[Seminar] “Why did political meritocracy fail in Western societies?”（May 19）
■Date & Time
Saturday, 19 May 2018, 14:00-16:00
■Venue
Lecture Room on B-1, Bldg.26 (Okuma Memorial Tower), Waseda Campus
■Title
”Why did political meritocracy fail in Western societies?”
■Speaker
James Hankins (Professor of History, Harvard University)
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 (Harvard University Press). Currently finishing a monograph entitled, The Virtue Politics of the Italian Humanists.
Selected Publications:
Plato in the Italian Renaissance, 2vols, Brill, 1990; Renaissance Civic Humanism (Editor), Cambridge University Press, 2000; The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy (editor), Cambridge University Press, 2007.
■Organizer
Keiichiro Atsumi (Waseda University)
■Language
English (Japanese translation not available)
■Audience
Students, Faculty, Staff, Researcher, and General Public
■Admission
Free
■Contact
Institute for Advanced Social Sciences: [email protected]
TGU Global Asia Studies office: [email protected]
