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Speakers): Jared Holley

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Join us on Thursday, May 16, for a discussion of the work in progress of Jared Holley (University of Cambridge, Ph. D candidate in the Dept of Politics). To get a copy of his paper, entitled Eighteenth Century Epicureanism and the Reception of Rousseau's Second Discourse, and to RSVP, please contact Biliana Kassabova (bilianak [at] stanford.edu (bilianak[at]stanford[dot]edu))

Jared Holley is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge, Department of Politics and International Studies, and visiting Gimon Fellow in French Political Economy at the ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½ University Libraries. He received an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History from Cambridge in 2009, after having completed a BA in History at the University of Victoria. From September, he will be a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Classics of Social and Political Thought at the University of Chicago. This paper has roots in various components of his doctoral dissertation, entitled Eighteenth-Century Epicureanism and the Political Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

As usual, we will be meeting in Pigott Hall, Room 216. We will start at 4pm with light snacks and drinks, and proceed with a brief presentation, followed by discussion, ending around 5:30pm.Ìý