BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN URL:https://lectures.london/london-school-of-economics/stolen-theft-in-the -archive-exhibition-launch-and-lecture/calender.ics NAME:Lectures London X-WR-CALNAME:Lectures London TIMEZONE-ID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:e405e56f-a651-4020-b03a-921c3007d8ff SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261010T113552 DTSTART:20261014T163000 DTEND:20261014T190000 SUMMARY:Stolen! Theft in the archive: exhibition launch and lecture LOCATION:London School of Economics: LSE Library DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 14 October 2026 5.30pm - 8pmSpeakersJo Ellen JacobsH elen McCabeMichael SchefczykChristoph Schmidt-PetriChairJ McKenzie Alexand erCome along to hear about a new edition of On Liberty\, meet its editors\ , and explore Stolen! Theft in the Archive.Talk: Harriet Taylor Mill and O n Liberty (5.30pm to 7pm)Join the editors of a groundbreaking new edition of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty to hear about the scholarship behind th e first edition of the work to publish Harriet Taylor Mill as a co-author. For generations\, On Liberty has been associated primarily with John Stuar t Mill. This new edition re-examines the evidence for Harriet Taylor Mill ’s contribution to the work and brings her role as a co-author to the fo refront. The editors will discuss the research and editorial decisions beh ind the new edition\, and what recognising Taylor Mill’s contribution ch anges about how we understand one of the most influential works in the his tory of liberal political thought.Co-hosted by LSE Library and the Departm ent of Philosophy\, Logic\, & Scientific MethodExhibition launch reception : Stolen! Theft in the Archive (6.30pm to 8pm)Following the talk*\, join u s for the launch reception for Stolen! Theft in the Archive\, an exhibitio n featuring items from the archives of Harriet Taylor Mill.The exhibition brings together an international team of curators to explore theft in its many forms: wealth taken by others\, ideas obscured by the published recor d\, and robbed legacies. It examines how theft shapes what we remember and what we forget.*If you are unable to make the talk\, please join us for t he reception celebrating the exhibition.SpeakersJo Ellen Jacobs is Profess or Emerita from Millikin University. She currently lives in Santa Fe\, New Mexico\, USA.Helen McCabe is Professor of Political Theory at the Univers ity of Nottingham. She is the author of John Stuart Mill\, Socialist (2021 ) and a Cambridge Element on Harriet Taylor Mill (2023).Michael Schefczyk is a professor of philosophy at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT ).Christoph Schmidt-Petri is senior lecturer in practical philosophy at th e Karlsruhe Institute of Technology\, and holds a PhD from LSEChairJ. McKe nzie Alexander is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy\ , Logic and Scientific Method at LSE\, where he has taught for over twenty -five years and served as Head of Department from 2018 to 2021. In The Str uctural Evolution of Morality (Cambridge University Press\, 2007) and Evol utionary Game Theory (Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\, he used compute r simulations of game theory to examine how moral rules and social convent ions emerge from the repeated interactions of individuals. His most recent book\, The Open Society as an Enemy (LSE Press\, 2024)\, examined the way s free societies have come to undermine the very liberties they were built to protect\, a question related to arguments Mill and Taylor Mill were ma king in On Liberty. He is also the author of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry on evolutionary game theory\, which has been read more than 100\,000 times.Event partnerThis event is cohosted with the Departmen t of Philosophy\, Logic and Scientific Method\, founded by Karl Popper in 1946 and is renowned for a type of philosophy that is both continuous with the sciences and socially relevant.Further informationAbout us The Britis h Library of Political and Economic Science\, known as LSELibrary\, was fo unded in 1896\, a year after the London School of Economics and Political Science. 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