Steven Johnstone
(University of Arizona, Tucson)
Trust and citizenship in ancient Greece
Chair: Volker Menze (Central European University)
Wednesday, 17 September, 10:15-11:30
CEU Auditorium, 1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 9.
Steven Johnstone is a historian of the ancient Hellenic world, in particular legal relations, markets, civil society, and democratic politics. His recent projects also include the history of information in Graeco-Roman antiquity. He is the author of Disputes and Democracy: The Consequences of Litigation in Ancient Athens (1999) and A History of Trust in Ancient Greece (2011).
The lecture is one of the keynote addresses of the conference „Trust and Happiness in the Histrory of Political Thought: Third International Conference of the European Society for the History of Political Thought” (17-19 September 2014, http://history.ceu.hu/events ). We acknowledge generous support by the Central European University Academic Events Fund, the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung, and the Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
