The Conference Committee 2011-12
Victoria Briggs
Victoria is a research student at the School of Politics and IR, Queen Mary University of London. Her research covers contemporary continental political theory and philosophy, democratic conflict theory and post-Marxist political theory. Her work focuses on questions of democracy, civil disobedience and compliance, autonomy and politics of the exception, and she has drawn on ideas in contemporary thought in order to prompt a re-engagement with a key democratic paradox via the political and philosophical thought of Cornelius Castoriadis. Other research interests include Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Hannah Arendt, Carl Schmitt, Jürgen Habermas, Jacques Rancière, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe.
Mads Jensen
Mads Langballe Jensen is a research student at the History Department at UCL, where he is working on conceptions of political authority and order in the thought of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon. His interests include early-modern and reformation political thought more broadly as well as the methodology of the historical and social sciences. He completed the BA in History of Ideas from Aarhus Universitet (Denmark) in 2009, and the intercollegiate MA in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History at the University of London in 2010.
Elliott Kars
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Elliott graduated from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 2008 and completed the intercollegiate MA in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History in the University of London in 2009. He is now a PhD student at Queen Mary, University of London, writing a thesis on "The power of interests in early-modern English political thought, 1640-1740".
Giorgio Lizzul
Giorgio is a research student in the History department at King's College, London.
Adam Mowl
Adam studied Ancient and Modern History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, before completing a Masters in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History at the University of London. He is currently a PhD student at King's College London, working on humanist political thought in Renaissance Italy.
Joanne Paul
Joanne is a postgraduate research student at Queen Mary University of London, working under Professor Quentin Skinner. Her PhD thesis will focus on the role of the councillor and the discourse of counsel in 16th-century English political thought, but interests include Renaissance and Early-Modern thought more broadly, theories of the state and governance, historical methodology, humanism and everything in between! She completed a BAH at Queen's University (Canada) in History and Political Studies and an MA at University of Victoria (Canada) in Political Science under the supervision of James Tully.
Lorenzo Sabbadini
Lorenzo is a research student at Queen Mary, where he is working under the supervision of Quentin Skinner on seventeenth-century English political thought. He holds a BA in History from Oxford and an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History from Cambridge. His current research focuses on economic issues in the political thought of the 1640s and 1650s.