Pocockian Moments: A Symposium on the Centenary of J.G.A. Pocock

Introductions

• Thomas Ashby (EUI), “Historiographer of Worlds: A Tribute to John Pocock”

Greetings: Thomas Ashby (EUI), Sama Mammadova (Harvard) and Laurelin Middelkoop (EUI)

Keynote 1

• Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews), “John Pocock and the British Empire”

Chair: Laurelin Middelkoop (EUI)

Panel 1

• Lewis Mayo (University of Melbourne), “Pocock and the Non-European: De-centering Histories and Historiographies, 1974–1957”
• Nicolau Lutz (University of Cambridge), “Autonomy and Self-Knowledge in the Work of J.G.A. Pocock”
• László Kontler (Central European University), “Re-Europeanizing the Enlightenment: A (non-) Pocockian View”

Chair: Sama Mammadova (Harvard University)

Panel 2

• Myriam-Isabelle Ducrocq (Université Paris Nanterre) and Blandine Kriegel (Professor emerita), “John Pocock and the Enlightenment in Britain and France”
• Joel Herman (Trinity College Dublin), “A New ‘British’ History of the Atlantic Archipelago? The Case of Ireland in Pocockian Projects”
• George Gallwey (Independent), “Public Credit and Pocock’s Nightmare: the Material Limits to Modern Politics”

Chair: Artur Banaszewski (EUI)

Panel 3

• Lai Ying 来瑛 (Tsinghua University), “A Review of the Image of James Harrington in the Genealogy of Classical Republican Thought”
• Connor Grubaugh (University of Oxford), “St. Augustine of Cambridge”
• James Alexander (Bilkent Üniversitesi), “Pocock’s Sattelzeit: Coleridge’s Modernity”

Chair: Federica Signoriello (EUI)

Panel 4

• Moses Lapin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Sermonizing as a Political Act: Toward a More Global Politics of Speech”
• Luca Lissoni (Università di San Marino), “Comparative Perspectives on Ibn Khaldūn: Toynbee, Pocock and Beyond”

Chair: Anastazja Grudnicka (EUI)

Keynote 2

• Rosario López (Universidad de Málaga), “What Are Global Intellectual Historians Doing? John Pocock and the Politics of Historiography”

Chair: Sama Mammadova (Harvard University)

Roundtable discussion