Una’s Lectures

Quentin Skinner, Una’s Lecturer 2008-2009

“A Genealogy of Liberty”
7:30pm | September 15, 2008 | Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
Follow-up panel discussion 4-6pm | September 16| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Quentin Skinner is Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London (2007–2008) and takes up the Barber Beaumont Chair in the Humanities at Queen Mary from 2008–2009. Professor Skinner is also currently the Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge.  His scholarship has won him fellowships with several academies, including the British Academy, the American Academy and the Academia Europaea, and he has been the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, including degrees from the University of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. As the author or co-author of more than 20 books, Skinner’s works have been widely translated.  His two-volume study, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, was named by the Times Literary Supplement in 1996 as one of the hundred most influential books published since the Second World War. Skinner is the recipient of many awards, including the Isaiah Berlin Prize of the Political Studies Association, the Lippincott and David Easton Awards of the American Political Science Association, the Wolfson Prize for History in 1979, and a Balzan Prize in 2006.  His most recent book is Hobbes and Republican Liberty (February, 2008).

Links to work by or about Quentin Skinner

Podcasts:

philosophybites podcast of Quentin Skinner on Hobbes and the State

Articles:

NYRB bibliography
LRB bibliography

Interviews:

Interview at Cambridge with Alan Macfarlane (audio and transcript)
“On Encountering the Past” - Interview with Quentin Skinner by Petri Koikkalainen and Sami Syrjämäki (transcript)