Speaker

Georgios Varouxakis is Professor of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought. He is the author of “The West: The History an Idea” (Princeton University Press, 2025): https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691177182/the-west His earlier books include Liberty Abroad: J.S. Mill on International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2013);Victorian Political Thought on France and the French (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002);Mill on Nationality (Routledge, 2002);and Contemporary France: An Introduction to French Politics and Society (Arnold, 2003, co-authored). He has been Research Fellow at UCL, Visiting Research Fellow at Princeton University, Senior Research Fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, and Visiting Fellow (‘Guest of the Institute’) at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna.