Guest Lecture: “Thucydides and the Uses of History in Political Thought”

August 26, 2013

Professor Neville Morley from the University of Bristol will be speaking on the topic of “Thucydides and the Uses of History in Political Thought”:

My main research interests are in the economic, social and
ecological history of classical antiquity, particularly trade,
demography, urbanisation and agriculture; in the reception of
antiquity in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century economic and
social thought, especially the critiques of modernity developed
by Marx and Nietzsche; and in theoretical and philosophical
approaches to historiography, including its narrative structures
and rhetorical techniques. I am currently writing a book
entitled Antiquity and Modernity, on the mutual
interdependence of those concepts during the ‘long nineteenth
century’, and developing a research project on the reception of
Thucydides and his influence on modern historical thought.

For more information please click here: Morley lecture 2013

The lecture will take place in Sydney Smith room 3130 on Tuesday September 3, 2013. It will take place from 4:00pm to 6:00pm and light refreshments will be served.