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<BLOCKQUOTE><BR>From: camilla<BR>To: joy_helbin@hotmail.com; ianbuxton2003@yahoo.co.uk<BR>Subject: What is the State? May 13th, 5pm open, Brit Academy<BR><BR>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><STRONG><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">TWELFTH ANNUAL BRITISH ACADEMY LECTURE</SPAN></I></STRONG></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">What is the State?</SPAN></STRONG></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Professor Quentin Skinner FBA </SPAN></STRONG><B><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">University of Cambridge </SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tuesday, 13 May 2008</SPAN></STRONG><B><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">5.30pm - 6.30pm, followed by a drinks reception </SPAN></STRONG><BR><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, </SPAN></STRONG><BR><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">London, SW1Y 5AH</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Free Admittance</SPAN></STRONG></P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The state is the name normally assigned to the agency that wields sovereign power over some determinate territory. To understand the concept, however, we need in addition to know whose actions properly count as actions of this agency, and hence as authentic expressions of the sovereign authority of the state. The lecture proceeds by way of offering a genealogy of various rival answers that have been given to this question in modern Anglophone legal and political thought, concluding with an assessment of the prevalent view that we may now be moving into a 'post sovereignty' era beyond the state. </SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Professor Quentin Skinner was elected a Fellow of the Academy in 1981. The author or co-author of more than twenty books, his works have been very widely translated, and his two-volume study, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, was named by the Times Literary Supplement in 1996 as one of the hundred most influential books published since the second world war. </SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </SPAN><BR><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Twelfth Annual British Academy Lecture</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <BR>The Annual keynote British Academy Lecture was established to mark the Academy's move to new headquarters in Carlton House Terrace in 1998. </SPAN><BR><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A poster for your notice board can be downloaded <A href="http://email.britac.ac.uk/_act/link.php?mId=A815778831664886841686&tId=7257386" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#003399>here: </FONT></A></SPAN></STRONG><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Please visit our <A href="http://email.britac.ac.uk/_act/link.php?mId=A815778831664886841686&tId=7257387" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#003399>website</FONT></A> for full details of our forthcoming events.<BR>Telephone enquiries: <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = SKYPE /><SKYPE:SPAN onmouseup="javascript:skype_tb_imgOnOff(this,1,'0',true,'');return skype_tb_stopEvents();" class=skype_tb_injection oncontextmenu="javascript:skype_tb_SwitchDrop(this,'0','sms=0',true);return skype_tb_stopEvents();" onmousedown="javascript:skype_tb_imgOnOff(this,2,'0',true,'');return skype_tb_stopEvents();" id=softomate_highlight_0 onmouseover="javascript:skype_tb_imgOnOff(this,1,'0',true,'');" title="Call this phone number in United Kingdom with Skype: +442079695246" onclick="javascript:doRunCMD('call','0',null,0);return skype_tb_stopEvents();" onmouseout="javascript:skype_tb_imgOnOff(this,0,'0',true,'');" durex="617" context="020 7969 5246"><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_tb_nop> </SKYPE:SPAN><SKYPE:SPAN onmouseup="javascript:doSkypeFlag(this,'0',1,1);return skype_tb_stopEvents();" class=skype_tb_imgA_flex onmousedown="javascript:doSkypeFlag(this,'0',2,1);return skype_tb_stopEvents();" id=skype_tb_droppart_0 onmouseover="javascript:doSkypeFlag(this,'0',1,1);" title="Change country code ..." onclick="javascript:doHandleChdial(this,1,'0',1);return skype_tb_stopEvents();" onmouseout="javascript:doSkypeFlag(this,'0',0,1);"> <SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_tb_nop> </SKYPE:SPAN><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_tb_imgFlag id=skype_tb_img_f0 style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\__SkypeIEToolbar_Cache\e70d95847a8f5723cfca6b3fd9946506\static\famfamfam/GB.gif)"> </SKYPE:SPAN> <SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_tb_nop> </SKYPE:SPAN></SKYPE:SPAN><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_tb_imgS id=skype_tb_img_s0> </SKYPE:SPAN><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_tb_injectionIn id=skype_tb_text0><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_tb_innerText id=skype_tb_innerText0>020 7969 5246</SKYPE:SPAN></SKYPE:SPAN><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_tb_imgR id=skype_tb_img_r0> <SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_tb_nop> </SKYPE:SPAN></SKYPE:SPAN></SKYPE:SPAN> / Email: <A href="http://uk.mc255.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=lectures@britac.ac.uk" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#003399>lectures@britac.ac.uk</FONT></A></SPAN> <BR><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Please note our ticketing and seating policy: </SPAN></STRONG><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">British Academy Lectures are freely open to the general public and everyone is welcome; there is no charge for admission, no tickets will be issued, and seats cannot be reserved. 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