From Cyberspace to the Metaverse: Toward an Intellectual History of the Internet
For more information on the speaker's background, visit: https://history.jhu.edu/directory/angus-burgin/
Languages of republicanism: res publica and swaraj
Parliamentary institutions in the political thought of Jean Bodin
Painting Political Philosophy
New Book: Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Commentators: Mori Reithmayr and Kushti Westwood
Miltonic Monsters among the British Moralists: The Imagination of AI from Hobbes to Shelley
New Book - Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Women in Politics - In conversation with Faye Curtis: Women in ground close combat roles, and work experience at NATO
Tracing Dirty Russian Money and Getting the World to React + 'Follow the Money' Workshop
We are delighted to invite you to our secondevent of Michaelmas 2022, which will take place on Tuesday, October 18, in the Old Library at All Souls College at 8:30pm. As always, there will be a wine reception prior to the event, starting at 8pm. The speaker will be Šarūnas Černiauskas, who will be speaking to us on ‘Tracing Dirty Russian Money and Getting the World to React’. Please read to the end of the abstract for information on our 'Follow the Money' Workshop.
Webinar - Dickens on How Not to Do It: Bureaucracy, Busyness, and the Cultural Afterlife of the Circumlocution Office
In the preface to the first edition of Little Dorrit, Dickens proclaims that his novelistic exposition of the ‘whole Science of Government’ was based on the ‘common experience of an Englishman.’ Dickens in other words meant to give the laity’s perspective on public administration. However, ideas about officialdom tend to be shaped not only by experience, but also by stories.