Professor Barry Smith to visit Department of History
Professor Barry Smith from the State University of New York at Buffalo
will be visiting the Department of History next week to give a series of
lectures on Philosophy, Politics and History. These interdisciplinary lectures
will provide an historical introduction to political philosophy with special
reference to economic, geographic, legal and military factors determining
the evolution of the modern nation state concept. Lectures will be between
10:00 and 12:00 Monday through Friday except Tuesday, when he is lecturing
at 09:00.
Professor Smith will also be addressing The Philosophy Society on Thursday,
11 March at 19:00, Francis Ebejer Hall, Lecture Centre. Entrance from Carpark
2. His talk will be entitled: What's all the rage about Postmodernism?
Interested members of the general public are cordially invited to attend.
2 March, 1999