The Jackson Institute for Global Affairs will host a panel discussion featuring Professor Helena Rosenblatt, who will discuss her new book, “The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century.”
Published in 2018, the book challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry—and a term of derision—in today’s increasingly divided public square. Taking readers from ancient Rome to today, Rosenblatt traces the evolution of the words “liberal” and “liberalism,” revealing the heated debates that have taken place over their meaning.
Other panelists include:
Michael Brenes, Senior Archivist for American Diplomacy, Yale
Bryan Garsten, Professor of Political Science, Yale
Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale
Giulia Oskian, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Lecturer in Global Affairs, Yale
Rosenblatt is Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of Rousseau and Geneva from the First Discourse to the Social Contract (Cambridge University Press,1997), Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2008), A Lost History of Liberalism from Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press, 2018). She is also the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Constant (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and co-editor (with Raf Geenens) of French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and (with Paul Schweigert) of Thinking with Rousseau: From Machiavelli to Schmitt (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
The talk is open to the Yale campus community.