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Intellectual History Workshop

Intellectual History Workshop, co-hosted by the Global Intellectual History Unit at Sungkyunkwan University and the Institute of Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews.

‘Bureaucracy and development: new perspectives on modernity.’

The workshop will take place online, at 14.00 BST on 21 September. (22:00 KST, 08:00 CDT)

https://zoom.us/j/2739110432.

  • Kyungyul Park (Sungkyunkwan University) - The Park Chung-hee Bureaucracy in Governing Metropolitan Seoul: Conflicting Visions, Presidential Intervention, and Policy Inconsistency, 1963-1979

  • Hannah Hassani (University of St Andrews) - Bureaucrats as Managers in Late Modernisation: The Case of Iran

  • Seungeun Lee (University of St Andrews) - Reforming a large republic by reproducing conditions of a small one: Rousseau, Mably and Lemercier de la Rivière on political reform in Poland-Lithuania

  • Chris Hong (University of Chicago) - Imperial Cosmopolitanism: France and Geneva, 1680-1715

A discussion session will follow the four presentations.

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