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School of English seminar series - Hobbes, injury and the question of resistance
| Description | Mary Nyquist is a distinguished Milton scholar, whose forthcoming book, Arbitrary Rule: Slavery, Tyranny and the Power of Life and Death (Chicago) explores the complex links between the figurative 'political slavery' of early modern anti-tyranny discourse (in Buchanan, Milton, Hobbes, Locke), and the rise of transatlantic slavery. She demonstrates how principles relating to political slavery are bound up with a Roman jurisprudential doctrine that sanctions the power of life and death held by the slaveholder over slaves and by the state over citizens. |
| Presenter | Professor Mary Nyquist, University of Toronto |
| Type | Seminar, Talk |
| Open to | All staff and students, All students, Alumni, Committee members, Parents/guardians, Postgraduates, Prospective students, Public, Staff, Undergraduates |
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| Date | Wednesday, 20 February 2013 |
| Time |
2:15 PM to 4:00 PM |
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| Where | The Lawson lecture room, Kennedy Hall, School of English |
| Contact | Professor Lorna Hutson |
| Email | lmh10@st-andrews.ac.uk |
