Dear colleagues and friends,

I am honored to announce that Professor Quentin Skinner will give three lectures as part of the Academia Sinica Lecture series on May 13-16. Professor Skinner is one of the most eminent and influential historians of political thought of our time. He will conclude the results of his lifelong research in the three lectures: “Truth and the Historian” and “A Genealogy of Liberty”, in the Building for Humanities and Social Sciences at Academia Sinica, and “A Genealogy of the State”, which will take place at the National Taiwan University.

Professor Skinner is currently Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London. His research interest includes the intellectual history of early-modern Europe and political thought in the seventeenth-century, with a particular focus on the work of Thomas Hobbes. Professor Skinner is the author or co-author of over 20 books. His works have been very widely translated and his Foundations of Modern Political Thought was named by Times Literary Supplement in 1996 as one of the 100 most influential books published since the Second World War.

Professor Skinner’s scholarship has won him many awards, including the Wolfson History Prize, the Balzan Prize and the Bielefelder Wissenschaftspreis. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society and the Academia Europea, and a foreign member of the national academies of Austria, Ireland, Italy and the United States.

I urge you not to miss this rare opportunity to listen to this important thinker in person.

For more information, please visit Academia Sinica Lecture Website at http://iao.sinica.edu.tw/ASL/.

With best regards,

 

Chi-Huey Wong

President

Academia Sinica

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Lecture (A)

Topic: Truth and the Historian

Time15:00-16:30, May 13, 2013 (Monday)

Venue: International Conference Hall (3F), Building for Humanities and Social   Sciences, Academia Sinica

Lecture (B)

Topic: A Genealogy of Liberty

Time: 15:00-16:30, May 15, 2013 (Wednesday)

Venue: International Conference Hall (3F), Building for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica 

 

Organizer Website: http://iao.sinica.edu.tw/chi/index_chi.html

Registration: Online Registration

 

Lecture (C)

Topic: A Genealogy of the State

Time: 15:00-16:30, May 16, 2013 (Thursday)

Venue: International Conference Hall, College of Social Sciences, National Taiwan University