Roundtable: 'Liberalism, Conservatism, and Reception History'
This panel brings together three leading scholars working in the field of 'reception history', generously conceived: Dr Claire Rydell Arcenas (University of Montana), Dr Glory Liu (Johns Hopkins), and Dr Emily Jones (University of Manchester). Following short papers reflecting on how writing the 'reception histories' of John Locke, Adam Smith, and Edmund Burke have informed how each panelist thinks about (writing) the histories of liberalism and conservatism more broadly, the session will open out to a broader roundtable discussion.
Dr Claire Rydell Arcenas is Associate Professor of History at the University of Montana. Her first book, America's Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life (University of Chicago Press, 2022), received the 2022 István Hont Book Prize. She is currently writing a book about the Declaration of Independence, American Democracy, and Civic Education in the United States, 1776-2026.
Dr Emily Jones is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914: An Intellectual History (OUP, 2017), which won the 2018 Longmans-History Today Prize and was a Financial Times 'Book of the Year'. She is currently completing a monograph provisionally titled One Nation: The Disraeli Myth and the Making of a Conservative Tradition.
Dr Glory Liu is the Assistant Director for the Center for Economy and Society and Assistant Research Professor at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins. Her first book, Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher became an Icon of American Capitalism (Princeton, 2022) was named a Top 5 Biographies of Economists by the Wall Street Journal and received the 2024 Best Monograph Award from the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.
This event will take place in the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, 12 February 2025, 5-7pm. This is a hybrid event and will be available to watch online - click here to watch event live.Â
A drinks reception will follow.
For any queries please contact emily.jones@manchester.ac.uk
