J.G.A. Pocock (1924-2023) Centenary Colloquium
Contact Adam Coleman (atc45@cam.ac.uk) with any queries.
Programme
11:00
Introduction
Contexts:
• Moderator: Angus Brown
• (11:20-11:40) Sam Palis, ‘Pocock's Tragic Republicanism: The decline of the political in an era of mobile property"
• (11:40-12:00) Andrew Walker: ‘”Conservatism” and credit: John Pocock and the reappraisal of Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790).’
• (12:00-12:20) Mishael Knight: ‘Gavelkind and the Ancient Constitution’
• (12:20-12:40) Questions
12:40
Lunch
13:40
Methods:
• Moderator: Elena Yi-Jia Zeng
• (13:40-14:00) Nicolaus Lutz: ‘Autonomy and self-knowledge in the work of John Pocock’
• (14:20-14:40) Apeike Umolu: ‘”Barbarism and Religion”, multiplicity, and lessons for the history of modernity’
• (14:40-15:00) Questions
15:00
Regions:
• Moderator: Billy Liu
• (15:00-15:20) Adam Coleman: ‘Pocock, Ireland, and the politics of new British history’
• (15:20-15:40) Emma Gattey: ‘Historian of Islands: Pocock and “archipelagic” British history?’
• (15:40-16:00) Luke Wilkinson: ‘Pocock, Islam, and the early iterations of the “Cambridge school”’
• (16:00-16:20) Questions
16:30-17:20/30
Lecture:
• John Robertson, ‘The Achievement of J.G.A. Pocock’
• Questions