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2019-2020
\n<\/strong>Karuna Mantena (Columbia University)
\nThree Faces of Gandhian Non-Violence<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

2018-2019
\n<\/strong>James Harris (University of St. Andrews)
\nThe Most Difficult Question of Any: Political Obligation in 18th-century British Political Thought<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

2017-2018
\n<\/strong>Kinch Hoekstra (University of California, Berkeley)
\nThomas Hobbes on History, Politics, and Philosophy<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

2015-2016<\/strong>
\nJohn Robertson (Cambridge)
\nThe Sacred and the Social: 1650-1790<\/em><\/p>\n

2014-2015
\n<\/strong>David Wootton (University of York)
\nShakespeare Skirmishes<\/em><\/p>\n

2012-2013<\/strong>
\nJulia Annas (Arizona)
\nVirtue and the Rule of Law in Plato and Beyond<\/em><\/p>\n

2010-2011<\/strong>
\nIstvan Hont (Cambridge)
\nRousseau and Smith: Political Theorists of Commercial Society<\/em><\/p>\n

2009-2010<\/strong>
\nDanielle Allen (Institute for Advanced Study)
\nWhy Plato Wrote\u00a0<\/em>(published as\u00a0Why Plato Wrote<\/em>. Malden, MA: Wiley, 2010)<\/p>\n

2008-2009<\/strong>
\nSusan James (Birkbeck College)
\nNarrative as the Means to Spinozist Freedom<\/em> (delivered\u00a0as part of a conference on Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus)<\/p>\n

2007-2008<\/strong>
\nCarla Hesse (Berkeley)
\nEnlightened Women and the Origins of Feminism\u00a0<\/em>(delivered as part of a conference on Enlightenment and the Origins of Feminism)<\/p>\n

2007-2008<\/strong>
\nMichael Rosen (Harvard)
\nThe Shibboleth of all empty headed moralists: the place of dignity in ethics and political philosophy<\/em> (published as\u00a0Dignity: Its History and Meaning<\/em>. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012)<\/p>\n

2003-2004<\/strong>
\nQuentin Skinner (Cambridge)
\nThomas Hobbes: Freedom, Representation, and the State<\/em> (published as\u00a0Hobbes and Republican Liberty<\/em>. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008)<\/p>\n

2003-2004<\/strong>
\nDavid Armitage (Columbia)
\nThe Foundations of Modern International Thought<\/em> (published as\u00a0The Foundations of International Thought<\/em>. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012)<\/p>\n

2002-2003<\/strong>
\nJanet Coleman (London School of Economics)
\nPublic Rationality in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance<\/em><\/p>\n

2001-2002<\/strong>
\nRichard Tuck (Harvard University)
\nHobbes and Rousseau<\/em><\/p>\n

1989-1999<\/strong>
\nMargaret Jacob (UCLA)
\nThe Culture of Politics in Early Modern Europe<\/em><\/p>\n

1997-1998<\/strong>
\nDavid Gauthier (Pittsburgh)
\nRousseau: The Social and the Solitary<\/em> (published as\u00a0Rousseau: The Social and the Solitary<\/em>. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2019-2020 Karuna Mantena (Columbia University) Three Faces of Gandhian Non-Violence 2018-2019 James Harris (University of St. Andrews) The Most Difficult Question of Any: Political Obligation in 18th-century British Political Thought 2017-2018 Kinch Hoekstra (University of California, Berkeley) Thomas Hobbes on History, Politics, and Philosophy 2015-2016 John Robertson (Cambridge) The Sacred and the Social: 1650-1790 2014-2015 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14343,"featured_media":0,"parent":36,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/benedict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/benedict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/benedict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/benedict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/benedict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/benedict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/benedict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions\/206"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/benedict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/benedict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}