• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Tuesdays at 5pm
• Web Address: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/carlyle-lectures
• Organising department: Faculty of History

Thursday 2 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Thucydidean Renaissance: A Perpetuall Possession to Posterity
  Kinch Hoekstra (University of California, Berkeley)

Thursday 9 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Thucydidean Renaissance: Obscure on Purpose: Thucydides as Ancient Authority
  Kinch Hoekstra (University of California, Berkeley)

Thursday 16 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Thucydidean Renaissance: Profitable Instruction for Noblemen: Thucydides Reborn
  Kinch Hoekstra (University of California, Berkeley)

Thursday 23 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Thucydidean Renaissance: The Ruine of Wicked Men: Thucydides Reformed
  Kinch Hoekstra (University of California, Berkeley)

Thursday 2 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Thucydidean Renaissance: A Trumpet of Warre: Thucydides' Reason of State
  Kinch Hoekstra (University of California, Berkeley)

Thursday 9 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Thucydidean Renaissance: A Most Politique: Hobbes's Thucydides
  Kinch Hoekstra (University of California, Berkeley)

Tuesday 16 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Office and Anarchy
  Melissa Lane (Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Princeton University)

Tuesday 23 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Lecture Two: Office and Accountability
  Melissa Lane (Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Princeton University)

Tuesday 30 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Lecture Three: Ruling and Being Ruled
  Melissa Lane (Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Princeton University)

Tuesday 6 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Lecture Four: Rule, Law, and Liberty
  Melissa Lane (Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Princeton University)

Tuesday 13 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Lecture Five: Office and Rule in Constitutional Change
  Melissa Lane (Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Princeton University)

Tuesday 20 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Lecture Six: The Purposes of Office and Rule
  Melissa Lane (Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Princeton University)

Tuesday 15 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Unnatural histories and political thought: Pufendorf to Bentham
  Professor Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews)

Tuesday 22 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Natural histories: the crisis of the republics
  Professor Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews)

Tuesday 29 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Death and the philosophers
  Professor Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews)

Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The collapse of the commonwealth tradition
  Professor Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews)

Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Patriots, Cosmopolitans and Terrorists
  Professor Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews)

Tuesday 19 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Caesars, Scots and Utilitarians
  Professor Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews)

Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Taqlīd: Authority and the Intellectual Elite in the Islamic World
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Too High a Standard: Knowledge and Skepticism in Medieval Philosophy
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Testing the Prophets: Reason and the Choice of Faiths
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Using the Pagans: Reason in Interreligious Debate
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Some Pagans are Better than Others: the Merits of Plato and Aristotle
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)

Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Finding Their Voice: Women in Byzantine and Latin Christian Philosophy
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)