Events

This page lists events and conferences on Thomas Hobbes organised by the European Hobbes Society and others.

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Event Information:

  • Fri
    22
    Jan
    2016
    Sat
    23
    Jan
    2016

    The Prince, the Tyrant the Despot: Representations of the Sovereign in Europe, from Renaissance to Enlightenment (1500-1800)

    University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defence, France

    This two-day conference will include several papers of interest including, on the panel ''Deconstructing and Rethinking Tyranny', Raffaella Santi (Università di Urbino Carlo Bo) 'Unus Tyrannus? The Dissolution of Tyranny in Hobbes’s Leviathans' and Mary Nyqvist (University of Toronto) 'Despotism No Tyranny in Hobbes'.

    More information can be found here.