J. G. A. Pocock (1924-2023)
A Centenary Colloquium
Saturday 9 March
Parliament Hall,
University of St Andrews.
10 am – 4.30 pm
Chair: Karen O’Brien
10.05 – 10.15 Jamie Eng ‘Pocock as a teacher in New Zealand: a family reminiscence’
10.15 – 10.35 Colin Kidd, ‘Feudal Law: a semi-neglected theme in early modern political thought’
10.35 – 10.55 Euan McArthur, ‘The Ancient Constitution and the Udal Law’
Session 1: 10.00 – 11.15
11.15 – 11.30 Coffee
Session 2: 11.30 – 1.00
Chair: Emma Macleod
11.30 – 11.50 Richard Fisher: ‘Publishing Pocock’
11.50 – 12.10 Jacqueline Rose, ‘The Language of Counsel in the Atlantic Archipelago’
12.10 – 12.30 Ian McBride, ‘Pocock and Ireland’
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch
Session 3: 2.00 – 3.00
Chair: Roger Mason
2.00 – 2.20 Valerie Wallace, ‘Two Treaties: 1707 and Waitangi’
2.20 – 2.40 John Robertson, ‘Political Thought and History, two Pocockian Enquiries, or One?’
3.00 – 3.20 Tea
Chair: Thomas Ahnert
3.20 – 3.40 Brian Young, ‘Pocock, Meinecke and the Machiavellian Moment’
3.40 – 4.00 Richard Whatmore, ‘Pocock and Post-Utrecht Europe’
4.00 – 4.30 Concluding Discussion
Session 4: 3.20 – 4.30
The event will be recorded and made available on the institute’s website in due time.