8 June 2009, John Keane was guest of Andrew Marr's Start the Week Andrew Marr talks to John Keane about democracy, Katie Mitchell about virgin births and opera, Peter Hall about the vitality of regional theatre and Matthew Gale about Futurism. Originally...
Read More28 March 2009 14:00 - 16:00 BST John Keane speaks of Paine’s legacy 200 years after his death A special meeting to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Thomas Paine, revolutionary democrat and author of The Rights of Man, The Age of Reasonand Common...
Read MoreA talk delivered by John Keane in Universitat Jaume I Castellon (Spain) on February 5, 2009 Synopsis in Spanish El professor de Política de la Universitat de Westminster i del Wissenschaftszentrum Berlín, John Keane, va impartir el dijous 5 de febrer de...
Read MoreTalk delivered at the the Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spain, 5 February 2009. Necesita tener el Flash Player // -> Read the Spanish translation of the presentation here -> Read a 'review' of this lecture as appeared in El Mercantil...
Read MoreSenate Occasional Lecture, Parliament House, Canberra, Friday August 28th 2009 We live in an age of communicative abundance. As in every previous communication revolution, new products and processes—satellite broadcasting, iPhones, electronic books, tweets, cloud computing—have spawned fascination, fear and trembling, excitement,...
Read MoreTuesday 29 April 2008 Time: 6:30-8pm Venue: London School of Economics, Old Theatre, Old Building Speakers: David Goodhart, Professor John Keane, Professor Lord Bhikhu Parekh Chair: Professor Lord Tony Giddens At this event, John Keane with David Goodhart (editor of Prospect) discussed Lord Bhikhu Parekh’s...
Read MoreJohn Keane, Ruth Kinna, (Senior Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University) and Peter Marshall (philosopher and historian), talk of ANARCHISM with Melvyn Bragg (BBC Radio4 December, 7, 2006) Anarchism Pierre Joseph Proudhon famously declared “property is theft”. And perhaps more surprisingly that...
Read MoreDan Carrier meets political historian John Keane, whose biography of Tom Paine looks set to become a great motion picture epic. SIR Richard Attenborough liked the book so much that as soon as he finished it, he contacted the author...
Read MoreSummary: On the 7th of November, AKU-ISMC hosted a lunch-hour seminar entitled: The strange origins of representative democracy, led by John Keane, Professor of Politics at the University of Westminter and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). During the seminar, Keane explored the...
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