{"id":3382,"date":"2018-04-26T16:14:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T07:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/?p=3382"},"modified":"2018-04-27T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T00:37:00","slug":"seminar-why-did-political-meritocracy-fail-in-western-societies%ef%bc%88may-19%ef%bc%89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/news-en\/2018\/04\/26\/3382\/","title":{"rendered":"[Seminar] \u201cWhy did political meritocracy fail in Western societies?\u201d\uff08May 19\uff09"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u25a0Date & Time<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday,\u00a019\u00a0May 2018, 14:00-16:00<\/p>\n

\u25a0Venue<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lecture Room on B-1, Bldg.26 (Okuma Memorial Tower), Waseda Campus<\/p>\n

\u25a0Title<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201dWhy did political meritocracy fail in Western societies?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u25a0Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

James Hankins (Professor of History, Harvard University)<\/p>\n

Renaissance intellectual history. Main research interests are the history of Renaissance political thought, history of philosophy, and history of the classical tradition. Founder and General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library<\/em> (Harvard University Press).\u00a0Currently finishing a monograph entitled,\u00a0The Virtue Politics of the Italian Humanists<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Selected Publications:<\/p>\n

Plato in the Italian Renaissance<\/em>, 2vols, Brill, 1990; Renaissance Civic Humanism<\/em> (Editor), Cambridge University Press, 2000; The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy<\/em> (editor), Cambridge University Press, 2007.<\/p>\n

\u25a0Organizer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keiichiro Atsumi (Waseda University)<\/p>\n

\u25a0Language<\/strong><\/p>\n

English (Japanese translation not available)<\/p>\n

\u25a0Audience<\/strong><\/p>\n

Students, Faculty, Staff, Researcher, and General Public<\/p>\n

\u25a0Admission<\/strong><\/p>\n

Free<\/p>\n

\u25a0Contact<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institute for Advanced Social Sciences: iass@list.waseda.jp<\/a><\/p>\n

TGU Global Asia Studies office: globalasia-office@list.waseda.jp<\/a><\/p>\n

Flyer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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