{"id":397,"date":"2021-09-13T17:28:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T17:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/?p=397"},"modified":"2024-09-10T20:50:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T20:50:29","slug":"noted-british-historian-quentin-skinner-to-present-stead-lecture-oct-8-as-part-of-cicl-republicanism-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/noted-british-historian-quentin-skinner-to-present-stead-lecture-oct-8-as-part-of-cicl-republicanism-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Noted British Historian Quentin Skinner to Present Stead Lecture Oct. 8 as Part of CICL Republicanism Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"397\" class=\"elementor elementor-397\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-646ec62 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"646ec62\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d11fff7\" data-id=\"d11fff7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c86a239 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-gallery\" data-id=\"c86a239\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-gallery.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-gallery\">\n\t\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-397 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"c86a239\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"MSN_Sellers\" href='https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1270\/2021\/09\/MSN_Sellers.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1270\/2021\/09\/MSN_Sellers-240x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1270\/2021\/09\/MSN_Sellers-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1270\/2021\/09\/MSN_Sellers-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1270\/2021\/09\/MSN_Sellers-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1270\/2021\/09\/MSN_Sellers-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1270\/2021\/09\/MSN_Sellers-700x875.jpg 700w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1270\/2021\/09\/MSN_Sellers.jpg 1487w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-398'>\n\t\t\t\tM.N.S. Sellers\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"c86a239\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"pettit\" href='https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1270\/2021\/09\/pettit.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1270\/2021\/09\/pettit-240x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1270\/2021\/09\/pettit-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1270\/2021\/09\/pettit.jpg 496w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-399'>\n\t\t\t\tPhilip Petit\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"c86a239\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Quentin-Skinner-640\" href='https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1270\/2021\/09\/Quentin-Skinner-640.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1270\/2021\/09\/Quentin-Skinner-640-240x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1270\/2021\/09\/Quentin-Skinner-640-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/lawmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1270\/2021\/09\/Quentin-Skinner-640.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-400'>\n\t\t\t\tQuentin Skinner\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d7c87ec elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d7c87ec\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>The Wilson H. Elkins Conference on Republicanism will take place Thursday, Oct. 7 through Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021, at the School of Law.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Regents Professor and&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Wilson H. Elkins Professor&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/law.ubalt.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/sellers\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\"><b>M.N.S. Sellers<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, co-director of the school\u2019s&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/law.ubalt.edu\/centers\/cicl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for International and Comparative Law<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, and other noted lawyers, philosophers and political scientists, will discuss Republican law, Republican justice and the Republican form of government. The results of the conference will be published by Oxford University Press as <i>The Oxford Handbook of Republicanism<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Philip Pettit<\/b>, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">at Princeton University, and&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, will deliver the Wilson H. Elkins Lecture on \u201cRepublican Democracy\u201d at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Quentin Skinner<\/b>, the&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities and co-director of The Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London, will deliver the John Sumner Stead Lecture on \u201cLiberty and Rights: A Neo-Roman Approach\u201d on Oct. 8 at 9:45 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pettit works in moral and&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">political theory and on background issues in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. He was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009, honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2010, and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2013; he has long been a fellow of the Australian academies in Humanities and Social Sciences.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pettit\u2019s recent single-<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">authored books include <i>On the People\u2019s Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy <\/i>(2012); <i>Just Freedom: A Moral Compass&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"><i>for a Complex World<\/i> (2014) and <i>The Robust Demands of the Good: Ethics with Attachment, Virtue and Respect<\/i> (2015).&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Skinner is a fellow of the British Academy and a foreign member of several other national academies, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His scholarship, which is available in 20 languages, has won him many awards, including the Wolfson History Prize and a Balzan Prize. His two-<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">volume study, <i>The Foundations of Modern Political Thought<\/i> (1978), was listed by the <i>(London) Times Literary Supplement<\/i> in 1996 as one of the 100 most influential books published since World War II.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Skinner\u2019s other books include <i>Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes<\/i> (1996), <i>Liberty Before Liberalism<\/i> (1998), <i>Machiavelli<\/i> (2000), <i>Hobbes and Republican Liberty<\/i> (2008), <i>Forensic Shakespeare <\/i>(2014), a three-<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">volume collection of essays called <i>Visions of Politics<\/i> (2002), and <i>From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics<\/i> (2018).&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Republicanism Conference is supported by grants from the Wilson H. Elkins Fund of the University System of Maryland and the John Sumner Stead Fund of The University of Baltimore Center for International and Comparative Law. 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Sellers Philip Petit Quentin Skinner The Wilson H. Elkins Conference on Republicanism will take place Thursday, Oct. 7 through Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021, at the School of Law.&nbsp; Regents Professor and&nbsp;Wilson H. Elkins Professor&nbsp;M.N.S. 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