A colloquium sponsored by the Department of Political Science, Concordia University

Time: Friday, March 28th, 2014, 10 A.M. to 17:00 P.M.

Place: Hall Bldg., H-1220, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd West

10:00 – 10:45: Kenneth Sheppard, SSHRCC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science, Concordia University: “Plutarch and the politics of religion in early modern England”

11:00 – 11:45: Travis Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Concordia University “Hobbesian psychology and the politics of education”

Lunch break

14:00 – 14:45: James Moore, Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Science, Concordia University: “Natural law and political education from Samuel Pufendorf to Adam Smith” 15:00 – 15:45: Douglas Long, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Western Ontario “Jeremy Bentham, Claude Adrien Helvetius and the politics of interest”

16: 00 – 17:00: Reception