, but numbers are limited, so please reserve your place by contacting Neville Morley ([email protected]).  Conference fee (including refreshments and lunch) £30 (£15 for postgraduates and unwaged, and for attendance on just one day).  An on-line payment system is being set up, and details will be circulated in due course.

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