The Quentin Skinner Fellow for 2016-17 was Dr Sophie Smith, University Lecturer in Politics and Fellow of University College, Oxford: her lecture was on the theme of 'The nature of Politics. Political Science in Early Modern England'.
The lecture was accompanied by a colloquium with Melissa Lane (Princeton), Richard Tuck (Harvard), Noah Dauber (Colgate) and Emma Claussen (Oxford). More details here.
The lecture and the accompanying colloquium took place on Friday 9 June 2017, in the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of Cambridge. An interview with Dr. Smith, part of the Centre's new podcast series 'Interventions: the Intellectual History Podcast' can be accessed here.