Tea will be served from 16:45

Suggested preparatory reading:

P. Zagorin, Ways of Lying: Dissimulation, Persecution and Conformity in Early Modern Europe (1990), ch. 12; J. Parkin, ‘Thomas Hobbes and the Problem of Self-Censorship’ in H. Baltussen and P.J. Davis, eds, The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes (2015), 293-317; P. Cook and C. Heilman ‘Two Types of Self-Censorship’, Political Studies 61 (2013), 178-96.