Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture
The Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History is an annual memorial lecture held in honour of the distinguished Renaissance scholar and former Queen Mary colleague, Nicolai Rubinstein. Having fled Nazi persecution in the 1930s, Rubinstein was appointed to a lectureship at Westfield College, University of London (later merged with Queen Mary) in 1945, and retired as Professor in 1978. He was the leading authority on the government of Florence under the Medici, and a renowned expert in the art, architecture and political thought of Renaissance Italy. This lecture series, inaugurated in 2007, celebrates his contribution to intellectual history".
Forthcoming: Thursday 29 March 2012
Professor David Armitage (Harvard University)
'What's the Big Idea? Intellectual History and the Longue Duree'
Recent Rubinstein Lectures:
- 2011 Professor Loraine Daston, Histories of Scientific Experience in Early Modern Europe
- 2009 Professor J. G. A. Pocock, Republics and Revelation: Some Patterns in the Shaping of Western Historiography
- 2008 Professor Jonathan Israel, 'Democratic versus Aristocratic Enlightenment: The Split in European Thought in the Late Eighteenth Century'
- 2007 Professor Quentin Skinner, 'What is the State?'