Early Modern Political Thought Colloquium

When: Fri 28 Mar 2014 10:00 – 17:00 Eastern Time - Montreal
Where: H 1220, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West (map)

Program

10:00 – 10:45
Chair: James Moore, Emeritus Professor, Political Science
Kenneth Sheppard, SSHRCC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political
Science, Concordia University
“Plutarch and the politics of religion in early modern England”

11:00 – 11:45
Travis Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Political
Science, Concordia University
“Hobbesian psychology and the politics of education”

14:00 - 14:45
Chair: Edward King, Associate Professor, Political Science
James Moore, Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Science, Concordia
University
“Natural law and political education from Samuel Pufendorf to Adam Smith”

15:00 – 15:45
Douglas Long, Professor, Department of Political Science,
University of Western Ontario
“Jeremy Bentham, Claude Adrien Helvetius and the politics of interest”

16: 00 – 17:00 Reception

All are welcome