J.G.A. Pocock (1924-2023) Centenary Colloquium

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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