Fwd: Call for Papers-Third Berkeley Graduate Conference in the History of British Political Thought Third Berkeley Graduate Conference in the History of British Political Thought October 17-18, 2014 University of California, Berkeley CALL FOR PAPERS: The Third University of California—Berkeley Graduate Conference in the History of British Political Thought will take place on October 17-18, 2014. We are inviting papers by graduate students from any discipline on any aspect, theme, or thinker in the History of British Political Thought. We welcome papers on topics including, but not limited to, sovereignty, rule of law, jurisprudence, politics and language, rhetoric, state-building, espionage, gender, political historiography, religion, sacred history, translation and textual transmission, representation, politics and drama, rights, liberty, civility, and equity. In addition, papers focusing on thinkers including, but not limited to, More, Hooker, Case, Queen Mary, King James VI and I, Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, Margaret Cavendish, Middleton, Bacon, The Levelers, The Diggers, Filmer, Winstanley, Bramhall, Lilburne, Cromwell, Milton, Hobbes, Locke, Astell, Shaftesbury, Queen Anne, Mandeville, Hume, Ferguson, Smith,Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelly, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, James Mill, Bentham, Malthus, John Stuart Mill, Sidgwick, Annie Besant, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Virginia Woolf as well as papers on the British reception and English translation of Bodin, Lipsius, Montaigne, Charron, Althusius, Campanella, Galileo Galilei, Descartes, Spinoza, Bayle, Montesquieu, and Rousseau are especially welcome. The conference will include the participation of Berkeley faculty in the history of political thought, such as Professors Mark Bevir, Ian Duncan, Kinch Hoekstra, Diego Pirillo, and Shannon Stimson. Invited participants will receive accommodation and meals. For consideration, please email abstracts of 750-1000 words by 20 July, 2014 to Berkeleypoliticalthought@gmail
Posted on: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 11:22:27 +0000
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